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POST-GRADUATE COURSE SYLLABUS 2016 Department Of 1 POST-GRADUATE COURSE SYLLABUS 2016 Department of History Gauhati University The syllabus aims at an integrated approach to understanding history in the global, national and regional context. The Syllabus offers 26Courses over four semesters: • Courses on Understanding History: 4 • Courses on Global/ Non-Indian history : 3 • Courses on Indian History: 14 • Courses on Regional History of India: 4 • Course on Practical Skills in History Writing: 1 The syllabus acquaints the student with concepts, theories and methods of history and historiography. Apart from political and socio-economic issues it incorporates various aspects of history such as gender, ethnic communities, environmental issues as well as peasants’ struggles. Cultural history forms an important component. It includes art and architecture of India and cultural contacts between India and South East Asia. Emphasis on regional history is reflected with the inclusion of four courses on Assam. Practical application of historical concepts, tools and techniques is facilitated through dissertation writing. Course Structure: The Post-Graduate Course in History requires students to opt for 16 (Sixteen) courses over four semesters. The Department also offers one Value Added Course (VAC) per semester, i.e. a total of 4 (four) VAC over 4 (four) semesters. While the sixteen courses in History are assigned 6 (six) credits each, the VACs are assigned four credits each. Thus each semester has 28 (24+4) credits and the Post-Graduate Course in History requires a total of 112 (96+16) credits. Semester-wise distribution of marks: First Semester 400 Second Semester 400 Third Semester 400 Fourth Semester 400 Specialisation offered: Ancient Indian History, Medieval Indian History and Modern Indian History. FIRST SEMESTER HIS1016 History: Theory and Method HIS1026 History of Assam (Earliest Times up to 1228 CE) 2 HIS103A6 State Formation in Ancient India OR HIS103B6 Political Ideas and Institutions of Medieval India OR HIS103C6 Colonialism, Imperialism and Resistance in India (1757-1857 CE) HIS104A6 East Asia: China and Japan (1839-1949 CE) OR HIS104B6 India and South East Asia: Early Cultural Contacts HIS1054 Research Writing in Social Sciences (VA) SECOND SEMESTER HIS2016 Historiography HIS2026 History of Assam (1228-1826 CE) HIS203A6 Social History of Ancient India OR HIS203B6 Social History of Medieval India OR HIS203C6 Social History of Modern India HIS2046 Twentieth Century World History HIS2054 Cultural History of North East India (VA) THIRD SEMESTER HIS3016 Nationalism in India (1858-1947 CE) HIS3026 History of Assam (1826-1947 CE) HIS3036 Gender History (Elective/Open) HIS304A6 Agriculture, Trade and Urbanisation in Early India OR HIS304B6 Agriculture, Trade and Urbanisation in Medieval India OR HIS304C6 Economic History of Modern India 3 HIS3054 Heritage Sites in North East India: Case Studies (VA) FOURTH SEMESTER: HIS4016 Post Independence India HIS402A6 Ancient Indian Art and Architecture OR HIS402B6 Medieval Indian Art and Architecture OR HIS402C6 Peasants’ and Workers’ Resistance in Modern India HIS403A6 Ethnohistory of Assam (Elective/Open) OR HIS403B6 Environmental History HIS4046 Dissertation HIS4054 Historical Application in Tourism (VA) COURSE HIS1016 HISTORY: THEORY AND METHOD Course Overview: The course is an overview of the basic concepts and dominant methodological concerns that have shaped modern historical scholarship. It introduces students to a multidisciplinary approach to understand changing trends in history. UNIT I Background and Key Concepts: i) Philosophy of History ii) Sources, Explanation and Generalization iii) Objectivity in History UNIT II Nineteenth Century Schools: i) Positivist History ii) Whig History UNIT III Dominant Trends in the Twentieth Century: i) Marxist History: Historical Materialism; Marxist Structuralism; History from Below ii) The Annales School: Total History iii) Time and History: Fernand Braudel iv) History of Mentalities: The Third Generation Annales Historians Unit IV Recent Trends: i) An Introduction to Post-modernism ii) Foucault and Derrida iii) Ethno-history 4 Unit V Research Methodology in History: i) Sources: Primary and Secondary ii) Techniques of Research: Organisation and Presentation ii) Referencing and Bibliography Reading List: Bloch. Marc. 1953. The Historians Craft. London : Manchester University Press Braudel.F.1992.On History. London: Chicago University Press Bury. J.B. 1920. The Idea of Progress. London: The Macmillan and Co. Butterfield. H. 1931. The Whig Interpretation of History.London: WW Norton& Company Carr. E.H. 1987. What is History. London: Cambridge University Press Collingwood. R.G. 1946. The Idea of History. London: OxfordUniversity Press Fritz. Stern.