Burdwan Syllabus - MA HIST

Department of History
The University of Burdwan

Syllabus for the Degree of M A in History to be effective from the academic session 2014-16
Preamble:
The entire syllabus shall be of 90 credits carrying 900 marks, of which 10 credits carrying
100 marks shall be allotted to Project Work. The syllabus is divided into 17 courses of which 16
courses are of 50 marks each and one course, i.e., project work is of 100 marks. Each course of
50 marks is of 5 credits (1 credit = 1 lecture of 1 hour per week x 16). A candidate has to earn
total 90 credits to earn PG degree in History. Each course of 5 credits shall have 5 hour session
of Lectures per week over a period of one semester of 16 weeks for teaching-learning process.
The 90 credits carrying 900 marks shall be divided into four Semesters. Each of the first three
Semesters shall be of four courses carrying 20 credits (5 credits for each course) and 200 marks
(160 marks for End Semester Examination and 40 marks for Continuous Assessment). Fourth
Semester shall be of five courses carrying 30 credits (20 credits from four courses and 10 credits
from project work) and 300 marks (160 marks for End Semester Examination, 40 for Continuous
Assessment and 100 marks for Project Work).
The syllabus contains mainly two types of courses ----- Core and Elective. A course
which should compulsorily be studied by a candidate as a core-requirement is termed as a Core
course. The Core courses are compulsory for the students. Generally a course which can be
chosen from a pool of courses and which may be very specific / specialized / advanced to the
subject of study or which provides extended scope or enables exposure to some other disciplines
/ subjects / domains will be called an Elective Course. Elective Courses (known as Departmental
Elective Courses) are to be offered to the students of the department and students from sister /
related disciplines may also be offered one or two such courses in the 4th semester on the basis of
availability of seats and teachers.
Students shall have to earn 70 credits from Departmental Core Courses and 20 credits
from Elective courses. A maximum of 10 credits may be earned in the 4th semester from nondepartmental Elective Courses to be offered by sister/related disciplines in lieu of Departmental
Electives. Students may opt for Non-departmental Elective in lieu of MAHIST 403 and MAHIST
404, subject to prior approval of departmental committee. A student may opt entirely for
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Departmental Elective Courses. Departmental Elective courses will be offered in 3rd and 4th
Semester of study. For selecting non-departmental elective courses by any student prior approval
of the departmental committee and the University authorities will be required and uniformity in
academic calendar across departments should be maintained.
The performance of a candidate in each course will be assessed for a maximum of 50

marks out of which 40 marks shall be allotted to end-semester examination of two hours
duration. Students are required to answer four question (out of eight alternatives), carrying 10
marks each. The remaining 10 marks shall be allotted to Continuous Assessment through Class
Tests or Viva voce.
The Project Work, carrying 10 credits (100 marks) is compulsory for the students and therefore
shall be treated as Core Course. The students shall be required to do project in the 4th semester. It
may be done on any course related to Indian history. Of the 100 marks entrusted to Project
Work, 60 marks shall be allotted to Project writing, 20 for seminar presentation, 10 for Vivavoce and 10 marks to Social Outreach Programme.
In the first and second semester all the courses to be offered are Course Courses and compulsory
for the students. In the Third Semester there shall be two Core Courses which are compulsory
and two Elective Courses (MAHIST303 and MAHIST304) with options. Students have to opt for
two Elective Courses, one each from MAHIST 303 (A/B/C/D) and MAHIST 304 (A/B/C/D).
The Fourth Semester is of two Core Courses (compulsory for the students) and two Elective
Courses (MAHIST 403 and MAHIST 404) with options and a Project Work. Students are
required to choose one course under MAHIST 403 (A/B/C/D) and one under MAHIST 404
(A/B/C/D).
MA in History
Course Outline
First Semester
Course No Course Type
Course Title
Credit
Credit Distribution
(L, T & P)
MAHIS
T 101
Core
Interrogating Indian
Historiography
MAHIS
T 102
Core
Nineteenth- and TwentiethCentury Bengal: Life and

Culture
MAHIS
T103
Core
Mainland Southeast Asia:

Burma, Indo-China and
Thailand
MAHIS
T 104
Core
History of Ideas: Nineteenth and

Twentieth Century India
Total Credit
20
16
Second Semester
Course No
Course Type
Course Title
Credit
MAHIST
201
Core
Historiography and Methodology:

The Western Tradition
MAHIST
202
Core
Making of the Indian Nation-State
MAHIST
203
Core
Island Southeast Asia: Indonesia

and Malaysia
MAHIST
204
Core
Western Political Ideas:

Machiavelli to Marx
Total Credit
20
16
Credit
Distribution
Third Semester
Credit
Credit
Distribution
MAHIST
301
Core
The Rahr in the Nineteenth

Century
MAHIST
302
Core
Economy in Transition: Precolonial India
MAHIST
303A
Elective
State and Society in Ancient India
MAHIST
303B
Elective
Science and Society in Pre-colonial

India
MAHIST
303C
Elective
History of Women: Issues and

Trends
MAHIST
303D
Elective
History of the USA: 1776-1850
MAHIST
304A
Elective
State and Society in Medieval

India
MAHIST
304B
Elective
Science and Society in Colonial

and
Post-colonial India
MAHIST
304C
Elective
Indian Women through the Ages
MAHIST
304D
Elective
Total Credit
20
16
Fourth Semester
Course No Course Type
Course Title
Credit
Credit
Distribution
MAHIST
401
Core
The Rahr in the Twentieth Century:

1900-1947
MAHIST
402
Core
Economy in Transition: Colonial

India
MAHIST
403A
Elective
State and Society in Colonial India
MAHIST
403B
Elective
A Cultural History of Europe:

Renaissance and Reformation
MAHIST
403C
Elective
Emergence of Industrial Societies:The

Conceptual Framework
MAHIST
403D
Elective
MAHIST
404A
Elective
State and Society in India since

Independence
MAHIST
404B
Elective
Europe in the Age of Enlightenment
MAHIST
404C
Elective
Emergence of Industrial Societies:The

Classical Case and the Late-Starters
MAHIST
404D
Elective
MAHIST
405
Core
Project Work & Extension

Outreach*
10
Total Credit
30
16
All Total Credit
90
64
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*Credits in the Lecture (L) mode shall be decided through end-semester written test. Credits in
the Tutorial (T) mode shall be decided by internal tests. Finally, credits in the Practical (P) mode
will be decided by the extent and quality of field work/extension outreach report.
Detailed Syllabus for MA to be effective from 2014
First Semester
MAHIST 101: Interrogating Indian Historiography
Full Marks: 50 (5 Credits)
To be covered in minimum 70 lectures
1. Evolution of Indian Historical Tradition from the earliest times to the nineteenth century: Indian
sense of the past---the meaning of historical consciousness----the Indian perceptions---the concept
of time in ancient India.
(11 lectures)
2.
Sources: Histories and Historical consciousness in Ancient India---the expressions of historical

consciousness in the Vedic textsthe Buddhist and Jaina texts---the itihasa purana tradition--epics, genealogies----the early medieval expressions---thehistorical biographies---Harshacharita
and Rajtarangini.
(11 lectures)
3. Sources of Medieval Indian Historiography---Persian and Arabic inscriptions of the Sultanate

periodEarly Sultanate ChroniclersSanskrit inscriptions---Imperial orders and edicts by
princes and nobles---farmans, nishans and parwanas---study of memoirs and biographies
Babarnama, Akbarnama, Jahangir nama---Chisti attitude towards State---Sufi Ishrat traditions.
(11 lectures)
4. Historians and Histories of Mughal Empire under AkbarAbul Fazls ideas of history---Khwaja
Nijamuddins treatment of HistoryBadaunis treatment of History-- Some Historians of
Medieval India--Sultanate periodBarani, Isami, Amir Khusru--Mughal periodAbul Fazl,
Badauni--Travel Accounts of Ibn Batuta, Bernier, and Manucci
(11 lectures)
5. Approaches to History: British attitude towards India---William Jones, James Mill, ToddW.W.
HunterMoreland---V.Smith and others--Nationalist Approach---J.N.Sarkar, R.C.Majumdar,
N.K.Sinha and others-- Marxist Approach---D.D. Kosambi, Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar and
others--Subaltern Approach
(11 lectures)
6. Debates on Indian History: Indian feudalism, eighteenth century India, writings on
Mutiny and Partition---Recent trends in the writing of Indian History. (15 lectures)
Select Readings:
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B. Sheikh Ali, History: Its Theory and Method,New Delhi.

E. Sreedharan, A Text Book Of Historiography, Orient Longman, 2004.
Irfan Habib, Essays in History: Towards a Marxist Interpretation, New Delhi,
1995.
Jagadish Narayan Sarkar, History of History Writing in Medieval India,
Calcutta, 1973.
James Mill, The History Of British India, London, 18401848.
Javed Majeed, Ungoverned Imaginings, New Delhi.
Partha Chatterjee and Raziuddin Aquil, History in the Vernacular.
R.C.Majumdar, Historiography in Modern India, Bombay, 1970.
Ranajit Guha, An Indian Historiography Of India, Calcutta 1986.
Romila Thapar, Interpreting Early India,New Delhi, 1992.
S.B. Chowdhury, Theories Of Indian Mutiny, Calcutta 1965.
S.N.Mukherjee, Sir William Jones: A study in 18th Century British Attitudes to
India, Cambridge 1968.
S.P.Sen, Historians and Historiography in Modern India, Calcutta1973.
Subodh Mukhopadhyay, Historians and Historiography in Modern India.
Sumit Sarkar, Writing Social History, New Delhi, 1997.
Vincent Smith, The Early History Of India, Oxford, 1957.
MAHIST 102: Nineteenth- and Twentieth -Century Bengal: Life and Culture
To be covered in minimum 70 lecture
1. Decline of the old social order and reorganization of society: changes in social lifethe rural society
and urban centreseconomic status, caste, religion and other elements of social structuresocial
mobilityencounter with the west, generating a cultural fermentreligious and social reforms in the
first half of the nineteenth centurypopular religiontransformation of religious sensibilities
Christian missionariesoutstanding figures and important movementsthe Renaissance debate. (13
lectures)
2. The bhadralok and the bhadramahila: Bengali Hindus and Muslimssense of identity and selfimagethe womens questionthe emergence of the bhadramahiladomestic lifemotherhood
and child rearing changing conjugal relationswomens educationwomens writingswomen
in public lifeeducation, employment and politicswomens mobilization and movements
growth of political consciousnessperceptions, emotions and attitudeselite and popular culture
language and literatureeducationpressvisual and performing arts. (13 lectures)
3. The peasants, artisans and the emerging labour force: commercialization of agricultureagricultural
indebtednesssubinfeudationproduction and protestorganized and un-organized sectors
radical orientationdemands and protestsclass consciousness and organization. (10 Lectures)
4. Culture and the creative domain : literature, song, painting, theatre, sports, science, medicine, industry
and enterprise in the Swadeshi eraeducation, literature, newspaper and periodicals, visual and
performing arts, adda, theatre and cinemaelite and popular cultureelite and popular culture
redefined after 1947 in music, theatre and films. (11 Lectures)
5. Bengal through World Wars to Independence: Non-Cooperation and Swarajist politicsthe growth
of communal politicsthe origins and development of the leftCivil Disobedience and Quit India
Tebhaga uprising1947: Independence of Partition? (10 lectures)
6. The post-independence years: dynamics of riots and movements in post-1947 Bengal the refugees
from eastern Bengalgrowth of a refugee movementrefugee rehabilitation measures partition
and Bengali MuslimsThe drain of the middle class and the growth of a new middle classFood
Movement, Peasant and Labour Movements, Students and Teachers movementsnorth Bengal in
the post-1947 erainterrogating the Hungry Tide: the Sundarbans. (13 Lectures)
Select Readings:
1. Abul Kalam Azad, India Wins Freedom. Sangam Books, 1959, New Delhi.
2. Abul Masoor Ahmad, Amar Dakha Rajnitir Panchash Bachar (Fifty Years of Politics As I Saw
It).
3. Achintya Dutta, Economy and Ecology in a Bengal District: Burdwan 1880 - 1947, Calcutta,
2002.
4. Aijaz Ahmad, Azad's Careers in Lineages of the Present: Political Essays, Aijaz
Ahmad, (I996/1997), Tulika and Verso, New Delhi.
5. Akos Ostor,Culture and Power: Legend, Ritual and Bazaar and Rebellion in a Bengal Society,
New Delhi: Sage, 1984.
6. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Private Investment in India, 1900-1939. CUP, 2010 | Series: Cambridge
South Asian Studies (Book 10).
7. Amiya Kumar Bagchi, 'Workers and the Historians' Burden' in K. N. Panikkar, Terence J.
Byres and Utsa Patnaik, (eds,), The Making of History. Essays Presented to Irfan Habib.
8. Anuradha Roy, Nationalism and poetic discourse in 19th century Bengal, Papyrus, Kolkata.
9. Anuradha Roy, Sekaler Marxiya Samskriti Andolan, Calcutta: Progressive Publishers, 2000.
10. Asok K. Bhattacharya, Calcutta Paintings, Calcutta: Dept. of Information and Cultural Affairs,
Govt. of West Bengal, 1994.
11. Asok Mitra, Paschim Banger Puja Parban O Mela.
12. Atis Dasgupta, Groundswell in Bengal in the 1940s.
13. Bagchi Jagodhora and Dasgupta Subhoranjan (ed.), The trauma and the triumph, gender and
partition in Eastern India, 2 Volumes, Kolkata.
14. Basudeb Chatterjee, Crime and Control in Early Colonial Bengal 1760- 1860, Calcutta: K.P.
Bagchi.
15. Benoy Ghosh, Paschimbanger Samskriti.
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Bhupendrakumar Datta, Biplaber Padachinha (Footprints of Revolution).

Brown Judith N, Modern India, the Origin of an Asian Democracy, Delhi, 1984.
Chandiprasad Sarkar, The Bengali Muslims, A Study in their Politicization (1912-1929).
Chittabrata Palit, New Viewpoints on Nineteenth Century Bengal, Calcutta: Progressive Publisher
(rev. ed.), 1992.
Chittaranjan Dasgupta, Bishnupurer Mandir Terracotta, Bishnupur, 1386 B.S.
D. Rothermund ed., Zamindars, Mines and Peasants, ND, 1978.
D.K. Chattcrjee, C. R. Das and the Indian National Movement. Joya Chatterjee, Bengal Divided.
D.M Laushey, Bengal Terrorism and the Marxist Left, Aspects of Regional Nationalism in India,
1905-1942.
Dagmar Engels, Beyond Purdah: Women in Bengal, 1890-1939, OUP, 1996.
David Arnold, The New Cambridge History of India: Science, Technology and Medicine in
Colonial India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
David Kopf, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance, Berkeley: Univ. of California
Press, 1969.
David Kopf, The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the Modern Indian Mind, New Delhi:
Archives Publishers, 1988.
David McCutchion and Suhrid Bhowmik, Patuas and Patua Art in Bengal, Calcutta: Firma
KLM, 1999.
Deepak Kumar, Science and the Raj, Delhi: OUP, 1995
Dharma Kumar ed., Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. II (1757-1970), OrientLongman
(in association with CUP), 1982.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Rethinking Working-Class History, Bengal 1890 to 1940.
Fakir Chandra Ray, Swadhinata Andolaner Patabhumikay Bardhaman.
Gargi Chakarvartty, Coming out of partition, refugee women of Bengal, New Delhi, 2005.
Gautam Bhadra, Jal Rajar Katha: Bardhamaner Pratapchand. Calcutta: Ananda, 2002.
Gautam Chattopadhyay, Communism and Bengal's Freedom Movement.
Geraldine Forbes, The New Cambridge History of India: Women in Modern India, Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
Ghulam Murshid, Reluctant Debutante: Response of Bengali Women to Modernization, 18491905, Rajshahi: Rajshahi Univ, Press, 1983.
Hitesh Ranjan Sanyal, Swarajer Pathe, Papyrus, 1994.
Hitesranjan Sanyal, Social Mobility in Bengal, Calcutta: Papyrus, 1981.
Indrani Ganguly, Social History of a Bengal Town, New Delhi, 1987.
Irfan Habib, 'The Left and the National Movement,' Social Scientist, Vol. 27, Nos. 5-6, MayJune, 1998.
J.H. Broomfield, Elite Conflict in a Plural Society: Twentieth Century Bengal, Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.
K. Sangari and S. Vaid eds, Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, New Delhi, 1989.
K.M. Panikkar, Asia and Western Dominance.
Kali Charan Ghosh, Famines in Bengal, 1770-1943.
Kenneth McPherson, The Muslim Microcosm: Calcutta 1918 to 1935.
Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial Bengal, Berkeley and Los
Leonard A. Gordon, Bengal: The Nationalist Movement.
50. Leonard A. Gordon, Brothers Against the Raj: A Biography ofSaral and Subhash Chandra
Base. Patricia A. Gossman, Riots and Victims.
51. M.A. Laird, Missionaries and Education in Bengal, 1793-1837, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
52. Mahimaniranjan Chakrabarty, Birbhum Bibaran, vol. 2, 1942.
53. Malabika Ray Bandyopadhyay Bangalir Chokhe 1857-er Bidroha, Progressive Publishers,
Kolkata, 2008.
54. Malavika Karlekar, Voices from Within: Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women, Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1991.
55. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India, Delhi: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1994
56. Meredith Borthwick, Kesub Chunder Sen, A Search for Cultural Synthesis, Calcutta: Minerva
Associates, 1977.
57. Meredith. Borthwick, The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1849-1905, Princeton: Princeton.
Univ. Press, 1984.
58. Mohammad Shah, In Search of an Identity: Bengali Muslims 1880-1940.
59. Mrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and 'the Effeminate Bengali in
the Late Nineteenth Century, Manchester and New York, 1995.
60. Mushirul Hasan, Islam in the Subcontinent.
61. Muzaffar Ahmad, Amar Jiban o Bharater Communist Party (My Life and the Communist Party
of India).
62. Muzaffar Ahmad, Kaji Najrul Islam: Smritikatha (Kaji Najrul Islam: Reminiscences).
63. N.K. Sinha ed. History of Bengal (1757-1905), 2nd edition, Calcutta : Univ. of Calcutta, 1987.
64. Narahari Kaviraj, Wahabi and Farazi Rebels of Bengal, New Delhi: PPH, 1982.
65. Niharranjan Ray and Pratulchandra Gupta eds., Hundred Years of the University of Calcutta,
Calcutta: University of Calcutta.
66. Nirban Basu, Politics and Protest, 1937-1947, Progressive Publishers, 2002 (for Hooghly jute
and cotton mills).
67. Panchanan Saha, History of the Working Class Movement in Bengal.
68. Parimal Ghosh, History of the Calcutta Jute Millhands.
69. Partha Chatterjee, Bengal: The Land Question.
70. Partha Chatterjee, Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal, Calcutta: Samya, (in
conjunction with the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences), 1996.
72. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Delhi:
73. Partha Chatterjee, The Present History of West Bengal, Essays in Political Criticism, Delhi, 1997.
74. Partha Mitter, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994
75. Partha Mitter, Indian Art (Oxford History of India series), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.
76. Paul R. Greenough, Prosperity and Miser)' in Modern Bengal: the Famine of 1943-44.
77. Pradip Sinha, Calcutta in Urban History, Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1978.
78. Prafulla Chakraborty, The Marginal men, Kalyani, 1990.
79. R. Raychaudhuri, Gender and Labour in India: The Kamins of Eastern Coalmines, Calcutta,
1996.
80. Radharaman Mitra, Kolkata Darpan (A Portrait of Calcutta).
81. Rafiuddin Ahmed, The Bengal Muslims, 1871-1906: A Quest for Identity, Delhi: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1981.
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82. Rajat K. Ray, Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875-1914, Delhi: Oxford
Univ.Press, 1984.
83. Rajat Kanta Ray ed., Mind, Body and Society: Life and mentality in Colonial Bengal, Delhi:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.
84. Rajat Kanta Ray, Exploring Emotional Hisiory: Gender, Mentality and Literature in the Indian
Awakening, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
85. Rajat Ray, Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate [Sector, 19141947, Delhi: OUP, 1979.
86. Mushirul Hasan, (ed.), Communal and Pan-Islamic Trends in Colonial India.
87. Rajat Ray, Urban Roots of Indian Nationalism, Pressure Groups and Conflict of Interests in Calcutta
City Politics, 1875-1939.
88. Rakesh Batabyal, Communalism in Bengal: from famine to Noakhali, 1943-47.
89. Ramakanta Chakrabarty, Bangalir, Dharma, Samaj o Samskriti, Kolkata: Subarnarekha, 2002.
90. S Upadhyay, Growth of Industries in India, Calcutta, 1970.
91. S. Banerjee, Impact of Industrialization on Tribal Population ofJharia, Ranigunj Coalfield Areas,
Calcutta, 1981.
92. S.N. Mukherjee, Calcutta: Myths and History, Calcutta: Subarnarekha, 1977.
93. S.R. Bakshi, C. R. Das, Congress and Swaraj.
94. Salahddin Ahmed, Social Ideas and Social Changes in Bengal, Calcutta: Papyrus, 2002 (revised
edn.).
95. Sekhar Bandopadhyay, Caste, Politics and the Raj: Bengal 1872-1937. Sanat Basu, Essays on
Indian Labour.
96. Sekhar Bandopadhyay, Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India: The. Namasudras of Bengal
1872-1947.
97. Shachindranath Basu, Banglay Bhraman, published by the Eastern Railways, New ed. published
by Saibya Prakashan.
98. Sirajul Islam ed. History of Bangladesh, 3 vols., Bangladesh Asiatic Society.
99. Somnath Roy, Upanibesh Theke Swadhinata, Ratnabali Prakashan, Kolkata, 2008.
100.
Subho Basu, Does Class Matter? Colonial Capital and Workers' Resistance in Bengal,
1890- 1937.
101.
Sudhir Kumar Mitra, Hooghly Jelar Itihas, Calcutta: Shishir Publishing House, 1355 (1st
ed).
102.
Sudipta Kaviraj, Unhappy consciousness: Bankim Chandra and the Formation of
Nationalist Discourse in India, Delhi: OUP, 1995
103.
Sukanta Chaudhuri ed., Calcutta: The Living City, Vols. I & II, Calcutta: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1990.
104.
Sukomal Sen, Working Class of India, History of Emergence and Movement, 1830-1970.
105.
Sumanta Banerjee, The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth
Centruy Calcutta, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1989.
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Sumit Sarkar, Modern India.
107.
Sumit Sarkar, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908, New Delhi: People's
Publishing House, 1973.
108.
Sumit Sarkar, Writing Social History, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.
109.
Suranjan Das, Communal Riots in Bengal 1905-1947.
110.
Taj ul-lslam Hashmi, Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia: The Communalization of Class
Politics in East Bengal, 1920-1947.
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Tanika Sarkar, Bengal 1928-1934: The Politics of Protest.
112.
Tapan Raychaudhuri, Perceptions, Emotions and Sensibilities: Essays on India's
Colonial and Postcolonial experience, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Tapan Raychaudhuri, Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth
Century Bengal, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988.
114.
Tapati Guha-Thakurta, 'Indian' The Making of a New Indian Art: Artists, Aesthetics and
Nationalism in Bengal, 1850-1920, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.
115.
V.C. Joshi ed., Rammohun Ray and the Process of Modernization of India, New Delhi,
MAHIST 103: Mainland Southeast Asia: Burma, Indo-China and Thailand

