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BA History Syllabus BA History Syllabus 1| BA History - SYLLABUS Department Overview: The Department of History at SRM University AP, Amaravati will aim to equip the students to learn from history rather than merely learning history. The courses in the BACHELOR OF ARTS (B.A) degree in HISTORY are designed to equip students with the knowledge of historical processes, events and transformations in world and Indian History from Stone Age to the contemporary world. By putting forth the various arguments/positions on the nature of the discipline, the program is designed to ensure that the students gather and are equipped to answer the question as to what is history; the perspective that there are many histories of the same event will drive the entire program and thus dispel the notion that history is just a narrative of dates and personalities. The thrust here will be on intensive reading of a variety of texts in History rather than rote learning; tutorial sessions where the student reads through text(s) on specific topics and makes presentations before her/his peers will constitute an essential half of the evaluation system at SRM University AP, Amarawati; such assignments will include preparing book reviews and these will involve reading texts along with published comments on those. Thus every student will be trained in the art of reading, writing, speaking, reasoning and interpretation of texts in periodic seminars. Continuous evaluation through tutorials, term papers and seminars apart from the end-term examinations will be the hallmark of this program. The courses contain necessary knowledge in the subject for pursuing higher degree in social sciences, from an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach as well as to equip the students to face such competitive exams like the civil services. The focus at SRM University AP, Amaravati, will be on interactive learning and the core principle at the SLABS is knowledge through critical thinking as against rote learning and performance in examinations. The core team of regular faculty members, drawn from among the best in the discipline, in the department along with a host of visiting faculty comprising of scholars of international repute will take education beyond the class-rooms and engage with the students within and outside the class-rooms and also on subjects that are not necessarily part of the curriculum. History in particular and Social Sciences in general will form the subject matter of regular extra-mural lectures by scholars of eminence from across the world. All these will then be brought into the exercises/assignments that are part of the continuous evaluation system that the department will follow through the program. All Courses carry four credits An Introduction to History and the Historian’s Craft (Core) [Course Code HIS101] Course Description The course has a two pronged purpose: To dispel the perception that History is a subject merely involving dates, names and events that are meant to be memorized, remembered and reproduced; and thereafter to discuss History as a discipline, the methods of History and the Historian’s craft wherein the importance of facts are not merely stressed in isolation but in context. 2| BA History - SYLLABUS Unit I: History of History PreHistory and ProtoHistory and the Definition of History – Concepts of Time – Defining the region (physical, imagined, global, national and regional history): Written History: The Greco-Roman tradition (Heredotus, Thucydides, Levy and Tacitus); the Indian tradition (Itihasa, Purana, Buddhist & Jaina, Kalhana): Medieval European Historiography (St. Augustin) – Medieval West Asian Historiography (Al Beruni and Ibn Khaldun) – Medieval Indian Historiography (Amir Khusro, Barani, Ibn Batuta, Isami, Ferishta, Abdul Razak, Babar, Abul Fazal, Badauni) Unit II: History and Historiography Enlightenment historiography – Romanticist historiography – Positivist school – Critical method of Neibhur and Ranke - Annales School (Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Roger Chartier) - Marxist School (Frankfurt School, British Marxist Historians) Indian Historiography: Imperialist Historiography (James Mill, V.A.Smith, Elphinstone, W.H.Moreland)- Nationalist Historiography (Naoroji, Ranade, Dutt, R.G. Bhandarkar, H.C. Raychaudhury, RC Majumdar, K.P. Jayaswal, J.N. Sarkar, K.A. Neelakantha Sastri) - Marxist Historiography (D.D. Kosambi, Mahammad Habib, R.S. Sharma, Romila Thapar, Bipan Chandra, Irfan Habib) and Subaltern Historiography (Ranajit Guha) Unit III: The Theory in History - Its Nature and Meaning Facts in History Writing (What is a Historical Fact): Objectivity, Causation and Generalization in History; Is History a Science: Sources for the Historian; Analysis of Evidence Models in History Writing – Cyclical (Arnold Toynbee) and Linear (Marxist), History