HIS-HC-6016

HISTORY OF INDIA VIII (c. 1857 - 1950)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: At the completion of this course, the learners will be able to analyse the course of British colonial exploitation, the social mobilizations during the period between c.1857 to 1950 and also the techniques of Indian resistance to British policies. It will also enable the students to explain the circumstances leading to de-colonization and also the initial period of nation building in India.


Unit I. Cultural changes and Socio-Religious Reform Movements:

[a] The advent of printing and its implications

[b] Reform and Revival: Brahmo Samaj, Prarthna Samaj, and Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Arya Samaj, Wahabi, Deoband, Aligarh and Singh Sabha Movements.

[c] Debates around gender

[d] Making of religious and linguistic identities

[e] Caste: sanskritising and anti Brahmanical trends


Unit II. Nationalism: Trends up to 1919:

[a] Political ideology and organizations, formation of INC

[b] Moderates and extremists.

[c] Swadeshi movement

[d] Revolutionaries


Unit III. Gandhian nationalism after 1919: Ideas and Movements:

[a] Mahatma Gandhi: his Perspectives and Methods

[b] (i) Impact of the First World War

(ii) Rowlatt Satyagraha and Jallianwala Bagh

(iii) Non- Cooperative and Civil Disobedience

(iv) Provincial Autonomy, Quit India and INA

[c] Left wing movements

[d] Princely India: States people movements

[e] Nationalism and Culture: literature and art


Unit IV. Nationalism and Social Groups: 

[a] Landlords; Peasants

[b] Middle Classes

[c] Tribal

[d] Labour

[e] Dalits

[f] Women

[g] Business groups


Unit V. Communalism and Partition: 

[a] Ideologies and practices: RSS, Hindu Maha Sabha, Muslim League.

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[b] Negotiations for independence, and partition

[c] Partition riots; 

[d] Emergence of a New State: Integration of princely states, Making of the Constitution.

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HIS-HC-6026

HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE II (c. 1780 -1939)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Couse Outcome: After the completion of this course, the students will be able to analyse the historical developments in Europe between c.1780 to 1939. As the course structure of this paper focuses on the democratic and socialist foundations modern Europe, the students will be able to situate the historical development of working class movements, socialist upsurge and the economic forces of the two wars and the other ideological shifts of Europe in the period


Unit I. Liberal Democracy, Working Class Movements and Socialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries:

[a] The struggle for parliamentary democracy and civil liberties in Britain.

[b] Forms of protest during early capitalism: food riots in France and England: Luddites and Chartism.

[c] Early socialist thought; Marxian Socialism and the First and the Second International.

[d] German Social Democracy, Politics and Culture.

[e] Christian Democracy as a political and ideological force in western and central Europe


Unit II. The Crisis of Feudalism in Russia and Experiments in Socialism:

[a] Emancipation of serfs.

[b] Russian Populism and Social Democracy.

[c] Revolutions of 1905; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

[d] Programme of Socialist Construction.


Unit III. Imperialism, War, and Crisis: c. 1880 -1919:

[a] Theories and mechanisms of imperialism; 

[b] growth of Militarism; Power blocks and alliances: expansion of European empires - War of 1914 - 1918


Unit IV. The post 1919 World Order

[a] Economic crises, the Great Depression and Recovery.

[b] Rise of Fascism and Nazism.

[c] The Spanish Civil War.

[d] Origins of the Second World War.


Unit V. Cultural and Intellectual Developments since circa 1850:

[a] Changing contexts: [i] Notions of Culture [ii] Creation of a New public sphere and mass media [iii] Mass education and extension of literacy.

[b] Creation of new cultural forms: from Romanticism to Abstract Art.

[c] Major intellectual trends: [i] Institutionalization of disciplines history, Sociology and Anthropology. [ii] Darwin and Freud.

[d] Culture and the making of ideologies: Constructions of Race, Class and Gender, ideologies of Empire.

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HIS –HE-6016

HISTORY OF ASSAM (c. 1826 – 1947)

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe the period of British rule in Assam after its annexation by the imperialist forces. They will also be able to situate the development of nationalism in Assam and its role in India’s freedom struggle. The course would enable the students to analyse the main currents of the political and socio-economic developments in Assam during the colonial period. 


Unit I:

[a] Political condition in Assam on the eve of the British rule.

[b] Establishment and Consolidation of the British rule:Reforms and Reorganizations- David Scott – Annexation of Lower Assam, Administrative

[c] Reorganisation and Revenue Measures of Scott; Robertson – Administrativeand Revenue Measures; Jenkins’ Administrative Measures


Unit II:

[a]Ahom Monarchy in Upper Assam (1833-38)

[b] Annexation of Cachar

[c] Early phase of Revolts and Resistance to British rule- GomdharKonwar,PiyaliPhukan, 

U.Tirut Singh,

[d] The Khamti and the Singpho rebellion

[e] The 1857 Revolt in Assam and its aftermath.


Unit III:

[a] Establishment of Chief Commissionership in Assam.

[b] Land Revenue Measures and Peasant Uprisings in 19th century Assam 

[c] Growth of national consciousness – Assam Association, SarbajanikSabhas,RaiyatSabhas.

[d] Government of India Act, 1919 – Dyarchy on Trial in Assam.


UnitIV :

[a] Non Co-operation Movement and Swarajist Politics in Assam

[b] The Civil Disobedience Movement 

[c] Trade Union and Allied Movements

[d] Tribal League and Politics in Assam


Unit V:

[a] Quit India Movement in Assam.

[b] Cabinet Mission Plan and the Grouping Controversy 

[c] The Sylhet Referendum.

[d] Migration, Line System and its Impact on Politics in Assam

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HIS –HE-6026

ASSAM SINCE INDEPENDENCE

Lectures : 5; Tutorial : 1 (per week)

Course Outcome: Students will be able to assess the aftermath of Partition and other socio-economic developments in post-independence Assam upon completion of this course. They will also be able to identify the main currents of political and socio-economic development in Assam after India’s independence and the causes and impact of various struggles and movements in contemporary Assam.


Unit I- Political developments

[a] Political changes and impact of partition 

[b] Administrative Re-organisation.

[c] Indo-China War (1962)

[d] Electoral politics in Assam

[e] Independence of Bangladesh and its impact on Assam


Unit II- Economic developments 

[a] Economic impact of the Partition

[b] Revenue policies 

[c] Five year plans

[d] Industrialisation and Urban Development

[e] Demographic Changes

[f] Transport and communication


Unit III : Movements and Ethnic Ressurgence :

[a] Growth of middle class 

[b] Language movement

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[c] Refinery Movement

[d]Assam Movement

[e] Ethnic Resurgence and movement for autonomy; insurgency


Unit IV: Environmental issues :

[a] Natural disasters : earthquake of 1950, flood, erosion.

[b] Land policies and land hunger

[c] Development and environment

[c] Big dam issue

[d] Development, Displacement and natural resources.


Unit V- Cultural development

[a] Activities of The Assam SahityaSabha, 

[b] Development of Media(print and electronic), the All India Radio.

[c] Development of Education : Elementary, Secondary and Higher

[d] Women’s Movements :MahilaSamiti, AsamLekhikaSomaroh

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