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HISTORY (Hons.

) Paper - V

History of India, 1757-1857

1. India in the middle of the 18th Century - forces of continuity and change.

2. Final victories of the British in Bengal and the Carnatic.

3. Expansion of the British Empire upto 1857: War and Diplomacy as instruments of expansion-relationship with the Marathas, Myssore, Awadh,
Central India, Punjab, Sindh,
Burma (First Phase)

4. Growth of administrative apparatus- Warren Hastings, Cornwallis, Bentinck. Dalhousie.

5. Economic Changes (1757-1857). (a) Land Revenue Settlement - Permanent settleent, Ryotwari Mahalwari. (b) Decline of Indian Industries.(c)
Commercialization of agriculture.

6. Introduction of English education and the rise of the new


intelligentsia with special reference of Raja Rammohan Roy.

7. Indian resistance to British Imperial Rule.


(a) Popular resistance. (b) Revolt of 1857, causes and nature.

HISTORY (Hons.) Paper-VI

History of India, 1858-1947 (Special Reference to The Freedom Movement)

1. India's relation with Persia, Afghanistan, Nepal, Tibet, Burma.

2. British Policy towards Indian States.

3. Problems of decentralization: Separation of judiciary from executive functions, Indianisation of services.

4. Imperial adjustments: Administration of Ripon, Morley Minto Reforms.

5. Imperial offensives: Lytton and Curzon.

6. Imperial adjustments (next Phase): Montague-Chelmsford Reforms.

7. Indian National Movement upto 1919.


(a) Early Political Associations. (b) Indian National Congress.
(c) The Moderates, the Extremists, the Revolutionaries in India and abroad.

8. Indian National Movement, 1919 to 1939.


(a) Emergence of M.K.Gandhi. (b) Khilafat movement. (c) Non-co-operation movement. (d) Swarajists. (e) Civil Disobedience movement. (f)
Imperial Response: Suppression-cum-conciliations, the Government of India Act, 1935

9.India and the Second World War(a) Cripps Mission. (b) 1942 Movement. (c) Cabinet Mission.

10. Muslim Politics since 1930 and demand for partition.

11. Independence and Partition

HISTORY (Hons.) Paper - VII

(a) History of the Far East (China, Japan) [Mid 19th to mid 20th century ]
CHINA
1. Opium Wars.

2. Taiping Rebellion.

3. Boxer Movement.

4. The Revolution of 1911.

5. Genesis and Principles of the Kuomintang Party.

6. The career and contribution of Dr. Sun Yat Sen.

7. The career and contribution of Chiang Kai Shek.

8. Rise and Growth of the Communist Movement in China.

JAPAN
9.Opening of Japan.

10. Meiji Restoration.

11. Modernisation of Japan.

12. Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.

13. Washington Conference.

14. Japan and Manchuria.

15. Rise and Fall of Japanese Imperialism.


HISTORY (Hons.) Paper - VIII

(b) History of the U.S.A., 1776-1945

1. War of American Independence.

2. Government and Polity under George Washington.

3. Jefforsonian Democracy.

4. U.S.Foreign Relations, 1800-1829.

5. Jacksonian Dermocracy.

6. Civil War-Factor and impact, with special reference to Abraham Lincoln.

7. Reconstruction after Civil War.

8. Populist Movement.

9. Imperialism and Emergence of the USA as a World Power.

10. Spanish War-Causes and effects.

11. Theodore Roosevelt.

12. President Wilson-Domestic policy; Role in World War I, Role in Paris Peace Conference.

13. Isolationism and Internationalism of America, 1918 to 1933.

14. Economic Depression (1920-1933).

15. F.D. Roosevelt-New Deal, Foreign Policy.

16. Social and cultural Progress in the 20th Century.

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