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STRUCTURE OF B.A (HONS.) HISTORY COURSE UNDER CBCS CORE COURSE (14) Paper I: History of India-I Paper-II: Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Ancient World Paper III: History of India-II Paper IV: Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval World Paper V: History of India-III (c. 750-1206) Paper VI: Rise of the Modern West-I Paper VII: History of India IV (c.1206-1550) Paper VIII: Rise of the Modern West -II Paper IX: History of India-V (c. 1550-1605) Paper X: History of India-VI (c. 1605-1750) Paper XI: History of Modern Europe- I (c. 1780-1939) Paper XII: History of India-VII (c. 1750-1857) Paper XIII: History of India-VIII (c. 1857-1950) Paper XIV: History of Modern Europe- II (1780-1939) DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE: ANY FOUR Paper I: History of the USSR-I (c. 1917- 1964) Paper II: History of Modern East Asia-I (c.1840-1949) Paper III: History of the USSR-II (c. 1917- 1964) Paper IV: History of Modern East Asia-II (c. 1868-1945) Paper V: History of Africa (c. 1500 - 1960s) Paper VI- History of North Bengal – I Paper VII: History of Latin America (c. 1500 - 1960s) Paper VIII: History of North Bengal - II 1 GENERIC ELECTIVE (FOR OTHER DISCIPLINES): ANY TWO Paper I: History of India from Earliest times up to 300 A.D. Paper II: History of India from C. 300 to 1206 Paper III: History of India C. 1206 to 1707 Paper IV: History of India C. 1707 to 1950 ABILITY ENHANCEMENT COURSE (AECC): COMPULSORY Paper I: Environmental Science Paper II: English/ MIL SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSES (SEC): TWO Paper-I Understanding Heritage or Paper-II: Archives and museums Paper-III: Art Appreciation: An Introduction to Indian Art or Paper-IV: Understanding Popular Culture 2 SCHEME FOR CBCS IN B.A. IN HISTORY HONOURS PROGRAM COURSES NAME OF THE FULL YEAR SEMESTER CREDIT OFFERED COURSE/PAPER MARKS History of India-I (From CC Paper-I 6 (60+15)=75 earliest time to 300 A.D) Social Formations and CC Paper- Cultural Patterns of the 6 (60+15)=75 II Ancient World Generic Elective (GE): Students of History Hons. should take Generic Elective Paper–I from other disciplines). However, Hons. students belonging to other disciplines have to take the following GE Paper if Semester-I they choose History as Generic Elective). History of India from Earliest GE Paper-I 6 (60+15)=75 times up to 300 A.D. AECC Environmental Science 2 (40+10)=50 Paper-1 Total 4 20 275 COURSES NAME OF THE FULL SEMESTER CREDIT OFFERED COURSE/PAPER MARKS CC Paper- History of India-II (from 300 6 (60+15)=75 III A.D. to 750 A.D.) 1 Social Formations and CC Paper- Cultural Patterns of the 6 (60+15)=75 IV Medieval World Generic Elective (GE): Students of History Hons. should take Generic Elective Paper–II from other disciplines). However, Hons. students belonging to other disciplines have to take the following GE Paper if Semester-II they choose History as Generic Elective. GE Paper- History of India from C. 300 6 (60+15)=75 II to 1206 AECC English/ MIL 2 (40+5+5)=50 Paper-II Total 4 20 275 3 COURSES NAME OF THE FULL YEAR SEMESTER CREDIT OFFERED COURSE/PAPER MARKS CC Paper- History of India-III (c. 750- 6 (60+15)=75 V 1206) CC Paper- Rise of the Modern West-I 6 (60+15)=75 VI CC Paper- History of India IV (c.1206- 6 (60+15)=75 VII 1550) Generic Elective (GE): Students of History Hons. should take Generic Elective Paper–III from other disciplines). However, Hons. students belonging to other disciplines have to take the following GE Paper if Semester-III they choose History as Generic Elective. GE Paper- History of India C. 1206 To 6 (60+15)=75 III 1707 Paper-I Understanding Heritage SEC Paper- Or 2 (40+5+5)=50 I Paper-II: Archives and museums Total 5 26 350 