CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY

Session: 2022-2023 Department of History

AMU Aligarh
B.A. Semester I
Title of the Course: HISTORY OF INDIA: PRE HISTORY TO 650 AD
Course Code: HSBOMJ1001
Max. Marks 100
Course Category: Major Sessional 30
Contact Periods per week: 4L+1T End Sem. 70
Credit 04
Teachers: Dr. Mohammad Nazrul Bari
Guest Faculty (WC)

Course Objectives: The objective of this paper is to:

• Study human behaviour reflected by cultural materials, types & techniques of production,
cognitive growth by accessing the function and activities of humans in different cultural periods.
• Find out the changes appearing since Stone Age to post Gupta age and its socio economic and
political impacts.
UNIT:I
From Stone Age to Iron age
Developments in Indian Prehistoric studies: Palaeolithic cultures, Mesolithic and microlithic
cultures in India
Neolithic revolution: Early Domestication of Plants and Animals
The First Civilization: Harappan civilization-Urbanisation and town planning, arts and crafts,
distribution pattern of sites on the Indus, trade networks and economy, Decline and disintegration
of the civilization
Chalcolithic Cultures: Settlement patterns, Agriculture and religious beliefs
Iron Age Cultures: Regional focus of Iron Age cultures and Megalithic cultures of South India
UNIT:II
Vedic Age:
Debates about the original home of the Aryans
Rigvedic and later Vedic age: Society, economy, polity, religion and rituals.
Later Vedic age: social structure- varna, Jati, ashrama, economy, agricultures, Manu and the
codification of the Varna and jati system.
Emergence of Territorial States in Ancient India:Origin of State and the age of Mahajanapadas
Social and material milieu of the 6th century BC-second urbanisation, Introduction of coinage and
growth of territorial states: Rise of Magadha from c. 550 BC to the Nandas
Rise of of new religions: Background, Nature and Impact.
Jainism and Buddhism: teaching and philosophy, organisation of sangha
UNIT:III
Emergence of Empire in India: Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka
Administration, Ashokan Dhamma, economy and architecture
The significance of Mauryan rule and its decline
Post-Mauryan Period:Contact with outside world: Growth of urban centres, economy, coinage,
Mahayana Buddhism, social conditions, art and architecture, literature and science
South India: Sangam age: Social, Economic and Religious beliefs
Trade with Roman Empire and state formation in south India
Urbanisation in South India
 UNIT:IV
Classical Age
Rise of the Guptas
Nature of Gupta state and the debate on ‘Golden Age’: Economy, Society, Culture and Polity
Development of Sanskrit literature and Kalidasa, Education and Learning, Science and
mathematics, Art and Architecture
The Rise of Harsha: His kingdom, Conflict and administration
India as described by Faxian and Xuanzang

Course Outcomes: The students will learn to

• Identify sites including important urban centres of the Indian subcontinent spanning from
Stone Age to the age of post Gupta,
• Trains the students in understanding the historical construction and reconstruction of India’s
ancient past through various types of source materials and identifying the changing Cultural
traditions upto 650 AD.

Evaluation: 30 marks for continuous internal assessment and 70 marks is for end semester exam.