and Post modernism (The Cultural turn). Unit IV: Historians’ Craft- Sources of History Archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Inscriptions, Official Chronicles, Archives and Literary Sources. Historian and the Computer: Quantitative history and computers, coming to terms with mass of historical information, towards ‘total’ history. History in the Digital Age: Studying digital historical atlas in India Unit V: History and other Social Sciences History and Sociology, History and Archaeology, History and Anthropology, History and Political Science, History and Linguistics, History and Economics, History and Literature. Recommended Readings: 1) Aloka Parasher Sen, ‘The Making of Digital Historical Atlas’, The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2006. 2) Bernard Lewis, History: Remembered, Recovered, Invented, Simon & Schuster, 1987. 3| BA History - SYLLABUS 3) Bertrand Russel, Selected Writings of Bertrand Russel, Routledge (Chapters: 4) Bhupendra Yadav, Framing History: Context and Perspectives, New Delhi, 2012. 5) Dipesh Chakraborty, The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empira of Truth, Orient Blackswan, 2016 6) E.H. Carr, What is History? Penguin, (Reprint), 2008. 7) Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Territory of the Historian, University of Chicago Press, 1982. 8) Eric Hobsbwam, On History , Little Brown Book Group, 1998 9) Marc Bloch, The Historian’s Craft, Vintage, 1964. 10) Shashi Bhushan Upadhyaya, Historiography in the Modern World: Western and Indian Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2016. 4| BA History - SYLLABUS Human Civilizations (Core) [Course Code HIS102] Course Description This course will engage students with the story of Human evolution, origin and development of civilization in a broad archaeological and historical context. We will analyse geographical, political, economic, religious and social structures of ancient civilisation with focused attention on Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, China and Europe. The course is designed to create an understanding of the earliest cities, states, kingdoms and empires that developed in different parts of the world. Unit I - Early Settlements What is Civilisation? Stages of Human evolution; African Origins of Humanity; overview of Hominin evolution: Sexual dimorphism, Development of Language: Patterns of lithic technological development, and stone tool technology, gathering and hunting in human evolution- social and economic structure. Unit II – The Neolithic and Beyond Climate change and end of Ice- Age, towards the Mesolithic period and extension of settlement in new ecological zones, changes in subsistence strategies based on the case studies from West Asia, Europe and Meso America; changes in tool manufacture and social organisation. Neolithic Period: Origin of food production; Gender Division of Labour; early farming settlements at Catal Hoyuk/Abu Hureya/Jericho/Syria and Jordan; early farming societies in Europe, Asia and the Nile Valley; Neolithic sites, art and architecture; Domestication of animals; burial customs and belief. Unit III –The Urban Revolution and Civilization Discovery of metals, science of forging metals, development of writing system; Tigris and Euphrates river valley: Emergence of Cities. Urban Revolution: Ancient Egyptian Civilisation, Private life in ancient Egypt; Minion Civilisation of Crete, Gender in the Mediterranean, Nomadic Pastoralism; pastoral people of middle east; pastoralism in central Asia: Horse, wheel, cart and chariot; impacts on the environment; socio- political interaction with the urban centres. The advent of Iron- its origin and implications. Unit IV – Towards the Early State Ancient Greece; emergence of polis, Athens and Sparta, myth of arcadia. Slave Mode of Production: Emergence of Slavery in ancient Greece, organization of production, nature of classical urbanism, population and forms of slavery; Private life and ancient Greece. Hellenistic Phase: Characteristic features of Hellenism, cities and rural world, art, and culture. 5| BA History - SYLLABUS Unit V – Religious Formation in Early Societies Cults to Religion, Development of ‘World Religions’, ‘The Sacred and the Profane’, Shamanism, Priests and the Early state, Cave Art to Temples -Evolution of Religious Architecture, Religion:Legitimacy and Social Cohesion, Towards Institutionalised Religious Formations. Recommended Readings: 1. Barnard, Alan (ed.), Hunter-Gatherers in History, Archaeology and Anthropology, Berg, Oxford, 2004. 2. Bogucki, P. The Origins of Human Society. Massachusets and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell Publishers,1999. 3. Cartledge, Paul (ed), The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, Cambridge, 1998. 4. Childe, V. Gordon, What Happened in History,
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