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Paper I HistoryofIndia,15261757 Module1 Unit1:TheformationoftheMughalEmpire Unit2:ProcessofMughalexpansion Unit3:ThenatureofMughalabsolutism Unit4:Theemperorandtherulingclass Module2 Unit1:TheCrisisoftheMughalAbsolutism Unit2:TheJagirdariCrisis Unit3:TheMughalSocietyandEconomy Unit4:TheMughalUrbanization Module3 Unit1:TheDeclineoftheMughalEmpire Unit2:TheRiseoftheRegionalPowers Unit3:TheForeignInvasion Unit4:HistoriographyoftheMughalDecline Module4 Unit1:TheExpandingEnglishPresencein18thCenturyIndiaandtheStructureofthe IndiasInternationalEconomy Unit2:TheCompanyandtheIndianTraders Unit3:TheBackgroundoftheBattleofPlasseyandtheAngloFrenchConflict References(PaperI) JohnF.Richards:TheMughalEmpire IrfanHabib:TheAgrarianSystemofMughalIndia IrfanHabib:EssaysinIndianHistory DouglasE.Streusand:TheFormationoftheMughalEmpire N.A.Siddiqi:LandRevenueAdministrationundertheMughals,17001750 1|Page

I.H.Qureshi:TheAdministrationoftheMughalEmpire M.AtharAli:TheMughalNobilityunderAurangzeb M.AtharAli:TheApparatusofEmpire SatishChandra:PartiesandPoliticsinMughalCourt,17071740 SatishChandra:EssayaonMedievalIndianHistory MuzaffarAlam:TheCrisisoftheEmpireinMughalNorthIndia TapanRaychaudhuriandIrfanHabib(eds.):TheCambridgeEconomicHistoryofIndia,VolI MuzaffarAlamandSanjaySubrahmanyam:TheMughalState,15261750 JadunathSarkar:FalloftheMughalEmpire,4Vols. Paper - II HistoryofIndia,17571885 Module1 Unit1:PoliticalSystemintheSecondHalfofthe18thCentury Unit2:ConsolidationoftheBritishPowerinBengal(17571772) Unit3:CompanysTerritorialExpansioninWesternandSouthernIndia Unit4:EarlyResistancetotheBritishColonialRule;theRevoltof1857 Module2 Unit1:LandRevenueSettlements Unit2:PeasantandTribalMovementswithreferencetoIndigoUprising,PabnaRevolt, DeccanRiots,SanthalandMundaRevolts. Unit3:DrainofWealth;DeindustrializationandDeindustrializationDebate Unit4:RailwaysandtheIndianEconomy;DevelopmentofModernIndustries Module3 Unit1:EarlyAttitudestowardsIndiaUtilitarianism,Evangelicalism,Orientalism Unit2:WesternizationandIndianResponse Unit3:ReorganizationofColonialStateafter1857 Unit4:StateandSocialReform Module4 Unit1:SocialBackgroundofModernNationalisminIndia Unit2:TheGrowthofPublicSpherethePress,ArtandLiterature Unit3:LiberalismandNationalismtheEconomicCritiqueofBritishRule Unit4:ProvincialPoliticsandthePreCongressEra 2|Page

Paper III HistoryofIndia,18851964 ModuleI: Unit1:TheIndianNationalism Unit2:TheNatureoftheEarlyCongress Unit3:TheRiseandSpreadofCommunalism Unit4:TheIndianNationalMovement:theChangingSituation Module2 Unit1:TheImpactoftheFirstWorldWarontheIndianEconomy,SocietyandPolitics Unit2:GandhiandtheEmergenceoftheMassPolitics Unit 3: The Congress Noncooperation Movement and the Civil Disobedience Movement Unit4:TheIndianNationalCongressandtheIndianCapitalistClass Module3 Unit1:TheDevelopmentofNationalistPolitics Unit2:TheRiseoftheLeftistPolitics;TheStruggleforIndependenceinthePrincely States Unit3:TheQuiteIndiaMovement1942inIndianHistory Unit 4: The Popular Movements during the 1940s; India towards Independence and Partition Module4 Unit1:Indiain1947 Unit2:IndiaunderJawaharlalNehru Unit3:TheEconomyofIndependentIndiaandMovementforSocialJustice Unit4:IndiaintheWorldPolitics(194764) References(PaperIIandPaperIII) SumitSarkar:ModernIndia,18851947 SekharBandyopadhyay:FromPlasseytoPartition Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, K.N. Pannikar and Suheta Mahajan: IndiasStruggleforIndependence BipanChandra:TheRiseandGrowthofEconomicNationalisminIndia BipanChandra:CommunalisminModernIndia JudithM.Brown:GandhisRisetoPower JudithM.Brown:ModernIndia:theOriginsofanAsianDemocracy C.A.Bayly:Rulers,TownsmenandBazars:NorthIndianSocietyintheAgeofBritishExpansion, 17701870. 3|Page

