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Part-I
HS-101: ANCIENT INDIA TO THE MAURYAS
Teachers: Dr. S. Chandni Bi
Dr. S. Jabir Raza (W.C.)
No. of Lectures = 60
Unit I
1. Prehistory and protohistory; classification of periods
2. Brief study of prehistoric cultures
a) Palaeolithic
b) Mesolithic as a transition period
c) Neolithic- the domestication of plants and animals. Mehrgarh
3. Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in India
a) Early Harappan cultures
b) Harappan civilization dates, extent, urbanism, agriculture, crafts, trade,
religion, art and script
c) Theories of decline
4. Malwa and Deccan Chalcolithic cultures; South Indian Neolithic culture
Unit II
5. Early Vedic period Rigveda, geographical horizons, problems of linkage with
archaeology
6. Early Vedic period society, economy, polity, religion and ritual
7. Later Vedic period Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Upanisadas; social structure
varna, jati, asrama; economy agriculture, introduction of iron
Unit III
8. Social and material milieu of the 6th century BC; second urbanization; rigidity of
caste; factors behind the rise of Buddhism and Jainism
9. New religions of the 6th century BC
a) Buddhism Gautama Buddha, teachings and philosophy; organization of
the Sangha
b) Jainism Mahavira, major teachings
10. Growth of territorial states; Mahajanapadas; rise of Magadha from c. 550 BC to
the Nandas
Unit IV
11. Alexanders invasion and its political and cultural consequences
12. Sources: Megasthenes Indika, Kautilyas Arthasastra
13. Rise of the Mauryan Empire; Chandragupta Maurya conquests and extent of
empire; Bindusara
Unit V
14. Empire under Asoka
a) Conquests, extent of control
b) Inscriptions languages and scripts
c) Dhamma, its nature and content
d) Spread of Buddhism
15. Mauryan India
a) Mauryan chronology and administration
b) Mauryan art and punch-marked coins
c) Decline of the Mauryan Empire
Documents
a. The Hymns of Rigveda, tr. Ralph. T.H. Griffith,3rd edition, 1920-25;
Vol.I: Book I, Hymn-32, pp.43-45;
Vol.II:Book X, Hymn-75, pp.490-491;
Vol.II:Book X, Hymn-90, pp.517-520. (Unit-II)
b. Megastheses observations about India in Classical Accounts of India, ed. R.C. Majumdar,
Calcutta, 1960, pp.224-226. (Unit-IV)
c. Dhamma-Kakka-Pravattana Sutta in Buddhist-Sutras, tr. by T.W. Rhys Davids,
Oxford, 1881, (Reprint), Delhi 1965, in the Sacred Books of the East, ed. F. Max Muller,
Vol. XI: Paras 1-8, pp.146-150. (Unit-III)
d. Inscriptions of Asoka, Vol.II, Tr. by B.M. Barua
Rock Edict I, p.179.
XII, p.190.
Pillar Edict IV, pp.205-207.
VI, pp.211-214.
e. Milindapanho:
Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit. At least one out of these questions shall
be set on quotations from these texts under the relevant Unit.
Reading List:
A.L. Basham The Wonder that was India
B. and R. Allchin : The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan
D.D. Kosambi An Introduction to the Study of Indian History
D.D. Kosambi Culture and Civilization of Ancient India
D.N. Jha Ancient India. An Historical Outline
D.P. Agrawal : The Archaeology of India
I. Habib Prehistory
I. Habib The Indus Civilization
I. Habib and V.K. Thakur The Vedic Age
R. Thapar Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
R. Thapar Early India
R.S. Sharma Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India
R.S. Sharma : Political ideas and instructions.
S. Ratnagar Understanding Harappa
HS-102: MEDIEVAL INDIA C. 900 1526

Teacher: Dr (Mrs.) Azra Alavi (W.C.)
Dr. Syed Bashir Hasan
UNIT I
1. The Chola Empire: Administration (esp. structure of government and Village community).
2. Society, Science and culture of India as described by Alberuni (brief survey).
3. The Ghaznavids: Mahmuds invasions and objectives.
4. Political Condition of Northern India on the eve of Turkish invasions: A Brief Survey
5
2
3
2
UNIT II
5. Muizzuddins Indian conquests: Possible factors behind the success of the Ghorians,
Technological, military, political and social.
3
6. Establishment of Delhi Sultanate: Qutbuddin Aibak and establishment of the
Delhi Sultanate. Iltutmish: His military and administrative achievements.
7. The supremacy of the Turkish Slave-aristocracy (Turkan-i Chihalgani).