Full Marks: 50(5 Credits)
BURMA
1. Traditional Burma and Colonial Intervention: Kingship in Burma-Central system of

administration-Local government-Anglo-Burmese wars-British rule is lower Burma-
Annexation of Upper Burma-Phases of political development. (13 lectures)
2. Burmese Nationalism and Independence: Renaissance of Burmese cultural tradition-Y.M.B.A.,

G.C.B.A. etc. Post war reform proposal-Rebellion 1930-31 Racial friction-Burmas separation
from India-Thakin movement-Japanese occupation British re-conquest-Independence
settlement-Role of Aung San-Ne-win and Burmese way to socialism-The Anti-fascist peoples
freedom league --Foreign policy of independent Burma-Cold War and South east Asian politics-
ASEAN. (13 lectures)
3. Health, Economy and Society: Socio-economic characteristics-Economic policies and changesAgriculture and-Rice revolution-demographic Changes-environment and health-disease
control and eradication-Problem of growing lawlessness-Education and religion-Regionalism
and the minority people. (9 lectures)
Indo-China
4. Colonialism to Independence: Tayson Rebellion and the Unification of Vietnam--Process
of Colonization and Resistance--Assimilation and Association--Cambodia and the
Siamese Question--Impact on Ethnicity, Education and Administration--Early Resistance
and Scholars Movements Nationalism and Communism -VNQDD, Viet Minh, August
Revolution 1945, Dien Bien Phu, the Cold War and Geneva Settlement of 1954--The
Decade of Instability, 1954-65: The Laos Crisis and Regional Subversion--The Vietnam
Crisis--The Era of Stabilization, 1965-75.(13 lectures)
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5. Society and Economy: Transformation in Indigenous Family Structure--Effects of

Colonial Ethos--Heat of the Hearth--Issues in Gender--Mercantile Economy and the
Consequent Changes-- Plantation Economy and its Repercussions--Role of the Chinese-The Great Depression and Indo-Chinese Economy--New Economic Issues. (11 lectures)
THAILAND
6. Raja Mongkut (1851): Chulalongkorn--Modernization of Thailand--Domestic and

Foreign policy--Revolution or Coup dtat of 1932--Period of Vajirawuth--Rise of elite
nationalism--Phibul Sangram--1940s--foreign relations--Internal Reorganization--Indian
Revolutionaries in Thailand--impact of Japanese
invasion--American policy toward
Thailand--Monarch vs. Democracy Constitution of Thailand--Thai foreign relations
since the 1950s--ethnic problems in Thailand. (11 lectures)
Select Readings:
1.
A.D Moscotti. British policy and the Nationalist movement in Burma 1917-1937 (Honolulu :
University Pres of Hawai, 1974).
2. B.A Batson. The end of Absolute Monarchy in Siam (Singapore: Oxford University Press,
1989).
3. Charles Fenn, Ho Chi Minh: A Biographical Introduction, New York, 1973.
4. Chula Chakrabongse. Lords of Life : A History of the kings of Thailand (London : Redman,
1967).
5. Clive J Christie, Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century A Reader, London, 1998.
6. D. P. Singhal, The Annexation of Upper Burma, Singapore, 1960.
7. D.G.E Hall., A story of South East Asia, London, 1981.
8. D.G.M Tate., The Making of Modern Southeast Asia, Vol. I & II, Oxford, 1979.
9. D.R Sardesai., Southeast Asia Past and Present, 4th edition, Harper Collins Publishers
India, New Delhi, 1997.
10. D.R Sardesai., Vietnam. The Struggle for National Identity, Second edition, West View
Press, 1992.
11. David K Wyatt. Thailand: A short history (New Haven, C.T. Yale University Press, 1982).
12. David K Wyatt. The Politics of Reform in Thailand: Education in the Region of King
Chulalongkorn (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1960)
13. David Morell and Chai Anand Samudavanija. Political conflict in Thailand : Reform,
Reaction, Revolution (Cambridge, MA : np, 1981).
14. David, A Wilson. The United States and the Future of Thailand (New York: Praeger, 1970).
15. Dhiravegin Likhit. Siam and Colonialism 1855-1909: An analysis of Diplomatic
Relations(Bangkok:ThaiWatanaPanich,1975).
16. Donald E. Smith, Religion and Politics in Burma, NJ, 1965.
17. Donald Eugene Smith. Religion and Politics in Burma (Princeton, NJ : Prinecton University
Press, 1956).
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18. Dorothy Woodman, The Making of Burma, London, 1962.

19. E. Burce Reynolds. Thailand and Japans Southern Advance, 1940-1945, (London :
Macmillan, 1999).
20. E. Milton Osborne, The French Presence in Cochin China and Cambodia : Rule and
Response, 1859-1905, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1969.
21. E.T Flood. Japans Relations with Thailand 1929-1941 (Seattle : University of Washington
Press, 1967).
22. F.S.V Donnison. Burma (London, Benn, 1970).
23. Frank N Trager. Building a welfare state in Burma, 1948-1956 (New York : Institute of
Pacific Relation, 1957).
24. G. E Harvey., History of Burma (London, 1974).
25. George C Herring., Americas longest war : The United States and Vietnam, 1950-75.
(2001).
26. J. Leroy Christian, Modern Burma; A Survey of Political and Economic Developments,
California, 1942.
27. J. R. Andrus, Burmese Economic Life, Stanford, USA, London, 1997.
28. J. S. Furnivall, The Governance of Modern Burma, NY, 1958.
29. J.S Furnivall., Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and
Netherlands India, New York, 1956.
30. John Bastin (ed.), The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: 1511-1957.
31. John F Cady., Burma, Cornell University, 1960.
32. John F Cady., Southeast Asia, Its Historical Development (McGraw Hill, New York, 1964).
33. John F. Cady., The Roots of French Imperialism in Eastern Asia, Cornell University Press,
Ithaca, New York, 1954.
34. John Lacouture, Vietnam Between Two Truces, Vintage Books, New York, 1966.
35. Josef Silverstein. Burma : Military Rule and the politics of Stagnation (Ithaea, N.Y., Cornell
University Press, 1979).
36. Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam: A Political History, London, 1969.
37. Kare D Jackson. (ed.) United States Thailand Relations (Berkeley, C.A. : University of
California Press, 1986).
38. Kenneth P London. Siam in Transition (New York, Greenwood Press, 1988).
39. L. J. Walinsky, Economic Development in Burma, 1951-1960, NY, 1962.
40. Leszek Buszynski. ASEAN: Security Issues of the 1990s (Canberra: ANU, 1988).
41. Lipi Ghosh, Burma: Myth of French Intrigue, Naya Udyog, Kolkata, 1994.
42. Lowis Allen. Burma: The Longest War 1941-1995 (London Dent, 1989).
43. M Adas., The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social change on an Asian Rice
Frontier, 1852-1941, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1971.
44. Martin J. Murray , The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina, 1870-1940,
University of California Press, Berkley, 1980.
45. Nicholas Tarling (ed.), The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol.11, Cambridge
University Press, 1994 (reprint).
46. Nummonda ThamsooK. Thailand and the Japanese Presence 1941-1995, (Singapore: ISEA,
1977).
47. Robert H Taylor. The State in Burma (London : Hurst, 1987).
48. Robert J. McMahon Major Problems in the history of the Vietnam war : Documents and
essays.
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49. Siok Hwa Cheng, The Rice Industry of Burma, 1852-1940, Singapore, 1968.
50. Sir C. Crosthwaite, The Pacification of Burma, London, 1912.
51. Spencer Tucker, Encyclopedia of the Vietnam war. 3 Vol. (1998).
52. Stanley Karrnow, Vietnam : A short history (Penguin, 1997).
53. T. J Huxley. Insecurity in the ASEAN Region (London : Royal United Services Institute for
Defence Studies, 1993).
54. Thakin Nu, Burma under the Japanese, NY, 1954.
55. U. Maung Maung, From Sangha to Laity. Nationalist Movements of Burma, Manohar, New
Delhi, 1980.
56. Victor Purcell, The Chinese in Southeast Asia, Oxford University Press, London, 1965 (2nd
edition).
57. Virginia Thompson Thailand: The New Siam (New York: Paragon, 1967).
58. W. C. Johnstone, Burmas Foreign Policy: A Study in Neutralism, Cambridge, Mass., 1963.
59. W. S. Desai, History of the British Residency in Burma, 1826-1840, Rangoon, 1939.
60. Yi Khun. The Dobama Movement in Burma, 1930-1938 (Ithaca, NY : Carnell University
Press, 1988)
MAHIST104: History of Ideas: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India

1. Impact of Western Ideas and the Emergence of a Colonial Intelligentsia: Rammohan

Roy , Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar and others ( 10 lectures)
2. From Reformism to Revivalism: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Dayananda
Saraswati and others ( 10 lectures)
3. Ideas of National Regeneration : Swami Vivekananda and others ( 8 lectures)
4. Gender and Caste: Pandita Ramabai and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain ( 10 lectures)
5. The Ideas of Swaraj and Satyagraha: Mahatma Gandhi ( 8 lectures)
6. The Dalit Ideolgy :B.R. Ambedkar and Periyar E V Ramasamy ( 10 lectures)
7. Theory of Nation, Nationalism and Hunan Unity : Aurobindo Ghosh and
Rabindranath Tagore: ( 8 lectures)
8. Idealism and Human Rights: Vinoba Bhave and others ( 6 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. A.K.Mukherjee ed. The Bengali Intellectual Tradition, Calcutta, 1979.

2. A. Appadorai, Indian Political Thinking through the Ages, Khanna Publishers,
Delhi, 1992.
3. B. Parekh & T. Pantham (eds.), Political Discourse: Exploration in Indian and
Western Political Thought, Sage, New Delhi, 1987.
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4. Bidyut Chakrabarty ansd Rajendra Kumar Pandey, Modern Indian Political Thought:
Text and Context, Delhi, 2010
5. B.B. Majumdar, History of Indian Social & Political Ideas, Calcutta, 1967.
6. D.H. Bishop(ed), Thinkers of the Indian Renaissance, New Delhi, 1982.
7. Dhananjay Keer, Mahatma Jatirao Phule, Bombay, 1964.
8. Gail Omvedt, Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society : The Non-Brahman Movement in
Western India, 1873-1930, Bombay, 1976.
9. Gail Omvedt, Dalits & the Democratic Revolution, New Delhi, 2000.
10. J. Bandopandhyay, Social and Political Thought of Gandhi, Allied Publishers,
Bombay, 1969.
11. Kalpana Mohapatra, Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda, Northern Book
Centre,1996
12. Kenneth W Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India

13. T.F. Jordans, Dayananda Saraswati : His Life and Ideas, OUP, 1978.
14. M.N. Jha, Political Thought in Modern India, Meenakshi Prakashan, Meerut.
15. M.S. Gore, The Social Context of an Ideology: Ambedkars Political & Social Thought,
New Delhi, 2000.
16. Mushirul Hasan ed., Indias Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization, OUP, 1993.
17. N. Mehta & S.P.Chabra, Modern Indian Political Thought, Jullundur, 1976.
18. Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought & the Colonial World, OUP
19. Raghavan Iyer, The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi, New York, 1973.
20. Rajni Kothari ed. Caste in Indian Politics, New Delhi, 1970.
21. Richard P Tucker, Ranade and the Roots of Indian Nationalism, Bombay, 1977.
22. Sudipta Kaviraj, The Unhappy Consciousness : Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and
the formation of Nationalist Discourse in India, OUP, 2000.
23. Tapan Roychaudhuri, Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in NeneteenthCentury Bengal.
24. Thomas Pantham and Kenneth L Deutsch (eds), Political Thought in Modern India, New
Delhi, 1986.
25. V.C. Joshi ed. Rammohan Roy and the Process of Modernization in India, Delhi, 1976.
26. V.P. Varma, Modern Indian Political Thought, Agra, 1974.
27. V.R. Mehta, Indian Political Thought, Manohar, New Delhi, 1996.
Second Semester
MAHIST 201: Historiography and Methodology: The Western Tradition
Full Marks: 50 (5Credits)

1. Emergence of Western Historical Tradition (Graeco-Roman Era): History Writing in the
Classical Era Writings of Herodotus, Thucydides and others in Classical Greece--
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History Writing in the Roman age Writings of Polybus, Tacitus, Pliny and others--Past
Forms, Myths, Legends and Sources (11 Lectures)
2. History writing during the Christian Medieval Period till the 18th Century: Church
historiography St. Augustine Arab Historiography - Nature of Medieval
Historiography Collection and Compilation Work--Impact of Renaissance and
Reformation on History writing Rationalist Historiography Voltaire, Gibbon and
Robinson--Philosophy of Romanticism- Rousseau and Herder (15 Lectures)
3. Tradition of History Writing in the 19th & 20th Centuries: Philosophy of Positivism
Neibuhr, Ranke, Comte, Buckle. Marxist Historical Tradition Karl Marx, Christopher
Hill, E.P. Thompson & Hobsbawm. Universal Historiography Arnold Toynbee.
Annales School Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel (11 Lectures)
4. Debates in History: The Industrial Revolution--The French Revolution--The American

Revolution--Historical Writings in the Post-modern Period (8 Lectures)
5. Philosophy and Theories of History: Historical theories-Speculative and Critical
Philosophy-- Historical objectivity-- Concept of Progress in History-- Historical
synthesis, Value-judgment and Historical Determinism & Historicism (11 Lectures)
6. Structure and Interdisciplinary Nature of History Writing: The historian at worknarrative, description, analysis, rhetoric and structure-- Research in HistoryMethodology of Historical Research-- Importance of Sources in History- Oral evidence
and incorporating Visual Sources into written History--History and Science/History and
Social Sciences (14 Lectures)
Select Readings:
1. Arthur Marwick, The Nature of History, Macmillan, 1989.
2. B. Seikh Ali, History: Its Theory & Method, Macmillian India Limited, 1991.
3. D. Bebbington, Patterns in History, Leicester.
4. E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, Orient Longman, 2004.
5. E.H. Carr, What is History, New York, 1962.
6. Ernest Breisach, Historiography , Ancient, Medieval & Modern, Chicago, 1983 .
7. Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, Vol. I-III, Fontana 1985.
8. Fernand Braudel, On History, London, 1980.
9. G.P. Gooch, History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century.
10. Geoffrey Barraclough, Main Trends in History, New York, 1979.
11. George Iggers, New Directions in European Historiogrophy, NewYork, 1985.
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12. H.E. Barnes, A History of Historical Writing, New York, 1962 .

13. Herbert Butterfield, Man on his Past: The Study of Historical Writing, Boston, 1966.
14. J.W. Thompson, History of Historical Writing, New York, 1952.
15. Karl Popper,The Poverty of Historicism, Routledge, 1986.
16. Keith Jenkin, What is History, Routledge, 1995.
17. Keith Jenkin, The Post-Modern History Reader, Routledge, 1997.
18. Mark Poster, Foucault Marxism and History, Cambridge, 1984.
19. Maurice Aymard, French Studies in History, Vol. I-II, Orient Longman, & Harbans Mukhia
(ed) 1989.
20. Paul Ricoeur,The Contribution of French Historiography to the Theory of History,
Oxford 1980.
21. Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians, Cleveland Ohio, 1958.
22. R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, London, 1969.
MAHIST 202: Making of the Indian Nation-State

Full Marks 50(5 Credits)
To be covered in minimum 70 lectures.
1. Emergence of Nationalism: Historiography of Indian nationalism-- The National Movement till

the turn of the nineteenth century Agrarian society and peasant discontent--the new middle
class and the emergence of nationalismFoundation of Indian National Congress
(10 lectures)
2. Early Nationalism: The Moderates and Economic NationalismPhases of Moderates Politics
Roots of Extremismthe Swadeshi MovementBoycott and SwadeshiNational Education
Muslim Politics and the Foundation of Muslim League ( 9 lectures)
3. Advent of Gandhi and the Gandhian Politics: The War, Reforms and SocietyArrival of Gandhi- Champaran, Kheda, AhmedabadGandhi, Khilafat and the CongressNon-Cooperation
MovementSocial CompositionPhasesRegional Variations . Civil DisobediencePhases--Regional Studies. Quit India MovementRoots of Rebellion---the All-India PatternRegional
Variationsthe War and Famine. Subhas Chandra Bose and the INAthe Naval Revolt.
Towards Freedom with Partition ( 10 lectures)
4. Many Voices of a Nation: Muslim Alienation-- Non-Brahmin movements and Dalit Protest
Business and Politics Peasant and Working Class Movements Womens Participation.
Agrarian Struggles since Independence--Caste, Untouchability,
Anti-caste Politics and
StrategiesCommunalism and the Use of State PowerIndian Women since Independence (10
lectures)
5. Consolidation of India as a Nation: Making of a Constitution--The Linguistic Reorganization of
the StatesIntegration of the TribalsRegionalism and Regional Inequalitythe Years of Hope
and Achievement, 1951-64 Jawaharlal Nehru in Historical Perspective ( 8 lectures)
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6. India from Shastri to Indira Gandhi, 1964-1969 : the Indira Gandhi Years, 1969-1973: The JP
Movement and the Emergency-- Indian Democracy Tested: The Janata Interregnumand Indira
Gandhis Second Coming, 1977-1984: the Rajiv YearsRun-up to the New Millennium ( 8
lectures)
7. Indian Economic Development and Political Changes: Land ReformsAgrarian Changes the
Green Revolution and its Political ConsequencesThe Politics of Planning and Rural
Reconstruction ( 7 Lectures)
8. Indian Foreign Policy: Non-alignmentIndo-BritainIndo-USIndo-RussianIndo-China
Indo-PakistanIndo-Sri LankaIndo-BangladeshIndo-Nepal ( 8 lectures )
Select Readings :
1. A.Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism, Delhi, 1983.
2. A.R. Desai, Social Background of Indian Nationalism, Bombay, 1959.
3. Aditya Mukherjee, Imperialism, Nationalism and the Marketing of the Indian Capitalist Class,
1927-1947, New Delhi, 2002.
4. Amales Tripathi, Extremist Challenge, Calcutta, 1967.
5. Amales Tripathi, Swadhinata Sangrame Bharater Jatiya Congress, 1885-1947, Calcutta: Ananda,
1397 B.S..
6. Anil Seal, Emergence of Indian Nationalism, Cambridge, 1968.
7. Anita Inder Singh, The Origins of Partition of India, Delhi, 1987.
8. Anuradha Roy, Nationalism as Poetic Discourse in Nineteenth Century Bengal, Papyrus,
Calcutta, 2003.
9. Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Partition,
Cambridge University Press, 1985.
10. B. Parekh, Gandhis Political Philosophy: A Critical Examination, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1989.
11. B.R. Nanda, Interpretations of Indian Nationalism, Delhi: OUP, 1980.
12. Bharati Ray ed., From the Seams of History, Delhi: OUP, 1995.
13. Bipan Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, Delhi: Orient Longman, 1979.
14. Bipan Chandra, The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India: Economic Policies of
Indian National Leadership 1880-1905, New Delhi, 1966.
15. C. Baker, G. Johnson and A. Seal eds, Power, Profit and Politics: Essays on Imperialism,
Nationalism and Change in 20th Century Politics, Cambridge, 1981.
16. C. Markovits, Indian Business and Nationalist Politics from 1931 to 39, Cambridge, 1984.
17. C.A. Bayly, Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad 1880-1920, Oxford, 1975.
18. C.J. Baker, The Politics of South India, 1920-1927, Cambridge, 1976.
19. Charles H. Heimsath, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform, New Jersey: Princeton Univ.
Press, 1964.
20. D.A. Low ed., The Indian National Congress: Centenary Hindsights, Delhi: OUP, 1989.
21. D.A. Low, Congress and the Raj, London: Arnold-Heinemann, 1977.
22. D.A. Washbrook, The Emergence of Provincial Politics: Madras Presidency, 1870-1920,
Cambridge, 1976.
23. D.N. Dhanagare, Peasant Movements in India 1920-1950, Delhi: OUP, 1983.
24. David Hardiman, The Coming of the Devi: Adivasi Assertion in Western India, Delhi: OUP, 1987.
25. David Hardiman, The Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat, Delhi: OUP, 1981.
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26. E.F. Irshchik, Politics and Social Conflict in South India: The Non-Brahmin Movement and Tamil
Separatism, 1916-29, California, 1969.
27. Eleanor Zelliot ed., Gandhi and Ambedkar: A Study in Leadership, 1972.
28. Erik H.Erikson, Gandhis Truth: The Origins of Militant Non-violence, New York, 1969.
29. Francis Robinson, Separatism among Indian Muslims, Delhi: Vikas Publications, 1975.
30. G. Aloysius, Nationalism without a Nation in India, Delhi, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.
31. G.Pandey, The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh 1926-1934: A Study in Imperfect
Mobilisation, Delhi, 1978.
32. Gail Minault, The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India,
1919-1924, Columbia Univ. Press (New York) and OUP (Delhi), 1982.
33. Gyan Pandey ed., The Indian Nation in 1942, Calcutta, 1989.
34. Hitesranjan Sanyal, Swarajer Pathe, Papyrus,1994.
35. J. Gallagher, G. Johnson and A. Seal eds, Locality, Province and Nation, Cambridge, 1977.
36. J.H.Broomfield, Elite Conflict in Plural Society: Twentieth Century Bengal, Berkeley, 1968.
37. Joya Chatterjee, Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, (1932-1947), Delhi, 1996.
38. Judith M. Brown, Gandhis Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-22, Cambridge, 1972.
39. Kenneth W Jones, Socio-Religious Reform Movement in British India, Cambridge: CUP, 1989.
40. Lloyd I. And Susanne H. Rudolph, In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian
State, Chicago Univ. Press, 1987.
41. Mushirul Hasan, Indias Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization, Delhi: OUP, 1993 (3rd
impression).
42. Mushirul Hasan, Nationalism and Communal Politics in India 1885-1930, Delhi: Manohar, 1991.
43. P. Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse?, Delhi:
44. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
45. R. Sisson and S. Wolpert eds, Congress and Indian Nationalism, Delhi, Oxford Univ. press,
1988.
46. R. Sisson and S. Wolpert eds, Congress and Indian Nationalism, Delhi, Oxford Univ. press,
1988.
47. R.P. Dutt, India Today, London, 1947.
48. Rajni Kothari ed., Caste in Indian Politics, Delhi, 1970.
49. Rakesh Batabyal, Communalism in Bengal, Sage, 2005.
50. Rakhahari Chatterjee, Working Class and the Nationalist Movement in India: The Critical Years,
Delhi, 1984.
51. Rosalind OHanlon, Caste, Conflict and Ideology, CUP, 1985.
52. S. Amin, Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-92, Berkeley, 1995.
53. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, ed. Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader, OUP, New Delhi, 2009.
54. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, From Plassey to Partition, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2004.
55. Sudhir Chandra, The Oppressive Present: Literature and social Consciousness in Colonial India,
Delhi: OUP, 1992.
56. Sumit Sarkar, Modern India 1885-1947, Delhi, 1983.
57. Sumit Sarkar, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1905, New Delhi, 1973.
58. Suranjan Das, Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905-1947, Delhi: OUP, 1991.
59. Tanika Sarkar, Bengal 1928-1934: Politics of Protest, Delhi: OUP, 1987.
60. Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: Indias Growing Crisis of Governability, New Delhi,
1992.
61. B N Pande ed. A Centenary History of the Indian National Congress, New Delhi, 1990.
62. B R Nanda ed. Indian Foreign Policy: The Nehru Years, Delhi, 1976.
63. Bimal Jalan ed. The Indian Economy, New Delhi, 1992.
64. Bimal Jalan, Indias Economy in the New Millennium, New Delhi, 2002.
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65. Bipan Chadra, Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya Mukherjee, India after Independence, Penguin
Books, New Delhi, 2008.
66. Boris I Kluev, India: National and Language Problem, New Delhi, 1981.
67. Francine Frankel and M.S.A. Rao (eds), Dominance and State Power in India: Decline of a
Social Order, 2 vols., Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1990.
68. GS Bhalla, Indian Agriculture since Independence, New Delhi, 2007.
69. IMD Little eds. Indias Economic Reforms and Development: Essays for Manmohan Singh,
Delhi, 1998.
70. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Delhi,
1996.
71. K N Raj, Indian Economic Growth: Performance and Prospects, New Delhi, 1965.
72. Lloyd I. And Susanne H. Rudolph, In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian
State, Chicago Univ. Press, 1987.
73. Mary C Carras, Indira Gandhi: In the Crucible of Leadership, Bombay, 1980.
74. Nicholas Nugent, Rajib Gandhi: Son of a Dynasty, New Delhi, 1991.
75. Partha Chatterjee ed. Wages of freedom: Fifty Years of Indian Nation-State, Delhi, 1998.
76. Partha Chatterjee, A Possible India: Essays in Political Criticism, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press,
1997.
77. Paul Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1st ed. 1990.
78. Paul R. Brass, Language, Religion and Politics in North India, Cambridge, 1979.
79. Rajni Kothari, Politics in India, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 1970.
80. Ram Guha, India after Gandhi, Haper Collins, New York, 2007.
81. S Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, vol. 2, London, 1979.
82. S Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, vol. 3, London, 1984.
83. Seema Mustafa, The Lonely Prophet: V P Singh, A Political Biography, New Delhi, 1995.
84. Sekhar Bandypadhyay, Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India, OUP,( Second Edition)
New Delhi, 2011.
85. Sudipta Kaviraj, Politics in India (Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social
Anthropology), 1999 .
86. Tom Brass, ed. New farmers Movements in India, Ilford, 1995.
87. VP Dutt, Indias Foreign Policy in a Changing World, New Delhi, 1999.
88. W H Morris-Jones, The Government and Politics in India, Wistow, 1987.
89. Zareer Masani, Indira GandhiA Biography, London, 1975.
MAHIST 203: Island Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia

Full Marks 50 (5 Credits)
To be covered in minimum 70 Lectures
Indonesia
1. European Territorial Expansion : the Portuguese intrusion, the Dutch Forward Movement Java under
British rule T.S. Raffles, Dutch colonial policy The Culture system, the Liberal system Ethical
policy the economic impact of Dutch domination. (11 lectures)
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2. Nationalism and Challenge to European Domination: General background Sarekat Islam, PKI, PNI
and other political parties Impact of the Second World War. (11 lectures)
3. Transfer of Power in Indonesia : post war govt., Japanese occupation of Indonesia Birth of Indonesian
Republic Constitution of 1945, British troops in Indonesia Sukarno and the Panchsil political
philosophy Guided Democracy, army Instability in Indonesian region 1950-65 Cold war and
Geneva settlement. (13 lectures)
Malaysia
4. British Policy in Malay: Background to Singapore: The Straits Settlements and Borneo1786-1867
-From the Acquisition of Penang to the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 Piracy and the Works of
James Brooke. (7 lectures)
5. Politics, Society and Economy: Political System: Resident System: Kinship and Gender
Public Health, Education and Population Explosion -Economic Condition in the 19th
Century: Economic Development and Progression with special reference to Tin and
Rubber. (14 lectures)
6. Transition to Independent Malaysia: Birth of the Federation National Liberation
Movement: Malay Union Plan Constitutional Changes in Sarawak and Saba Emergency
in Malay Federal Constitution Activities of the Malay Federation Govt., 1957-63
Relation with Singapore The Independence Settlements Cold War Confrontation
Toward Stabilization,1965-75. (14 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. A. C. Brackman, Indonesian Communism: A History, NY (Praeger), 1963.
2. A. Cabaton, Java and the Dutch East Indies, London, 1911.
3. Akira Nagazumi, The Dawn of Indonesian Nationalism: The Early Years of the Budi Utoma,
1908-1918, Tokyo, 1972.
4. Alfred Russel Wallace , The Malay Archipelago, Vols. I & II, Createspace Independent
Publishing Platform, 2012.
5. Azlan Tajuddin , Malaya in the World Economy 1824-2011, Lexington Books, 2012.
6. Barbara Watson Andaya , History of Malaysia, Palgrave Macmillan, 1984.
7. Benjamin Higgins, Indonesias Economic Stabilization and Development , New York,
1957.
8. Bernard Dahm, Sukarno and yhe Struggle for Indonesian Independence, Ithaca, NY, 1969.
9. C. Northcote Parkinson, British Intervention in Malaya 1867-1877, Singapore, 1960.
10. C.D Cowan., Nineteenth Century Malaya, Oxford University Press, London, 1961.
11. Chai Han-Chan, The Development of British Malaya, 1896-1909, Kuala Lumpur, 1964.
12. Christopher Hale, Massacre in Malaya: Exposing Britains My Lai, Spellmount, 2013.
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13. Clifford Geertz, Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia,
University of California Press, 1966.
14. Clifford Geertz, Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia,
Berkeley, 1963.
15. Clive Day, The Policy and Administration of the Dutch in Java, NY, 1904.
16. Clive J Christie, Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century A Reader, London, 1998
17. D. Hindley, The Communist Party of Indonesia 1951-1963, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1966.
18. D.G.E Hall., A History of South East Asia, London, 1981.
19. D.G.M Tate., The Making of Modern Southeast Asia, Vol. I & II, Oxford, 1979.
20. D.R Sardesai., Southeast Asia Past and Present, 4th edition, Harper Collins Publishers India,
New Delhi, 1997.
21. E. E. Dodd, The New Malaya, London, 1946.
22. E. H. G. Dobbey, Agricultural Questions of Malaya, Cambridge, 1949.
23. E. S. de Klerck, History of the Netherlands East Indies, 2Vols. Rotterdam, 1938.
24. Franklin B. Weinstein, Indonesian Foreign Policy and the Dilemma of Rependence: From
Sukarno to Soeharta, Ithaca, NY & London, 1976.
25. G.M.T Kahin., Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia, Cornell University Press, Ithaca,
New York, 1963 (6th edition).
26. Harry Miller, Short History of Malaysia, NY, 1966.
27. Ibid, (et al), Indonesian Economics; The Concept of Dualism in Theory and Policy, The
Hague, 1961.
28. J. A. Kennedy, History of Malaya, London, 1962.
29. J. D. Legge, Sukarno: A Political Biography, London, 1972.
30. J. H. Boeke, The Structure of the Netherlands Indies Economy, Institute of Pacific Relations,
NY, 1942.
31. J. O. M. Broek, The Economic Development of the Netherlands Indies, NY, 1942.
32. J.D Legge., Indonesia, Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey, 1964.
33. J.H Boeke., The Structure of the Netherlands Indian Economy, New York, 1942.
34. J.S Furnivall., Colonial Policy and Practice : A Comparative Study of Burma and
Netherlands India, New York, 1956.
35. J.S Furnivall., Netherlands India. A Study of Plural Economy, Cambridge, 1967 (reprinted).
36. John Bastin (ed.), The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia : 1511-1957.
37. John Crawford, History of the Indian Archipelago 3 Vols. Edinburgh, 1820.
38. John F Cady., Southeast Asia, Its Historical Development, McGraw Hill, New York, 1964.
39. John S. Bastin, The Native Politics of Sir Stamford Raffles in Java and Sumatra: An
Economic Interpretation, OUP, 1957.
40. Justus M. Van der Kroef, Indonesia in the Modern World, Sanders, 1954.
41. K.G Tregonning., A History of Modern Malay, New York, 1964.
42. L. Palmier, Indonesia and the Dutch, London, 1961.
43. M Caldwell., Indonesia, OUP, 1968.
44. M. A. Aziz, Japans Colonialism and Indonesia, The Hague, 1955.
45. Matthew Jones , Conflict and Confrontation in Southeast Asia,1961-1965,Britain, the United
States, Indonesia and the Creation of Malaysia, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
46. N.J Ryan., The Making of Modern Malaysia A History from Earliest Times to 1966, Oxford
University Press, Singapore (3rd Revised edition), 1967.
47. Nicholas Tarling (ed.), The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia, Vol.II, Cambridge
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University Press, 1994 (reprint).

48. Philip Matthews , Chronicle of Malaysia 1957-2007, Didier Millet, 2008.
49. R. Mortimer, Indonesian Communism under Sukarno: Ideology and Politics 1959-1965,
Ithaca, NY, 1974.
50. Rupert Emerson, Malaysia A Study in Direct and Indirect Rule, Singapore, 1969.
51. Ruth T. McVey (ed.), Indonesia, Yale University, Southeasr Asia Studies, New Haven,
HRAF Press, 1963.
52. Ruth T. McVey, The Rise of Indonesian Communism, Ithaca, Cornell University Press,
1965.
53. Sir Roland Braddell, The Law of the Straits Settlements: A Commentary, Singapore, 1915,
New Edition, 1931.
54. Soedjatmoko, An Approach to Indonesian History: Towards an Open Future, Ithaca,
NY,1960.
55. Victor Purcell, The Chinese in Southeast Asia, Oxford University Press, London, 1965 (2nd
edition).
56. W. F. Wertheim, Indonesian Society in Transition: A Study of Social Change, NY & The
Hague, 1956 2nd Revised edn. 1959.
57. W. J. Cator, The Economic Position of the Chinese in the Netherlands Indies, Oxford, 1936.
MAHIST 204: Western Political Ideas: Machiavelli to Marx

1. The Renaissance, humanism in Italy and England: Machiavelli. (7 lectures)

2. The Reformation: Luther and Calvin; French religious wars and the anti-monarchist thinkers.
(7 lectures)
3. Law, Natural Law and the State: Althusias, Grotius. (7 lectures)
4. British Civil War: Harrington, the Levellers. (7 lectures)
5. Conservative theorists: Bodin, Hobbes. (7 lectures)
6. British liberal thought since Locke: Hume, Bentham, Mill: utilitarianism and new liberalism.
(7 lectures)
7. Reaction to French Revolution: Edmund Burke, Tom Paine. (7 lectures)
8. French thought in the eighteenth century: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, the Physiocrats.
(7 lectures)
9. The Idealist School in Germany: Kant, Fichte, Hegel. (7 lectures)
10. Socialism: Utopian socialist thought; Marxian socialism. (7 lectures)
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A. Cobban, Rousseau and the Modern State, London, 1954.

C.B. Macpherson, The Political Philosophy of Possessive Individualism, Oxford, 1962.
C.B.Macpherson, Life and Times of Liberal Democracy, Oxford, 1977.
F. Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance, London, 1958.
F.J.E. Hernshaw, The Development of Political Ideas, London, 1928.
G. Ebeling, Luther: an Introduction to his Thought, London, 1972.
G. H. Catlin, History of the Political Philosophers, London, 1950.
G.H.Sabine, A History of Political Theory, Calcutta, 1968.
G.P. Gooch, Hobbes, London, 1939.
Guido de Ruggiero, The History of European Liberalism, Boston, 1959.
I. Meszaros, Marxs Theory of Alienation, London, 1970.
J. Bowle, Hobbes and His Critics, London, 1969.
J. Mac Cunn, Six Radical Thinkers, London, 1910.
J. Plamenatz, Man and Society, 2 Vols, London, 1963.
J. Plamenatz, The English Utilitarians, Oxford, 1958.
J.H. Whitafield, Machiavelli, Oxford, 1947.
J.S. Mcclelland, A History of Western Political Thought, Routledge, 1998.
J.W. Allen, History of Political Thought in the 16th Century, London, 1961.
Jaud Bronowski & B. Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, London, 1960.
K. Martin, French Liberal Thought in the 18th Century, London, 1954.
L. Colletti, From Rousseau to Lenin, London, 1972.
M. Conforth, Dialectical Materialism, Calcutta, 1976.
P. Doyle, A History of Political Thought, London, 1933.
R. Miliband, Marxism and Politics, Oxford, 1977.
R. Pascal, The Social Basis of the German Reformation, London, 1933.
R.I. Aaron, John Locke, London, 1937.
S. Anglo, Machiavelli, A Dissection, Oxford, 1981.
S. Avineri, Hegels Theory of Modern State, Cambridge, 1972.
S. Avineri, The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx, Cambridge, 1968.
S. Hook, From Hegel to Marx, N.Y., 1950.
Tom Botloenore (ed), Karl Marx, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1973.
W. A. Dunning, A History of Political Theories, Vols II & III, Indian Print, 1971.
W.T. Jones, Machiavelli to Bentham, London, 1947
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Third Semester
MAHIST 301: The Rarh in the Nineteenth Century
1. Introducing the Rarh in the nineteenth centuryhistorical geographypolitical divisions

Sumbha, Prasumbha, Sumbhottar, Brahma, Brahmottar, Bajjabhumitopography and natural
resourcesclimate and seasonsflora and faunaeconomic resources and social wealth
importance of local history. (11 lectures)
2. Demography and ethnic variety: Hindu, Muslim and Tribal societysocial hierarchy and caste
systemtraditional society and determinants of social statusnew markers of social status
dynamism and social mobilitychanges in existing social and caste hierarchythe Nabashakhas
and other dissidents from parent caste groupsa changing demographic pattern. (11 lectures)
3. Agrarian economy and society: social impact of new land settlement in the early colonial period,
Decennial system and Permanent Settlementcase studies of Burdwan, Bankura and Birbhum
introduction of cash cropsstepping in of outsiders in agrarian societyabsentee landlordism,
pattani system and the jotedars rice economy and agricultural marketing of riceBurdwan as
the rice bowl of Bengaltribal and non-tribal populationcolonial interference in forest and
other natural resourcespredicament and protest. (13 lectures)
4. Industry and urbanization: handicrafts and small industriescloth, silk, salt, sugar, terracotta,
rice, cutlery, lac, etc.development of mining, industries, communication and railways trade
martsrail and river-borne tradecommercial groups and professionalsurbanizationold and
new townsrise of the small town gentrythe rural-urban continuum and divide. (13 lectures)
5. Religion and culture: popular religionlocal deities and religious faithsreligious and cultural
practicestribal and non-tribal culturecommunities and religious syncretismtransformation
of religious sensibilitiesthe Christian missionariespopular culture entertainments and
festivitiesvisual and performing artsimpact of religious and cultural reform movements
generated in the metropolisdichotomy between metropolitan and mufassil existence. (11
lectures)
6. Health and diseases: Burdwan feverspread in Burdwan, Birbhum and Bankuraimpact on
society and economygovernment health policy to control Burdwan fever and other epidemic
diseases in Rarh Bengalleprosy, kala azar, tuberculosis, choleramedical institutions,
dispensaries, hospitalspublic health and sanitation. (11 lectures)
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Select Readings:
1. A R Desai (ed.), Peasant Struggles in India, New Delhi, 1985.

2. Achintya Kumar Dutta, Economy and Ecology in a Bengal District: Burdwan 1880 1947,
Calcutta, 2002
3. Ajit Haldar, Generation and Utilisation of Agricultural Surplus (A Case Study of Burdwan
District), The University of Burdwan, 2000.
4. Akos Ostor, Culture and Power: Legend, Ritual and Bazaar and Rebellion in a Bengal Society,
5. Amalendu Mitra, Rarher Sanskriti O Dharmathakur, Kolkata: Subarnarekha, 2001.
6. Anita Roy Mukherjee, Forest Resources, Conservation and Regeneration: A Study of West
Bengal Plateau, (Concept Publishing).
7. Arabinda Biswas and Swapan Bardhan, Agrarian Crisis in Damodar-Bhagirathi Region 18501925, Geographical Review of India, vol. 38, June 1975, pp. 132-50.
8. Arabinda Samanta et al, (eds), Life and Culture in Bengal Colonial and Post-Colonial
Experiences, Kolkata, 2011.
9. Arabinda Samanta, Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal 18201939 Social History of an Epidemic,
Calcutta, 2002.
10. Arnab Majumdar, Birbhum: Itihas O Sanskriti, Calcutta, 2006.
11. Arun Chowdhury ed., Birbhumer Itihaas by Gourihar Mitra, Suri, Birbhum, 2005.
12. Asok K. Bhattacharya, Calcutta Paintings, Calcutta: Dept. of Information and Cultural Affairs,
Govt. of West Bengal, 1994.
13. Asok Mitra, Paschim Banger Puja Parban o Mela..
14. Bagchi, K. and Mukherjee, K. (1979), Diagnostic Survey of Rarh Bengal, Part-I, II, Dept. of
Geography, CU., (National Book Trust).
15. Bagchi, K. and Mukherjee, K. (1979), Diagnostic Survey of Rarh Bengal, Part-I, II, Dept. of
Geography, CU., (National Book Trust).
16. Barun Roy (ed.), Birbhumi Birbhum (in Bengali), Vol. 2, Calcutta, 2004.
17. Basudeb Chatterjee, Crime and Control in Early Colonial Bengal 1760-1860, Calcutta: K.P.
Bagchi.
18. Binay Ghosh, Banglar Loksanskritir Samajtatwa, Kolkata, 1386, B Y.
19. Chittabrara Palit, Perspectives on Agrarian Bengal, Calcutta, 1982.
20. Chittabrata Palit and Achintya Kumar Dutta (eds.), History of Medicine in India: The Medical
Encounter, New Delhi, 2005.
21. Chittabrata Palit, New Viewpoints on Nineteenth Century Bengal, Calcutta: Progressive Publisher
(rev. ed.), 1992.
22. Dagmar Engels, Beyond Purdah: Women in Bengal, 1890-1939, OUP, 1996.
23. David Kopf, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance, Berkeley: Univ. of California
Press, 1969.
24. David Kopf, The Brahmo Samaj and the shaping of the Modern Indian Mind, New Delhi:
Archives Publishers, 1988.
25. David McCutchion and Suhrid Bhowmik, Patuas and Patua Art in Bengal, Calcutta: Firma KLM,
1999.
26. Deepak Kumar, Science and the Raj, Delhi: OUP, 1995.
27. Fabrizio Ferrari, Guilty Males and Proud Females: Negotiating Genders in a Bengali Festival
(Seagull Books).
28. Geraldine Forbes, The New Cambridge History of India: Women in Modern India, Cambridge
29. Ghulam Murshid, Reluctant Debutante: Response of Bengali Women to Modernization, 18491905, Rajshahi: Rajshahi Univ, Press, 1983.
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30. Gopikanta Konar, Bardhaman Samagra, 2 vols., Burdwan, 2000.