C.A.Bayly:IndianSocietyandtheMakingoftheEnglishEmpire SusanBayly:Caste,SocietyandPoliticsinIndiafromtheEighteenthCenturytotheModernAge SugataBoseandAyeshaJalal:ModernSouthAsia:History,Culture,PoliticalEconomy SuchetaMahajan:IndependenceandPartition PaulR.Brass:ThePoliticsofIndiasinceIndependence FrancineR.Frankel:IndiasPoliticalEconomy,19471977 BipanChandra,AdityaMukherjee,MridulaMukherjee:IndiaafterIndependence Paper IV Historiography Module1 Unit1:WhatisHistory?FactandInterpretationtheNatureofHistoricalEvidence Historical Evidence and Historical Imagination Approaches to History and the EmergenceofSpecializationsNationalHistoryandLocalHistoryEconomicandSocial HistoryHistoryandSocialSciences Unit2:HistoryWritinginPreModernTimesFeaturesofClassicalHistoriography HistoryandStatecraftinEarlyModernEuropeHistoryintheAgeofEnlightenment Montesquieu,Voltaire,VicoandtheEncyclopaedistsHarderandGibbon Unit 3: Ranke and the Berlin Revolution in Historiography Ranke and Objective HistoryHistoryasitreallywasHistoryasaPastPoliticsRankesVisionofUniversal History Unit4:HistoryandtheIdeaofProgressin19thCenturyEuropeMacaulay,Actonand the Age of Improvement Jules Michelle and the French Revolution Marx and HistoricalMaterialism Module2 Unit1:MarxismandEmergenceofEconomicandSocialHistoryTrevelyanandthe Writings of Social History of Politics the New History Movement in United States of America Unit 2: Maurice Dobb and the Rise of Capitalism R. H. Tawny and the English RevolutionReligionandCapitalisminEngland Unit3:SocialHistoryasHistoryofStructuresandMentalitiestheAnnalesSchool Unit 4: Social History as the History of Classes British Marxist Historians ChristopherHill,EricJ.HobsEricHobsbawmandE.P.ThompsonNewSocialHistory HistoryfromBelow Module3 Unit1:EmergenceofHistoricalconsciousnessin19thCenturyIndiaOrientalismand the Rediscovery of Indian History James Mills History of India and the Theory of OrientalDespotism Unit2:TheIndianEncounterwithPastinthe19thCentury 4|Page

