HIS-HC-2016:
HISTORY OF INDIA- II
Lecture : 5 Tutorial : 1 (per week)
Course Outcome: On successful completion of this course the students will be able to explain the economic and socio-cultural connections, transitions and stratifications during the ruling houses, empires and the politico-administrative nuances of early Indian History from 300 BCE to 300 CE.
Unit I. Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
[a] Expansion of agrarian economy: production relations.
[b] Urban growth: north India, central India and the Deccan;
[c] craft Production: trade and trade routes; coinage.
[d] Social stratification: class, Varna, jati, untouchability; gender; marriage and property relations
Unit II. Changing political formations (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
[a] The Mauryan Empire
[b] Post-Mauryan Polities : Kushanas, Satavahanas, Gana Sanghas.
Unit III. Towards early medieval India [circa CE fourth century to CE 750]:
[a] Agrarian expansion: land grants, changing production relations; graded Land rights and peasantry.
[b] The problem of urban decline: patterns of trade, currency, and urban Settlements.
[c] Varna, proliferation of jatis: changing norms of marriage and property.
[d] The nature of polities: the Gupta empire and its contemporaries.
[e] Post- Gupta polities - Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Vardhanas
Unit IV. Religion, philosophy and society (circa 300 BCE- CE 750):
[a] Consolidation of the brahmanical tradition: dharma, Varnashram, Purusharthas, samskaras.
[b] Theistic cults (from circa second century BC): Mahayana; the Puranic tradition.
[c] The beginnings of Tantricism
Unit V. Cultural developments (circa 300 BCE - 750 CE):
[a] A brief survey of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil literature; Scientific and technical treatises
[b] Art and architecture & forms and patronage; Mauryan, post- Mauryan, Gupta, post-Gupta
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HIS-HC-2026 :
SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL PATTERNS OF THE
MEDIEVAL WORLD
Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)
Course Outcome: After the completion of this course, the students will be able to analyse and explain the historical socio-political, administrative and economic patternsof the medieval world. They will be able to describe the emergence, growth and decline of various politico-administrative and economic patterns and the resultant changes therein.
Unit I. Roman Republic:I
[a] Roman Empire
[b] Slave society and Agrarian economy
[c] Trade and Urbanization in Roman Empire
Unit II. Roman Republic:II
[a] Religion and Culture in Ancient Rome
[b] Crisis of the Roman Empire
[c] External Factors of decline of Roman Empire
Unit III. Economic developments in Europe from the 7th to the 14th centuries:
[a] Organization of production, towns and trade.
[b] Technological developments.
[c] Crisis of feudalism.
Unit IV. Religion and culture in medieval Europe:
[a]Expansion of Christianity
[b]Development of the Catholic Church
[c]Religion, Culture and Society in Medieval Europe
Unit V. Societies in Central Islamic Lands:
[a] The tribal background, Ummah, Caliphate ; rise of Sultanates
[b] Religious developments: Sharia, Mihna, Sufism
[c] Urbanization and trade
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HIS –HG-2016 :
HISTORY OF INDIA (c.1206 to 1757)
Lecture : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)
Course Outcome: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyse the political and social developments in India between 1206-1757. Students will be able to explain the formation of different States during this period along with their administrative apparatuses, and the society, economy and culture of India in the 13th to mid-18th century period.
Unit: 1
[a] Foundation and consolidation of the Sultanate: Iltutmish, Sultana Raziya, Balban and the Mongol invasions
[b] Expansion of Sultanate :AlauddinKhalji - conquests and administration
[c]Tughlaqs- Muhammad bin Tughlaq and Firoz Shah Tughlaq.
Unit: II
[a] Decline of the Sultanate
[b] Rise of Provincial Kingdoms and contest for supremacy :Vijaynagar and Bahmani Kingdoms.
[c] Political and Revenue administration: Iqtadari system
[d] Agriculture, trade and commerce during the Sultanate period.
Unit: III
[a] Foundation of the Mughal Empire: Mughal - Afghan contest - Babur and Humayun; Sher Shah and his administration.
[b] Consolidation and territorial Expansion of the Mughal Empire- Akbar, Jahangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb.
[c] Mughal-Rajput Relations.
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[d] Religious Policy of the Mughals
Unit: IV
[a] Rise of Maratha power under Shivaji.
[b] Disintegration of the Mughal Empire
[d] Mughal Administration: mansabdari and jagirdari System.
[e] Aspects of society and economy during the Mughal period: agriculture, trade and commerce
Unit: V
[a] Syncretism in medieval India: religion, literature, art and architecture
[b] Bhakti movement : Nanak, Kabir and Mirabai
[c]Sufism : Different Silsilahs
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