31. Harry G Timbers, Report on Medical Conditions in the Birbhum District, Visva Bharati
Quarterly, January 1930, (Magh 1336 B.S), Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 365-74.
32. Hitesranjan Sanyal, Nirbachita Prabandha, Kolkata: 2004.
33. Hitesranjan Sanyal, Social Mobility in Bengal, Calcutta: Papyrus, 1981.
34. Indrani Ganguly, Social History of a Bengal Town, New Delhi, 1987.
35. Jajneswar Chaudhuri, Vardhaman: Itihas O Sanskriti, Vols. I, II, III, Uttarpara, 1990, 1991, 1994.
36. Jeanne Openshaw, Seeking Bauls of Bengal, (CUP).
37. John R McLane, Land and local Kingship in Eighteenth Century Bengal, CUP, 1993.
38. K C Ghosh, Famines in Bengal 1770-1943, Calcutta, 1944.
39. Kazi Shahidullah, Pathshalas to Schools, Calcutta, 1987.
40. Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, Rarh Region (Betascript
Publishing), 2011.
41. Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial Bengal, Berkeley and Los
42. M.A. Laird, Missionaries and Education in Bengal, 1793-1837, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
43. Mahimaniranjan Chakraborty ed., Birbhum Bibaran, Vols. I, II, III, reprint (second edition), Suri,
Birbjum, 2009.
44. Maniklal Sinha, Paschim Rahr Tatha Bankura Samskriti, Bishnupur, 1384 B.S.
45. Meredith Borthwick, Kesub Chunder Sen, A Search for Cultural Synthesis, Calcutta: Minerva
Associates, 1977.
46. Meredith. Borthwick, The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1849-1905, Princeton: Princeton
Univ. Press, 1984.
47. Mrinalini Sinha, Colonial Masculinity: The Manly Englishman and the Effeminate Bengali in
the Late Nineteenth Century, Manchester and New York, 1995.
48. N.K. Sinha ed. History of Bengal (1757 1905), 2nd edition, Calcutta : Univ. of Calcutta, 1996
49. Narahari Kaviraj, Wahabi and Farazi Rebels of Bengal, New Delhi: PPH, 1982.
50. Nihar Ranjan Ray, Bangalir Itihas, Adi Parba, Calcutta, 1993.
51. Nilmani Mukherjee, A Bengal Zamindar: Joykrishna Mukherjee of Uttarpara and his Times,
1808-1888, Firma KLM, Calcutta, 1975.
52. P.R. Sarkar, Rarh: The Cradle of Civilization, 1981, Kolkata.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
55. Partha Sankha Mazumdar ed., Birbhumer Itihas (Gourihar Mitra), Kolkata, 2012.
56. Parthapratim Majumdar et al (eds), Bankura Parichay, Vols. 3 & 4, Kolkata, 2012.
57. Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Banga Parichay (in Bengali), Volume-2, Calcutta, 1942.
58. Pradip Sinha, Calcutta in Urban History, Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1978.
59. Radha Kamal Mukherjee, Changing Face of Bengal: A Study of Riverine Economy, Calcutta,
1938.
60. Rafiuddin Ahmed, The Bengal Muslims, 1871-1906: A Quest for Identity, Delhi: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1981.
61. Rajat K. Ray, Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875-1914, Delhi: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1984.
62. Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay, Bangalar Itihash, vol.I.
63. Ramakanta Chakrabarty, Bangalir Dharma, Samaj o Samskriti, Kolkata: Subarnarekha, 2002.
64. Ramanuj Kar and Fakirdas Chattopadhyay, Bankura Jelar Bibaran, (in Bengali) [An Account of
Bankura District] edited by Samir Kumar Patra and Shekhar Bhoumik, Calcutta, 2006.
65. Ranjan Kumar Gupta, Rahrer Samaj Arthaniti o Ganabidroha: Birbhum 1784-1871, Calcutta:
Subarnarekha, 2001.
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66. Ranjan Kumar Gupta, The Economic Life of a Bengal District, Birbhum, 1770-1857, University
of Burdwan, 1984.
67. Ratnalekha Ray, Change in Bengal Agaarian Society 1760-1850, New Delhi, 1979.
68. S.N. Mukherjee, Calcutta: Myths and History, Calcutta: Subarnarekha, 1977.
69. Salahddin Ahmed, Social Ideas and Social Changes in Bengal, Calcutta: Papyrus, 2002 (revised
edn.).
70. Samir Kumar Patra and Shekhar Bhaumik (eds), Bankura Jelar Bibaran Ramanuj Kar O
Fakirdas Chattopadhyay, Calcutta, 2006.
71. Sashibhusan Dasgupta, Obscure Religious Cults, Calcutta: Firma KLM, 1969.
72. Sekhar Bandopadhyay, Caste, Politics and the Raj: Bengal 1872-1937, Calcutta, K. P Bagchi &
Co., 1990.
73. Shekhar Bhowmick ed., Sampratik Itihascharcha, Kolkata, 2005.
74. Shirin Akhtar, The Role of the Zamindars in Bengal 1707-1772, Dacca, 1982.
76. Sirajul Islam, The Permanent Settlement in Bengal: A Study of its Operation 1790-1819, Dacca,
1979.
77. Sudipta Kaviraj, Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of
Nationalist Discourse in India, Delhi: OUP, 1995.
78. Sukanta Chaudhuri ed., Calcutta: The Living City, Vols. I & II, Calcutta: Oxford Univ. Press,
1990.
79. Sukumar Sen, Diner Pare Din Je Gelo, Kolkata, 2001.
80. Sumanta Banerjee, The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Centruy
Calcutta, Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1989.
81. Sumit Sarkar, Writing Social History, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997 (1st ed,).
82. Tapan Raychaudhuri, Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century
Bengal, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1988.
83. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, The Making of a New Indian Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in
Bengal, 1850-1920, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.
84. Uma Dasgupta, Rise of an Indian Public: Impact of Official Policy, 1870-1880, Calcutta, Riddhi
India, 1977.
85. V.C. Joshi ed , Rammohun Ray and the Process of Modernization of India, New Delhi, 1975.
MAHIST 302: Economy in Transition: Pre-colonial India

1. Land in Ancient India: agricultural output and revenue ownership, property and inheritance
lawslegal and other aspects of Royal Land Charter (Rajasasana)social and economic
implicationsdevelopment of feudal elements in early India: the debate and the evidence.
(11 lectures)
2. Handicrafts, industries and trade: manufacture and technologyeconomic output and
organizationguildscurrency system and regulative structuresdomestic and foreign
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tradeancient sea ports of Indiamarkets and merchantstrading communities and

merchant corporationsslaves, hired and forced laboururbanization debate. (13 Lectures)
3. Dimensions of peasant protest: Violent land conflicts in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
Rural revolts in Tamil Nadu and neighbouring areas The Kalabhra revolt in South India
Kaivarta rebellion in eastern India Issues involved in the Kalabhra and Kaivarta revolts. (10
Lectures)
4. Economy of the Delhi Sultanate: agricultural productionagrarian taxation rural classes
land grantsiqta systemnon-agricultural productioncommerceprices and wages
currency systemthe maritime trade of India. (11 lectures)
5. Economy of Mughal India: agricultural productionagrarian relations and land revenue
jagirdars and zamindarsvillage communitynon-agricultural productionindustries
inland trademonetary system and pricestowns and citiesregional economies:
Maharashtra, the Deccan, the South, Assam and Bengalthe 18th century debate. (14
lectures)
6. European trade with India: commercial and political organization of tradethe commodity
structure of tradethe methods and impact of European tradeIndian merchants and trade
in the Indian Ocean. (11 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. A. Ghosh, The City in Early Historical India.

2. A.K.Y.N. Aiyer, Agriculture and Allied Arts in Vedic India.
3. Abhoy Kant Choudhary : Early medieval village in North eastern India (A.D. 600 to 1200),
Calcutta, Punthi Pustak, 1971.
4. Aniruddha Ray and S.K. Bagchi, Technology in Ancient and Medieval India.
5. Arun Kumar Biswas, Minerals and Metals in Ancient India, 2 vols.
6. B D Chattopadhyay : The making of early medieval India, New Delhi, OUP, 1994.
7. D D Kosambi : An Introduction to the study of Indian history, Bombay.
8. B.D Chattopadhyay : Coins and currency system in South India, New Delhi, Munshiram
Manoharlal, 1977.
9. D.C. Sircar, ed., History of Forestry in India.
10. D.N Jha : Economy and Society in early India. Issues and Paradigmer, New Delhi, Munshiram
Manoharlal, First Published 1993.
11. N.N. Kher, Agrarian and Fiscal Economy in the Mauryan and Post Mauryan Age.
12. Niharranjan Ray (et al) : A Source Book of Indian Civilization, Kolkata (Orient Longman), First
Published 2000.
13. Nupur Dasgupta, The Dawn of Technology in Indian Protohistory.
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14. P Sammugam : The revenue system of the Cholas. 850-1279, Madras, New era publications,
1987.
15. P.C. Roy : The coinage of Northern India, New Delhi, Abhinav, 1980.
16. R Tirumalai : Land grants and agrarian reaction in Cola and Pandya times, Madras, University of
Madras, 1987.
17. R.C Majumdar : Corporate life in Ancient India, Firma K.L.M. Calcutta, 1969.
18. Atindranath Bose : Social and Rural Economy of Northern India, Vols I & II, Calcutta, Firma
K.L.M., 1961.
19. R.S Sharma : Early medieval Indian Society (A Study in Feudalism), Kolkata, Orient Longman,
2001.
20. R.S Sharma: Urban Decay in India (c.300-c.lOOO), New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal 1987.
21. R.S. Sharma, Indian Feudalism.
22. R.S. Sharma, Material Culture and Social Formation in Ancient India.
23. Ranabir Chakravarti (ed) : Trade in early India, New Delhi, OUP, 2001.
24. Ray, Niharranjan : Bangalir Itihas (Adi Parva), Calcutta, Book Emporium, 1949.
25. Romila Thapar, Ancient Indian Social History : Some Interpretations.
26. S K Maity : Economic Life of Northern India in the Gupta period c. A.D. 300 to 550, Calcutta,
World Press.
27. Shereen Ratnagar, Encounters. The Westerly trade of the Harappan Civilization.
28. U.N. Ghoshal, The Agrarian System in Ancient India.
29. V.K. Jain : Trade and Traders in western India (A.D. 1000-1300), Ph.D. thesis, Universily of
Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal, 1990.
30. Vijay Thakur, Urbanization in Ancient India.
31. S. Arasaratnam, Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast
1650-1740.
32. _____________, Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century.
33. C. A Bayly, The Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the world 1780-1830.
34. _____________, Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the Age of European
Expansion
35. C. R. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire 1600-1800.
36. _____________, Portuguese Conquests and Commerce in Southern Asia 1500-1700.
37. _____________, The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415-1825.
38. K.N. Chaudhuri, Asia Before Europe: economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the
Rise of Islam to 1750.
39. _____________ , Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the
Rise of Islam to 1750.
40. _____________, The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760.
41. S. Chaudhuri, Trade and Commercial Organisation in Bengal 1650-1720.
42. A. Dasgupta, Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat.
43. _____________ , Malabar in Asian Trade, 1740-1800.
44. A. DasGupta and M.N. Pearson, eds. India and the Indian Ocean.
45. P.J. Marshall, East Indian Fortunes: he British In Bengal in the Eighteenth Century.
46. Om Prakash, The Dutch East Indian Company and the Economy of Bengal 1630-1720.
47. _____________, European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-colonial India.
48. _____________, Asia and the Pre-Modern World Economy.
49. _____________, European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India, New Cambridge
History of India, II.5.
50. A. Villiers, The Indian Ocean.
51. _____________, Sons of Sindbad: The Great Tradition of Arab Seamanship in the Indian Ocean.
52. T. Raychaudhuri and I. Habib, ed. Cambridge Economic History of India v.I, 1200-1757.
53. I. Habib, An Atlas of the Mughal Empire.
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54. A.I. Chicherov, India: Economic Development in the 16th -18th centuries.
55. I. Habib, Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception. K. M. Panikkar, Asia and
Western Dominance. K. McPherson, The Indian Ocean.
56. B.B. Kling and M. N. Pearson, ed. Age of Partnership: Europeans in Asia before Dominion.
57. D. S. Richards, ed. Islam and the Trade of Asia: A Colloquium.
58. J. F. Richards, ed. The Imperial Monetary System of Mughal India
59. _____________, ed. Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds.
60. D. Rothermund, Asian Trade and European Expansion in the Age of Mercantilism.
61. M. N. Pearson, The Portuguese in India.
62. _____________, Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the
Sixteenth Century.
63. K. S. Matthew, Portuguese Trade with India in the Sixteenth Century.
64. A. R. Disney, Twilight of the Pepper Empire: Portuguese Trade in South-west India in the Early
Seventeenth Century.
65. S. Subrahmanyam, The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: A Political and Economic
History.
66. _____________, Improvising Empire: Portuguese Trade and Settlement in the Bay of Bengal,
1500-1700.
67. ____________, The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500-1650.
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_____________, ed. Money and the Market in India, 1100-1700.

N. Steensgaard, The Asian Trade Revolution of the Seventeenth Century.
H. Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800.
T. Raychaudhuri, Jon, Company in Coromandel, 1605-1690: A Study in the Inter-relations of
European Commerce and Traditional Economies.
L. Subramanian, Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West
Coast.
E. Ashtor, A Social and Economic History of the Near East in the Middle Ages, London, 1976.
Irfan Habib, Agrarian System of Mughal India (1556-1707), IInd revised addition, New Delhi:
OUP, 1999.
Ashin Das Gupta, Indian Merchants and the Decline of Surat C 1700-1750, New Delhi:
Manohar, 1994 (First published in 1978).
Ashin Das Gupta, The World of the Indian Ocean Merchants (Collected Essays), New Delhi:
OUP 2001
Shireen Moosvi, The Economy of the Mughal Empire, New Delhi: OUP, 1987.
Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800, Minneapolis, 1976.
Muzaffar Alam, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab, 1707-1748,
New Delhi, OUP, 1986
P.J. Marshall, The Eighteenth Century in Indian History : Evolution or Revolution?, New Delhi:
OUP, 2003.
Sourindranath Roy, The Story of Indian Archaeology.
Dilip K. Chakrabarti, A History of Indian Archaeology from the beginnings to 1947.
81.
82.
83. Gautam Sengupta and Kaushik Gangopadhyaya, eds. Archaeology in India. Individuals,
Ideas and Institutions.

84. H.D. Sankalia, Stone Age Tools.
85. Dilip K. Chakrabarti, India: An Archaeological History. Palaeolithic beginnings to Early
Historic foundations.
86. _____________, Colonial Indology. Sociopolitics of Ancient Indian Past..
87. M.K.Dhavalikar, Indian Protohistory.
88. S. Settar and Ravi Korisettar, eds. Indian Archaeology in Retrospect (4 volumes).
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89. Gregory Possehl, Ancient Cities of the Indus.

90. Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to
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93.
94.
95.
96.
the 12th Century.

A Ghosh. An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology (2 volumes).
_____________ , The City in Early Historic India.
F.R. Allchin and B. Allchin, The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan.
_____________, Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia: Emergence of Cities and
States.
Susan, L. Huntington, The Art of Ancient India. Buddhist Hindu Jain.
John Fritz, George Mitchell and M.N. Krishnappa, eds. Vijayanagar Research Project,
Monograph Series.
MAHIST 303A: State and Society in Ancient India

State:
1. Genesis of political concepts and institutions: Origin and evolution of kingship Divine concept
of kingship The contract theory Theories of property, family and Varna, political, social and
legal concepts in the Dharmasastras and smritis, The epics, Arthasastra. (13 Lectures)
2. Government of Multitude: Vedic and Post Vedic Gana Rashtras, Stages in ancient Indian polity,
The Maurya phase: Centralised Burcauratic Interlude, The post Mauryan phase : Divinity and
Decentralization The Gupta phase : Proto feudal polity political developments : Nature of
Regional politics with special reference to the Pratisharas, Palas, Rashtrakutas, Cholas and other
contemporary dynastics, The Advent of Muslims The Arabs in Sindh The Ghaznavids
Sultan Mahmud. (14 Lectures)
3. Administrative Institutions : Bureaucracy, Financial administration Decnetralization, Genesis of
Local Self Government and Regional identity, Administration of Justice, Punishment, The
Secret Service, Military Organisation and Technique. (7 Lectures)
Society:
4. Early Societies in India: Pre-Harappan and Harappan. Centres and Geographical extent.
Administrative Organization, Labour and Social formations in the Harappan Period. Rural-Urban
transitions, Vedic, Later Vedic and Post Vedic Societies: Expansion from Brahmavarta to
Aryavarta. The Vedic roots of Sanskritization. Caste and Gender. Labour and Social
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Stratification. Rise of the protest movements: Social Implications of challenging the Brahmanical
order. Society from the Epics and the Puranas. (13 Lectures)
5. The Society of the Large Empires: Pre-Aryan and Post-Aryan components in the Indian Society :
Growth of a composite culture. The Mauryas and the Guptas: Society from Inscriptions and other
literary sources. Interrogating the Golden Age of Ancient India. (12 Lectures)
6. Social formation in South India: Sangam Literature. The Dravida culture: Kingdoms from South
India. The early medieval in Indian History and regional societies. (11Lectures)
Select Readings:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
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11.
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14.
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24.
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27.
28.
29.
A.L. Basham, History and Doctrine of the Ajivikas, New Delhi, 1951.
AS Altekar : State and Government in Ancient India, Delhi, (Motilal) First edition. 1941.
B & R Allchin : The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan, Cambridge, 1982.
B & R Allchin Origins of a civilization : The prehistory and early archaeology of South, New Delhi,
1997.
B. H. Baden-Powell, The Indian Village Community, London, 1896.
B.G. Gokhale, New Lights on Buddhism, Bombay, 1997.
Beni Prasad, Theory of Government in Ancient India, Allahabad, 1974.
Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, The Making of Early Medieval India, Delhi, 1997.
Bratindranath
Mukhopadhyay,
Saktir
Rup:
Bharat
O
Madhya
Asiay,
Kolkata, 1990.
D Mackenzie Brown : The White Umbrella, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1953.
D.C. Sircar, Studies in the Religious Life of Ancient and Medieval India,
Delhi, 1971.
D.D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Bombay, 1956.
D.P.
Chattopadhyay,
Lokayata:
A
Study
of
Indian
Materialism,
New
Delhi, 1959.
DP Agarwal : The Archaeology of India, London, 1982.
F.R. Allchin (ed) : Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia, Cambridge, 1995.
G.L. Possehl, ed., Harappan Civilization: Contemporary Perspective, New Delhi, 1982.
H. Philips, Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon, Oxford, 1961.
Haripada Chakrabarti, Vedic India Political and Legal Institutions in Vedic Literature, Calcutta,
1981.
Haripada
Chakraborty,
Asceticism
in
Ancient
India,
Brahmanical,
Buddhist, Jaina and Ajivika Societies, Calcutta, 1973.
J. Gonda, Ancient Indian Kingship from Religious point of View, Leiden, 1966.
J.
N.
Banerjee,
Puranic
and
Tantrik
Religion,
University
of
Calcutta,
1966.
J.C. Heesterman, The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration, The Hague, 1957.
J.P. Sharna, Republics in Ancient India, Leiden, 1968.
K.C. Sagar, Foreign Influence in Ancient India, New Delhi, 1992.
K.P Jayswal : Hindoo Polity, Butterworth and Co, Calcutta, 1924.
K.P. Jayswal, Hindu Polity, Bangalore, 1943.
Kumkum Roy, The Emergence of Monarchy in North India, Delhi, 1994.
Kunal
Chakrabarti,
Religious
Process:
The
Puranas
and
Making
of
a
Regional Tradition, New Delhi, 2001.
N.C. Bandopadhyaya, Development of Hindu Polity and Political Theories, New Delhi, 1980.
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30. N.N.
Bhattacharyya,
Buddhism
in
the
History
of
Indian
Ideas,
New
Delhi, 2000.
31. N.N. Law, Aspects of Ancient Indian Polity, Oxford, 1st Pubd, 1921.
32. Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, Ancient Indian History and Civilization: Trends and Perspectives, New
Delhi, 1988.
33. Nihar Ranjan Ray, Bangalir Itihas, (Adi Parva), Calcutta, 1980.
34. Niharranjan
Ray,
'The
Medieval
Factor
in
Indian
History,'
Indian
History
Congress, 29'h Session, Patiala, 1967, pp. 1-29.
35. P. V. Kane, History of Dharmasastra, Poona, 1930-62.
36. P.S.
Jaini,
Gender
and
Salvation:
Jaina
Debates
on
the
Spiritual
Liberation of Women, Delhi, 1991.
37. Pranabananda Jash, Historyof Saivism, Calcutta, 1974.
38. R C Majumdar : Corporate life in Ancient India, Firma K.L.M. Calcutta, 1969.
39. R K. Mukherji. Ancient India, Allahabad, Indian Press, 1956.
40. R P Kangle : The Kautilya Arthasastra, Bombay University, Bombay, 1963.
41. R. C. Majumdar, Corporate Life in Ancient India, Calcutta, First Published, 1919.
42. R. S. Sharma, Sudras in Ancient India, Delhi, 1958.
43. R.S. Sharma : Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, Delhi (Motilal Banarsidass)
First edition, 1959.
44. R.S.
Sharma
and V.
Jha,
eds.,
Indian
Society:
Historical
Probings,
Delhi,
1974.
45. R.S. Sharma, Social changes in Early Medieval India, Delhi, 1969.
46. R.S. Sharma., Origin of the State in India, Bombay, 1989.
47. Ram Mohan Das : Crime and punishment in Ancient India, Kanchan Publications, Bodhgaya, 1982.
48. RK Mukherji : Local Government in Ancient India, Delhi (Motilal Banarsidass) 1958.
49. RK Mukherji : The Gupta Empire. Delhi (Motilal Banarsidass) First edition, Delhi, 1973, Reprint:
1989, 1997.
50. Romila Thapar : From Lineage to State, OUP, Bombay, 1984.
51. Romila Thapar, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, Delhi, 1963.
52. Romila Thapar, From Lineage to State, Bombay, 1984.
53. Romila Thapar, Interpreting Early India, Delhi, 1992.
54. Romila Thapar, The Mauryas Revisited, Calcutta, 1987.
55. S D Trivedi : Secret Services in Ancient India, Allied Publishers. 1988.
56. S N Mishra : Ancient Indian republics from the earliest times to the sixth century A.D., Upper India
Publications, Lucknow, 1976.
57. S.R. Goyal, A Religious History of Ancient India, 2 Vols., Meerut, 1986.
58. J N Sarkar ed., The History of Bengal: Muslim Period (1200-1757) Patna, 1977.
59. Sukumar Sen, The Great Goddess in Indian Tradition, Calcutta, 1983.
60. Suvira Jaiswal, The Origin and Development of Vaisnavism, Delhi, 1967.
61. Suvira
Jaiswal,
'Varna
Ideology
and
Social
Change,'
Social
Scientist,
Vol. 19, Nos. 3-4 (1991), pp. 41-8.
62. T B Mukherjee : Inter-state Relations in Ancient India, Delhi (Meenakshi Prakashan) First Published,
1967.
63. U N Ghosal : A History of Hindu Political theories, Delhi, OUP, 1923.
64. U. Chakrabarti, The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism, Delhi, 1987.
65. U. Ghoshal, A History of Indian Political Theories, Madras, 1966.
66. Uma
Chakraborty,
The
Social
Dimensions
of
Early
Buddhism,
New
Delhi, 1996.
67. Upinder
Singh,
Kings,
Brahmanas
and
Temples
in
Orissa,
New
Delhi,
1994.
68. V.P. Varma, Early Buddhism and Its Origins, New Delhi, 1973.
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69. Vijay
Nath,
Puranas
and
Acculturation:
A
Historico-Anthropological
Perspective, New Delhi, 2001.
70. VR Ramchandra Dikshitar: The Mauryan Polity, Delhi (Motilal Banarsidass), First edition, 1932,
Reprint, 1993.
71. W.A. Dunning : History of Political theories : Ancient and medieval, Vol. I, Macmillan, New York,
1922.
MAHIST 303B: Science and Society in Pre-colonial India