Unit3:NationalismandtheWritingofIndianHistorytheIndianSearchforaGolden PasttheEconomicCritiqueofBritishColonialRuleandtheEconomicHistoryofIndia MarxistViewofIndianHistoryandtheProblemofPeriodisation Unit4:DebatesinIndianHistory:theIndianFeudalism18thCenturyinIndianHistory References(PaperIV) E.H.Carr:WhatisHistory MarcBloch:TheHistoriansCraft ArnoldToynbee:AStudyofHistory R.C.Collingwood:TheIdeaofHistory EricHobsbawm:TheAgeofRevolution E.P.Thompson:TheMakingoftheEnglishWorkingClass HarverdJ.KayeandKeithMcClelland:E.P.ThompsonCriticalPerspectives ThedaSkocpol(ed.):VisionandMethodinHistoricalSociology MauriceDobb:StudiesintheDevelopmentofCapitalism RodneyHilton:TheTransitionfromFeudalismtoCapitalism T. H. Ashton and C. H. E. Philpin: The Brenner Debate The Agrarian Class Structure and EconomicDevelopmentinPreIndustrialEurope DavidKopf:BritishOrientalismandBengalRenaissance TapanRaychaudhuri:EuropeReconsidered R.S.Sharma:IndianFeudalism B.D.Chattopadhyaya:TheMakingofEarlyMedievalIndia SatishChandra:EssayaonMedievalIndianHistory MuzaffarAlam:TheCrisisoftheEmpireinMughalNorthIndia Paper V HistoryofEurope,17891945 Module1:FrenchRevolutionandNapoleon Unit 1: Condition (Economic, Social and Political) of France before 1789. ContributionofthePhilosophersintheRevolutionof1789 FactorsleadingtotheRevolution Unit2:TheProcessandDifferentPhasesoftheRevolutionof1789 Unit3:ImpactoftheFrenchRevolutionontheContemporarySociety,Politics andCulture Unit 4: Rise of Napoleon Internal and Foreign Policy of Napoleon. Fall of Napoleon

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 Module2:BourgeoisDemocraticRevolutionandUnificationofEurope Unit 1: The European Experience of Bourgeois Democratic Revolution (Major Countries) Unit 2: The Impact of Bourgeois Democratic Revolution on the European Politics Unit3:UnitedGermanyundertheleadershipofBismarc Unit4:TheIndustrialRevolutioninGermanyTheEndoftheAgeofBismarc GermanForeignPolicyundertheleadershipofKaiserWilliamII Module3:IndustrialRevolutioninEurope Unit1:IndustrialRevolutioninEurope:DefinitionandContinuity Unit2:TheCausesoftheIndustrialRevolution.Whydiditfirsttakeplacein England? Unit3:Agricultural,TransportandDemographicRevolution Unit4:TheLongtermEffectsoftheIndustrialRevolution Module4:NationalismandFormationofNationalistStatesinEurope Unit1:RiseofNationalisminEurope Unit2:UnificationMovementinItaly Unit3:UnificationMovementinGermany Unit4:ThedeclineofEmpirethroughtheRiseofNationalism Module5:Europebetween1914and1945 Unit1:BackgroundoftheWorldWarI Unit2:ThePeaceEffortsinEuropeaftertheWorldWarI Unit3:TheSocialistMovementinEurope Unit4:RiseofNazismandFascisminEurope Unit5:WorldWarII,theRiseofSuperPowersandtheBeginningoftheCold War References(PaperV) TheodoreS.Hamerow:TheBirthofaNewEurope:StateandSocietyintheNineteenthCentury E.J.Hobsbawm:TheAgeofRevolution,17891848 E.J.Hobsbawm:TheAgeofCapital,18481875 E.J.Hobsbawm:TheAgeofEmpire,18751914 PhyllisDeane:TheFirstIndustrialRevolution, DavidS.Landes:TheUnboundPrometheus:TechnologicalChangeandIndustrialDevelopment inWesternEuropefrom1750tothePresent PeterN.Stearns:EuropeanSocietyinUpheaval:SocialHistorySince1750 EugenWeber:PeasantsintoFrenchmen:TheModernizationofRuralFrance18701914 6|Page

