CBCS SYLLABUS IN HISTORY CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY 2018 1 Structure of B.A (Hons. ) History Course under CBCS CORE COURSE (14) Paper I : History of India – I (From the Earliest times to C 300 BCE) Paper II : Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Ancient World other than India Paper III : History of India –II(c 300 BCE to c.750 CE) Paper IV : Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Medieval World other than India 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 – 11 Paper IX : History of India V (c.1550-1605) Paper X : History of India – VI (c.1750 – 1857) Paper XI : History of Modern Europe – I (c.1780-1939) Paper XII : History of India – VII (c.1605 – 1750) 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 United States of America – I (c.1776 – 1945) Paper II : History of United States of America – II (c.1776-1945) Paper III : History of Southeast Asia – The 19th Century Paper IV : History of Southeast Asia – The 20th Century Paper V : History of Modern East Asia – I (c.1840 – 1919) Paper VI : History of Modern East Asia - II (c.1868 – 1945) 2 Detailed Syllabus Core Courses – 14 B.A (Hons.), History Paper I : History of India From the earliest times to C 300 BCE 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. Hunter-gatherers and the advent of food products a)Paleolithic 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. c)Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures : distribution and subsistence pattern III. 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. IV. 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) Essential Readings Agarwal D.P, The Archaeology of India, London, 1982. Basham A.L, The Wonder That Was India, London, 1954. Chakrabarti Dilip Kumar, An Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology, New Delhi, 2006. Chakrabarti Dilip Kumar, India, An Archaeological History, Delhi, 1999 Sharma R.S, Looking for the Aryans, 1995. Sharma R.S, Material Cultures and Social Formations in Ancient India, New Delhi, 1983. Thapar Romila, Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, London, 2002 Suggested Readings Basham A.L ed. A Cultural History of India, New Delhi, 1975. Ghosh Amalananda, The City in Early Historic India, Shimla, 1973. Altekar A.S, The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization from Pre-historic times to the Present Day, New Delhi, 1962. Chattopadhyaya B.D, Studying Early India: Archaeology, Texts and Historical Issues. New Delhi, 2003. Sircar D.C, Indian Epigraphy, New Delhi, 1965. 3 Kosambi D.D, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Bombay, 1956 Kosambi D.D, Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings, Edited and Introduced By B.D Chattopadhyaya Jha D.N, Ancient India: An Introduction, New Delhi, 1998 Chattopadhyay D.P, Science and Society in Ancient India, Calcutta, 1977. Erdosy George, Urbanization in Early Historic India, Oxford, 1988. Allchin F.R. (ed). The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: The Emergence of Cities and States, Cambridge, 1995. Staal Frits, Discovering the Vedas : Origins, Mantras, Rituals Insights, New Delhi, 2008. Possehl G.L, ed. Harappan Civilization- A Recent Perspective, Delhi, 1993 (second edition). Michell George, The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India. London, 1989. Raychaudhuri H.C, Political History of Ancient India with a commentary by B.N.Mukherjee, New Delhi, 1996 (8th edition) Habib Irfan (General Editor), A People’s History of India (Volume 1,2,3), New Delhi. Shastri K.A Nilakantha, A History of South India, Madras, 1974 (4th Edition) Lahiri Nayanjyot, The Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilization, New Delhi, 2000. Ray Nihar Ranjan, Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, V.R. Mani and Ranabii Chakravarti eds. A Source Book of Indian Civilization, Kolkata, 2000. Sahu Bhairabi Prasad (ed.). Iron and Social Change in Early India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006. Chakraborty Ranabir, Exploring early India, upto circa AD 1300 Kochar R., The Vedic People, New Delhi. 