1. Techniques of agriculture in early India: terracotta and the beginnings of metal works. Townplanning and sewerage system. The beginnings of scientific orientation. Crops and Tools
IrrigationAgricultural ProcessingIrrigation devices (10 lectures)
2. Rational medicine and surgery in early India : Greek and Arab components in Ayurveda--Transmission of Medical Knowledge to and from the Arab world -- interaction between Unani
and AyurvedaMedical Practitioners, Medicines and Medical Institutions Rhinoplasty
Ophthalmology and Introduction of Spectaclesveterinary science ( 10 lectures)
3. The Indian system of ganita-- Vedic mathematics-- Development of rasi and sulva (arithmetic
and geometry -- Science: Science and Learning Mathematics-- Astronomy Astronomy in
the Arab World and its impact on India with special reference to Sawai Jai Singh. Science and
Scientific Instruments-- Concept of rationality and scientific ideas in Arab thought its
reception in India ( 12 lectures)
4. Ancient and Medieval Indian engagement with geography, chemistry, physics, astronomy,
botany, zoology etc. The entanglement of faith and reason in ancient India (10 lectures)
5. Development of technology in Ancient and Medieval India: ship-building-- metal works-engineering (with particular reference to temple architecture) -- terracotta and other regional art
forms, textiles and the world of dyes. Art and Crafts: Textile TechnologyMining and
MetallurgyDistillation and Refrigeration--Building IndustryOther Crafts and Techniques-Medieval Indian Technology and its social and Cultural Environment. Military Technology
Land Transport and NavigationWar Equipments before GunpowderGunpowder
FirearmsInternal Transport and Communication ( 14 lectures)
6. Nature and environment in Ancient and Medieval India: Descriptions of natures beauty-nature as friend, healer, benefactor, adversary-- relationship of the seasons to human emotions-poetic figures relating to nature in literary criticism. Environmental consciousness:
Exploration of natural resources for sustainable economic and ecological development
gardens, orchids, orchards and parks. Forest, deforestation and agricultural expansion
development of irrigation and water resourcespastoralism, ecology and society (14 lectures)
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Select Readings:
1. Alvares C. 1979 Homo Faber: Technology and Culture in India, China, and the
.,Allied, Delhi.
2. Bernal J.D. 1939.The Social Function of Science, Routledge, London.
3. Hoodbhoy Pervez, 1991. Islam and Science, Zed Books, London.
4. Inkstem, Ian. 1991. Science and Technology in History, Macmillan, London.
5. Morehouse, W.(ed) 1968. Science and Human Conditions in India and Pakistan, Rockefeller
University Press, New York.
6. Butterfield, H, 1958. Origins of the Modern Science, London.
7. Cohen, Bernard, 1985. Revolution in Science, Harvard.
8. Bose, D.M. et al (eds), 1971. Concise History of Science in India, INSA, New Delhi.
9. Chattopadhyay, D, History of Science & Technology in Ancient India, 2 Vols, Calcutta.
10. Gadgil, Madhav & Ramachandra Guha, 1992. This Fissured Land : An Ecological History of
India, Oxford, 1992.
11. History of Science and Technology in India. (12 volumes: v.1 health and medicine, science and
religion; v.2 mathematics, astronomy; v.3 technology; v.4 science; v.5 science and technology;
v.6 metals and metal technology; v.7 industries; v.8 coins, metallurgy; v.9 building
construction; v.10 irrigation; v.11 geology; v. 12 environment and ecology) (Delhi: Sundeep
Prakashan, 1990).
12. Shailendra Kumar, History of Science in India: Analytical Database of Information
Sources (New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 1994).
13. Symposium on the History of Sciences in India held in Calcutta, 1961 (New Delhi: National
Institute of Sciences of India, 1963).
14. A. Rahman, Trimurti Science, Technology & Society: A Collection of Essays (New Delhi:
People's Publishing House, 1972).
15. Kapil Raj, Relocating Modern Science (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
16. Arun Bala, The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science (Palgrave Macmillan,
2006).
18. Hoodbhoy Pervez, 1991. Islam and Science, Zed Books, London.
19. Inkstem, Ian. 1991. Science and Technology in History, Macmillan, London.
20. Morehouse, W.(ed) 1968. Science and Human Conditions in India and Pakistan, Rockefeller
University Press, New York.
21. Butterfield, H, 1958. Origins of the Modern Science, London.
22. Cohen, Bernard, 1985. Revolution in Science, Harvard.
23. Bose, D.M. et al (eds), 1971. Concise History of Science in India, INSA, New Delhi.
24. Chattopadhyay, D, History of Science & Technology in Ancient India, 2 Vols, Calcutta.
25. Gadgil, Madhav & Ramachandra Guha, 1992. This Fissured Land : An Ecological History of
India, Oxford, 1992.
26. Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India,Vol.III,
Calcutta, 1996.
27. A.Rahman, (ed) History of Indian Science, Technology and Culture, A.D.10001800, OUP, New Delhi, 1999.
28. David Gosling, Science and Religion in India, Madras, 1976.
29. Bruce T Moran,(ed) Patronage and Institutions; Science Technology and
Medicine at The European Court, 1500-1750,.Rochester, New York, 1991.
30. I A Khan, Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 2004.
31. S. Subramaniam (ed).Merchants, Markets and State in Early Modern India, New
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Delhi, 1990.
32. Mattison Mines, The Warrior Merchants, Textiles, Trade, and Territory in South
India, CUP, 1984.
33. Ashoke K Bagchi, Medicine in Medieval India: 11th to 18th Centuries, Konark
Publishers, Delhi, 1997.
34. Michel Foucault, The Birth of The Clinic, An Archaeology of Medial Perception,
Vintage Books, New York, 1973.
35. Beni Gupta, Medical Beliefs and Superstitions, Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi, 1979.
36. Seema Alavi, Islam And Healing: Loss And Recovery Of An Indo-Muslim Medical
Tradition 1600-1900, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
37. Susmita Basu Majumdar et al Eds. Essays on History of Medicine, Mumbai, 2013
MAHIST 303C: History of Women: Issues and Trends

1. Theoretical Approaches to the subject: Liberal, Marxist, Psychoanalytical, Socialist, Existential,

Radical, Postmodern, etc.
(13 lectures)
2. Sources and their relative importance in a study of the history of women.
(13 lectures)
3. Mary Wollstonecraft and the dawn of western feminism.
(9 lectures)
4. Other feminist characters and movements in Europe and America during the 19th and 20th
centuries.
(13 lectures)
5. Western feminism Emerging trends.
(9 lectures)
6. Women in Asia with special reference to the South Asian Countries.
(13 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. Azim, Firdous and Niaz Zaman (eds.) : Infinite Variety : Women in Society and Literature,
Dhaka, UPL, 1994.
2. Beddoe, Deirdre : Discovering Womens History, London, 1987.
3. Burton, Clare : Subordination, Feminism and Social Theory, Hongkong, George Allen & Unwin,
1985.
4. Chanana, Karuna (ed.) : Socialization, Education and Women : Explorations in Gender Identity,
New Delhi, Orient Longman, 1988.
5. Chipp, SA & JJ Green (eds.) : Asian Women in Transition, Univ. Park, Penn State Univ. Press,
1980.
6. Dube, Leela et al (eds.) : Visibility and Power Essays on Women in Society and Development,
OUP, Delhi, 1986.
7. Eisenstein, Hester : Contemporary Feminist Thought, London, Allen & Unwin, 1984.
8. Hashmi Taj ul-Islam : Women and Islam in Bangladesh, Beyond Subjection and Tyranny,
London, 2000.
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9. Haynes, Douglas & Gyan Prakash (eds.) : Contesting Power Resistance and Everyday Social
Relation in South Asia, Delhi, OUP, 1991.
10. Jayawardana, Kumari : Feminism & Nationalism in the Third World, London, Zed Press, 1986.
11. Jeffery, Patricia : Frogs in a Well. New Delhi, 1988.
12. Jeffery, Patricia and Amrita Basu (eds.) : Resisting the Sacred and the Secular, Womens
Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia, New Delhi, 1999.
13. Kumar, Nita (ed) : Women as Subjects, Charlottesville, Univ. Press of Virginia, 1994.
14. Kumar Radha : The History of Doing, Kali New Delhi, 1993.
15. Mcdowell, Linda & Rosemary Pringle (eds.) : Defining Women : Social Institutions and Gender
Divisions, Polity Press, 1992.
16. Mies, Maria : Indian Women and Patriarchy, New Delhi, Concept, 1980.
17. Miles, Rosalind : The Womens History of the World, London, Paladin, 1989.
18. Miller Barbara D : The Endangered Sex, Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press, 1981.
19. Offen, Karen (ed.) Writing Womens History, International Perspectives, London, McMillan,
1991.
20. Papanek, Hanna and Gail Minault (eds.) : Separate Worlds, Studies of Purdah in South Asia,
Delhi, 1982.
21. Perrot, Michelle (ed.) : Writing Womens History, Eng. Edition, Blackwell Publishers, 1992.
22. Samiuddin Abida & R. Khanam (eds.) : Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement in South
Asia, Vol.I-II, Global Vision Pub. House, Delhi, 2002.
23. Skevinton, Suzanne and Deborah Baker (eds.) : The Social Identity of Women, Sage
Publications, London, 1989.
24. Zafar, Fareeha (ed.) : Finding Our: Way Readings on Women in Pakistan, Lahore, ASR, 1991.
MAHIST 303D: History of the USA: 1776-1850

1. The New World and its colonization: The British imperial systemmercantilismroots of
conflict between the imperial authorities and the colonists. (11 lectures)
2. The American War of Independence: The ideological backgroundDeclaration of
IndependenceArticles of confederationthe making of the constitution and the ratification
controversy. (13 lectures)
3. The formation of a national government: Washingtons administrationFederalists and
RepublicansHamilton and JeffersonJohn Marshall and the Supreme CourtJacksonian
democracy. (11 lectures)
4. Foreign policy: American perceptions of the Worldisolationism and involvementthe War of
1812Foreign policy of Monroe and Adamsthe Monroe DoctrineManifest Destiny, the
War with Mexico. (13 lectures)
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5. Expansionism: The Westward movementthe role of Federal governmentresults of the

Westward movementthe Turner thesis. (11 lectures)
6. From Missouri Compromise to the Compromise of 1850the rise of King CottonSlavery
the beginning of the Abolitionist Movementnature of the sectional conflict. (11 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager, A Short History of the United States (Alfred A.
Knopf, 1966).
2. Benjamin Platt Thomas, Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1952).
3. Carl Neumann Degler and others, The Democratic Experience; A Short American History (3rd
edn, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1973).
4. Carl Neumann Degler, Out of our Past; The forces that Shaped Modern America (Revised edn.,
Harper & Row, 1970).
5. Charles A. Beard and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, 2 vols. (N. Y. 1920).
6. Clinton Lawrence Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic: The Origin of the American Tradition of
Political Liberty (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1953).
7. Gabriel Kolko, Main Currents in Modern American History (Pantheon Books, N.Y., 1984).
8. Gerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias (eds.), Interpretations of American History; Patterns
and Perspectives (N.Y., Free Press, London, Collier Macmillan, 1967).
9. H.B. Parkes, The United States of America, A History (Alfred A. Knopf 1968).
10. James Thomas Flexner, Washington; the Indispensable Man (Little, Brown and Company, 1974).
11. Merrill D. Peterson, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography (O.U.P., Inc., 1970).
12. Oscar Handlin, America; A History (Henry Holt & Co. 1968)
13. Richard Brandon Morris (ed.), Encyclopedia of American History (Revised ed., Harper & Row,
1970).
14. Richard Hofstadter, American Political Tradition (Alfred A Knopf, 1948).
15. Stephen G. Kurtz and James H. Hutson (eds.), Essays on the American Revolution (University of
North Carolina Press, 1973).
16. Vernon L. Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought (Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1927).
17. Walter Lafeber, The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since
1750 (N.Y., Norton, 1989).
MAHIST 304A: State and Society in Medieval India

1. Formation of political structure of state during the early medieval phase in Indian history: evolution and
problems; the political theory of the Sultanate: Caliphate, Sultanate and the question of Legitimacy;
Unitary State/centralized formation? Evolution of regional patterns of State formation; Case studies;
Rajputana, Bengal and the Vijayanagar kingdom-- Importance of Hussain Sahi rule in the socio-cultural
progress of Bengal. ( 14 lectures)
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2.
Society in the Sultanate period: Muslim society and the role of Ulema and other dominant religious
groups; impact of Islam on society. Urban social groups and social mobility ( 11 lectures)
3.
The Mughal Ruling Class- Nobility-numerical strength and composition of the nobility-organization of
the nobility- the nobles and politics--jagirdars and Mansabdars-- the military elites, their social and
political backgrounds, cultures of political service, aristocratic aspirations and new identities (14 lectures)
4. The Structure of the Mughal agrarian society- village community, theory and practice- the pattern of land
ownership and social stratification- the peasantry-- jagirdars and zamindars. Social relation within
agrarian society- class relations and class conflicts-- agrarian revoltslower caste movementsthe Jatsthe Sikh revolt--the rise of the Marathas ( 11 lectures)
5. Growth of Mughal Art, Architecture, Painting and Music- synthesis of Indian and Persian tradition- birth
of Indian classical music-- raags and raginis--dance ( 9 lectures)
6. State and Religion: mystical and intellectual currents; inter-faith dialogues; sulh-i-kul-- Sufis and the
state; ulema in the Mughal Empire. Religious Movement: Bhaktism and Sufism: Growth of regional
languages and literature, Hindu-Muslim cultural synthesis. ( 11 lectures)
Select Readings
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Moustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and
SexualAnxieties of Iranian Modernity (Berkeley, 2005).
Ali, M.A. : The Apparatus of Empire : Awards of ranks offices and Titles to the Mughal Nobility 15741658, Agra, 1985.
Athar Ali, M : The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, Delhi, 1997.
Aziz Abdul : The Mansabdari System and the Mughal Army, London, 1945.
Dirk Kolff, H.A. : Naukas, Rajput and Sepoy The Ethno-history of the Military Labour Market in
Hindustan 1450-1850, Cambridge, 1990.
Eaton R M: The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760, Delhi, 1994.
Eaton, R M ed. : Indias Islamic Traditions.
Farhat Hasan, Norms and Emotions in the Ardhakathanaka, in Vijaya Ramaswamy
(ed.),Biography as History (Delhi, 2009).
Farhat Hasan, State and Locality in Mughal India: Power Relations in Western India, c.
1572-1730 (Cambridge, 2005), chapter V.
Frykenberg R E ed.: Delhi Through Ages, Selected Essays in Urban History, Culture and Society.
Gavin Hambly (ed.), Women, Patronage and Self-representation in Islamic Societies
(Albany: 2000).
Habib, Irfan : An Atlas of the Mughal Empire. Political and Economic Maps with Detailed Notes,
Bibliography and Index, New Delhi, 1986.
Habib, Irfan : Medieval India 1 Researches in the History of India 1200-1750, Bombay, 1992.
Hamid Qalandar : Khair-ul-Majalis, ed. by K.A.Nizami, Aligarh, 1959.
Harbans Mukhia, The Mughals (Delhi: 2009).
Isami, : Futuh-us-Salatin ed by A.S. Usha, Madras, 1948.
Khan Iqtidar Alam, The Middle Classes in the Mughal Empire , Presidential Address to the Medieval
Section, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 36th Session, Aligarh, 1975, pp.113-41.
Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (Yale
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19. Leslie P. Pierce, The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire
(New York: 1993).
20. Mc Lane , J R : Land and Local Kingship in Eighteen Century Bengal, Cambridge, 1993.
21. Minhaj-i Siraj al-Jazjani : Tabaqat-i-Nasiri ed by Abdul Hai Habibi, Kabul, 1342.
22. Naqvi H K :Agricultural, Industrial and Urban Dynamism under the Sultans of Delhi .
23. Nigam, S.B.P. : Nobility under the Sultans of Delhi New Delhi, 1967.
24. Paul Jackson, S.J. : The way of a Sufi : Sharafuddin Maneri, Idazah-i-Adabiyat-i-Delhi, Delhi, 1987.
25. Raychaudhuri, Tapan: Bengal under Akbar and Jahangir: An Introductory Study in Social History,
Delhi, 1966.
26. Rosalind OHanlon, Kingdom, Household and Body: History, Gender and Imperial
Service under Akbar, MAS, 41, 5 (2007), 887-922.
27. Rosalind OHanlon, Manliness and Imperial Service in Mughal North India, JESHO, 42
28. Ruby Lal, Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge, 2005).
29. Sarkar, J.N.(ed) : The History of Bengal : Muslim Period 1200-1757 Patna, 1977.
30. Shams Siraj Afif : Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi, ed. by Walayat Hussain, Calcutta 1891.
31. Sherwani H K: Muslim Political Thought and Administration.
32. Siddiqui, I.H. : The Afghans and Their Emergence in India as Ruling Elite during the Sultanate
period, Central Asiatic Journal Wiesbaden, 1982, Vol-26, Nos. 3-4.
33. Siddiqui, I.H. : The Afghans and Their Emergence in India as Ruling Elite during the Sultanate
period, Central Asiatic Journal Wiesbaden, 1982, Vol-26, Nos. 3-4.
34. Siddiqui, I.H. : The Nobility under the Khalji Sultans Islamic Culture Hyderabad, 1963.
35. Srivastava, A.L. : The Sultanate of Delhi 711-1526, Agra, 1959.
36. Ziauddin Barani : Fatawa-i-Jahandari, Eng. Tr. Afsar Begum and Muhammad Habib, Medieval India
Quaterly, Aligarh, 1958, Nos. 3-4.
37. Ziauddin Barani, Tarik-i-Firuz Shahi, Calcutta, 1862.
MAHIST 304B: Science and Society in Colonial and Post-colonial India

1. Science and Society: Institutions, disciplines and scientists--Science and Colonial

Exploration Role of East India Company Early European scientists : surveyors,
botanists, doctors under the Companys service -- Growth of techno-scientific Institutions
scientific and technical education establishment of engineering and medical colleges
and institutes -- Establishment of scientific institutions Survey of India Geological
Survey of India agricultural experimental farms. ( 10 lectures)
2. Western Science : Indian response to new scientific knowledge interactions and
predicaments -- Science and Indian nationalism emergence of national science and its
relations vis--vis colonial science Mahendralal Sarkar, P.C. Ray, J.C.Bose. ( 8
lectures)
3. New horizon of science and technology in post-colonial India-- Growth of science
and technology since 1947--state policy to science and technology-- Nehruvian

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science and post-colonial India-- Five year plans and techno-scientific

development-- Locating Indian scientific community--scientific community and
the problem of technological capability --Scientific works and accomplishments-Ideas of H J Bhabha Meghnad Saha, S S Bhatnagar, K S Krishnan and others-Science education, research and institutions CSIR-- DRDO --TIFR (13 lectures)
4. Technology, Development Discourse and Social Change: Science and technology for
development and social changes ideas of British Government, Mahatma Gandhi and
other Indian nationalists -- Planning for development ideas of Meghnad Saha, P.C.
Mahalnobis, S.N.Bose, C.V.Raman, Visweswarayya, H.J.Bhava, B. Sarabhai,
S.S.Bhatnagar National Planning Committee. Technology and industrial
development --- Mining and metallurgical development --- Development of

transport and communication -- States policy to Engineering and technical
education --its proliferation and backlash--Growth of technological and
engineering institutions --Technological achievements --Peoples response to new
horizon of technology (13 lectures)
5.
History of Medicine: Social Definition of the physicians role as evolved in colonial

India Medicine and the Empire -- Colonial medical encounters -- Public Health and
epidemic diseases --- Disease and Disease Control: Comparative Perspectives of Malaria,
Smallpox, Cholera, Tuberculosis and Plague Social dimension of health in India--
state policy to health and medicine -- development in health services -- primary

health centres and hospitals - health care as a social responsibility ---reproductive
health and beyond -- control and eradication of communicable diseases -- Health
and population in India---mortality and morbidity --policy of the post-colonial
state to indigenous systems of medicine and homoeopathy--medical education and
research-- growth of pharmaceuticals --politics of health and medicine -- tribal
health and medicine --- popular response to states health care services (13
lectures)
6. Nature on Display: Environmental Consciousness in India Forest and the early
onslaught on forests early environmental debate forest policy up to 1947 Sites in
which natural history encountered in the past: museums, zoos, botanical gardens, marine
stations, parks, circuses and shows. Models of hydraulic environment Colonial
Irrigation environmental cost of irrigation - Inland waters & freshwater fisheries
issues of control, access & conservation. Post-war trends of environmentalism--
emergence of environmental history--state versus people --politics,

environmentalism and environmental conflict--Chipko movement, Narmada
banchao andolan, silent valley movement---- forests and forest policy in India --forests and forest dwellers-- joint forest management --- fishing, fisheries and
coastal fishing--- deforestation, climatic changes, environmental pollution and
natural calamities --- globalization and its impact on environment in India (13
lectures)
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Select Readings:
1. A Menon, Constructing the Local: Decentralizing Forest Management
Economic and Political Weekly, 30 (34), 1995.

2. A S Bhatnagar, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar: His Life and Work, NUSTADS, New
Delhi, 1989
3. A S Rawat, Environmentalism, Environmental Movement and the Indian
Scenario, Vidyasagar University Journal of History, New Series No. 1,
Midnapore, 2001.
4. A.K. Bag, History of Technology in India, 4 vols. Indian National Science Academy,
New Delhi, 1999
5. A.K. Bag, India and Central Asia: Science and Technology, 2 vols. Indian National
6. Adas Michael, 1992. Machines as the Measure of Men : Science, Technology and
Ideologies of Western Dominance, OUP, Delhi.
7. Anderson, R.S. Building Scientific Institutions in India, McGill Univer. Press, Montreal
1976.
8. Aparna Mohanto, The Indian State and Patriarchy in T V Satyamurthy ed., State
and Nation in the Context of Social Change, Delhi, 1994

9. Arnold David, 1993, Colonizing the Body, Delhi.
10. Arnold David, 1999. Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. The New
Cambridge History of India Series, OUP, Cambridge.
11. Arnold, D and Ramachandra Guha, 1995. Nature, Culture & Imperialism, Oxford.
12. Arun Agrawal, Green Pastures, OUP, New Delhi, 1998.
13. Arun Bandopadhyay ed., science and Society in India 1750-2000, Manohar, New
Delhi, 2010.
14. Ashis Ghosh, Environment and Development, New Delhi, 2000.
15. B M Bhatia, Indian Agriculture: A Policy Perspective, New Delhi, 1988.
16. Bala Poonam, Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century India, Lexington Books, UK, New York, 2012.
17. Bala Poonam, Medicine and Colonialism ,Pickering and Chatto, London, 2014.
18. Baldev Singh ed., Jawaharlal Nehru on Science and Society: A Collection of his
Writings and Speeches, NMML, New Delhi.

19. Bandopadhyay Arun ed. Science and Society in India, 1750-2000, Manohar, New Delhi,
2010.
21. Bhargava, K.D. (ed.)1968. Selections from Educational Records of Govt. of India,
Scientific and Technical Education in India, NAI, Delhi,
22. Biswas A.K. 1969.Science in India, K.L Mukhopadhyay,Kolkata.
23. C D OMalley ed., The History of Medical Education, California, 1968.
24. C Sandbach, Environment: Ideology and Policy, Oxford, 1980.
25. Chakrabarti Ranjan, ed. Situating Environmental History, Manohar, New Delhi, 2007.
26. Chittabrata Palit and Amit Bhattacharyya eds., science, Technology, Medicine
and Environment in India: Historical Perspectives, Calcutta, 1998.

27. Claude Alvares, Science Development and Violence: the Revolt Against
Modernity, New Delhi, 1992.
28. Cohn, Bernard, 1985. Revolution in Science, Harvard.
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29. D.M. Bose, Sen & Subbarappa, A Concise History of Sciences in India, National
Commission for the Compilation of History of Sciences in India by] Indian National
Science Academy (New Delhi, 1971).
30. D.P. Singhal, India and World Civilisation, London : Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972.
31. Dasgupta, Subrata, 1999, Jagadish Chandra Bose and the Indian Response to Western
Science, OUP, Delhi.
32. David Arnold, Nehruvian Science and Postcolonial India, Chicago Journals, vol.
104, No. 2 (June 2013).

33. David Hardiman, Practices of Healing in Tribal Gujarat, Economic and Political
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Debal Dev, Unnayan Purakatha, Kolkata, 2005.
Dharampal, 1971. Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century Delhi.
Dogra Bharat, Environment Movement Today, frontier, November 23, 1991.

Dutta Achintya, Economy and Ecology in a Bengal District Burdwan 1880-1947.
Frankel Francine, Indias Political Economy 1947-1977, Delhi, 1984.

G B Pant, The Forest Problem in Kumaun, Allahabad.
Gadgil, Madhav & Ramachandra Guha, 1992. This Fissured Land : An Ecological
History of India, Oxford, 1992.
Gaillard J,V.V. Krishna and R. Waast, 1997. Scientific Communities in the Developing
World, Sage, Delhi.
George Joseph Geevarghese, The Crest of the Peacock: Non-European Roots of
Mathematics, Priceton, 2010 Princeton University Press.
Goonatilake, S , 1984. Aborted Discovery: Science & Creativity in the Third World, Zed
Books, London.
Grove, R. 1994. Green Imperialism, OUP, Delhi.
Grover R. et.al.(eds.)1998, Nature and Orient, OUP, Delhi.
Habib, Irfan, 1984. Studying a Colonial Economy without perceiving Colonialism,
Social Scientist, Vol. 13, pp.2-29.
Headrick D.R, 1981. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the
Nineteenth Century, OUP, New York.
Headrick D.R. 1988. The Tentacles of Progress, OUP, New York.
48.
49. Imrana Qadeer, Kasturi Sen and K R Nayar eds., Public Health and the Poverty of
Reforms: The South Asian Predicament, Sage, New Delhi, 2001.

50. Ishita Pande Medicine, race and Liberalism in British Bengal Routeledge 2010
51. J Dreze and A Sen eds., The Political Economy of Hunger, vol. 3, Oxford 1991.
52. J Lourdusamy, Science and National Consciousness in Bengal, Orient Longman, New
Delhi, 2004.
53. Jacques Gaillard, V V Krishna and Roland Waast eds., Scientific Communities in
the Developing World, Sage, New Delhi, 1997.

54. Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, India: Development and Participation, OUP, New
Delhi, 2002.
55. Krishna Sumi, Environmental Politics: Peoples Lives and Development Choices,
new Delhi, 1996.
56. Krishna V.V. 1993. S.S.Bhatnagar on Science, Technology and Development, Wiley
Eastern, Delhi.
57. Kumar Anil, 1998. Medicine and the Raj, Sage, Delhi.
58. Kumar Deepak et al eds. Medical Encounters in British India, OUP, New Delhi, 2013.
59. Kumar Deepak, 1995. Science and the Raj, OUP, Delhi.
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60. Kumar, Deepak, 2000. Disease and Medicine in India : A Historical Overview, Tulika
Publications, Delhi.
61. Laxman D Satya, Medicine, Disease and Ecology in Colonial India, Manohar, New
Delhi, 2009.
62. Mackenezie, J.(ed) 1990. Imperialism and the Natural World, MUP, Manchester.
63. Macleod, Roy and Kumar Deepak(eds.), 1995. Technology and the Raj, Sage, Delhi.
64. Madhab Gadgil and Ramchandra Guha, Ecology and Equity: The Use and Abuse
of Nature in Contemporary India, Delhi, 1995.

65. Madhav Gadgil and Ramchandra Guha, This Fissured Land, Delhi, 1993.
66. Madhulika Banerjee, Power, Knowledge, Medicine: Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals
at Home and in the World, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, 2009.

67. Mohit Ray ed., Prasanga Parivesh, Anustup: Calcutta, 1991
68. Petitjean, P et al.,(eds.), 1992. Science and Empires, Kluwer, Dordrecht.
69. Prajit Bihari Mukherjee Nationalizing the body: The medical market, Print and
Daktari medicine Anthem Press 2012.
70. Prakash Gyan, 2000. Another Reason : Science and the Imagination of the Modern, OUP,
Delhi.
71. Pratik Chakrabarti, Medicine and Empire; 1600-1960, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
72. Pratik Chakrabarti, Western Science in Modern India, Permanent Black, New Delhi,
2004.
73. Pratik Chakraborty Medicine and Empire 1600-1960 Palgrave Macmillan,

2013.
74. Promod Singh ed., Indian Environment, New Delhi, 1991.
75. Qaisar A.J. 1982. The Indian Response to European Technology and Culture, OUP,
Delhi.
76. R Elliot and A Gare eds., Environmental Philosophy: A Collection of Readings,
New York, 1983.

77. Rahman, A. History of Indian Science Technology and Culture Delhi, 1998: Oxford
University Press.
78. Raina D and Habib I.(eds.), 1999. Situating History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph
Needham, OUP, Delhi.
79. Ramchandra Guha, Environmentalism ---- A Global History, New Delhi, 2000.
80. Ramchandra Guha, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant
Resistance in the Himalayas, Delhi, 1991.

81. Ranjan Chakrabarti ed., Situating Environmental History, Manohar: New Delhi,
2007.
82. Ray, Kabita, History of Public Health: Colonial Bengal, Calcutta, 1998.
83. S P Gupta, Modern India: Progress in Science and Technology, New Delhi, 1979
84. Samanta Arabinda, Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal : Social History of an Epidemic,
Kolkata, 2002.
85. Sangwan, S. 1990. Science, Technology and Colonisation: Indian Experience, Anamika,
Delhi. Science Academy, New Delhi.
86. Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of
Smallpox in India 1947-1977, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 2006.

87. Sankar Kumar Nath Kolkata Medical College er gorar kotha Sahitya samsad
2014.
88. Sen S.N. 1991.Scientific and Technical Education in India, INSA, New Delhi.
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89. SM Bhardwaj, Homeopathy in India, in G R Gupta ed., The Social and Cultural
Context of Medicine in India, New Delhi, 1981

90. Smritikumar Sarkar, Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India, 1830-1980, OUP,
New Delhi, 2014.
91. Sumit Guha, Health and Population in South Asia: From Earliest Times to the
Present, New Delhi, 2001

92. Tapan Kumar Chattopadhyay, India and the Ecology Question, Calcutta, 1999.
93. Uma Dasgupta Edited Science and modern India Vol xv Pearson Longman
2011.
94. Venkat D Reddy, Deforestation: Its impact on Indian Environment, in A K
Tripathi et al. eds., Advances in Environmental Sciences, New Delhi, 1993
95. Visvanathan S., 1985. Organizing for Science, OUP, Delhi.
96. W Morehouse ed., Science and the Human Conditions in India and Pakistan, New
York, 1968.
97. William J Baumel and Wallace E Oates, Economics, Environmental Policy and
the Quality of Life, Prentice Hall,1979.
MAHIST 304C: Indian Women through the Ages

1. Society and Women: As reflected through institutions like marriage, polygamy , divorce,
widowhood, sati, etc. (during ancient, medieval and colonial period). Social attitude towards
other women like court-dancers--temple-dancers (devadasis)--other performing artists, slave
women, prostitutes and courtesans (ganikas).
( 13 lectures)
2. Education and Women: Womens education in ancient, medieval, colonial and post-independence
India, with particular reference to technical and professional education, like medicine,
engineering, etc.
(9 lectures)
3. Religion and women: Women as a category from the point of view of Brahmanical religion
(vedic and post-vedic), Jainism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism, Christianity, etc .A comparative
study of the religious rights and disabilities of women. Reform Movements and Women,Mother
Cult and the Indian Goddesses.
(13 lectures)
4. A broad overview of the position of women in ancient and medieval India with reference to
society, economy, polity and culture.
(9 lectures)
5. Politics and Women: Participation of women in political activities from the ancient times (in
Sabha, Samiti, Vidatha, etc.)Position of queens in India. Women and medieval politics. Political
participation of women during colonial and post-colonial periods. Womens Organizations
Colonial Period local, provincial, nation. Post-independence womens organizations--Political
Parties and the issue of mobilizations of women.
(15 lectures)
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6. Culture and Women: Portrayal and Participation of women in literature,

art and sculpture, music, dance, drama, films, etc. Women as entrepreneurs (11 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. Ali, Azra Asghar : The Emergence of Feminism Among Indian Muslim Women, 1920-1947,
OUP, Karachi, 2000.
2. Altekar, A.S. : The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass, 1959.
3. Amin, Sonia Nishat : The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939, E J Brill,
Leiden, 1996.
4. Asthana, Pratima : Womens Movement in India, Delhi, Vikas, 1974.
5. Bagchi, Jasodhara (ed.) : Indian Women, Myth and Reality, Sangam Books, Hyderabad, 1995.
6. Baig, Tara Ali : Indias Woman Power, New Delhi, Chand, 1976.
7. Basu, Aparna and Bharati Ray : Womens struggle, New Delhi, Manohar, 1990.
8. Beddoe, Deirdre : Discovering Womens History, London, 1987.
9. Borthwick, Meredith : The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1949-1905, Princeton, 1984.
10. Bose, Mandakranta : Forces of the Feminine in Ancient Medieval and Modern India, OUP, Delhi,
2001.
11. Butalia, Urvashi : The Other side of Silence, Viking, New Delhi, 1998.
12. Chakraborty, Usha : Condition of Bangali Women around the Second Half of the 19th century,
Calcutta, 1963.
13. Chatterjee, Partha : Community, Gender and Violence
14. Chattopadhyay, Kamaladevi : Indian Womens Battle for Freedom, New Delhi, Abhinav, 1983.
15. Desai, Neera : Woman in Modern India, Bombay, Vora & Co., 1957.
16. Eisenstein, Hester : Contemporary Feminist Thought, London, Allen & Unwin, 1984.
17. Engels, Dagmar : Beyond Purdah ? Women in Bengal, 1890-1930, Delhi, 1999.
18. Forbes, Geraldine : Women in Modern India, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1987.
19. Hasan, Mushirul (ed.) : Inventing Boundaries, Gender, Politics and the Partition of India, New
Delhi, 2000.
20. Hasan, Zoya : Forging Identitites, Gender Communities and the State, New Delhi, 1994.
21. Kapur, Promilla : The Changing Status of the Working Woman in India, Vikas, Delhi, 1974.
22. Karlekar, Malavika : Voice From Within.. Delhi, OUP, 1991.
23. Kaur, Manmohan : Women in Indias Freedom Struggle, New Delhi, Sterling, 1985.
24. Krishnamurty, JK (ed.) : Women in Colonial India. Essays on Survival, Work and the State,
Delhi, OUP, 1989.
25. Krishnaraj, Maithreyi : Womens Studies in India, Some Perspectives, Bombay, 1986.
26. Liddle, Joanna and Rama Joshi (eds.) : Daughters of Independence Gender Caste and Class in
India, Kali, 1986.
27. Mathur, Y B : Womens Education in India, Delhi, Asia Publishing House, 1961.
28. Minault Gail : Secluded Scholars, Delhi, 1998.
29. Mukhopadhyay, Carol Chapnick & Susan Seymour (eds.) : Women, Education and Family
Structure in India, Westview Press, USA, 1994.
30. Nanda, BR(ed.) : Indian Women from Purdah to Modernity, New Delhi, Vikas, 1976.
31. Parikh Indira J. & Pulin K Garg : Indian Women : An Inner Dialogue, New Delhi, 1989.
32. Ray, Bharati (ed.) : From the Seams of History, Essays on Indian Women, Delhi, OUP, 1995.
33. Ray Bharati and Aparna Basu (eds.) : From Independence Towards Freedom Delhi, OUP,
1999.
34. Roy Manisha : Bengali Women, Chicago Univ. Press, 1975.
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35. Sangari Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid (eds.) : Recasting Women Essays in Colonial History, Kali,
1989.
36. Skevinton, Suzanne and Deborah Baker (eds.) : The Social Identity of Women, Sage
Publications, London, 1989.
37. Southard, Barbara : The Womens Movement & Colonial Politics in Bengal 1921-1936, New
Delhi, 1995.
38. Tharu, Susie & K. Lalitha (eds.) : Women Writing in India, 600 BC to the Present, OUP, New
Delhi, 1992.
39. Urfuhart, Margaret M : Women of Bengal, Cal. 1926, Reprint : New Delhi, 1983.

1. Sectional Conflict and the Civil War: Basis of conflictplantation economy vs. industrial
economySouth vs. Northslavery as a national issuedebate over slaveryUnionism vs.
secessionismCivil WarLincolns role in the War. (13 lectures)
2. Reconstruction: Phasesprogramme and natureRadical Reconstructioninterpretations and
historiographical positionsthe emergence of the new Southsocial tensions and reactions. (13
lectures)
3. Agriculture and agrarian society: Revolution in agricultureinstitutionalization of agricultural

interestsagrarian unreststhe Granger Movementthe Greenback Movementthe Populist
Movement. (13 lectures)
4. Industrialization and urbanization: Factors behindextension of railroadsindustrial and

financial developmentsgrowth of capitalism and big businessrise of an industrial society
urbanization. (11 lectures)
5.
Labour: Problems of labourimmigration and ethnicitylabour movements and unionization.

(10 lectures)
6. Post-Civil War mental world: RealismLiterature, Education and ScienceSociology,

Economics, Philosophy, History; painting, architecture, musicimpact of Darwinism. (10
lectures)
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Select Readings:
1. Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager, A Short History of the United States (Alfred A.
Knopf, 1966).
2. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (N.Y.
Norton, 1992).
3. Arthur Stanley Link, American Epoch, A History of the United States Since 1900, 4th edn., 3 vols.,
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1974).
4. Carl Neumann Degler and others, The Democratic Experience; A Short American History (3rd
edn, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1973).
5. Carl Neumann Degler, Out of our Past: The forces that Shaped Modern America (Revised edn.,
6. Charles A. Beard and Mary Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, 2 vols. (N. Y. 1920).
7. Daniel Bell, The Coming of the Post-industrial Society: A Venture in Forecasting (Basic Books,
Inc., 1973).
9. Gerald N. Grob and George Athan Billias (eds.), Interpretations of American History; Patterns
and Perspectives (N.Y., Free Press, London, Collier Macmillan, 1967).
10. Gilbert Green, Whats Happening to Labor (International Publishers, N.Y. 1976).
11. H.B. Parkes, The United States of America, A History (Alfred A. Knopf 1968).
12. H.U. Faulkner, American Economic History (5th edn, N.Y., Harper, 1943).
13. James MacGregor Burns, Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox and Roosevelt: the Soldier of Freedom
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1956-70).
14. John Hope Franklin, Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 1982).
15. Joseph Rayback, A History of American Labor (Macmillan, N.Y., 1964).
16. Kathleen McCourt, Working Class Women and Grass Roots Politics (Bloomington: I.U.P., 1977).
17. Lawrence Levine, The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History (OUP,
1993).
18. Oscar Handlin, America; A History (Henry Holt & Co. 1968).
19. Richard Brandon Morris (ed.), Encyclopedia of American History (Revised ed., Harper & Row,
1970).
20. Richard Hofstadter, American Political Tradition (Alfred A Knopf, 1948).
21. Richard Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (Alfred A. Knopf,
1968).
22. Vernon L. Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought (Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1927).
23. Walter Lafeber, The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since
1750 (N.Y., Norton, 1989).
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Fourth Semester
MAHIST 401: The Rarh in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1947
1. A society in transition: changing social valueschanges in family lifechanging life of

womenchanges in man-woman relationshipdichotomy between metropolitan and mufassil
existencenatural calamities and healthcaste in a modernizing societythe Burdwan Raj and
the small-town gentry. (13 lectures)
2. The cultural milieu: Tagores Shantiniketan and Sriniketan foundation of Visva Bharati
Rabindranath and rural reconstruction in BirbhumBankura Sammilanieducation and
literaturenewspapers and periodicalsvisual and performing artspopular and elite culture. (
13 lectures)
3. The peasants, artisans and workers: organized and unorganized sectorsradical orientation
demands and protestsclass consciousness and organizationCommunism and leftism. ( 9
lectures)
4. Mining, industries and communications: railways and high waysurbanization and growth of
marketcommunities and communal relationspeoples predicament and protest. (9 lectures)
5. Local politics and the elite: urban government and the municipalitiesmunicipal administration
and the Burdwan townBankura municipalityrise of the rural intelligentsia. (11 lectures)
6. Locality province and nation: political awareness and movementspolitical associations
national movement in Burdwanthe Damodar Canal Satyagrahanational movement and
BankuraBirbhum in national movementrevolutionary movement in Birbhum. (15 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. Achintya Kumar Dutta, Economy and Ecology in a Bengal District: Burdwan 1880 1947,
Calcutta, 2002.
2. Ajit Haldar, Generation and Utilisation of Agricultural Surplus (A Case Study of Burdwan
District), The University of Burdwan, 2000.
3. Ajit K Neogy, The Twin Dreams of Rabindranath Tagore: Santiniketan and Sriniketan, New
Delhi, 2010.
4. Akos Ostor, Culture and Power: Legend, Ritual and Bazaar and Rebellion in a Bengal Society,
5. Amit Bhattacharyya, Swadeshi Enterprise in Bengal 1900-1920, Calcutta, 1986.
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6. Anuradha Roy, Sekaler Marxiya Samskriti Andolan, Calcutta: Progressive Publishers, 2000.
7. Arabinda Samanta et al, (eds), Life and Culture in Bengal Colonial and Post-Colonial
Experiences, Kolkata, 2011.
8. Arabinda Samanta, Malarial Fever in Colonial Bengal 18201939 Social History of an Epidemic,
Calcutta, 2002.
9. Arnab Majumdar, Birbhum: Itihas O Sanskriti, Calcutta, 2006.
10. Arun Chowdhury ed., Birbhumer Itihaas by Gourihar Mitra, Suri, Birbhum, 2005.
11. Asok Mitra, Paschim Banger Puja Parban o Mela.
12. Benoy Ghosh, Paschimbanger Samskriti.
13. Biplab Dasgupta ed., Urbanization, Migration and Rural Change A Study of West Bengal,
Calcutta, 1988.
14. Chittaranjan Dasgupta, Bishnupurer Mandir Terracotta, Bishnupur, 1386 B.S.
15. D. Rothermund ed., Zamindars, Mines and Peasants, ND, 1978.
16. Dagmar Engels, Beyond Purdah: Women in Bengal, 1890-1939, OUP, 1996.
17. David Arnold, The New Cambridge History of India: Science, Technology and Medicine in
Colonial India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
18. David Kopf, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance, Berkeley: Univ. of California
Press, 1969.
19. Deepak Kumar, Science and the Raj, Delhi: OUP, 1995.
20. Dharma Kumar ed., Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. II (1757-1970), Orient Longman
(in association with CUP), 1982.
21. Dikshit Sinha, Tagores Experiment in Health-care: Health and Medicine as an aid to Rural
Reconstruction, Visva Bharati Annals, New Series, Vol. 6, April 2004, pp. 28-47.
22. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
23. Fakir Chandra Ray, Swadhinata Andolaner Patabhumikay Bardhaman.
24. Gautam Bhadra, Jal Rajar Katha: Bardhamaner Pratapchand, Calcutta: Ananda, 2002.
25. Geraldine Forbes, The New Cambridge History of India: Women in Modern India, Cambridge
26. H. H. Risley, The Tribes and Castes of Bengal, Vol. 1, Calcutta, Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay,
1981.
27. Hitesh Ranjan Sanyal, Swarajer Pathe, Papyrus, 1994.
28. Hitesranjan Sanyal, Nirbachita Prabandha, Kolkata: 2004.
29. Indrani Ganguly, Social History of a Bengal Town, New Delhi 1987.
30. J.H. Broomfield, Elite Conflict in a Plural Society: Twentieth Century Bengal, Berkeley and Los
31. Jajneswar Chaudhuri, Vardhaman: Itihas O Sanskriti, Vols. I, II, III, Uttarpara, 1990, 1991, 1994.
32. John Broomfield, Mostly About Bengal, New Delhi, Manohar Publications, 1982.
33. K C Ghosh, Famines in Bengal 1770-1943, Calcutta, 1944.
34. K. Sangari and S. Vaid eds, Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, New Delhi, 1989.
35. Kavita Ray, History of Public Health: Colonial Bengal 1921-1947, Calcutta, 1998.
36. Mahimaniranjan Chakraborty ed., Birbhum Bibaran, Vols, I, II, III, reprint (second edition), Suri,
Birbjum, 2009.
37. Malavika Karlekar, Voices from Within: Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women, Delhi:
38. Maniklal Sinha, Paschim Rahr Tatha Bankura Samskriti, Bishnupur, 1384 B.S.
39. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India, Delhi: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1994
40. Niharranjan Ray and Pratulchandra Gupta eds., Hundred Years of the University of Calcutta,
Calcutta: University of Calcutta.
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41. Nirban Basu, Politics and Protest, 1937-1947, Progressive Publishers, 2002 (for Hooghly jute
and cotton mills).
42. Pabitra Bhaskar Sinha, Condition of Labour in the Coalfields of Bengal and Bihar 1890-1920,
in Sabyasachi Bhattacharyay ed., Essays in Modern Indian Economic History, New Delhi, 1987.
43. Partha Chatterjee, Bengal 1920-1947, Vol. 1: The Land Question, Calcutta, 1984.
45. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Delhi:
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
47. Partha Mitter, Indian Art (Oxford History of India series), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001.
48. Partha Sankha Mazumdar ed., Birbhumer Itihas (Gourihar Mitra), Kolkata, 2012.
49. Parthapratim Majumdar et al (eds), Bankura Parichay, Vols. 3 & 4, Kolkata, 2012.
50. R. Raychaudhuri, Gender and Labour in India: The Kamins of Eastern Coalmines, Calcutta,
1996.
51. Rajat K. Ray, Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875-1914, Delhi: Oxford Univ.
Press, 1984.
52. Rajat Kanta Ray ed., Mind, Body and Society: Life and mentality in Colonial Bengal, Delhi:
53. Rajat Kanta Ray, Exploring Emotional History: Gender, Mentality and Literature in the Indian
Awakening, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
54. Rajat Kanta Ray, Industrialization in India: Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector,
1914-1947, Delhi: OUP, 1979.
55. Rakhi Raychowdhury, Gender and Labour in India: The Kamins of Eastern Coalmines, 19001940, Calcutta, 1996.
56. Ramanuj Kar and Fakirdas Chattopadhyay, Bankura Jelar Bibaran, (in Bengali) [An Account of
Bankura District] edited by Samir Kumar Patra and Shekhar Bhoumik, Calcutta, 2006.
57. Ranjan Gupta, Economic Life of a Bengal District, University of Burdwan, 1984.
58. Rathindramohan Chaudhury, Bankurajaner Itihas-Sanaskriti (in Bengali) [History and Culture of
the People of Bankura], Bankura, 2006.
59. S Upadhyay, Growth of Industries in India, Calcutta, 1970.
60. S. Banerjee, Impact of Industrialization on Tribal Population of Jharia, Ranigunj Coalfield
Areas, Calcutta, 1981.
61. Sekhar Bandopadhyay, Caste, Politics and the Raj Bengal 1872-1937, Calcutta, K. P Bagchi &
Co., 1990.
62. Shachindranath Basu, Banglay Bhraman, published by the Eastern Railways, New ed. published
by Saibya Prakashan.
63. Shekhar Bhowmick ed., Sampratik Itihascharcha, Kolkata, 2005.
65. Smritikumar Sarkar, The Rice Milling Industry in Bengal, 1920-1950: A Case Study of the
Impact of Mechanization on the Local Peasant Economy; Calcutta Historical Journal Vol. XIII,
No. 1-2, July 1989.
66. Sudhir Kumar Mitra, Hooghly Jelar Itihas, Calcutta: Shishir Publishing House, 1355 (1st Edn.)
67. Sudipta Kaviraj, Unhappy consciousness: Bankim Chandra and the Formation of Nationalist
Discourse in India, Delhi: OUP, 1995.
68. Sukanta Chaudhuri ed., Calcutta: The Living City, Vols. I & II, Calcutta: Oxford Univ. Press,
1990.
69. Sumit Sarkar, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, 1903-1908, New Delhi: Peoples Publishing
House, 1973.
70. Sumit Sarkar, Writing Social History, Delhi: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997 (1st ed,).
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71. Tapan Kumar Som (ed.), Rabindranather Santiniketan O Sriniketan, Kolkata, 2010.
72. Tapan Raychaudhuri, and Perceptions, Emotions and Sensibilities: Essays on Indias Colonial
and Postcolonial experience, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
73. Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Indian: The Making of a New Indian Art: Artists, Aesthetics and
Nationalism in Bengal, 1850-1920, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992.
MAHIST 402: Economy in Transition: Colonial India

1. Land settlement and agrarian relations: composition of the landed societystructural changesnew
land marketpeasants credit relations and indebtednessagricultural labourerscommercial crops,
voluntary or involuntary involvementtenancyzamindariPermanent, Ryotwari and Mahalwari
settlementsirrigation. (13 lectures)
2. Trade: Internal trade, 1757-1858: regional variations, structure, commodities, markets, transport and
trade routes. External Trade under the Company and the Raj: direction, composition and pattern. (10
lectures)
3. Population and National Income: mortality, epidemics, fertility, migration, faminesnational
incomeagriculture, industry & servicesincome and wages, provincial and national income. (10
lectures)
4. Price and price movements: determinants of agricultural pricesfluctuations in agricultural prices
movements of non-agricultural prices export and import pricesrelative prices economic activity and
price movements in an agrarian economy. (11 lectures)
5. Money, credit and fiscal system: Agency to Managing Agency systemAnglo-Indian business
venturesfinancial crash of 1830 and 1848failure of Bengali businessPresidency Banks and
Imperial Bank, joint stock banks, exchange banks, central bankingfiscal systemrevenuesland
revenues, commodity taxes, income taxoverall structure of taxes. (13 lectures)
6. Industry and Labour: Indigenous manufactures and handicraftsde-industrialization debate
emergence of the modern industrial sectorcotton textiles, iron and steel, railroads, jute, coal mining and
othersSwadeshi enterprise and technologychange in the industrial policy of the colonial state
emergence of the industrial labour force in Indiamigrationtrade union movementsfactory
legislationsrecent trends in labour historiography. (13 lectures)
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A.K.Bagchi, The Presidency Banks and the Indian Economy 1876-1914(OUP, 1997).
A.K.Sen, Poverty and Famines (Oxford 1981).
Amales Tripathi, Trade & Finance in the Bengal Presidency (Orient Longman 1956).
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Private Investments in India, 1900-1939 (CUP, 1970).
Amiya Kumar Bagchi, The evolution of the State Bank of India, the roots 1800-1876 (OUP,
1997).
Arjaan de Haan & Samita Sen (eds.), A case for Labour History (K.P. Bagchi & Co., Cal, 1999).
Asiya Siddiqui, Trade & Finance in Colonial India, 1750-1860 (OUP, 1995).
B.H.Baden Powell, The Indian Village Community, Delhi (Cosmo Publications).
B.H.Baden Powell, The Land Systems of British India (Oxford 1892).
B.H.Bhatia, Famines in India: A Study in Some Aspects of the Economic History if India
(Bombay, 1967, Asia Publishing House).
Binay Bhusan Chowdhury, Growth of Commercial Agriculture in Bengal, 1757-1900 (Indian
Studies, Calcutta, 1964).
Bipan Chandra, The Rise & Growth of Economic Nationalism in India (New Delhi PPH, 1969).
Burton Stein & Sanjay Subramanyam (eds.), Institutions & Economic Change in South Asia
(OUP, 1996).
Burton Stein (ed.), The making of Agrarian Policy in British India 1770-1990 (OUP, 1992).
C.A. Bayly, Rulers Townsmen and Bazaars: North Indian Society in the age of British expansion,
1770-1870, (CUP, 1983).
Chittabrata Palit, Perspectives on Agrarian Bengal (1994 Asiatic Book Agency).
Chittabrata Palit, Tensions in Bengal Rural Society (Progressive, 1975).
Chittabratra Palit, Growth of Commerce & Industry in Bengal (Bengal National Chamber of
Commerce & Industries, Calcutta, 1999).
D.H.Buchanan, The Development of Capitalistic Enterprise in India (London 1966).
D.R. Gadgil, The Industrial Evolution of India in Recent times 1860-1939 (Bombay, OUP, 1971).
Daniel & Alice Thorner, Land & Labour in India (London 1962 Asia Publishing House).
Dharma Kumar & Meghnad Desai (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of India, vol .II
(CUP, 1982).
Dharma Kumar, Land and Caste in South India (CUP, 1965).
Dipesh Chakraborty, Rethinking Working Class History, Bengal 1890-1940 (OUP Delhi, 1989).
Elizabeth Whitecombe, Agrarian Conditions in Northern India, The United Provinces under
British Rule. 1860-1900, v.1. (Berkeley, 1972).
George Blyn, Agricultural Trends in India 1891-1947; Output, Availability Productivity
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966).
Gyan Prakash (ed.), The World of the Rural Labourer in Colonial India (OUP, Delhi, 1994).
I.J. Catanach, Rural Credit in Western India 1875-1930 (Berkeley, University of California Press,
1970).
K.N. Raj et al (ed), Essays on the commercialization of Indian Agriculture (1920-1946)
(Cambridge Univ. Press, 1978).
K.N.Choudhuri (ed.), The Economic Development of India Under the East India Company 18141858 (CUP).
M.M. Islam, Bengal Agriculture, (1920-1946) (CUP, 1948).
Mckim Marriot (ed.), Village India; Studies in the little community (University of Chicago Press,
1955).
N.K.Sinha, Economic History of Bengal, 3 vols. (Firma KLM, Cal, 1965).
Neil Charlesworth, Peasants and Imperial Rule: Agricultural & Agrarian Society in the Bombay
Presidency 1850-1935 (Hyderabad, Orient Longman 1985).
Nilmani Mukherjee, The Ryotwari System in Madras, 1792-1827, (Calcutta, Progressive, 1962).
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36. Partha Chatterjee, Bengal 1920-1947 ; The Land Question (K.P. Bagchi & Co., Cal., 1984)
37. Peter Robb (ed.), Meanings of Agriculture ; Essays in South Asian History and Economics (OUP,
Delhi, 1996)
38. R.C. Dutt, Economic History of India (London 1904, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd).
39. R.E.Frykenberg, Land control and social structure in India History (University of Wisconsin
Press, Madison, 1969).
40. R.S. Rungta, The Rise of Business Corporations in India: 1851-1900 (CUP, 1930).
41. Rajat Kanta Ray, Entrepreneurship and Industry in India 1860-1947 (OUP, Delhi, 1994).
42. Rajat Kanta Ray, Industrialization in India; Growth & Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector,
1914-1947 (OUP, New Delhi, 1982).
43. Ranajit Guha, A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement,
(Paris Mouton, 1963).
44. S.J.Patel, Agricultural Labourers in Modern India & Pakistan (Bombay, Current Book House,
1952).
45. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Financial Foundations of the British Raj (Indian Institute of Advanced
Study, Simla, 1971).
46. Sirajul Islam, Bengal Land Tenure: the Origin and Growth of Intermediate Interests in the
Nineteenth Century (K.P. Bagchi, Cal, 1981).
47. Sirajul Islam, The Permanent Settlement in Bengal; a Study of its Operation, 1790-1819.
48. Sukomol Sen, Working Class of India: History of Emergence and Movement; (K.P. Bagchi &
Co., 1977).
49. Sunil Kumar Sen, Studies in Economic Policy and Development of India 1858-1914
(Progressive, Calcutta, 1966).
50. Theodore Morison, The Economic Transition in India (London, 1911).
51. Tirthankar Roy, The Economic History of India 1857-1947 (OUP, 2000).
52. Tom G. Kessinger, Vilayatpur 1848-1968: Social & Economic Changes in a North Indian Village
(University of California Press, 1974).
MAHIST 403A: State and Society in Colonial India

1. Race and Caste in Colonial India: Discourse on race Nature of the military and non-military races
Sikhs and the Gurkhas Changing contours of the caste system Caste mobility movements in
Bengal, Maharashtra, U.P. South India ( 13 lectures)
2. Tribes in Colonial India: Ethnicity and ethnic identity Colonial notion of tribe Tribes in
transition Tribal acculturation Tribal movements, ideologies and structures (13 lectures)
3. Colonial State:Ideologies of the Colonial State Colonial policy of Divide and Rule Colonial
intervention in revenue, judicial and police administration Crimes and criminality under the
colonial state ( 11 lectures)
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4. Socio-religious reform movements: Nature of reform movements Contestation between western

radicalism and Indian modernization Limitations and significance of reform movements
Reforms in education Untouchability Movements (11lectures)
5. Urbanization in Colonial India : Concept of urbanization Process and pattern of urbanization
growth of new towns problems and effects of urbanization Demography and Urbanization ( 9
lectures)
6. Popular Response to Social Changes: Women, Youth and Student movements Environmental
Issues and Ecological movements Colonial forest policy Press and Literature in Indian History (
13 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. Sumit Sarkar, Writing Social History, New Delhi, OUP, 1998

2.Amiya P. Sen, Social and Religious Reform, New Delhi, OUP, 2005
3.Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Nationalist Movement in India, New Delhi, OUP, 2009
4.Manu Bhagavan & Anne Feidhaus (eds), Claiming Power from Below New Delhi, OUP, 2008
5. Charu Gupta (ed.), Gendering Colonial India, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2012
6. Biswamoy Pati, Adivasis in Colonial India, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2011
7. Biswamoy Pati, Situating Social History, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2012
8. Meena Radhakrisnhan, Dishonoured by History, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2008
9. Anupama Rao, Caste Question, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2011
10. Sukhadeo Thorat & Narendra Kumar (eds), B.R. Ambedkar, New Delhi, OUP, 2008
10. Sameetah Agha & Elazabeth Kolsky, Fringes of Empire, New Delhi, OUP, 2009
11. Nandini Sundar, Subalterns and Sovereigns, New Delhi, OUP, 2008
12. Sudhir Chandra, Enslaved Daughters, New Delhi, OUP, 2008
13. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya (ed.) Development of Modern Indian Thought and Social
Sciences, New Delhi, OUP, 2008
14. Nandini Bhattacharyya-Panda, Appropriation and Invention of Tradition, New Delhi, OUP,
2007
15. Ishita Banerjee-Dube (ed.), Caste in History, New Delhi, OUP, 2007
16. Anindita Mukhopadhyay, Behind the Mask(1715-1911), New Delhi, OUP, 2006
17. Nita Kumar, The Politics of Gender, Community and Modernity, New Delhi, OUP, 2006
18. Ramachandra Guha, Unquiet Woods, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2012
19. C.J. Fuller, Everyday State and Society in Modern India, New Delhi, Social Science Press,
2010
20. Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar, Sunderbans, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2010
21. Gail Omvedt, Understanding Caste, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2011
22. Raj Kumar, Dalit Personal Narratives, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2012
23. Prathama Banerjee, Politics of Time, New Delhi, OUP, 2006
24. Imtiaz Ahmad & Sashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Dalit Assertion in Society, Literature and
History, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2011
25. Nandita Prasad Sahai, Politics of Patronage and Protest, New Delhi, OUP, 2006
26. Kaushik Roy (ed.), War and Society in colonial India, New Delhi, OUP, 2006
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27. Gyan Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, New Delhi, OUP,
2005
28. Anshu Malhotra, Gender, Caste and Religious Identities, New Delhi, OUP, 2004
29. K.N. Panikkar, Colonialism, Culture and Resistance, New Delhi, OUP, 2006
30. W.H. McLeod, Essays in Sikh History, Tradition and Society, New Delhi, OUP, 2007
31. W.H. McLeod, Exploring Sikhism, New Delhi, OUP, 2003
32. J.S. Grewal (ed.), The Sikhs, New Delhi, OUP, 2009
33. Rosalind O Hanlon, Caste Conflict and Ideology, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2011
34. Christophe Jaffrelot, Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2006
35. Hitendra Patel, Communalism and the Intelligentsia in Bihar, 1870-1930, New Delhi, Orient
Blackswan, 2011
36. Edward Simpson and Aparna Kapadia, Idea of Gujarat, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2010
37. Mallampalli Chandra, Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, New Delhi, Orient
Blackswan, 2006
MAHIST 403B: A Cultural History of Europe: Renaissance and Reformation

1. Defining the Renaissance: the ideal, typical picturechanging historical perspectives

medieval origins of the Renaissanceits modernityits plurality. (13 lectures)
2. Efflorescence in different fields: arts and belles-lettershumanismphilosophy
political thoughtscienceRenaissance in the wider worldpublic lifewomen in the
Renaissance. (11lectures)
3. The whys and hows of the Renaissance: Macro and Micro-sociological studies of
artistsorganization of artssystem of patronage. (11 lectures)
4. The Renaissance period: Renaissance as a period of time (rather than a movement)
social institutions, love, marriage and criminalitypopular culturewitch huntstudies
in historical anthropology. (11 lectures)
5. Background to Reformation: issues and different movementsdifferences between
England and the Continent. (13 lectures)
6. Society and Religion: different aspects of societyevolving patterns of religion
repercussions in the domain of popular culture. (11 lectures)
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Select Readings:
1. A. Chastel (ed.), The Renaissance: Essays in interpretation, Methuen, London and New
York, 1982.
2.Alister E. McGrath, Reformation Thought, Wiley-Blackwell, 4th edition, 2012.
3. Anthony Goodman and A. MacKay eds., The impact of humanism on Western Europe,
London, 1990.
4.Anthony Levi, Renaissance and Reformation: the intellectual genesis, Yale University
Press, New Edition, 2004.
5. Arnold Hauser, The social history of art, 4 vols. London, 1962 (originally published in
1951).
6.Bard Thompson, Humanists and Reformers: a history of the Renaissance and Reformation,
Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996.
7.Carl E. Braaen and Robert W. Jenson (ed.) The Catholicity of the Reformation, Wm. B.
Eerdmans, 1996.
8. Carlo Ginzburg, The cheese and the worms: The cosmos of a sixteenth century miller,
Johns Hopkins University, (1976) 1992.
9. D.C. Goodman and C.A. Russell eds., The rise of scientific Europe, 1500-1800, London,
1991.
10. De Lamar Jensen, Renaissance Europe: Age of Recovery and Reconciliation, D. C. Helth,
1981.
11. Denys Hay, The Italian Renaissance in its historical background, Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1961.
12. Dorothy Koenigsberger, Renaissance man and creative thinking: a history of concepts
of harmony, 1400-1700, Harvester Press, 1979.
13. Elizabeth Einstein, The printing press as an agent of change: communications and
cultural transformations in early-modern Europe, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1979.
14. Ferguson, The Renaissance: Six Essays, Harper Torchbooks, 1953.
15. G.R. Elton, Renaissance and Reformation 1300-1648, London, 1968.
16. Geoffrey R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517-1559, Wiley, 1999.
17. Giovanni Brucker, Gene and Lusanna, Love and marriage in Renaissance Florence,
University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, 1986.
18. Gloria Fiero, The Humanistic Tradition: The European Renaissance, The Reformation
and Global Encounter, Book III, McGraw-Hill, 6 edition, 2010.
19. Hans Baron, The crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance, Princeton, NJ, 1955.
20. Hilaire Belloc, How the Reformation happened, R. M. McBride, 1928.
21. Ibid. Characters of the Reformation, R. M. McBride, 1955.
22. J. Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Modern Literary Classics,
Paperback, 2002 (originally published 1860).
23. J.R. Hale, The civilization of the Renaissance in Europe, London, 1993.
24. James R. Payton Jr., Getting the Reformation wrong: correcting some misunderstandings,
InterVarsity Press, 2010.
25. Jean Henri Merle DAubignt, History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century,
3 vols.BiblioBazar, 2008.
26. Lewis William Spitz, The Renaissance and Reformation Movements, 2 vols. Concordia
Publishing House, 1980.
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27. Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods: a new history of the Renaissance, W. W. Norton, 1998.
28. M.L. King, Women in the Renaissance, Chicago Univ. Press, 1991.
29. Marshall Cavendish, Renaissance and Reformation, White-Thomson, 2007.
30. Norman J. Wilson, World Eras: The European Renaissance and Reformation, Gale,
2001.
31. P. Brian K. Levac, The Witch-hunt in early-modern Europe, Longman 2nd edn. 1995.
32. P.O Kristeger, Renaissance thought: the classic, scholastic and humanist strains, Harper
and Row, New York, 1961.
33. Paul F. Grendler, Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, 2vols. Gale/Cengage Learning, 1999.
34. Peter Burke,The Renaissance, Longman, 1966.
35. R. Ward Holder, Crisis and Renewal: the era of the reformations, Westminster John knox
Press, Kentucky, 2009.
36. Roland Herbert Bainton, The Reformation of the sixteenth century, Beacon Press, 1985.
37. Sandra Sider, Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe, Hermitage, NY, 2005.
38. Thomas Goddard Bergin and Jennifer Speake, Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the
Reformation, Infobase Publishing, 2004.
39. Trevor Dean and K.J.P. Lowe (eds.), Crime, society and law in the Renaissance Italy,
Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
40. William Roscoe Estep, Renaissance and Reformation, Wm.B. Eerdmans Publishing,
1986.
MAHIST 403C:
Emergence of Industrial Societies: The Conceptual Framework