E.P.Thompson:TheMakingoftheEnglishWorkingClass OwenConnelly:FrenchRevolution,NapoleonicEra LynnHunt:Politics,Culture,andClassintheFrenchRevolution PeterN.Stearns:1848:TheRevolutionaryTideinEurope GordonA.Craig:Germany,18661945 AsaBriggs:TheMakingofModernEngland,17831867 Toni Smith: The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late IndustrializingWorldSince1815 A.J.P.Taylor:TheStruggleforMasteryinEurope,18481918 ArnoJ.Mayer:ThePersistenceoftheOldRegime:EuropetotheGreatWar LaurenceLafore:TheLongFuse:AnInterpretationoftheOriginsofWorldWarI, JamesJoll:TheOriginsoftheFirstWorldWar Geoffrey Barraclough: An Introduction to Contemporary History Michael D. Biddiss: The Age of the Masses: Ideas and Society in Europe Since 1870 H. Stuart Hughes and James Wilkinson: Contemporary Europe: A History James Joll: Europe Since 1870: An International History David Thomson: Europe since Napoleon Peter Gay: Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider A.J.P. Taylor: The Origins of the Second World War Roger Morgan: West European Politics Since 1945: The Shaping of the European Community Derek W. Urwin: Western Europe Since 1945: A Political History,. Paper - VI WorldPoliticsSince1945 Module1:AftermathoftheWar Unit1:BackgroundofColdWar Unit2:EuropeintransitionFormationofEuropeanUnion. Unit3:ColdWarintheThirdWorld(KoreanCrisis,VietnamWar,ArabIsrael Conflict) Unit4:NAManditsimpactonWorldPolitics Module2:Unit1:BirthofCommunistChinaandSinoSovietRelation Unit2:UnitedStatesofAmerica,CubaandChili. Unit3:TheAntiColonialMovementinAfricaAlgeriaandCongoCrisis. Module3:DecolonizationandDisarmament Unit1:DebateonConceptandApplication Unit2: Various Phases of Disarmament Nuclear Rearmament, Antinuclear World Unit3:UNOasaPeacekeepingBody.EvaluationofitsSuccessandFailures 7|Page

Unit4:ApartheidOriginoftheConcept,itsimpactonWorldPolitics,America andSouthAfrica Module4:TheNewWorldOrder Unit 1: Collapse of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev Years. The End of Cold War towardsaUnipolarWorld Unit2:GlobalizationanditsImpact Unit 3: India and South Asia Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka Unit4:IndianForeignPolicyaftertheColdWar a) EconomicDiplomacy b) LookEastPolicies c) NuclearPoliciesArmamentanditsImpact References(PaperVI) Roger Morgan: West European Politics Since 1945: The Shaping of the European Community Derek W. Urwin: Western Europe Since 1945: A Political History Henry L. Roberts: Eastern Europe: Politics, Revolution, & Diplomacy W.W. Rostow: The Division of Europe after World War II V.G. Kiernan: European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 18151960 Sidney Pollard: European Economic Integration, 18151970 Paul Seabury: The Rise and Decline of the Cold War Robert J. Maddox: The New Left and the Origins of the Cold War John D. Hargreaves: The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa: Essays in Contemporary History Curt Gasteyger: Searching for World Security: Understanding Global Armament and Disarmament RobertJackson:SouthAsianCrisis:India,Pakistan,BanglaDesh RupkumarBarman:Ethnicity,CulturalNationalismandDemocratization SPECIALPAPERS (TheUniversityofferstwoSpecialPaperstothelearnersofpostgraduatehistorycourse.The learnerswillhavetoopteitherforGroupAofPaperVIIandPaperVIIIorforGroupBof PaperVIIandPaperVIII.)

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PAPER VII A SocialHistoryofIndia(19thand20thCenturies) ModuleI:Gender Unit1:AspectsofGenderQuestioninIndia 8|Page

Unit2:ProstituteandHerClientelein19thCenturyBengal Unit3:WomenEducationinIndia Unit4:WomensSuffrageMovementinIndiaaSurvey ModuleII: UnitI:EnvironmentalHistory UnitII:EnvironmentalHistory UnitIII:Science UnitIV:MedicineandPublicHealth ModuleIII: UnitI:Literature UnitII:FilmandTheatre UnitIII:Art UnitIV:Sports ModuleIV: UnitI:DisorderandViolenceinRuralSociety UnitII:LawandCourt UnitIII:Police UnitIV:Prison ModuleV: UnitI:ReligiousReformMovements UnitII:SocialReformMovements UnitIII:CasteMovements UnitIV:EducationalReforms References(PaperVIIA) SumitSarkar:ModernIndia,18851947 SekharBandyopadhyay:FromPlasseytoPartition GeraldinForbes:WomeninModernIndia AparnaBasu:TheGrowthofEducationandPoliticalDevelopmentinIndia,18981920 Aparna Basu and Bharati Ray: Womens Struggle: a history of the AllIndia Womens Conference,19271990 M.Borthwick:KeshubChanderSen:asearchforculturalsysnthesis M.Borthwick:TheChnagingRoleofWomeninBengal,18491905 U.Chakrabarty:RewritingHistory:thelifeandtimesofPandiataRamabai SekharBandyopadhyay:Caste,PoliticsandtheRaj RanjanChakrabarty(ed.):SituatingEnvironmentalHistory RichardGrove:GreenImperialism 9|Page

