CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY Session 2019-2020 Department of History A.M.U., Aligarh B.A. – Ist Semester HSB-154: Ancient India (Pre-History to Indus Civilization) Teachers: Dr. O.P. Srivastav Total No. of Lectures = 40 Dr. Fazila Shahnawaz UNIT-I a) India’s physical features: a brief survey of geological formation of India. b) Pre-history and Proto-history: basis of classification. c) Early history of humans: evolution of human species. Early appearance of Anatomically Modern Man (AMM) and the Modern human in India: Archaeological evidence. d) Paleolithic Age: Three cultural phases: Lower, Middle and Upper. UNIT-II Brief Study of Pre-historic Cultures a) Mesolithic Culture: Northern and Western Zone; Central, Eastern and Southern Zone. b) The ‘Neolithic Revolution’: Meaning of ‘The Neolithic Revolution’; The earliest agricultural communities, 7000-4800 BC; Coming of Agriculture and Pastoralism. c) Significance of Mehrgarh. Neolithic Cultures of Central and Eastern India, post 3000 BC. Northern and early southern Neolithic culture after c. 3000 B.C. d) Antecedents of the Indus civilization: appearance of Bronze Age in the Indus Basin c.4000-3200 BC. UNIT-III Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in India a) Early Bronze Age Cultures, the Helmand Civilization, early Indus cultures. b) The Indus Civilization: Extent and population, Agriculture, Craft Production, Urbanization (cities and towns), Trade, Culture: writing, art and religion; polity. c) Decline of Indus/Harappan Civilization. d) Non urban Chalcolithic cultures, till 1500 BC: Chalcolithic cultures of the Border land and the Indus basin, Malwa and Deccan before 1500 BC. Language before 1500 B.C. Reading List: Agrawal, D.P. The Archaeology of India, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 46, Curzon Press Ltd., London and Malmo, 1982. Allchin, B. and R. The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan , Select Book Service Syndicate, Delhi, 1983. Habib, I. Prehistory , Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2001. Habib, I. The Indus Civilization , Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2011. Ratnagar, S. Understanding Harappa: Civilization in the Greater Indus Valley , Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2001. K.P. Nautiyal, Protohistoric India , Vikram Jain Books New Delhi,1989. H.D. Sankalia Prehistory of India , Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1977. H.D. Sankalia Pre-history and Proto-history of India and Pakistan, Deccan College, Poona, 1974. CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY Session 2019-20 Department of History AMU, Aligarh B.A. (I Semester) HSB-155: MEDIEVAL INDIA: (800-1290) Objective: To acquaint students with the socio-political, economic and cultural history of the Delhi Sultanate during the period 900-1316. Teachers: Dr. Syed Bashir Hasan No. of Lectures = 40 Dr. Arshia Shafqat (WC) Dr. Sana Aziz UNIT – I 1. The Cholas and Chola Administration, Principal North Indian States. 2. Indian Society and Culture in the 11 th Century. 3. The Ghaznavids: Mahmud’s Motives of the Invasions and his major conquests. Ghaznavid Empire in North Western India. UNIT – II 1. Ghorian Conquests: Possible Factors Behind the Success of the Ghorids, Technological, Military, Political and Social. 2. Establishment of Delhi Sultanate: Qutbuddin Aibak; Conquests, relations with Yalduz and Qubacha. 3. Iltutmish: Conquests, External Policy. Administration – Iqta System, Army Organization, Currency, Turkan-i Chihalgani. UNIT – III 1. Ghiyasuddin Balban: Rise of Balban, Balban as Sultan; His measures; Consolidation of Power, Elimination of Principal Shamsi Officers. 2. Theory of Kingship of Balban. 3. Balban’s external policy: The Mongols. 4. Development of architecture under the Sultans of Delhi. BOOKS RECOMMENDED: 1. RC Majumdar, ed. : History & Culture of the Indian people , Vol. V (Selected Chapters), Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai, 2001. 2. Habib & Nizami ed. : Comprehensive History of India , Vol. V, People’s Publishing House, New Delhi, 1970. 3. Ishwari Prasad : Medieval India , Central Book Depot, Allahabad, 1960. 4. AB Pandey : Medieval India , Indian Press, Allahabad, 1933. 5. RP Tripathi : Some Aspects of Muslim Administration , Central Book Depot, Allahabad, 1959. 6. Tapan Ray Chaudhari & : Cambridge Economic History of India , Vol. (Chapters dealing Irfan Habib (ed.) with Sultanate Period), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982. 7. Satish Chandra : Medieval India from Sultanat to the Mughals, Vol. I., Har Anand Publications, New Delhi, 2007. 8. Irfan Habib : Economic History of India, 1206-1526:The Period of the Delhi Sultanate and the Vijayanagar Empire, Aligarh Historians Society, Aligarh, 2016. ADVANCED READING: 1 M Habib : Mahmud of Ghaznin , S. Chand, Delhi, 1967. 2 Muhammad Nazim : Life and Times of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna , Second edition, Munshiram, 1971. 3 - do - : Introduction to Eliot & Dowson , Aligarh, ed., Vol. II, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 1951. 4 M Habibullah : Foundation of Muslim Rule in India , Central Publishing House, Allahabad, 1989. 5 Tara Chand : Influence of Islam on Indian Culture , Nabu Press, Charleston SC, 2011. 6 M Habib : Hazarat Amir Khusrau of Delhi , Islamic Book Service, Lahore, 1979. 7 Irfan Habib, ed. : Medieval India-1, (relevant articles), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998. 8 K.A. Nizami : Religion & Politics in India during the 13th century , Idarah-i Adabiyat-i Delhi, Delhi, 1974. 9 Peter Jackson : Delhi Sultanate: Political and Military History , Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003. 10 Ali Athar : Military Technology and Warfare in the Sultanate, Icon Publications, Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2006. 11 Sunil Kumar : The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate , Permanent Block, New Delhi, 2007 12 Irfan Habib : Medieval India: the Study of a Civilization (relevant portions) 13 Irfan Habib : Studies in Medieval Indian Polity & Culture: The Delhi Sultanate and its Times , Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2016. 14 Z.A. Desai : Indo-Islamic Architecture , Publications Division (Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, New Delhi, 1970. 15 Percy Brown : Indian Architecture (The Islamic Period) , D.P. Taraporewala, Mumbai, reprint, 1997. 16 Anirudha Ray : The Sultanate of Delhi (1206-1526) Polity, Economy, Society and Culture , Manohar, 2019. CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY Session 2019-2020 Department of History A.M.U., Aligarh B.A. (I Semester) HSB-156: MODERN INDIA (1707-1813) Objectives : To acquaint the students with socio-political and economic history of India during 18 th century British India. Teachers : Dr. Parwez Nazir Total No. of Lectures = 40 Dr. Jibraeil Ms. Lubna Irfan UNIT-I 1. Indian Powers in the 18 th Century: 14 1.1. The succession States of Mughal Empire: Hyderabad, Bengal and Awadh. 1.2 Rise of Maratha Power under Peshwas: Expansion to 1761. Ahmad Shah Abdali’s invasion, Third Battle of Panipat; Causes and Consequences. Maratha Confederacy, (1761- 1802): its weaknesses. 2. Rise of British Power: 2.1 The conflict between the English and French Companies. The Carnatic Wars and its consequences. 2.2 English conquest of Bengal: Black Hole Tragedy, Battle of Plessey and its consequences; Battle of Buxar and its significance. Factors behind English success against Indian Powers. UNIT-II 3. Organisation of British Rule – 1805: 14 3.1 Administrative arrangements: Assumption of Dewani, Dual Government and its consequences. 3.2 The Company and British Parliament: Regulating Act-1773 and Pitt’s India Act-1784: their impact on Administration. 4. Beginnings of the Colonial Economy: 4.1 “Drain of Wealth” to 1813: its phases, nature and mechanism, size. Effects of the drain on Indian economy. UNIT-III 5. Indian States and Anti-Colonial Resistance: 12 5.1 Mysore under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan. 5.2 Mysore resistance to the English; its fall. 6. Establishment of British Supremacy: 6.1 Anglo-Maratha wars to 1819. Causes of the failure of Marathas. 6.2 Wellesley’s subsidiary alliances. Systems, Expansion of the British Empire. BOOKS RECOMMENDED: 1. AC Banerji & DK Ghosh : Comprehensive History of India vol. 9 2. HH Dodwel : Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV. 3. VA Smith : Oxford History of India 4. Thompson & Garrett : Rise & Fulfillment of British Rule in India 5. Tara Chand : History of the Freedom Movement in India, vols. I & II . 6. RC Dutt : Economic History of India, Vol. I & II 7. Sarkar & Dutta : Modern Indian History 8. R.K. Mookerjee : Rise and Fall of the East India Company 9. Shekhar Bandyo Padhyaya : From Plassey to Partition 10. P.C. Joshi : Eighteen fifty seven: A Symposium 11. Bipan Chandra : The Rise and growth of Economic Nationalism in India 12. Desika Char S.V. : Readings in the constitutional History of India 13. Ghosh S.C. : The History of Education in Modern India 1757-1986 14. P.W. Thomas : History and Prospects of British Education in India 15. Mohibul Hasan : History of Tipu Sultan 16.Sardesai G.S. : New History of the Marathas 17.Girish Mishra : An Economic History of Modern India 18.B.H. Boden Powell : Administration of Land Revenue and Tenure in British India 19.Dadabhai Naoroji : Poverty and British Rule in India 20.Spear Percival : India: A Modern History 21.R.C. Majumdar & H.C. Rajchandhuri: An Advanced History of India 22. Barnett, Richard : North India between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals and the British 1720-1801 . 23. Bhattacharya, S. : Financial Foundation of the British Raj . 24. John William Kaye : The Administration of the East India Company . 25. L. Subramanian : History of India 1707-1857 26. K.V. Rajendra : Modern History of India 27. G.B. Malleson : The Decisive Battles of India CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY Session 2019-2020 Department of History A.M.U., Aligarh B.A. Semester-I (CBCS) HSB-163: European History (1500-1789) Teachers: Dr. Roohi Abida Ahmed (W.C.) No. of Lectures = 22 Dr. Jibraeil Objective: Covering almost three centuries in brief, the objective is to provide an overall survey of the modern centuries in Europe from 16 th century to the French Revolution. It will acquaint the major socio-economic, cultural and religious, and political transformations in Europe across these centuries. UNIT-I 1. The Renaissance - Beginning of the Modern Age: (i) Humanism (ii) Music, Art and Literature (iii) Scientific Discoveries 2. Invention of printing and its impact 3.