2
8. Balban as Sultan: Theory of Kingship. Mongols and India in the 13th Century. 2
UNIT - III
9. The Khaljis: The Khaljis Revolution. Conquests and Mongol invasions during the
reign of Alauddin Khalji.
10. Alauddin Khalji: Agrarian measures, Market control.

11. The Tughluqs: Ghyasuddin Tughluq and his administrative measures.
3
1
12. Muhammad bin Tughluq: Agrarian measures and the Doab rebellion, Religious
Policy. Projects: Transfer of Capital, Token Currency.
3
13. Administration under the Sultans of Delhi.
UNIT - IV
14. Sources: Minhaj, Barani, Isami, Ibn Batuta.
15. Firuz Tughluq: religious policy; Public Works.
16. The Decline of the Delhi Sultanate.
17. The Deccan: Vijayanagara and Bahmani Empires.
18. The Sayyids; Afghan concept of Kingship.
UNIT V
19.
20.
21.
(A) Bhakti Movement in Northern India: Ramanand, Kabir & Nanak

(B) Sufism in India: Chishti & Suhrawardi orders.
(A) Persian Literature: Amir Khusrau.
(B) Sultanate Architecture
Delhi as an Urban and Commercial centre.
4
3
4
DOCUMENTS
Barani: (From Elliot and Dowson, III, pp. 191-97 (Price measures of Alauddin Khalji),
Unit-III
Agrarian System of Moslem India, pp.224-227. (Alauddins Revenue Decree).Unit-III
Elliot & Dowson, III pp.238-42 (projects of Muhammad Tughluq). Unit-III
Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit. At least one out of these
questions shall be set on quotations from the documents under the relevant Unit.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
: History & Culture of the Indian people, Vol. V (Selected
Chapters)
Habib & Nizami ed.
: Comprehensive History of India, Vol. V
AB Pandey
: Medieval India.
Ishwari Prasad
: Medieval India
RP Tripathi
: Some Aspects of Muslim Administration.
Tapan Ray Chaudhari &
: Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol.
(Chapters dealing with Sultanate Period).
Satish Chandra
: Medieval India from Sultanat to the Mughals, Vol. I.
1. RC Majumdar, ed.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
1 M Habib
2 - do 3 M Habibullah
4 KS Lal
5 Mehdi Husian
6 Tara Chand
7 M Habib
8 Sewell
9 Irfan Habib
10 Nizami K.A. ed.
11 Peter Jackson
12 Ali Athar
Advanced Reading:
: Mahmud of Ghazna
: Introduction to Eliot & Dowson, Vol. II
: Foundation of Muslim Rule in India
: History of the Khaljis
: History of the Tughlaq Dynasty
: Influence of Islam on Indian Culture
: Hazarat Amir Khusrau of Delhi
: A Forgotten Empire
: Medieval India-1, (relevant chapters)
: Religion & Politics in India during the 13th century.
: Delhi Sultanate.
: Military Technology and Warfare in the Sultanate
HS-103: MODERN INDIA (1707-1858)

Teacher: Dr. S. Bashir Hasan (W.C.)
Dr. Perwez Nazir
Total No. of Lectures = 60

UNIT-I
1.
1.1.
1.2
2.
2.1
2.2
Indian Powers on the Eve of British Conquests:

5
The succession States of Mughal Empire: Hyderabad, Bengal and 0Awadh.
Rise of Maratha Power: expansion to 1761. Maratha Confederacy, (1761- 1802): its
weaknesses.
Rise of British Power:
5
The conflict between the English and French Companies. The Carnatic Wars.
English conquest of Bengal: Plassey to Buxar. Factors behind English success against
Indian Powers.
UNIT-II
3.
3.1
3.2
4.
4.1
Organisation of British Rule 1805:

