HIS-HC-5016

History of Modern Europe- I (c. 1780-1939)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: After the completion of this course the students will be able to evaluate the historical evolution and political developments that occurred in Europe in the period between 1780 to 1939. They will also be also to critically analyse the evolution of social classes, nation states, evolution of capitalism and nationalist sentiment in Europe. They will also be able to relate to the variety of causes that dragged the world into devastating wars in the intervening period.


Unit I. The French Revolution and its European repercussions:

[a] Crisis of ancien regime

[b] Intellectual currents.

[c] Social classes and emerging gender relations.

[d] Phases of the French Revolution 1789 - 99.

[e] Art and Culture of French Revolution.

[f] Napoleonic consolidation - reform and empire.


Unit II. Restoration and Revolution: c. 1815 - 1848:

[a] Forces of conservatism & restoration of old hierarchies.

[b] Social, Political and intellectual currents.

[c] Revolutionary and Radical movements, 1830 - 1848.


Unit III Capitalist Industrialization 

[a] Process of capitalist development in industry and agriculture: case Studies of Britain, France, the German States and Russia.


Unit IV. Social and Economic Transformation (Late 18th century to c. 1914)

[a] Evolution and Differentiation of social classes: Bourgeoisie, Proletariat, land owning classes and peasantry.

[b] Changing trends in demography and urban patterns.

[c] Family, gender and process of industrialization.


Unit V. Varieties of Nationalism and the Remaking of States in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

[a] Intellectual currents, popular movements and the formation ofNational identities in Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Balkans.

[b] Specificities of economic development, political and administrative Reorganization -Italy; Germany. 

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HIS-HC-5026

HISTORY OF INDIA VII (c. 1780 - 1857)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: After the completion of this course, the students will be able to relate the circumstances leading to the consolidation of colonial rule over India and their consequences. They will also be able to explain the orientation of the indigenous population and the masses towards resistance to the colonial exploitation. The course will also enable the students to analyse popular uprisings among the tribal, peasant and common people against the British policies.


Unit I. Expansion and Consolidation of colonial Power:

[a] European trading companies in India : Portuguese, Dutch, English and French

[b] Mercantilism, foreign trade and early forms of exaction.

[c] Dynamics of expansion, with special reference to Bengal, Mysore, Western India, Awadh, Punjab, and Sindh.


Unit II. Colonial State and Ideology:

[a] Arms of the colonial state: army, police, law.

[b] Ideologies of the Raj and racial attitudes.

[c] Education: indigenous and modern.


Unit III. Rural Economy and Society:

[a] Land revenue systems and forest policy.

[b] Commercialization and indebtedness.

[c] Rural society: change and continuity.

[d] Famines.

[e] Pastoral economy and shifting cultivation.


Unit IV. Trade and Industry

[a] De-industrialization

[b] Trade and fiscal policy

[c] Drain of Wealth

[d] Growth of modern industry


Unit V. Popular Resistance:

[a] Santhal uprising 

[b] Uprising of 1857

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HIS –HE-5016

HISTORY OF ASSAM (UPTO c. 1228)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: This paper will give a general outline of the history of Assam from the earliest times to the advent of the Ahoms in the 13th century. Upon completion, students will be acquainted with major stages of developments in the political, social and cultural history of Assam during the early times.


Unit-I: 

[a] A brief survey of the sources:Literary,Archaeological

[b] Land and people: Migration routes

[c] Cultural linkages with South East Asia : the Stone Jars of DimaHasao


Unit-II: 

[a] Origin and antiquity of Pragjyotisha or Kamrupa Society

[b] Traditional rulers and early History

[c] Religion and belief systems


Unit-III:

Political dynasties:

[a] Varmana

[b] Salastambha

[c] Pala


Unit-IV: 

[a] Political condition of Assam in the Post-Pala period.

[b] Turko-Afghan invasions

[c] Disintegration of the Kingdom of Kamarupa


Unit-V: 

[a] Central and Provincial administration

[b] Judicial administration

[c] Revenue administration

[d] Cultural Life : Literature, Art and architecture

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HIS –HE-5026

HISTORY OF ASSAM (c. 1228 –1826)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: On completion of this paper, students will be able to identify major stages of developments in the political, social and cultural history of Assam during the medieval times. This paper will enable the student to explain the history of Assam from the 13th century to the occupation of Assam by the English East India Company in the first quarter of the 19th century.


Unit-1

[a] Sources- archaeological, epigraphic, literary, numismatic and accounts of the foreign travelers; Buranjis

[b] Political conditions of the Brahmaputra valley at the time of foundation of the Ahom kingdom.

[c]Siu-ka-pha - An assessment

[d] State information in the Brahmaputra valley-the Chutiya, Kachari and the Koch state


Unit-II

[a] Expansion of the Ahom Kingdom in the 16thcentury: Suhungmung (Dihingiya Raja)

[b] Political Developments in the 17thcentury: rule of Pratap Singha) 

[c] Ahom-Mughal wars- the treaty of 1639.


Unit –III

[a] Assam in the second half of the 17thCentury- the Ahom-Mughal Wars – Mir Jumla’s 

Assam Invasion- causes and consequences,

[b] Invasion of Ram Singha - the Battle of Saraighat (1671) and its results

[c] Post-Saraighat Assam: Ascendancy of the Tungkhungia dynasty – the reign of Gadadhar Singha.


Unit: IV

[a]Ahom Rule at its zenith of RudraSingha (1696-1714) to RajeswarSingha (1751-1769) 

[b] Decline and fall of the Ahom Kingdom the Moamariya Rebellion and the

[c] Burmese Invasions- The English East India Company in Assam Politics

[d] Treatyof Yandaboo and Assam


Unit :V

[a]Ahom system of administration: the Paik system

[b]Ahom Policy towards the neighbouring hill tribes

[c] Religious life –-Sankaradeva and the Neo Vaishnavite Movement- background and implications

[d] Cultural developments : Art, Architecture and literature.

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