David Arnold and Ramchandra Guha (eds.): Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the EnvironmentalHistoryofSouthAsia Ramchandra Guha: The Unquite Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya Chetan Singh: Natural Premises: Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalaya, 1800 1950 SumitGuha:EnvironmentandEthnicityinIndia,12001991 DeepakKumar:ScienceandtheRaj DavidArnold:ColonizingtheBody:StateMedicineandEpidemicDiseaseinNineteenthCentury India ArunKumar:MedicineandtheRaj:BritishMedicalPolicyinIndia,18351911 Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar (eds), Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and TechnicalTransferstoIndia,17701947 MarkHarrison:PublicHealthinBritishIndia PAPER VIII A EconomicHistoryofIndia(19thand20thCenturies) ModuleI UnitI:RevenueSettlements UnitII:CommercialAgricultureinIndia UnitIII:RuralStructure UnitIV:PeasantMovements ModuleII UnitI:IndustrialDevelopment UnitII:ImperialismandIndustrialDevelopment UnitIII:SwadeshiIndustrialDevelopment UnitIV:BusinessandPolitics ModuleIII UnitI:HistoriographyoftheIndianWorkingClass UnitII:EmergenceandFormationofIndianWorkingClass UnitIII:ChangingConditionoftheIndianWorkingClass UnitIV:TheWorkingClassMovements ModuleIV: UnitI:InternalTradeofIndiawithSpecialReferencetoBengal UnitII:ForeignTradeofIndia(17571858) UnitIII:ForeignTradeofIndia(18581947) UnitIV:Population,OccupationalStructureandUrbanization References(PaperVIIIA) 10 | P a g e

SumitSarkar:ModernIndia,18851947 SekharBandyopadhyay:FromPlasseytoPartition TirthankarRoy:TheEconomicHistoryofIndia,18571947 BurtonStein(ed.):TheMakingofAgrarianPolicyinBritishIndia,17701900 DharmaKumar(ed.):TheCambridgeEconomicHistoryofIndia,VolumeII SugataBose:PeasantLabourandColonialCapital:RuralBengalsince1770 R.E.Frykenberg(ed.):LandControlandSocialStructureinIndianHistory RanajitGuha:ElementaryAspectsofPeasantInsurgencyinColonialIndia D.N.Dhanagare:PeasantMovementsinIndia,19201950 R.S.Rungta:TheRiseofBusinessCorporationsinIndia,18511900 RajatK.Ray(ed.):EntrepreneurshipandIndustryinIndia,18001947 BipanChandra:TheRiseandGrowthofEconomicNationalisminIndia AmiyaKumarBagchi:DeindustrializationinIndiaintheNineteenthCentury:SomeTheoretical Implications,JournalofDevelopmentStudies,12(2),1976 MarikaVicziany:TheDeindustrializationofIndiaintheNineteenthCentury:AMethodological CritiqueofAmiyaKumarBagchi,IndianEconomicandSocialHistoryReview,26(2),1979 DanielThornerandAliceThorner:LandandLabourinIndia,18811931 AmiyaKumarBagchi:PrivateInvestmentinIndia,19001939 Rajat K. Ray: Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 191447 DipeshChakrabarty:RethinkingWorkingClassHistory:Bengal18901940 OmkarGoswami:Industry,TradeandPeasantSociety:TheJuteEconomyofEasternIndia,1900 1947 RajnarayanChandavarkar:TheOriginsofIndustrialCapitalisminIndia SunilKumarSen:WorkingClassMovementsinIndia,18851975

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PAPER VII B th th SocialHistoryofIndia(5 to13 Centuries) ModuleI: UnitI:FormationofSocialPoliticalStructure UnitII:TheTheoryofSultanate UnitIII:Unitary/CentralizedStateFormation UnitIV:StateandSociety ModuleII: UnitI:RegionalPatternsofStateFormation UnitII:SocietiesinRajputanaTheBhaiBantSystem UnitIII:VijayanagaraSegmentaryState 11 | P a g e

UnitIV:Bengal ModuleIII UnitI:GrowthofRegionalLiterature UnitII:LiberalArts,TechnologyandScience UnitIII:Astronomy,Ayurveda,Rasayana. UnitIV:NewDevelopments ModuleIV UnitI:Social,EconomicandReligiousTraitsofAssimilation UnitII:PhilosophyBhaktiCultandSufism UnitIII:HinduMuslimSynthesis UnitIV:AssimilationofCultures References(PaperVIIB) D.D.Kosambi:AnIntroductiontotheStudyofIndianHistory R.S.Sharma:PerspectivesinSocialandEconomicHistoryEarlyIndia R.S.Sharma:IndianFeudalism,3001200 R.G.Bhandarkar:Vaisnavism,SaivismandMinorReligiousSystems Mahammad Habib and K. A. Nizami: A Comprehensive History of India, vol. V, The Delhi Sultanate K.A.Nizami:SomeAspectsofReligionandPoliticsinIndiaduringtheThirteenthCentury A.B.M.Habbibullah:TheFoundationofMuslimRuleinIndia I.H.Qureshi:TheAdministrationoftheSultanateofDelhi DebiprasadChattopadhyaya:ScienceandSocietyinAncientIndia HermannKulke(ed.):TheStatesinIndia,10001700 J.S.Grewal(ed.):StateandSocietyinMedievalIndia BurtonStein:Peasant,StateandSocietyinEarlyMedievalSouthIndia ShankarGoel(ed.):Rajasthan:FromPrehistorytotheIndependence

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PAPER VIII B th th EconomicHistoryofIndia(5 to13 Centuries) ModuleI: UnitI:EarlyMedievalPeriod UnitII:CausativeFactors UnitIII:DebatesandHistoriography 12 | P a g e

ModuleII: UnitI:TheAgrarianStructure UnitII:TheFeudalEconomy UnitIII:GrowthandDiversities UnitIV:TheIqtadariSystem ModuleIII: UnitI:NatureofTrade(Trade,MerchantsandMarketCentres) UnitII:UrbanDevelopmentandProliferationofGuildsandCrafts UnitIII:Agriculture ModuleIV UnitI:EconomyofVijayanagara UnitII:BengalandBhamainKingdom UnitIII:ForeignTrade UnitIV:FeudalismFromAboveandBelow References(PaperVIIIB) HarbansMukhia:TheFeudalismDebate B.D.Chaterjee:TheMakingofEarlyMedievalIndia D.N.Jha(ed):TheIndianFeudalOrder:State,SocietyandIdeology,5001300 D.D.Kosambi:AnIntroductiontotheStudyofIndianHistory RushtonCoulborn:FeudalisminHistory R.S.Sharma:SocialChangesinEarlyMedievalIndia R.S.Sharma:IndianFeudalism,3001200 R.S.Sharma:PerspectivesinSocialandEconomicHistoryEarlyIndia B.P.Majumdar:SocioEconomicHistoryofNorthernIndia,10301194 TapanRaychaudhuriandIrfanHabib:TheCambridgeEconomicHistoryofIndia,VolumeI BurtonStein:PeasantStateandSocietyinEarlyMedievalSouthIndia B.N.S.Yadava:SocietyandCultureinNorthernIndiaintheTwelfthCentury LallanjiGopal:EconomicLifeofNorthernIndia,7001200 BurtonStein:Vijayanagara K.A.NilkantaShastri:AHistoryofSouthIndia R.C.Majumdar(ed.):TheHistoryandCultureoftheIndianPeople:TheClassicalAge KarlMarx:PreCapitalistEconomicFormations

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