5
Administrative arrangements: Assumption of Dewani, Dual Government.
The Company and British Parliament: Regulating Act and Pitts India Act: their effects
on Administration.
Beginnings of the Colonial Economy:
5
Drain of Wealth to 1813: its phases, nature and mechanism, size. Effects of the drain
on Indian economy.
UNIT-III
5.
5.1
5.2
6.
6.1
6.2
6.
6.3
6.4
6.5
Mysore:
4
Mysore under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan.
Mysore resistance to the English; its fall.
Establishment of British Supremacy:
6
Anglo-Maratha wars to 1819. Causes of the failure of Marathas.
Wellesleys subsidiary alliances.
Colonial Economy in the first Half of the 19th Century:
10
Agrarian Settlements: The Permanent Settlement and its consequences.
Ryotwari settlement of Madras and Bombay Presidency and Mahalwari settlement.
De-industrialization after 1813. The De-urbanization question.
UNIT-IV
7.
7.1
7.2
7.3
8.
8.1
8.2
British Administration:
04
Administrative Reforms of Cornwallis.
Social Reforms 1829-57: prohibition of Sati and abolition of Slavery, Widow Remarriage.
Education Policy 1834-57.
Social and Intellectual Changes:
06
Influence of Western Thought: Raja Ram Mohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj.
Henry Vivian Derozio and Young Bengal
8.3
The Wahabi Movement.
9.
9.1
9.2
9.3
10.
10.1
10.2
UNIT-V
The Forward Policy, 1838-56:
Ranjit Singhs Kingdom, and its fall.
Annexations of Sind and Awadh.
The `Doctrine of Lapse.
The Rebellion of 1857:
Nature, Causes and Consequences.
Factors for the defeat of rebellion and the Queens proclamation.
06
06
DOCUMENTS
1.
2.
Proclamation by Feroz Shah on behalf of Bahadur Shah 25th Aug. 1957, Freedom
Struggle in Uttar Pradesh, Vol. I, pp.453-58. (Unit-V)
Treaty with the Nizam, 1789, A Collection of Treatise, Engagements and Sunnuds,
C. V. compiled CU Aitchison, pp.49-53 (excluding Arts 4 & 5). (Unit-III)
questions may be set on quotations from the Documents under the relevant Unit.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. AC Banerji & DK Ghosh
2. HH Dodwel
3. VA Smith
4. Thompson & Garrett
5. Tara Chand
6. RC Dutt
7. Sarkar & Dutta
8. R.K. Mookerjee
9. Ahmad Qeyamuddin
10. Shekhar Bandyo Padhyaya
11. P.C. Joshi
12. Bipan Chandra
13. Desika Char S.V.
14. Ghosh S.C.
: Comprehensive History of India vol. 9

: Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV.
: Oxford History of India
: Rise & Fulfillment of British Rule in India
: History of the Freedom Movement in India, vols. I & II.
: Economic History of India, Vol. I & II
: Modern Indian History
: Rise and Fall of the East India Company
: The Wahabi Movement.
: From Plassey to Partition
: Eighteen fifty seven: A Symposium
: The Rise and growth of Economic Nationalism in India
: Readings in the constitutional History of India
: The History of Education in Modern India 1757-1986
HS-104: EUROPEAN HISTORY (1500-1919)

Teachers: Dr. Tahmeena Javed
Dr. Shadab Bano (W.C.)
UNIT-I
TheDawnofModernAge:DeclineofFeudalism
RiseofNationStates:EnglandandFrance.
Renaissance: Humanism in Literature and Art, Growth of Science and scientific
spirit,Copernicus,Kepler.
Theseadiscoveries:overseasexpansionandSpanishEmpireintheAmeicas.
Mercantilism
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
UNIT-II
1. Reformation and Counter Reformation: The Protestant Reformation, Huss;
Martin Luther; Zwingli and Calvin. Effects of the Reformation. CounterReformation and its main agencies.
2. The commercial Revolution of the 16th and 17th Centuries.
3. Price Revolution; its causes and consequences.
1.
2.
3.
4.
UNIT-III
The Age of Absolutism: Absolutism in France under Louis XIV
Rise of Prussia under Frederick the Great. The Austrian Empire, Maria Theresa.
Russia under Peter the Great.
The Scientific Revolution (Galileo and Newton) and the Age of Enlightenment
(Montesquieu and Rousseau).
UNIT-IV
1. The French Revolution: Ancien regime, Factors for the outbreak of Revolution;
Reign of Terror, the Jacobin Regime.
2. Napolean Bonaparte, Rise and Fall, Continental system. Impact of his Regime.
3. The Age of Reaction: The Congress of Vienna. The concert of Europe and
Metternich; the Revolution of 1830.
4.
5.
6.
7.
UNIT-V
Rise of Nationalism: The Revolution of 1848, German and Italian unifications.
Industrialization of Europe, Socialism: Utopian and Marxian.
New Imperialism, Imperialist Rivalries, World War I: its causes and effects.
The Russian Revolution of 1917. Factors and significance contribution of Lenin.
Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit.
CJH Hayes
- Do CJH Hayes
- Do - CJH Hayes
Ergang
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BOOKS RECOMMENDED
A Political and Cultural History of Europe, Vols. 2.
Europe to 1870.
Europe Since 1870.
History of Europe.
FOR FURTHER READING
HG Koenigsberger,
MS Anderson
H Herder
Christopher Hill
L. Gershoy
Burns & Burns
Bernard Waites
Meenakshi Phukan
S.N.Sen
R.S.V.Rao
Kettleby
C. Davies
Fergusson & Bruun
R.R. Palmer
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Europe in the Sixteenth Century.FL Mossee

Europe in the Eighteenth Century, 1713-1783.
Europe in the Nineteenth Century.
Reformation to Industrial Revolution.
French Revolution and Napolean.
Cambridge Modern History of Europe (relevant volumes).
World Civilizations, Vol.B
Europe and the Wider World.
Rise of Modern West.
A History of Modern Europe & the World.
Modern World.
Modern Europe.
Modern Europe.
Survey of European Civilization.
A History of the Modern World.
HS-105: HISTORY OF ISLAM TILL THE FALL OF BAGHDAD

Teacher: Dr. Miss Fatima Bilgrami (W.C.)
Dr. Gulfishan Khan
UNIT-I
1. Pre-Islamic Arabia:
Arabia on the eve of the rise of Islam.
Tribal organisation, social and economic conditions; religious beliefs.
04
2. The Prophet: his Life and Teachings (570-632):

08
(a) Family background and early life.
(b) Makkan reaction to the Prophets preaching.
(c) Hijra.
(d) The Prophet at Madina: Struggle with the Makkans. (Badr, Uhud, Khandaq)
UNIT-II
3. Formation of the Islamic State at Madina:
(a) The Constitution of Madina.
(b) Relations with the Jews and Christians.
(c) Organisation of State.
(d) Islamic Revolution; Extent of Social change, Islam and tribal customs.
05
4. Pious Caliphate (632-661)

07
(a) Caliph Abu Bakr. Early problems, Ridda Wars.
(b) Expansion and Consolidation under Caliph Umar.
(c) Policies of Caliph Usman, disturbances, leading to his assassination.
(d) Caliph Ali, Struggle with Amir Muawiya.
(e) Structure of State and Taxation system under the pious Caliphs. Policy towards
Non-Arab populations.
UNIT-III
5. The Umayyads (661-750):
12
(a) Significance of the Establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate and its consequences.
(b) Amir Muawiya his achievements.
(c) Consolidation under Abdul Malik
(d)) Conquests under Walid I (India, Central Asia, Spain)
(e) Nature of the Umayyad government, Central and provincial administration, Taxation
system.
(f) Social and tribal tensions under the Umayyads.
(g) Factors behind the fall of the Umayyad caliphate.
UNIT-IV
6. The Greater Abbasids. (750-833):
12
(a) The Abbasid Revolution and its significance.
(b) Al-Mansur and the consolidation of Abbasid Power.
(c) Reign of Harun al-Rashid: The Golden Age.
(d) Central and provincial administration and revenue system under the Greater
Abbasids.
UNIT-V
7. Cultural and Scientific development in the Early Islamic World:
12
(a) Development of the Sciences of tafsir and Hadith.
(b) Development of Ilm al-Kalam, Mutazilah and Asharah.
(c) Origins and development of Sufism.
(d) Codification of fiqh and the formation of the Four Schools of jurisprudence.
(e) Evolution of Arab historiography.
(f) Rise of Arabic Science. Transmission of Greek Sciences. Contributions to Major Sciences
in Arabic.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
Y.M.Siddiqui
:
C Brockelmann
:
Bernard Lewis
:
PK Hitti
:
W Montgomery Watt
Maxim Rodinson
Gebralli
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MA Shaban
:
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K.Ali
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Hugh Kennedy
SA Husaini
:
Joseph Hell
:
Ameer Ali
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Muir
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Martin Lings
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HAR Gibb
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Mohammad Zaki :
Tarikh-i-Islam (Urdu)
History of Islamic Peoples.
Arabs in history.
History of the Arabs.
: Mohammad, Prophet and Statesman.
: Muhammad.
Muhammad and the Conquest of Islam.
Islamic History, 600-750.
The Abbasid Revolution (last Chapter).
A Study of Islamic of History.
: The Early Abbasid Caliphate.
The Arab Administration.
The Arab Civilization.
History of the Saracens.
The Caliphate Its Rise and Fall.
Muhammad.
Muhammadanism (Islam in posthumous eds.).
History of Muslim Rule: The Prophet and the Early Rulers
ADVANCED READING
Wellhausen, J.
: Arab Kingdom and its fall.
R. Levy
: Social Structure of Islam. (relevant Chapters).
Athar Husain
: The Glorious Caliphate
Encyclopaedia of Islam : Relevant Articles.
Abul Hasan Ali Nadvi : Muhammad Rasulallah, the Apostle of Mercy,
Translated by Mohiuddin Ahmad, Lucknow, 1982.
S. Athar Husain
: Prophet Muhammad and His Mission, Lucknow, 1967.
Shibli Numani
: Sirat-un-Nabi (The Life of the Prophet), Eng. Tran. By M.
Tayyab Bakhsh Badayuni, Vol. I,II, Delhi, 1979.
M. Y.M. Siddiqui : Organisation of Government Under the Prophet, Delhi, 1987.
Muhammad Hamidullah :
The Emergence of Islam, edited and translated Afzal
Iqbal, Islamabad, 1999.
Reading Material produced by the Centre for Distance
Education, AMU.
Watt Montgomery : Muhammad at Makkah.
Watt Montgomery : Muhammad at Madinah.
TR-101: TOURISM IN INDIA PAPER I

Teachers: Dr. Maksud A. Khan (WC)
Dr. Amir Ahmad
UNIT-I
1. (a) Tourism, meaning and significance; tourist and excursionist;
International and Domestic tourism.
12
(b) Tourism in the past - motives of early travels; Spas; Grand Tour.
(c) Modern Concept of tourism: mass tourism, effects of the World Wars, introduction of
jets and high speed trains.
(d) Forms of tourism, basic components and determinants of tourism.
2. Main forms of travel - Rail, Road and Air. Organization and main functions; services and
facilities provided by international and domestic airlines.
3.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
UNIT-II
Organization of Tourism (A)
12
International Tourism Organisations: International Union of Official Tourist
Organisation (IUOTO) World Tourism Organisation (WTO), International Air
Transport Authority (IATA), Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA) and
International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO)
Organization and promotion of tourism in India: Sargeant Committees
Recommendations: functions of the Central department of tourism and its allied
offices in India and abroad. Objectives and functions of India Tourism Development
Corporation (I.T.D.C.).
Travel Agencies and Tour Operators, Tourist guides and interpreters
and their training .
Tourist Accommodation and amenities: types of accommodation, hotel classification,
significance in tourism.
UNIT-III
4.
Frontier Formalities:
12
(a) Basic requirements for foreign tourists: passport, visa, health certificates.
(b) Custom and baggage rules; registration and exit documents; special
permission for visiting restricted and prohibited areas, etc.; special
concessions.
(c) Rules for foreign currency, Travellers Cheques, foreign exchange.
(d) Financial Facilities for Indian Tourists in India: LTC: travellers cheques.
UNIT-IV
5.
Tourism Marketing:
12
Marketing of Tourism: Advertising and sales promotion, tourist publicity media.
6.
Centres of Tourist Attraction

(a) Important places of tourist interest: Location, accessibility, best seasons.
(b) Hill Stations and Beaches: Accessibility, accommodation and other facilities
(c) Games and Bird sanctuaries
(d) Places of religious importance
UNIT-V
7. Cultural Aspects:
12
(a)
Fairs and Festivals - Some of the main regional fairs and festivals,
their celebration and importance.
(b) Main forms of Indian Classical Dance.
(c) Major cottage industries of India - Shawl, Carpet, Bidriware and
papier-mache.
(d) Impact of Tourism - Socio-Economic and Environmental consequences of Tourism.
Note: there will be five question one from each Unit.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. J. Christopher Holloway : The Business of Tourism.
2. A.K. Bhatia
: Tourism in India.
3.-do: International Tourism: Fundamentals and Practices.
4. J.M.S. Negi
: Tourism and Hoteliering.
5.- do : Tourism and Travel-concepts and Principles.
6. R.N. Kaul
: Dynamic of Tourism - A Trilogy. 3 Vols.
7. Wheeler
: India - A Travel Survival Kit.
8. Fodor
: India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
9. N. Kaul
: Tourist India.
10. Seth P.N.
: Successful Tourism Management in India.
11. I.T.D.C. Publication : Guide to Delhi.
12. B. Madik
: Tourism, Past, Present & Future.
13. - do : Management of Tourism.
14. M.M. Anand
: Tourism and Hotel Industry in India.
15. Usha Bala
: Tourism in India: Policy and Perspectives.
16. Kanwar Lal
: Holy Cities of India.
17. Ambrose Kay
: Classical Dances and Costumes of India.
18. The Times of India
: Annual Directory (1994).
19. Ashton, Leigh (ed)
: The Art of India and Pakistan.
20. Maneet Kumar
: Tourism Today - An Indian Perspective.
21. Ratandeep Singh
: Tourism Today: Structure, Marketing and Profile, 3 Vols.
22. K.C. Sharma
: Tourism: Policy Planning Strategy
23. Manish Ratti
: History & Geography of Tourism, New Delhi, 2007, chapters, I
& II.
TR-102: TOURISM - PAPER II ANCIENT INDIAN ART & MONUMENTS

Teachers: Dr M.K. Pundhir
Dr (Mrs.) Rashmi Upadhyaya (W.C.)
UNIT-I
12
Early Indian Architecture

1. Stupa architecture:
Sanchi Stupas
Sarnath Stupas
Bharhut Stupa
2. Rock-Cut architecture:
Barabar Caves
Ajanta Caves
Ellora Caves
16
UNIT-II
Temple Architecture
1. Early Temples:
Dasavatara Temple at Deogarh,

Brick Temple at Bhitargaon .
2. North Indian temples: Lingaraja Temple at Bhubaneswar
Surya Temple at Konarak
Kandariya Mahadeva Temple At Khajuraho.
3. South Indian temples: Pandavas Rathas at Mamallapuram
Shore Temple at Mamallapuram
Brihadisvara Temple at Tanjavur
UNIT-III
12
Early Sculpture
1. Asokan Pillars and capitals: main characteristics.
2. Gandhara and Mathura Schools.
3. Gupta sculptures.
12
UNIT-IV
Sculpture
1. Sanchi and Bharhut
2. Ajanta and Ellora.
3. Khajuraho and Konarak
UNIT-V
08
Painting
1. Material, media and technique
2. Rock paintings: Bhimbetka
3. Murals of Ajanta: major themes and characteristics

BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. Percy Brown
2. H. Sarkar
3. V.S. Agrawal
4. V.A. Smith
5. Percy Brown
6. Philips S. Rawson
7. R.C. Majumdar (ed.)
8. R.S. Gupta &
B.D. Mahajan
9. Klaus Fischer
10. B.L. Dhama &
S.C. Chandra
11. Allan Watts
12. Manorama Jauhri
13. George Michell
14. Krishna Dev
15. Tomory Edith
16. Benoy K. Behl
17. Mitra, Debala
18. Agrawal, D.P.
19. J. Fergussan
: Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods),

Taraporevala Bombay, 1976.
: Studies in Early Buddhist Architecture of India, ASI
: Indian Art, Varanasi, 1965
: A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, Oxford, 1930
(Chapters II-X)
: Indian Painting, New Delhi, 1965. (Chapters I, II, VII & IX).
: Indian Painting, New York, 1961
: The History and Culture of the Indian people: The Classical
Age, Bombay, 1962 (Chapter XIX: Painting)
: Ajanta, Ellora and Aurangabad, Bombay, 1962.
: Caves & Temples of the Jains, Aliganj (Etah), 1956
: Khajuraho, New Delhi, 1957
: The Temple of Konarak, Delhi, 1971.
: South India: its Architecture, Varanasi, 1969.
: The Penguin Guide to the Monuments of India (Vol.1:
Buddhist, Jain, Hindu), London, 1989.
: Temples of India, 2 Vols., New Delhi, 1995.
: A History of Fine Arts in India and the West, Bombay,
1982.
: The Ajanta Caves: Ancient Paintings of Buddhist India,
Singapore, 1998.
: Ajanta, ASI, 1983.
: The Archaeology of India, London, 1982.
: History of Indian & Eastern Architecture.
IM-101: INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT (1885-1947)

Teacher: Dr. Mohd. Sajjad
Dr. S. Bashir Hasan
Dr. Maksud Ahmad Khan
Dr. Reyaz Ahmad Khan
Dr. Amir Ahmad
UNIT-A
1.
Factors behind the rise of Indian Nationalism
2.
Popular uprising during later half the 19th Century.
3.
Socio religious reforms in India during the 19th century.
1.
2.
3.
4.
UNIT-B
Formation of Indian National Congress.
The Moderates and extremist.
Partition of Bengal 1905, Swadeshi & Bycott.
Muslim League.
1.
2.
3.
UNIT-C
Mahatma Gandhi and Indian National Movement.
Khilafat Movement (1919-20), Non-Cooperation Movement (1920-22)
Growth of Socialist and revolutionary trends
2.
UNIT-D
Simon Commission, Civil Disobedience Movement (1930-32) & Round Table
conference.
Act of 1935, Congress Ministry.
1.
2.
3.
4.
UNIT-E
Cripps Mission, Quit India Movement.
Revival of Muslim League, INA.
Cabinet Mission, Mountabatten Partition and Independence.
Communal problem, Gandhis Assassination.
1.
Note: There will be five questions one from each Unit.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
1.
Bipan Chandra
:
2.
Bipan Chandra
:
M. Makherjee,
S. Mahajan & K.N. Pannikar
3.
B.L. Grover
:
Modern India, Chapter Relevant Chapters.