Readings List:
A.K.Narain, The Indo-Greeks. Delh,1980
A.L.Basham,The wonder that was India. Canberra,1967
A.M.Shastri, Early History of the Deccan: Problems and Perspectives, Delhi, 1987
B. K Rao,The Megalithic Culture in South India. Mysore: University of Mysore, 1972.
B.M.Mukherjee, The Rise and Fall of the Kushana Empire. Calcutta, 1988
Bridget Allchin and Raymond Allchin, The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan. London:
Cambridge University Press, 1982
D.D.Kosambi, Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Bombay, 1975.
G.L.Possehl, Ancient Cities of the Indus. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd., 1980.
G.L.Possehll, Harappan Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective. Delhi: Aris & Phillips Ltd.
1982.
H.D.Sankalia, Pre History and proto history of India and Pakistan. Bombay: Bombay University
Press, 1963.
I. Habib, and V.Thakur, The Vedic Age, Delhi, 2017
I.Habib & Faiz Habib, Atlas of Ancient Indian History, Maps 1-4 and corresponding chapters 1-4,
Delhi: Tulika Books
I.Habib, 2012, Post Mauryan India 200 BC-AD 300: A Political and Economic History, New
Delhi
I.Habib, Indus civilization. Delhi: Tulika Books, 2017
I.Habib, Pre History. Delhi: Tulika Book, 2001
Jeannie Auboyer., Daily Life in Ancient India, London, 1965
Jha, D. N., Ancient India - An Introductory Outline. Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors,
2007
K.M.Shrimali, Agrarian Structure in Central India and Northern Deccan, C.A.D. 300-500, New
Delhi, 1987.
M.K.Dhavalikar, Historical archaeology of India. Michigan: Books & Books, 1999.
M.N.Bari, Material Culture of Northern India. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan,2017
Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka in Ancient India, New Delhi, 2016.
P.Olivelle, (ed.), Between the Empires, New York, 2006.
R.,Champakalakshmi, Trade Ideology and Urbanisation- South India 300 BC- AD 1300. New Delhi:
OUP, 1999
R.C. Majumdar, & A.S. Altekar (ed) - The Vakataka-Gupta Age, New Delhi, 1954
R.C.Majumdar, (ed.), The Classical Age, Bombay, 1954
R.S.Sharma, Advent of the Aryans in India, New Delhi, 1999.
R.S.Sharma, Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India, Delhi, 1983.
R.Thapar, Ashoka and the decline of the Mauryan empire. Delhi: Oxford,2012
R.Thapar, Early India from origins to AD 1300,Penguin,New Delhi 2001
Ranabir Chakravarty, Exploring Early India upto AD 1300, Primus Publication,2016
S.K.Maity, Economic Life of Northern India in the Gupta Period, Calcutta, 1957
S.Ratnagar, The End of the Great Harappan Tradition. New Delhi. 2000
Upinder Singh, History of Ancient and Early Medieval India. London: Pearson Education,2008
Vibha Tripathi, The Age of Iron in South Asia: Legacy and Tradition, Aryan Book International,
2001
 CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY
Session: 2022-2023 Department of History
A.M.U., Aligarh
B.A. Semester I
Title of the Course: RISE OF MODERN WEST (1500-1789)
Course Code: HSBOMJ1002
Max. Marks 100
Course Category: Major Sessional 30
Contact Periods per week: 2L+1T End Sem. 70
Credit 02
Teachers: Prof Mohammad Parwez
Guest Faculty (WC)
Course Objectives:
• Covering almost three centuries in brief, the objective is to provide an overall survey of the
modern centuries in Europe from 16th century to the French Revolution. It will acquaint the major
socio-economic, cultural and religious, and political transformations in Europe across these
centuries.
• Analysis of human group interaction including migration and cultural diffusion
• Identify major discoveries which shaped the world map and its impact on the Society

UNIT-I
Feudalism: Features and decline; The Renaissance - Beginning of the Modern Age:
Humanism, Music, Art, Literature and Scientific Discoveries.
Invention of printing and its impact.
UNIT- II
Rise of the Nation States: France, England and Spain.
Reformation and Counter Reformation: The Protestant Reformation : Martin Luther, Calvin
and Ignatius Loyola. Explorations and discovery of new world and early colonial expansion
UNIT-III
th th
Commercial Revolution of 16 & 17 C. A.D : Shift of Trade from Mediterranean to
Atlantic; Mercantilism; Price Revolution Colonial Expansion
UNIT-IV
Absolutism in France (i.e. Louis XIV & XVI).
Age of Enlightenment in the 18th C.A.D; Voltaire & Rousseau
The French Revolution (1789); Factors for the outbreak of Revolution, Fall of the Bastille and
Consequences of the Revolution

Course Outcomes:
• It would enable the students to analyze history western world
• Enable them to evaluate conflicting historical interpretation within the context.
• Enable them to understand global paradigms in present scenario.

Evaluation: 30 marks for continuous internal assessment and 70 marks is for end semester exam.
Reading List:

1. Arvind Sinha : Europe in Transition: From Feudalism to Industrialization, Manohar,

New Delhi, 2010.
2. J.R. Hale : Renaissance Europe 1480-1520, (London) Collins 1972, Faulana
History of Europe.
3. Peter Elmer : The Renaissance in Europe, New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 2000.
4. Meenakshi Phukan : Rise of Modern West-I, Delhi Macmillan, 1998.
5. Evan Cameron : Early Modern Europe, OUP, London, 2001.
6. CJH Hayes : Europe to 1870, New York, Macmillan Co. (c.1953).
7. MS Anderson : Europe in the Eighteenth Century 1713-1783, London, Longmans, 1962.
8. H Herder : Europe in the Nineteenth Century, London, Longmans,1988, 2nd edition.
9.Christopher Hill : Reformation to Industrial Revolution, London, Weiden Field, 1967.
10.L. Gershoy : French Revolution and Napolean, Allahabad, Central Book Depot, 1984.
11.Edward M. Burns & others : World Civilizations, Their History and Their Culture, New York, 1991.
12.Bernard Waites : Europe and the Wider World, London, Routledge, 1995.
13.Fergusson & Bruun : Survey of European Civilization, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1947.
14.Frederik L. Nasskum : The Triumph of Science & Reason, New York, Harper Grow, 1953.
15.Alfred Cobban & : Europe and the French Revolution, London, Collins, 1969.
J.V. Hunt
 CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY
Session: 2022-2023 Department of History
A.M.U., Aligarh
B.A. Semester I
Title of the Course: HISTORY OF ISLAM: PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA TO PIOUS
CALIPHATE (661 AD)

Course Code: HSBOMJ1003 Max. Marks 100

Course Category: Major Sessional 30
Contact Periods per week: 2L+1T End Sem. 70
Credit 02
Teachers: Prof. Gulfishan Khan
Dr. Lucky Khan (WC)
Course Objectives:
• The paper introduces students with the classical Islam. It begins with the pre-Islamic
Arabia and rise of Islam.
• It concentrates on the nature of Islamic state.
• Critically analyse the society and economy in the age of Prophet and the Orthodox
Caliphs.
UNIT-I

Pre-Islamic Arabia:
Arabia on the Eve of the Rise of Islam; Geographical Position of Arabia: Important Provinces and
Towns; Tribal organization, Social and economic conditions; Religious beliefs.

UNIT-II

Advent of Islam: Age of Prophet Muhammad (570-632); Makkan Life of the Prophet: Family
Background and Early Life; Dawn of Prophethood: Hostile Reaction of the Makkan, Emigration
to Abyssinia, Pledges of Aqabah; Hijrat: Causes and significance.

UNIT III

The Expansion of Islam; Foundation of the Republic of Madina; Constitution of Madina,

Relations with the Jews and Christians, Administration under the Prophet, Sources of Revenue;
jaziya, kharaj, khums, zakat.

UNIT-IV

The Orthodox Caliphate (632-661A.D.); The Nature of Orthodox Caliphate: The Khalifa, The
Shura, The Secretariat, Administration of Provinces under the Orthodox Caliphs, Taxation under
the Orthodox Caliphs: Zakat, Jizya, Kharaj, Khums, Ushr, Al-fay’, Ushur, Society and Culture
under the Orthodox Caliphate.
Course Outcomes:
• Will get an idea of the Geography of the Arabian peninsula.
• Students will be able to comprehend the Islamic ideas. They will came to know the
changes from the time of the Prophet to that of the Caliphs.
• They will understand the various social and economic aspects of Islam.

Evaluation: 30 marks for continuous internal assessment and 70 marks is for end semester exam.

Reading List:
1. C Brockelmann :History of Islamic Peoples, London, reprint, 1979.
2. Bernard Lewis :Arabs in History, London, 1954.
3. PK Hitti :History of the Arabs, London, 1961.
4. W Montgomery Watt : Mohammad, Prophet and Statesman, Oxford University Press, 1961.
5. Maxim Rodinson :Muhammad, London, 1981.
6. Gebralli :Muhammad and the Conquest of Islam.
7. Montgomery Watt :Muhammad at Makkah, Oxford University Press, 1979.
8. Montgomery Watt :Muhammad at Madinah, Oxford University Press, 1956.
9. Martin Lings :Muhammad His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, London, 1988.
10. Margoliouth D.S. :Muhammad & the of Islam, Delhi, 1985.
11. S.A. Husaini :The Arab Administration, New Delhi, 1976.
12. Gastav Well : History of Islamic People, Delhi, 1983.
13. M.A. Shaban :Islamic History 600-750, CUP, 1971.
14. Ignaz Goldziher :Muslim Studies (Vol.I), ed. S.M. Stern, London, 1971.
15. M. Hameedullah : Introduction to Islam, Paris 1959.
16. Lewis Bernard :The Arabs in History, London 1960.
17. S.A.Q Hussaini :Arab Administration, Idarah-i-Adabiyat-i-Delli, Reprint 1976.
18. Shibli Numani :Sirat-un-Nabi (The Life of the Prophet), Eng. Tran. By M. Tayyab
Bakhsh Badayuni, Vol. I,II, Delhi, 1979.
19. M. Y.M. Siddiqui : Organisation of Government Under the Prophet, Delhi, 1987.
20. S. Athar Husain : Prophet Muhammad and His Mission, Lucknow, 1967.
21. Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi : Muhammad Rasulallah, the Apostle of Mercy, Translated by
Mohiuddin Ahmad, Lucknow, 1982.
22. The Formation of the Islamic World Sixth to Eleventh Centuries, ed Chase F Robinson,
The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol I, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
 CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY
Session: 2022-2023 Department of History
A.M.U., Aligarh
B.A. Semester I
Title of the Course: ANCIENT INDIA: INDUS CIVILIZATION TO 800 A.D.
Course Code: HSBOMN1004
Max. Marks 100
Course Category: Minor
Sessional 30
Contact Periods per week: 4L+1T End Sem. 70
Teachers: Prof. S. Chandnibi Credit 04
Guest Faculty (WC)

Course Objectives:
This course aims at highlighting the History of Indus Valley Civilization, covering its political,
administrative and cultural aspects. The study also aims to deal with the political administrative
significance of the Mauryas and the Kushanas. Through this paper, it is also expected that it
would enable the students to know about the growth of the Sanskrit Literature, changes in the
society, religion and the status of women.

UNIT-I
Indus Valley Civilization: date and spread, town planning, arts and crafts, trade, religion and
decline; The Vedic Age: Society, Politics and Economy; Emergence of New Religions: Jainism
and Buddhism; Age of Mahajanapadas: Rise of Magadha.
UNIT-II
Emergence of Empire: Origin of the Mauryas; Literary and Archaeological sources, Arthasastra,
Megasthanese, Epigraphical Evidence etc.; Chandragupta Maurya to Ashoka; Ashokan Dhamma.
Mauryan Administration and the Decline of Mauryan Empire; Satavahana Empire in South India;
Post Mauryan Polity: Early Kushanas: Early Kushanas; Kanishka.

UNIT-III
The Classical Age: Rise of the Gupta; Samudra Chandragupta II; Administration: Central and
Provincial; Art and Architecture under the Guptas; Rise of classical Sanskrit literature; Science.
UNIT-IV
Polity and society under Harsha.
Pallavas: administration and society.
Society and culture in Post Gupta period: emergence of Rajput as a caste.
Decline of Trade and Urban Decay; Land grants and Rise of Indian Feudalism: Debate.
Course Outcomes:
After going through this study, the students would have known about the Harappan Civilization
and its political and cultural significance. It would have helped them to gain knowledge about the
Mauryas, the Kushanas the Guptas and the reign of Harsha. They must have known about the
decline of urban centres and rise of Indian feudalism. They must have come across about the
changes in the society, caste system.

Evaluation: 30 marks for continuous internal assessment and 70 marks is for end semester exam.
Reading List:
V.S. Agarwal - Studies in Indian Art, Vishwavidhyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi, 1965.
Bridget & Frank Raymond - Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1982.
Allchin
Purushottam. Lal Bhargava - India in the Vedic Age, DK, Print World, New Delhi, 2001
Haldhar Pathak - Cultural History of the Gupta Period, Bhartiya Publishing House, New Delhi, 1978.
Irfan Habib & V.K. Thakur - Vedic Age, The Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2016.
Irfan Habib - Indus Civilization, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2003.
K.M. Shremali - Iron Age and the Religious Revolution, A People’s History of India Series, New Delhi, 2001.
Irfan Habib - Post-Mauryan India: A Political and Economic History, People’s History of India -6, New
Delhi, 2003
B.P. Sahu - Society and Culture in Post Mauryan India, C.22-BC-300 A.D., Tulika Books, Delhi, 2015.
D.N. Jha - - Ancient India In Historical Outline, Manohar Publishers, NewDelhi, 1997.
D .D Kosambi - Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Second Edition, Sage Publishers, New Delhi,
2016.
R.C.Majumdar (ed.) - The Vedic Age (The History and Culture of the Indian People), Vol., I, Munshiram
Manoharlal, Delhi, 1951.
do, (ed.) - The Age of Imperial Unity, Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan, Bombay, 1968.
do, (ed.) - The Classical Age, (The History and Culture of the Indian People) Bombay, 1954.
KAN Sastri (ed.) - The Age of Nandas and Mauryas, Motilal Banarasidas, Delhi, 1988.
do, - The Illustrated History of South India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2009.
Rajesh Kochar - The Vedic People: Their History and Geography, Orient Longman, Kolkata, 2001.
HC Raychaudhury - Political History of Ancient India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995.
RomilaThapar - Early India-From the Origins to A.D. 1300, University of California Press, California, 2004.
do., - Asoka and the Decline of Mauryas, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2012.
P.L. Gupta - Imperial Guptas, Vishwavidyalaya Prakashan, Varanasi, 1979.
Haldhar Pathak - Cultural History of the Gupta Period Bharatiya Publishing House, Delhi, 1978.
Baldev Kumar - The Early Kushanas, Sterling Publishers, Delhi, 1973.
Upendar Singh - History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, Pearson Publishers, New Delhi, 2009.
R.S. Sharma - Indian Feudalism, Macmillan India Limited, Patna, 1965.
Mukhia, H. (ed) - Feudalism and Non- European Societies. Routledge Publishers, New Delhi,1985.
D. Devabhuti - Harsha: A Political Study, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1983.
K.A. Nilkanta Sastri - History of South India, Pre-Historic Vijayanagar Empire. Oxford University Press, New
Delhi, 1997.
V. K. Thakur - Historiography of Indian Feudalism towards a Model of Early Medieval Indian Economy
CAD, 600-1000 A.D. Commonwealth Publishers, New Delhi, 1989.
 CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY
Session: 2022-2023 Department of History
AMU Aligarh
B.A. Semester I
Title of the Course: ECONOMIC HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA
(PRE HISTORY TO 650AD)
Course Code: HSBOMN1005 Max. Marks 100
Course Category: Minor Sessional 30
End Sem. 70
Contact Periods per week: 2L+1T
Credit 02
Teachers: Prof. Ishrat Alam
Dr. Arshia Shafqat (WC)

Course Objectives: The objectives of the paper is to

• Focus on the fundamental factors of economic changes of early India.
• Analyze the interconnections of different material and technological changes and its
impacts on the economy to understand the course of historical processes.

UNIT I
Primitive Economy
New Stone Age cultures and Chalcolithic age: Early Domestication of Plants and Animals.
Harappa, the First Civilization: Urbanisation and town planning, trade networks and economy.
Economic life during Vedic and later Vedic age: Pastoralism and Agriculture.

UNIT II
Economy in the age of Mahajanapadas-Second Urbanization.
Trade and commerce – trade routes; Traders and craftsmen – Origin of earliest metallic currency
system.
Use of iron and expansion of agriculture.
Origin of Empire and economy under the Mauryas.

UNIT III
South India and Sangam age: economic life of people, trade with Roman Empire and state
formation in south India.
Economic changes during Satavahanas rule: Development of trade and commerce and origin of
land grants.
UNIT IV
Changing patterns in trade and commerce in post Mauryan age:– maritime trade and growth in
urban and rural economy- Guilds—currency and medium of exchange—growth of regional
economy, society and political centres.
Economic condition from Gupta to 650 AD.
Course Outcomes: A successful completion of the course will
• Equip the student to critically analyze the economic changes of early history and factors
responsible to it.
• Enable them to recognize and locate economic dynamics behind cultural and other
developments.
• Create a proper historical sense based on facts beyond notions

Evaluation: 30 marks for continuous internal assessment and 70 marks is for end semester exam.

Reading List:
Bose, Atindra Nath, Social and Rural Economy of Northern India, 600 BC – 200 AD, 2 Vols.
Calcutta, Firma K.L.Mukhopadhyay, 1961
Chakravarti, Ranabir, Trade and Traders in Early India, Delhi, Manohar,2002
Chakravrti, Ranabir, ed., Trade in Early India, OUP,2001
Champaka Lakshmi, R.,Trade, Ideology and Urbanisation: South India 300 BC to AD 1300, Delhi,
OUP,1996
Chattopadhyaya, Brajadulal, Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India,
Calcutta, Manohar, 1990
Chattopadhyaya, Brajadulal, 1994 ,:The Making of Early Medieval India, Delhi, OUP.
Goitein, S.D. and Friedman, Mordechai A, Indian Traders of the Middle Ages: Documents from the
Cairo Geniza (‘India Book’), Boston, Brill Leide,2008
Gopal, Lallanji, The Economic Life of Northern India, c.AD 700-1200, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass ,
1965
Gupta, Narayani, (ed.,).Craftsmen and Merchants: Essays in South Indian Urbanism, 1993
Nandi, R.N., State Formation, Agrarian Growth and Social Change in Feudal South India, Delhi,
Manohar, 2001
Ratnagar, Shereen, Makers and Shapers: Early Indian Technology in the Home, Village and Urban
Workshop, Books, Tulika, 2007
Ray, Himanshu Prabha, The Winds of Change: Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South
Asia, Delhi, OUP, 1986
Ray, Himanshu Prabha, ed., Archaeology of Seafaring : The Indian Ocean in the Ancient Period,
Delhi, Pragati Publications,1999
Sahu, B.P. (ed), Land System and Rural Society in Early India, Delhi,1997
Sharma, R.S, Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India, Delhi, Macmillan India, 1983
Sharma, R.S. and Shrimali, K.M., (eds.) A Comprehensive History of India, Vol.IV, Macmillan,
Delhi, 2008
Thakur, V.K., Urbanisation in Ancient India, Abhinav Publication, 1981
Tomber, Roberta, Indo-Roman Trade: From Pots to Pepper, London, Duckworth, 2008
Veluthat, Kesavan, The Early Medieval South India, Delhi, OUP,2008
 CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY
Session: 2022-2023 Department of History
A.M.U., Aligarh
B.A. Semester I
Title of the Course: HISTORY OF PRE-MODERN SCIENCE
Course Code: HSBOGE1006
Max. Marks 100
Course Category: Generic Elective Course Sessional 30
Contact Periods per week: 4L+1T End Sem. 70
Credit 04
Teachers: Dr. Sana Aziz
Guest Faculty (WC)
Course Objectives:
• To provide students with insights into how different processes of systematic knowledge were
initiated and progressed.
• To acquaint the students with scientific developments in the pre-modern world.
• To understand the interconnected progress of scientific knowledge across the civilizations.

UNIT-I
Comparative Study of Science: The modernity of science; Science as a civilizational
institution; The Role of the Scientist; Ehos of Science; Paradigms and scientific communities.
Science in Classical Greece: From Mythology to Philosophy- Pre-Socratic Science & from
Socrates (470 BC-399 BC) to Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)
Hellenistic sciences: Geometry, Astronomy, Geography, and Medicine.