COURSES NAME OF THE FULL SEMESTER CREDIT OFFERED COURSE/PAPER MARKS CC Paper- Rise of the Modern West -II 6 (60+15)=75 VIII CC Paper History of India-V (c. 1550- 6 (60+15)=75 2 IX 1605) CC Paper- History of India-VI (c. 1605- 6 (60+15)=75 X 1750) Generic Elective (GE): Students of History Hons. should take Generic Elective Paper–IV from other disciplines). However, Hons. students belonging to other disciplines have to take the following GE Paper if they choose History as Generic Elective> History of India C. 1707 To GE Paper - 1950 6 (60+15)=75 Semester-IV IV Paper-II: Art Appreciation: An Introduction to Indian Art SEC Paper- Or 2 (40+5+5)=50 II Paper-IV: Understanding Popular Culture Total 5 26 350 4 COURSES NAME OF THE FULL YEAR SEMESTER CREDIT OFFERED COURSE/PAPER MARKS CC Paper- History of Modern Europe- I 6 (60+15)=75 XI (c. 1780-1939) CC Paper- History of India-VII (c. 1750- 6 (60+15)=75 XII 1857) Paper I: History of the USSR- I (c. 1917- 1964) DSE Paper OR 6 (60+15)=75 I Paper II: History of Modern East Asia-I (c.1840-1949) Paper III:: History of the Semester-V USSR-II (c. 1917- 1964) DSE Paper OR 6 (60+15)=75 II Paper IV: History of Modern East Asia-II (c. 1868-1945) Total 5 24 300 COURSES NAME OF THE FULL SEMESTER CREDIT OFFERED COURSE/PAPER MARKS CC Paper- History of India-VIII (c. 6 (60+15)=75 XIII 1857-1950) CC Paper- History of Modern Europe- II 6 (60+15)=75 XIV (1780-1939) Paper V: History of Africa (c. 3 1500 - 1960s) DSE Paper OR 6 (60+15)=75 III Paper VI: History of North Bengal – I Semester-VI Paper VII: History of Latin America (c. 1500 - 1960s) DSE Paper OR 6 (60+15)=75 IV Paper VIII: History of North Bengal - II Total 5 24 350 5 DETAILED SYLLABUS, CORE COURSES-14 B.A (HONS), HISTORY PAPER I: HISTORY OF INDIA- I I. Reconstructing Ancient Indian History. [a] Early Indian notions of History. [b] Sources and tools of historical reconstruction. [c] Historical interpretations (with special reference to gender, environment, technology, and regions). II. Pre-historic hunter-gatherers. [a] Palaeolithic cultures- sequence and distribution; stone industries and other technological developments. [b] Mesolithic cultures- regional and chronological distribution; new developments in technology and economy; rock art. III. The advent of food production. Understanding the regional and chronological distribution of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures: subsistence, and patterns of exchange. IV. The Harappan civilization. Origins; settlement patterns and town planning; agrarian base; craft productions and trade; social and political organization; religious beliefs and practices; art; the problem of urban decline and the late/post-Harappan traditions. V. Cultures in transition Settlement patterns, technological and economic developments; social stratification; political relations; religion and philosophy; the Aryan Problem. [a] North India (circa 1500 BCE-300 BCE) [b] Central India and the Deccan (circa 1000 BCE - circa 300 BCE) [c] Tamilakam (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300) 6 ESSENTIAL READINGS: R.S. Sharma, India’s Ancient Past, New Delhi, OUP, 2007. R. S. Sharma, Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India, 1983. R.S. Sharma, Looking for the Aryas, Delhi, Orient Longman Publishers, 1995. D. P. Agrawal, The Archaeology of India, 1985. Bridget & F. Raymond Allchin, The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan, 1983. A. L. Basham, The Wonder that Was India, 1971. D. K. Chakrabarti, The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities, 1997, Paperback. D. K. Chakrabarti, The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology, New Delhi, 2006. H. C. Raychaudhuri, Political History of Ancient India, Rev. ed. with Commentary by B. N. Mukherjee, 1996 K. A. N. Sastri, ed., History of South India, OUP, 1966. Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, 2008. Romila Thapar, Early India from the Beginnings to 1300, London, 2002. Irfan Habib,A People’s History-Vol. -1,PreHistory,200., Irfan Habib Vol.-2, Indus Civilization: Including Other Copper Age Cultures and the History of Language Change till 155 B.C., 2002. SUGGESTED READINGS: Uma Chakravarti, The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism. 1997. Rajan Gurukkal, Social Formations of Early South India, 2010. R. Champakalakshmi, Trade. Ideology and urbanization: South India 300 BC- AD 1300, 1996. 7 PAPER II: SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL PATTERNS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD I. Evolution of humankind; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cultures. II. Food production: beginnings of agriculture and animal husbandry. III. Bronze Age Civilizations, with reference to any one of the following: i) Egypt (Old Kingdom); ii) Mesopotamia (up to the Akkadian Empire); iii) China (Shang); IV) Eastern Mediterranean (Minoan) economy, social stratification, state structure, religion. IV. Nomadic groups in Central and West Asia; Debate on the advent of iron and its implications. V. Slave society in ancient Greece: agrarian economy, urbanization, trade. VI. Polis in ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta; Greek Culture. ESSENTIAL READINGS: Burns and Ralph. World Civilizations. Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. I. V. Gordon Childe, What Happened in History. G. Clark, World Prehistory: A New Perspective. B. Fagan, People of the Earth. Amar Farooqui, Early Social Formations. M. I. Finley, The Ancient Economy. Jacquetta Hawkes, First Civilizations. G. Roux, Ancient Iraq. Bai Shaoyi, An Outline History of China. H. W. F. Saggs, The Greatness that was Babylon. B. Trigger, Ancient Egypt: A Social History. 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    CHAPTER II GEOGRAPHICAL IDENTITY OF THE REGION Ahom and Assam are inter-related terms. The word Ahom means the SHAN or the TAI people who migrated to the Brahma­ putra valley in the 13th Century A.D. from their original homeland MUNGMAN or PONG situated in upper Bunna on the Irrawaddy river. The word Assam refers to the Brahmaputra valley and the adjoining areas where the Shan people settled down and formed a kingdom with the intention of permanently absorbing in the land and its heritage. From the prehistoric period to about 13th/l4 Century A.D. Assam was referred to as Kamarupa and Pragjyotisha in Indian literary works and historical accounts. Early Period ; Area and Jurisdiction In the Ramayana and Mahabharata and in the Puranik and Tantrik literature, there are numerous references to ancient Assam, which was known as Pragjyotisha in the epics and Kamarupa in the Puranas and Tantras. V^Tien the stories related to it inserted in the Maha­ bharata, it stretched southward as far as the Bay of Bengal and its western boundary was river Karotoya. This was then a river of the first order and united in its bed the streams which now form the Tista, the Kosi and the Mahanada.^ 14 15 According to the most of the Puranas dealing with geo­ graphy of the earlier period, the kingdom extended upto the river Karatoya in the west and included Manipur, Jayantia, Cachar, parts of Mymensing, Sylhet, Rangpur and portions of 2 Bhutan and Nepal. The Yogini Yantra (V I:16-18) describes the boundary as - Nepalasya Kancanadrin Bramaputrasye Samagamam Karotoyam Samarabhya Yavad Dipparavasinara Uttarasyam Kanjagirah Karatoyatu pascime tirtharestha Diksunadi Purvasyam giri Kanyake Daksine Brahmaputrasya Laksayan Samgamavadhih Kamarupa iti Khyatah Sarva Sastresu niscitah.