(ed.) 1973. The Varieties of History.New York:Random House Hobsbawm. E.J. 1968. Karl Marx’s Contribution to Historiography. London: Sage Publication Thompson. E.P. 1995. The Poverty of Theory . U.K: Merlin Press Vilar, Pierre, “Marxist History”, New Left Review, 80, July-August 1973 Maurice Aymard and Harbans Mukhia, eds., French Studies in History Marwick. A. The Nature of History. Macmillam Press Ltd, United Kingdom.1970 Marwick. A. The New Nature of History.Palgrave Macmillam, United Kingdom.1989 Journal of Modern History,Special Number of Annales. 1972 __________________________________________________________ COURSE HIS103A6: STATE FORMATION IN ANCIENT INDIA Course Overview: The course focuses on the process of state formation in ancient India in the context of changing historical milieu such as political and administrative systems, economic expansion and social structures. The historiography is indicative of approaches to understanding notions of pre-state, proto-state and models of state, including the regional variations covering the chronological span up to 1200CE. UNIT I: Historiography and Approach: i) Oriental Despotism; Asiatic Mode of Production ii)Saptanga Theory ; Early State Model iii) Forms of State: Feudal; Integrative; Segmentary. Unit II: Harappan Culture: i) Urbanism ii) Theory and Nature of State Unit III: Tribal Polity to Territorial State (1500-321 BCE) i) Early Vedic and Later Vedic Polity: Republics and Kingdoms ii)State Formation in the Ganga Valley: The Mahajanapadas 5 Unit IV: Mauryan and Post-Mauryan Polity (200 BCE- 300 CE ) i) Emergence of Mauryan Empire : Salient Features; Asoka’s Dhamma; Debates on Nature of the State ii) Post-Mauryan Polity: Kushanas (North India); Satavahanas (Deccan) Unit V: The Guptas and Regional State Formation (300 - 1200 CE) i) Evolution of Classical Pattern ii) Samanta System in North India: Harsavardhana iii) Regional States: Rajputs (North India), Chalukyas of Badami (Deccan), Cholas(South India) Reading List: Altekar. A.S. 1966. State and Government in Ancient India. Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass. Claessen. H.J.M. and P.Skalnik. 1978. The Early State. The Hague: Mouton Chattopadhyaya, B.D. 1994. The Making of Early Medieval India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press Chakravarti. Ranabir. 2013. Exploring Early India Up to c. AD 1300. Second Edition. Delhi: Macmillan Mabbet. I.W. 1980. Truth, Myth and Politics in Ancient India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press Ratnagar. Shereen. 1991. Enquiries into the Political Organization of Harrappan Society. Pune: Ravish Publishers Roy. Kumkum. 1994. Emergence of Monarchy in North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press Sharma. R.S. 1989.Origin of the State in India. D.D.Kosambi Memorial Lectures-1987. Bombay: University of Bombay Sharma. R.S. 1996. The State and Varna Formation in the Mid Ganga Plains: An Ethnoarchaeological View. New Delhi: Manohar Publications Thapar. Romila. 1992. Interpreting Early India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press Thapar. Romila. 1984. From Lineage to State. New Delhi: Oxford University Press Kangle. R.P(ed). and tr. 1960-65. Kautilya’s Arthasastra. Bombay: University of Bombay Kulke. Hermann(ed) 1994. The State in India, AD 1000-1700. New Delhi: Oxford University Press ------------------------------------------------------- COURSE HIS103B6 POLITICAL IDEAS AND INSTITUTIONS OF MEDIEVAL INDIA Course Overview: The course intends to examine the political, administrative and religious ideas of medieval India. It also examines the military institutions of the period. UNIT I Historiography i) Writings of the Sultanate Period ii) Writings during Afghan despotism iii) Historiography of the Mughal period UNIT II Establishment of Turkish Rule i) Delhi Sultanate: Background, foundation and consolidation ii) Khalji: Crown and Nobility; Administrative reforms; Iqtadari system; iii) Tughlaqs: Revitalization of system of revenue assignments UNIT III Afghan Despotism: i)Theory of Kingship ii)Administrative reforms under Sher Shah UNIT IV The Mughals: Ideology and State i)The Turko‐Mongol tradition ii)Religion and the State: Akbar and Aurangzeb 6 iii)Mansabdari System and the Mughal army; Jagirdari System iv)Ideology of alliances‐ Mughals and Rajputs UNIT V Crisis of the Mughal Empire i) Rise of the Marathas, Afghans, Sikhs ii) Jagirdari Crisis Reading List: _______________________________________________ Abul Fazal (trans. by Beveridge). 1979. Akbar Namah. Delhi: Abul Fazal(trans. by Blochman). 2001. Ain-i-Akbari. New Delhi: Ali. Athar. 2001. Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Aziz. A. 1945. The Mansabdary System and the Mughal Army. Lahore: Chandra.Satish.2007. Medieval India- From Sultanate to the Mughals(1206-1526), Vol I & II. New Delhi: Har Anand Publications Frykenberg. R.F. 1969. Land Control.
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