2000. Majumdar R.C (General Editor), The History & Culture of the Indian People, Volumes I – III, Bombay, 1951,1968, 1970 Sharma R.S, Advent of the Aryans, Manohar, 1999. Sharma R.S, Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India. New Delhi, 2005 (reprint). Sharma R.S, India's Ancient Past, New Delhi, 2005. Sharma R.S, Perspectives in the Social and Economic History of Early India, New Delhi, 1983. Sharma R.S, Sudras in Ancient India. Salomon Richard, Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Other Indo-Aryan Languages. New York, 1998. Thapar Romila (et al). India: Historical Beginnings and the Concept of the Aryan, New Delhi, 2006 Thapar Romila, From Lineage to State, Delhi, 1996 (2nd Edition) Ratnagar Shireen, (ed), Women in Early Indian Societies. New Delhi, 1999. Ratnagar Shireen, The End of the Great Harappan Tradition, Delhi, 2000 Roy Kumkum, The Emergence of Monarchy in North India: eighth to fourth centuries BC, New Delhi, 1994 Ratnagar Shireen, Understanding Harappa, Delhi 2001 Saraswati S.K, A Survey of Indian Sculpture, New Delhi, 1975 (second edition) Bhattacharji Sukumar, Women and Society in Ancient India. Calcutta, 1994. Singh Upinder, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. Delhi, 2008. , , (The Wonder That Was India), , , , , , 4 , – - , (Pre-history) , , : , (The Indus Civilisation) , , – , (The Vedic Age) , , , – , (Ancient India: An Introduction), , , (An Introduction to the Study of Indian History) , , , (Understanding Harappa) , , , , (Political History of Ancient India), , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - , , - ‌ , , , , , ( ) , , (Slavery in Ancient India as depicted in Pali and Sanskrit Texts), , , , , ( ) , , (Material Cultures and Social Formations in Ancient India), , 5 , : - (Early Medieval Indian Society : A Study in Feudalism) , , , (Indian Feudalism), , , , (Looking for the Aryans), , , , (Advent of the Aryans), , , , (Sudras in Ancient India), , , , (Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas), , , ( ), , , , ( ), , , , ( ) ( ), , 6 Paper II : Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the ancient world other than India I. Evolution of human kind: Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures – Role of kinship social institutions in the development of early societies. 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)China(Shang), 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 Farooqui Amar, Early Social Formations. Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2002 B.Fagan, People of the Earth. : an introduction to world prehistory New York, NY HarperCollins College Publishers 1977 B.Trigger, Ancient Egypt : A Social History. Cambridge University Press, 1983 Bai Shaoyi, An Outline History of China. Beijing : Foreign Languages Press, 1982. Burns and Ralph, World Civilisations. Cambridge History of Africa, Vol.I. Cambridge University Press ,1982 G.Clark, World Prehistory: A New Perspective Cambridge University Press, 1977. Jacquetta Hawkes, First Civilisations. life in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and Egypt. The history of human society. New York: Knopf, 1973. M.I.Finley, The Ancient Economy. University of California Press 1999. R.J.Wenke, Patterns in Prehistory Oxford University Press, USA; 5th edition 2006 UNESCO Series: History of Mankind, Vols. I –III/ or New ed. History of Humanity.1963 V.Gordon Childe, What happened in History. Peregrine Books 1985 Suggested Readings A.Hauser, A Social History of Art, Vol I. Routledge, 1999. Glyn Daniel, First Civilisations. New. York: Thomas Y. Crowell (Apollo. Editions), 1968 J.D. Bernal, Science in History, Vol.I. Cambridge: The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971 Salia Ikram, Death & Burial in Ancient Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2015) V.Gordon Childe, Social Evolution. Martin Bernal, Black Athena; the Afro Asiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991. 7 , , ( ), , , । , ‌ , ( ), , , , , , , , , , , , । , , , । 8 Paper III : History of India II C 300 BCE to C 750 CE I. Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300) a)Expansion of agrarian economy : production relations b)Urban growth: north India, central India and the Deccan; craft Production: trade and trade routes; coinage c)Social stratification: