SYLLABUS & PROGRAMME STRUCTURE History (General) (Choice Based Credit System) (Effective from the Academic Session 2017-2018) Fourth Semester MAHARAJA BIR BIKRAM UNIVERSITY AGARTALA, TRIPURA: 799004 PROGRAMME STRUCTURE Structure of Proposed CBCS Syllabus for B.A/B.Com (General) Semester Core Course Ability Enhancement Skill Discipline Generic Compulsory Course Enhancement Specific Elective (GE) (12) (AECC) (2) Course (SEC) Elective (DSE) (2) (2) (4) 1 Compulsory English-1 AECC1 DSC- 1 A : Environmental (Paper-I of choice of subject-I) Science DSC- 2 A (Paper-I of choice of subject-II) 2 Compulsory English-2 AECC2 DSC- 1 B : (Paper-II of choice of subject-I) (English/MIL) DSC- 2 B (English/Bengali/Kok (Paper-II of choice of subject- borak/Hindi) II) (Communication) 3 Compulsory MIL-1 SEC1 (Alternative (From Choice English/Bengali/Kokborak/Hin of subject-I) di) DSC- 1 C (Paper-III of choice of subject- I) DSC- 2 C (Paper-III of choice of subject- II) 4 Compulsory MIL-2 SEC2 (From (Alternative Choice of English/Bengali/Kokborak/Hin subject-II) di) DSC- 1D (Paper-IV of choice of subject- I) DSC- 2D (Paper-IV of choice of subject- II) 5 SEC3 (From DSE1A GE-1 (Choice of (From Choice (From Choice subject-I) of subject-I) of subject-I) DSE2A (From Choice of subject-II) 6 SEC4 (From DSE1B (From GE-2 (Choice of Choice of (From Choice subject-II) subject-I) of subject-II) DSE2B (From Choice of subject-II) 1 Semester-IV DSC-GE-IV TOTAL MARKS – 100 (End Semester-80 Internal-20) HISTORY OF TRIPURA AND ASSAM Unit I 1) Sources of the History of Tripura Military Expedition Dhanya Manikya and Vijoy Manikya. Rise and Fall of Samser Gazi. 2) Socio-economic condition of Tripura under the Manikyas. 3) Religion and Festival and art and architecture of Tripura. 4) Revolt – Tripra (1850) Kuki (1860) Jamatia (1863) and Role of Tripura in the Great revolt of 1857. Unit II 5) British Conquest of Plain Tripura. Appointment of Political Agent. 6) Era of Modernization – Bir Chandra to Bir Bikram. 7) Rabindra-O-Tripura, Development of Language and literature. 8) Integration of Tripura to the Union of India. Unit III 9) Sources of the History of Assam. State formation. Ahom-Mughal conflict. 10) Administration of Ahom kingdom. Socio, economic condition. Bhakti movement. Role of Sankaradeva. 11) Decline of Ahom rule. Unit IV 12) Annexation of Assam by the British. Great revolt of 1857 and role of Maniram Dewan. 13) Growth of Tea Industry. Material progress of Assam. 14) Gandhian Movement and Assam. Suggested Readings: 1. H.K. Barapujari - Political History of Assam, Vol. I, II. 2. S.K. Bhuyan - Anglo-Assamese Relations. 3. E.Gait - A History of Assam. 4. R.M. Lahiri - Annexation of Assam. 5. A.C. Bhattacharjee - Progressive Tripura. 6. N.R. Choudhury - Tripura Through the Ages. 7. H.K. Sur - British relation with the State of Tripura. 8. Dipannita Chakraborty - Land Question in Tripura. 9. Gon Choudhury : Tripura- The Land and the People. 10. Ratna Das - Art and Architecture of Tripura. 11. D.K. Choudhury - The Political History and the Native Raj. 12. U.N. Adhikari - Socio-cultural relation among states in Pre-independence India (1700-1949 A.D) : A Study of Tripura-Manipur. _______________ 2 .