1. Definitions and concepts of Industrial Revolution: various dimensions of the concept the
concept of proto-industrializationindustrial apprenticeshiptransition from feudalism to
capitalismthe emergence of the world system. (13 lectures)
2. Models of economic growth: Classical economistsMarxistsNeo-classical economists
Keynesian modelW.W. Rostows model of economic growthAlexander Gerschenkron and
his alternative route to industrialization. (13 Lectures)
3. The concept of Technological Revolution: technology before the Industrial Revolution
technological change in the early Industrial Revolutioncausal originsinventions and
innovationsscience in the early Industrial Revolutionscience and technology in the later
Industrial Revolution. (9 lectures)
4. Demand: structure of demandinternal and external demanddeterminants of demand

components of demandpopulation, urbanization and marketexpanding demand and
technological innovations. (9 lectures)
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5. Supply: social structure, social values and the supply sidesupply of industrial enterprises
differences in social structures in England and in the continent and their implications for the
supply of industrial entrepreneurshipthe question of supply of labourskilled and unskilled
labourwomens and childrens labourthe question of supply of capital in England and in the
continent. (13 lectures)
6. The concept of Agricultural Revolution: was Agricultural Revolution an outcome of
technological innovations or changing agricultural practices?enclosures and the reorganization
of the system of landholdingagricultural prices and enclosure movement in Englandabolition
of serfdom in Central and Eastern Europe. (13 lectures)
Select Readings:
1. The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vols. VI, VII, VIII.(CUP, 1978)
2. Carlo M. Cipolla (ed.), The Fontana Economic History of Europe.(Collins, 1977)
3. Hans Medick, Peter Kreidte, Jurgen Schlumbohm, Industrialization before Industrialization,
(CUP, 1981)
4. F. Braudel, Capitalism and Material Life (London, 1985)
5. Christopher Hill, From Reformation to Industrial Revolution (Penguin, 1976).
6. Paul Mantoux, The Industrial Revolution in the 18th century (University of Chicago, 1983)
7. D.S. Landes, Unbound Prometheus.(CUP, 1969)
8. E.J.Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire
9. Phyllis Deane, The First Industrial Revolution (CUP, 1982)
10. E.P.Thompson, The making of the English Working Class (London, Victor Gollanez Ltd, 1963).
11. I. Wallerstein, The Modern World System (N.Y. Academic Press, 1974-1980)
12. J.H. Clapham, The Economic Development of France and Germany, 1815-1914 (CUP, 1968).
13. Jenks, Migration of British Capital to 1870 (London, Jonathan Cape, 1938)
14. N.J. Smelser, Social change in the Industrial Revolution (London, Routledge & Keyan Paul,
1959).
15. H.J.Habbakuk, American and British Technology in the 19th century (CUP, 1962).
16. Tom Kemp, Industrialization in 19th Century Europe (London, Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd.,
1969).
17. Clive Trebilcock, The Industrialization of the Continental Powers (London, Longman, 1981).
18. Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical perspective (N.Y. 1962).
19. Jerome Blum, The End of old order in Rural Europe (Princeton University, 1978).
20. Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society (London, 1981).
21. Rondo Cameron, Banking and Economic Development (N.Y/OUP, 1972).
22. Eric Roll, A History of Economic Thought (OUP, 1980).
23. W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth.
24. T. Hamerow, Restoration, Revolution, Reaction.
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1. USA becomes a world power: the Spanish-American Warthe Roosevelt Corollarythe Wilson
periodthe Mexican Revolutionfrom Open Door to Pearl HarbourAmerican expansionism
in the Pacificnaval policythe Washington Settlementrelations with China and Japan
Pearl Harbour. (13 lectures)
2. The Progressive era: the Progressive MovementSocial Justice Movementthe Muckrakers
Progressive historiographyPresidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Woodrow Wilson. (10
lectures)
3. USA goes to War: The road to belligerencyGerman submarine challengeWilson and the First
World Warthe treaty and the ratification controversythe Fourteen Points and the League. (10
lectures)
4. Inter-war politics and foreign policy: From Harding to Hooverlegislationprohibition and
individual libertyreparation and war debtsdropping the Big StickMexico, China and
Europe. (11 lectures)
5. The Depression and the New Deal: The illusion of post-war normalcythe prosperity decade
poverty in plentythe Depression of 1929the leadership of F.D.R. and the New DealNew
Deal and agriculture, banking, industry, labour, intellectuals and the Supreme Court. (13 lectures)
6. America in World politic: American isolationism in the inter-war periodend of isolationis the
Grand Alliancethe U.S.A. at the Second World Warwartime conferencesnuclear
monopoly and victory over Japanplanning a new world orderthe UNO. (13 lectures)
Select Readings:
Norton, 1992).
2. Arthur Stanley Link, American Epoch, A History of the United States since 1900,4th ed. 3
vols.(Alfred A Knopf, 1974)
3. Carl Neumann Degler and others, The Democratic Experience: A Short American History (3rd ed,
Scott, Foresman and Company, 1973).
4. Carl Neumann Degler, Out of our Past; The forces that Shaped Modern America (Revised ed.,
5. Daniel Bell, The Coming of the Post-industrial Society: A Venture in Forecasting (Basic Books,
Inc., 1973).
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Gabriel Kolko, Main Currents in Modern American History (Pantheon Books, N.Y., 1984).
Gilbert Green, Whats Happening to Labor (International Publishers, N.Y. 1976).
H.B. Parkes, The United States of America, A History (Alfred A. Knopf 1968).
John Hope Franklin, Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 1982).
John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History.
Joseph Rayback, A History of American Labor (Macmillan, N.Y., 1964).
Kathleen McCourt, Working Class Women and Grass Roots Politics (Bloomington: I.U.P., 1977.
Lawrence Levine, The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History (O. U. P.,
1993).
M.J.Hogan, America in the World: The Historiography of US Foreign Policy since 1941.
Oscar Handlin, America: A History (Henry Holt & Co. 1968).
Richard Brandon Morris (ed.), Encyclopedia of American History (Revised ed., Harper & Row,
1970).
Walter Lafeber, The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since
1750 (N.Y., Norton, 1989).
MAHIST 404A: State and Society in India since Independence

1. Regionalism in Post-colonial India: Rise of regional politics in West Bengal, Bihar,

Madhya Pradesh and Assam Movements for Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, and Bodoland
Formation of new states (13 Lectures)
2. Indian Middle Class after Independence: Indian Middle Class Middle class worldview,
attitudes and approaches Emergence of new professions Middle class influence on Indian
Politics (9 Lectures)
3. Backward Castes and Tribes: Dalits in post-colonial India Art and Craft - Changing life
of the Artisans Tribes in transition Caste violence and Ethnic movements after 1947
Anti-Caste Politics and Strategies Reservation policy and agitation (13 Lectures)
4. Language & State: Linguistic movements for State formation State Reorganization
Commission - Youth unrest and agitations in relation to state formation Bengal, UP,
Bihar, Andhra Pradesh Maharashtra and others (13 Lectures)
5. State, Territoriality and Integration:Integration of Princely States Areas in North,
Northeast and South India (9 Lectures)
6. Emerging Social Issues & Concerns:Communal forces versus State Power Violence
and Crimes Crime against Women Corruption, unemployment and urban problems
Media, entertainment and culture Education and Sports (13 Lectures)
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Select Readings:
1. Ravinder Kaur, Partition Narratives, New Delhi, OUP, 2007
2. Crispin Bates, Beyond Representations, New Delhi, OUP, 2006
3.Mushirul Hasan, Nehrus India, New Delhi, OUP, 2006
4.Saurabh Dube (ed.), Post-colonial Passages, New Delhi, OUP, 2004
5. Bidyut Chakrabarty, Communal Identity in India, New Delhi, OUP, 2004
6.Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal (eds.), Nationalism, Democracy and Development, New Delhi,
OUP, 1997
7. Neera Chankhoke & Praveen Priyadarshi, Contemporary India, Noida, Pearson, 2009
8.S. Ravi Rajan, Modernizing Nature, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2008
9.Annpurna Shaw, Indian Cities in Transition, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2007
10. Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramkrishnan (eds.), Indias Environment History, Vol 1 and
Vol. 2, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2011
11. Bengt G. Karlsson, Unruly Hills, New Delhi, Social Science Press, 2011
12. Imtiaz Ahmed and Helmut Reifeld, Middle Class Values in India and Western Europe, New
Delhi, Social Science Press, 2002
13. Biswarup Sen, Of the People, Essays on Indian Popular Culture, New Delhi, Social Science
Press, 2006
14. Suresh Chandra Ghosh, History of Education in Modern India, New Delhi, Permanent Black,
2009
15. Pradip Chattopadhyay, Redefining Tribal Identity, New Delhi, Primus Books, 2014
16. Vijaya Ramaswamy and Yogesh Sharma, Biography as History, New Delhi, Orient
Blackswan, 2008
17. Partha Chatterjee, Empire and Nation, Essential Writings, 1985-2005, New Delhi, Permanent
Black, 2010
18. Partha Chatterjee, History in the Vernacular, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2010
19. Shobna Nijhawan, Nationalism in the Vernacular, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2010
20. Stuart Blackburn, Indias Literary History, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2007
21. Dipesh Chakraborty, Habitations of Modernity, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2006
22. Dillip M. Menon, Cultural History of Modern India, New Delhi, Social Science Press, 2011
23. Rajni Kothari, Caste in Indian Politics, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2010
24. Achin Vanaik and Rajiv Bhargava (eds.), Understanding Contemporary India, New Delhi,
Orient Blackswan, 2010
25. Balraj Puri, Kashmir, Insurgency and After, New Delhi, Orient Blackswan, 2008
26. Peggy Froerer, Religious Division and Social Conflict, New Delhi, Social Science Press,
2010
27. Robin Jeffrey, Media and Modernity, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2010
28. Sudipta Kaviraj, Trajectories of the Indian State, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2010
29. Thomas Blum Hansen, Violence in Urban India, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2010
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MAHIST 404B: Europe in the Age of Enlightenment

1. Definitions of Enlightenment: What is Enlightenment?problems of historical/conceptual
definitionsa new intellectual environment emerging from the 17th centuryits historical
context and popular rootshow did structuring of ideas lead to an epistemological transformation
and new values? (13 lectures)
2. The Scientific Revolution: new thoughts on religion, economy, politics and society (including
attitudes towards other cultures)dead-ends of different theorieshow did the Enlightenment
generate its own critique?different representations of the Enlightenment. (11 lectures)
3. Variations within the Enlightenment and its different manifestations: diversities across countries
and regionsEnlightenment in England, Germany, France and Russiathe high and the low
Enlightenment. (11 lectures)
4. Art and Literature: new art formstension between classicism and romanticismhumanism,
gospel and humanitypopular culturesalons and coffeehouseschildren, family and the
exotic at the time of Enlightenment. (11 lectures)
5. The Enlightenments potential for change: novelties in writingmovements for changeantislavery and anti-war campaigns, the first inklings of feminism, etc.a dynamic encounter
between theory and practicewhether to relate the Enlightenment to the French Revolution. (11
lectures)
6. The question of modernity: The rise of Western modernity subjected to various interpretations
liberal tradition, Marxist traditionpost-modernity rooted in anti-Enlightenment challenge
viewpoints of colonial and post-colonial modernitynew moral economylaissez faire. (13
lectures)
Select Readings:
1. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, II and III, Penguin Classics, 1982.
2. Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and, Harold Samuel Stone, ed. and td. , The Spirit
of the Laws (Montesquieu), CUP, 1989.
3. Anthony Giddens, The consequence of Modernity, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1980.
4. Christopher Hill, Milton and the English Revolution, Viking Press, 1989.
5. D. Gordon, Citizens without Sovereignty, Princeton, 1994.
6. Dan Edelstein, The Enlightenment: A Genealogy, Chicago, 2010.
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7. Darrin. M McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter

Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity, OUP, 2001.
8. David Williams, ed., The Enlightenment: Cambridge Reading in the History of Political
Thought, 1999.
9. Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment, CUP, 2005.
10. Earnst Cassirer, The Philosophy Of Enlightenment, Princeton University Press, 1968.
11. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, London.
12. Euan Cameron, ed, Early Modern Europe: An Oxford history, 1999.
13. F Venturi, The End of old Regime in Europe, Princeton, 1989.
14. Frederick Watkins, ed and td. , Rousseaus The Social Contract, 1762, University of
Wisconsin Press.
15. H.C Payne, The Philosophes and the people, New Heaven, 1976.
16. Ibid, The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology, Norton & Co. 1995.
17. Ibid, Voltaires Politics, Norton & Co. 1995.
18. Isser Woloch, Eighteenth century Enlightenment: Tradition and Progress, 1715-1789,
Norton & Co. 2012.
19. Jargen Habermas,The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere : An Enquiry into a
Category of Bourgeois Society , Cambridge Polity Press , 1989 (Original German version
in 1962).
20. Jonathan Israel, A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual
Origins of Modern Democracy, Princeton, 2010.
21. Jonathan Mallinson, ed., Francoise De Graffignys Letters from a Peruvian Woman,
OUP, 2009.
22. Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal, Watchmaker Publishing, 2010.
23. Jurgen Habermas : The Philosophical discourse of Modernity : Twelve Lectures (Studies
in contemporary German Social thought), MIT Press, Cambridge , Massachusetts, 1987.
24. L.L Martz, From Renaissance to Baroque: Essays on Literature and Art, Cambridge
University Press 1991.
25. Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, Vintage, New Edition, 1996.
26. Mary J. Gregor, ed. and td. , Kants What is Enlightenment? , CUP, 1996.
27. Norman Hampson, The Enlightenment (Pelican History of Europe series), 1968.
28. Peter Dews, ed., Habermas: A critical Reader, Blackwell, 1999.
29. Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, Vols I & II, Norton & Co., 1986 and
1995 respectively (reprint).
30. Peter Jimack, ed., A History of the Two Indies, Hampshire, England, 2006.
31. Peter Wagner, A Sociology of Modernity: Liberty and Discipline, RKP, London, 1994.
32. Primary texts such as works of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau.
33. R.L Meek, Social Science and Ignoble Savage, Cambridge, 1976.
34. Robert Heilbronn, ed., Teachings from the Worldly Philosophies, Norton Press , 1996.
35. Roy Porter and, M Teich, The Enlightenment in National Context, Cambridge University
Press, 1981.
36. Simon Schama, A History of Britain vols. I, II, III, Bodley Head, 2009.
37. Stern Best and Douglas Kellner, Post-Modern Theory: Critical Interrogations, Guilford
Press, New York, 1991.
38. Stuart Hall and Brown Gieben (eds): Formation of Modernity, Polity Press, Cambridge,
1992.
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39. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical

Fragments ( Cultural Memory in the present), 1972.
40. Thomas Munck, The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, 1721-1794,
Bloomsbury, USA, 2000.
41. Tom Mayer, Analytical Marxism, Sage, California, 1994.
42. W Doyle, The old European Order, 1660 -1800, Oxford, 1992.
43. Zygmunt Bauman, Post Modernity, RKP, London 1992.
MAHIST 404C: Emergence of Industrial Societies: The Classical Case and the Late-starters
1. England: Why did Industrial Revolution appear first in England?how revolutionary was
Industrial Revolution?comparison with Neolithic Revolutiondate and chronology of the
British Industrial Revolutionthe two leading sectorsstandards of livingrole of the
government: from laissez-faire to interventionismdifference between the English and
Continental Industrialization. (11 lectures)
2. England: Demographic Revolution: causesdeath rate and birth rate hypothesesrate of
growtheffects on society and economy. Agricultural Revolution: causescomponentsnew
implements and techniquesenclosureseffects. Commercial Revolution: causesdemand,
supply and marketdomestic and foreign tradere-export traderate of growth. Transport
Revolution: causesroadways and waterwaysrailroadseffects on society and economy. (13
lectures)
3. France: state of agriculture in the 18th centuryextent of rural povertymercantilism and
existing industries.impact of the French Revolution, Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and
the Continental system on industrial productionagriculture and industry after 1815the
railwaysthe Second Empirethe last phase of industrialization after 1871 and the society. (11
lectures)
4. Germany: political status of Germany in the 18th centuryits impact on agriculture, industry and
social relationsimpact of Prussian State Policy, French Revolution, Napoleonic rule and
continental system on German economyemancipation of serfs in Prussiapost 1815
developments: changes in law and custom, the Zollverein, rise of joint-stock banksunification
of Germany and its impact. (11 lectures)
5. Russia: economic backwardness in or around 1861its naturecomparison with England,
France and Germanyserfdom and its impact on agricultural and industrial productivitythe
Edict of Emancipation: forces behind and consequencesstate policy: 1861-1891the role of
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Finance ministersforeign investmentcartelsdevelopment of agriculture and trade

Stolypin reforms. (15 lectures)
6. Japan: Tokugawa economyavailability of capitalnature of productionsociety under the
Tokugawa ShogunateMeiji Restoration: changing economic organizationstate policy, social
changes, new sectors of investment, diversion of agrarian capital to industrythe Zaibatsu: the
new industrial organization, capital, labour and management. (9 lectures)
Select Readings:
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Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical perspective (N.Y. 1962).

Carlo M. Cipolla(ed.), The Fontana Economic History of Europe.(Collins, 1977)
Christopher Hill, From Reformation to Industrial Revolution (Penguin, 1976).
Clive Trebilcock, The Industrialization of the Continental Powers (London, Longman, 1981).
D.S. Landes, Unbound Prometheus.(CUP, 1969)
E.J.Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire
E.P.Thompson, The making of the English Working Class (London, Victor Gollanez Ltd,
1963).
H.J.Habbakuk, American and British Technology in the 19th century (CUP, 1962).
Harold Perkin, The Origins of Modern English Society (London, 1981).
J.H. Clapham, The Economic Development of France and Germany, 1815-1914 (CUP, 1968).
Jenks, Migration of British Capital to 1870 (London, Jonathan Cape, 1938)
N.J. Smelser, Social change in the Industrial Revolution (London, Routledge & Keyan Paul,
1959).
P. Gatrell, The Tsarist Economy, 1850-1917 (London, B.T.Batsford, 1986).
Paul Mantoux, The Industrial Revolution in the 18th century (University of Chicago, 1983)
Penguin Modern Japan Reader.
Peter Mathias, The First Industrial Nation.(London, 1983)
Phyllis Deane, The First Industrial Revolution (CUP, 1982)
R. Bartlell(ed.), Land Commune and Peasant Community in Russia.
R. Floud and McKlosky, Economic History of Britain (CUP, 1981)
Roger Price, An Economic History of Modern France (London, 1981).
T.C. Smith, Agrarian Origin of Modern Japan.
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vols. VI, VII, VIII.(CUP, 1978)
Tom Kemp, Industrialization in 19th Century Europe (London, Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd.,
1969).
W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth.
W.M. Reddy, The Rise of Market Culture, The Textile trade in French Society (CUP, 1987).
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1. Post-war foreign policy and American economy: Truman and the shaping of post-war foreign
policybeginning of the Cold-warpost-war economy and the role of the Federal
Governmentdefence budgetmonopoly capitalism. (11 lectures)
2. America under Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson: The Eisenhower administration Kennedy
and the New FrontierJohnson and the Great Society programmeForeign policy of Kennedy
and Johnson. (13 lectures)
3. The Black experience and ethnicity: Afro-Americans before and after the Civil Rights Act
(1964)Black Protest Movement to Black powerBlack Society and cultureethnicity in
contemporary Americamelting pot or beyond the melting potculture and counter-culture
multi-culturism. (13 lectures)
4. Labour and Women: Industry and labourunorganized and organized labourlabour movement
and strikesachievements of organized labourconstraints on labour movementsproblems of
working womenfeminization of povertygender behaviour and sex differencewomens
movement and womens rights. (13 lectures)
5. From Nixon to Bush: Nixon administration and economyNixons foreign policy Ford
administration and foreign policyAmerica under Carter and ReaganGeorge Bush and the end
of the Cold War. (10 lectures)
6. Life in contemporary America: education and literaturescience and technology, religion, the
media, the arts, sports, music and leisure, social services. (10 lectures)
Select Readings:
Norton, 1992).
2. Christopher Rudolph, National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the United
States and Western Europe Since 1945 (Stanford University Press, 2006).
4. Geir Lundestad, The United States and Western Europe Since 1945: From Empire by Invitation
to Transatlantic Drift (OUP Oxford, 2003).
5. H.W. Brands, American Dreams: The United States Since 1945.
6. Irwin Unger, Recent America: The US Since 1945.
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7. John Hope Franklin, Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 1982).
8. John Lewis Gaddis, The United States and the End of the Cold War: Implications,
Reconsiderations, Provocations.
9. Lawrence Levine, The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History (O. U. P.,
1993).
10. Michael French, U.S. Economic History Since 1945 (Manchester and New York: Manchester
University Press, 1997).
11. Michael J. Hogan (Editor), The End of the Cold War: Its Meaning and Implications [Paperback].
12. Michael Schaller, Robert D. Schulzinger , Karen Anderson, Present Tense: The United States
Since 1945.
13. Peter J. Kuznick, Rethinking Cold War Culture.
14. Robert Griffith, Major Problems in American History Since 1945.
15. Steven M. Gillon, The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945 [Paperback
edn.],
16. Theodore C. Sorensen, Kennedy (Harper and Row, 1965).
17. Walter Lafeber, The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since 1750
(N.Y., Norton, 1989).
18. Wyatt Wells, American Capitalism, 1945-2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to
the Information Society (American Ways Series).
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Department of History

The University of Burdwan

The performance of a candidate in each course will be assessed for a maximum of 50

Nineteenth- and TwentiethCentury Bengal: Life and

Mainland Southeast Asia:

History of Ideas: Nineteenth and

Historiography and Methodology:

Making of the Indian Nation-State

Island Southeast Asia: Indonesia

Western Political Ideas:

The Rahr in the Nineteenth

Economy in Transition: Precolonial India

State and Society in Ancient India

Science and Society in Pre-colonial

History of Women: Issues and

History of the USA: 1776-1850

State and Society in Medieval

Science and Society in Colonial

Indian Women through the Ages

History of the USA: 1850-1900

The Rahr in the Twentieth Century:

Economy in Transition: Colonial

State and Society in Colonial India

A Cultural History of Europe:

Emergence of Industrial Societies:The

History of the USA: 1900-1945

State and Society in India since

Europe in the Age of Enlightenment

Emergence of Industrial Societies:The

History of the USA: 1945-1991

Project Work & Extension

All Total Credit

Detailed Syllabus for MA to be effective from 2014

Sources: Histories and Historical consciousness in Ancient India---the expressions of historical

3. Sources of Medieval Indian Historiography---Persian and Arabic inscriptions of the Sultanate

B. Sheikh Ali, History: Its Theory and Method,New Delhi.

Bhupendrakumar Datta, Biplaber Padachinha (Footprints of Revolution).

MAHIST 103: Mainland Southeast Asia: Burma, Indo-China and Thailand

1. Traditional Burma and Colonial Intervention: Kingship in Burma-Central system of

2. Burmese Nationalism and Independence: Renaissance of Burmese cultural tradition-Y.M.B.A.,

5. Society and Economy: Transformation in Indigenous Family Structure--Effects of

6. Raja Mongkut (1851): Chulalongkorn--Modernization of Thailand--Domestic and

18. Dorothy Woodman, The Making of Burma, London, 1962.

MAHIST104: History of Ideas: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India

1. Impact of Western Ideas and the Emergence of a Colonial Intelligentsia: Rammohan

1. A.K.Mukherjee ed. The Bengali Intellectual Tradition, Calcutta, 1979.

12. Kenneth W Jones, Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India

To be covered in minimum 70 lectures

4. Debates in History: The Industrial Revolution--The French Revolution--The American

12. H.E. Barnes, A History of Historical Writing, New York, 1962 .

MAHIST 202: Making of the Indian Nation-State

1. Emergence of Nationalism: Historiography of Indian nationalism-- The National Movement till

MAHIST 203: Island Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia

University Press, 1994 (reprint).

MAHIST 204: Western Political Ideas: Machiavelli to Marx

1. The Renaissance, humanism in Italy and England: Machiavelli. (7 lectures)

A. Cobban, Rousseau and the Modern State, London, 1954.

1. Introducing the Rarh in the nineteenth centuryhistorical geographypolitical divisions