UNIT-II
Roman Science: Influence of Greek Science and beyond.
Science in China: The Philosophical basis; the problem of Chinese Science; Cultural and
Institutional impediments.
UNIT-III
Science in Islamic World: The problem of Arabic Science; The achievements of Arabic
Science; Astronomy: Ibn al Haytham (965 AD-1040 AD); Ibn Sina (980 AD-1037 AD), Ibn
Rushd (1126 AD-1198 AD); Islamic proto scientific institutions; Islamic hospitals; Role of
Imam al Ghazali (1058 AD-1111 AD); The arresting of Arabic Science.
Al Khwarizmi (780 AD-850 AD) and Al-Beruni (973 AD-1048 AD).
Scientific developments in Medieval India. Mathematics, Decimal enumeration, and
Astronomy, Ayurveda, Yunani medicine.

UNIT-IV
Renaissance and Modern Science; Navigation and Astronomy; Medines, The Copernican
revolution: The justification of the Solar System;
Renaissance and science in Europe: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) and Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543).
Factors behind the Scientific Revolution.
Course Outcomes: After studying this paper, students will be
• able to understand the historical developments of scientific ideas in the pre-modern world.
• familiarise with the progression of science from Greece in Europe to India and China in
Asia.
• acquainted with the contribution of the Islamic World in the realm of science.

Evaluation: 30 marks for continuous internal assessment and 70 marks is for end semester exam.

Reading List
1. A. Rahman, History of Indian Science & Technology (1000-1800), O.U.P., Delhi, 1999
2. A.L. Basham, The Wonder that was India, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1954
3. Alberuni, Kitab-al Hind, transl., E. Sachau, London, 1910.
4. B. D. Chattopadhyaya, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India: The
Beginnings, Pirma KLM, Pvt. Ltd., Calcutta, 1996.
5. B. V. Subbarayappa, D.M. Bose & S.N. Sen, A Concise History of Science in India, Indian
National Science Academy, New Delhi, 1971.
6. Benjamin Farrington, Greek Science, Penguin Books, London, 1961. (Introduction and
Chapter One Only)
7. D. L. O’Leary, How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs, London, 1951
8. History of Humanity, Vol. I-IV, UNESCO, Routledge, London, New York, 1994
9. Howard R. Turner, Science in Medieval Islam, New Delhi, 1999
10. J. D. Bernal, Science in History, Watts & Co, London, 1954.
11. Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, Vol. I, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1954. (Introduction and Chapter I)
12. N. K. Jain, History of Science and Scientific Method, OUP, New Delhi, 1982
13. S. H. Nasar, Science and Civilization in Islam, ABC International Group, Inc., New York,
1970
14. Sigeru Nakayama & Nathan Sivin (eds.), Chinese Science: Explorations of an Ancient
Tradition, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1973, (Relevant Sections Only)
15. Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, 1962
16. Zaheer Babar, The Science of Empire, O.U.P., 1995 (See only Medieval Background)
 CENTRE OF ADVANCED STUDY
Session: 2022-2023 Department of History
AMU Aligarh
B.A. Semester I

Title of the Course: ALIGARH MOVEMENT - I Max. Marks 100

Course Code: HSBOVA1007 Sessional 30
Course Category: VAC End Sem. 70
Credit 02
Contact Periods per week: 2L+1T
Teacher:

UNIT-I
1. Nature and significance of Aligarh movement.
2. The Revolt of 1857 and its effects on Muslim Community
3. Impact of Bengal Renaissance on Aligarh movement

UNIT-II
1. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: His views on Religious, Social and Educational reform .
2. The official framework of modern education and its impact over Muslim Education
3. The literary contribution of Aligarh movement

UNIT-III
1. Aligarh Movement: the genesis and different Phases of Development
2. The major Societies and associations of Aligarh movement
3. Aligarh’s connection with National Movement.

UNIT-IV
1. Chief exponents of Aligarh Movement
2. Mohsinul Mulk and Viqarul Mulk.
3. Ali brothers and Hasrat Mohani; Sahabzada Aftab Ahmad Khan.
4. The Aligarh Muslim University Movement
Reading List:
Shafey Kidwai, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion and Nation, Routledge India, 2020.
Gulfishan Khan, Essays on Sayyid Ahmad Khan and Shaikh Muhammad Abdullah, Aligarh
Muslim University Press, 2015.
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