Indias Struggle for Independence
(1857-1947)
A New Look on Modern India History.
B.A. Part-II
HS-201: ANCIENT INDIA FROM THE SUNGAS TO THE 9TH CENTURY
Teacher: Dr. Rashmi Upadhyaya
Dr. S. Jabir Raza (WC)
No. of Lectures=60
UNIT I
12
POLITY AND SOCIETY: 2nd Century BC to 2nd Century AD

a. Sungas. Kharavela, Indo-Greeks. Pahlavas and Sakas A brief study.
Satavahanas.
b. Kushanas. Kanishka: Date & conquests.
c. Manu and the Codification of the Varna and Jati System. Sangam Age
Society in South India.
UNIT II
12
CULTURE, RELIGION AND ECONOMY: 2nd. C.B.C. to 2nd C.A.D.

a.
Emergence of Mahayana Buddhism. Saivism and Vaishnavism.
b.
Influence of Hellenistic culture. Sunga, Gandhara & Mathura Art.
c.
Indias Commercial Relations with the Mediterranean World. Kushana
Urbanisation.
UNIT III
12
POLITY AND SOCIETY: 3rd-6th Centuries A.D.

a.
The Gupta Empire: Samudragupta, Chandragupta, Kumaragupta and
Skandagupta. Gupta Administration and society.
b.
Huna Intrusion and Decline of the Gupta Empire.
c.
Vakatakas; Pallavas.
UNIT IV
12
CULTURE, RELIGION AND ECONOMY: 3rd-6th Centuries A.D.

a.
India as described by Fa-Hien. Sanskrit Literature. Kalidasa.
b.
Science and Mathematics. Gupta Sculptures.
c.
The Religious Environment. Economic Conditions.
UNIT V
12
POLITY, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY: 7th-9th Centuries A.D.

a.
Harshavardhana: His Kingdom and Administration, Post Harsha Polity.
b.
India as described by Yuan Chwang. Beginning of the decline of Buddhism.
Sankaracharya.
c.
Emergence of Feudalism in India: Concept, Origin & Development.
DOCUMENTS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
14,
Manusmriti, x, 1-6, 24-40, 42-43, 51-56 (Buhlers tr.) - Unit-I

Periplus of the Erythraeian Sea, paragraph 57 (RC Majumdar, Classical
Accounts of India, p. 306).- Unit-II
Allahabad Pillar Inscription (Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. III, tr. J.F.
Fleet, pp.10-17 Translation). - Unit-III
Fahiens account of Madhyadesa (Beal, Buddhist Records of the Western World,
I, Intro. pp. XXXVII (from the words, Southward from this ..) & XXXVIII (to
the words been no interruption). - Unit-IV
Extracts from Hiuen Tsiang: Beal, Buddhist Records of Western World, Vol. I,
Book II, Sections 5 to 18, pp.73. - (Unit-V)
Yuan Chwang (Hiuen Tsiang); account of Harsha: Beal, I, Book V, pp. 213beginning Having received these instructions ... promoted the men of talent. Unit-V
questions shall be set on quotations from these texts under the relevant Unit.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
HC Raychaudhuri
: Political History of Ancient India
JS Negi
: Groundwork of Ancient Indian History
R.C. Majumdar (ed.) : The Age of Imperial Unity
D.N.Jha (ed.)
: Ancient India: An Outline
Al Basham
RG Bhandarkar
D.N. Jha (ed.)
R.C. Majumdar (ed.)
R.K. Mookerji
A.S. Altekar
RS Tripathi
RS Pandey
: The Wonder that was India

: A Peep into the Early History of India.
: Society & Ideology in India.
: Classical Age
: The Gupta Empire
: The Vakataka Gupta Age
: History of Kanauj
: Educators of Ancient India.
D.D. Kosambi
: Introduction to the Study of Indian History.
Harbans Mukhia (ed.) : Feudalism & Non European Societies.
B.D. Chattopadhyaya : The Making of Early Medieval India.
RS Sharma
: Indian Feudalism
V.K. Thakur
: Historiography of Indian Feudalism towards a model of
Early Medieval Indian Economy CAD 600-1000.
D.N. Jha
: Economy and Society in Early India.
K.S. Srivastava
: Economic and Social Life in Ancient India.
HS-202: MUGHAL EMPIRE TO 1707

Teacher: Dr. F.Z. Bilgrami (W.C.)
Dr. (Mrs.) R.K.Husain
Total No. of Lectures 60
UNIT - I
A brief survey of source material, Political conditions of North India in 1526; the Deccan
and South India in the 16th Century. Babur and the establishment of the Mughal Empire.
Humayun and his difficulties; the struggle between the Mughals and the Afghans. Sher
Shah and his administration. The Mughal Restoration.
UNIT - II
Akbar: Early Problems and difficulties. Regency of Bairam Khan. Consolidation and
conquests. Altered composition of the Mughal nobility, Rajput Policy. Religious Policy.
The North-West frontier. The Deccan. The historians: Abul Fazl and Badauni.
UNIT - III
Jahangir, Accession, Court politics. Religious policy. Relations with Rajputs. External
relations. The Tuzuk. Khurrams revolt. The Deccan. Shahjahan: Expansion in the
Deccan. Relations with Central Asia and Iran.
UNIT - IV
Aurangzeb: The war of succession (1658-59). Religious Policy. The agrarian revolts.
Policy towards the Rajputs. The Deccan Policy. Shivaji and his administration. MarathaMughal Struggle. Factors responsible for the decline of the Mughal Empire.
UNIT - V
Mughal administration: Central structure; revenue system. Mansab and Jagir systems.
Main features of Art and Architecture. Foreign Trade.
DOCUMENTS
Questions may be asked from the following documents: 1. Ain-i Akbari Vol. I (Blochmanns tr.), Book I, Ain 77 pp. 170-77, Book II, Ain 1 (tr. pp.
241-43).
2. Berniers Travels, tr./ed. VA Smith, pp. 223-30.
3. Extracts from sources in Shireen Moosvi, Episodes in the Life of Akbar, NBT, pp.5259.
Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit. At least one out of these questions
shall be set on quotations from these texts under the relevant Unit.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
RP Tripathi
J Sarkar
J Sarkar
Aniruddha Ray
SR Sharma
TR Chaudhry &
Irfan Habib
M Athar Ali
WH Moreland
Ibn Hasan
Moreland
P. Brown
P. Brown
Afzal Hussain
Firdos Anwar
Mohibbul Hasan
Riazul Islam
A. Rahim
Qanungo
B.J. Hasrat
:
:
:
:
:
:
Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire.

Short History of Aurangzeb
Shivaji
Some Aspects of Mughal Administration.
Religious Policy of the Mughal Emperor.
Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I.
: Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb

: Agrarian System of Moslem India
: The Central Structure of the Mughal Empire.
: Akbar to Aurangzeb
: Indian Architecture
: Painting under the Mughals
: Nobility under Akbar and Jahangir.
: Nobility under the Mughals.
: Babur, the founder of Mughal Empire
: Indo-Persian Relations
: The Mughal Relations with Persia and Central Asia
: Dara Shukoh
: Life and Works of Dara Shukoh
FOR FURTHER READING:

VA Smith
: Akbar the Great Mughal
Beni Prasad
: History of Jahangir
BP Saxena
: History of Shahjahan of Delhi
Irfan Habib
: Agrarian System of Mughal India, Chapters VI, VII, IX.
Yusuf Husain
: Some Aspects of Medieval Indian Culture.
KA Nizami
: Akbar and Religion
WH Moreland
: India at the death of Akbar
C.B. Asher
: Architecture of Mughal India
ARTICLES:
1. Iqtidar Alam Khan
2. - do 3. M. Athar Ali
: The Mughal Court politics during Bairam Khans Regency,

Medieval India A Miscellany, Vol. I, 1969.
: The Nobility Under Akbar and the Development of his
Religious Policy 1560-80, JRAs, 1968.
: Sulhi-i Kul. Proceedings of IHC, Bombay, 1980.
4. Shireen Moosvi
: Evolution of Mansab System Under Akbar, JRAS, London,

1991.
5. M. Athar Ali
: Religious Issue in the War of Succession Medieval India
Quarterly Vol.5, 1963.
6. - do : The Causes of Rathor Rebellion of 1679, Proceedings of
IHC 1960
7. Prof. Nurul Hasan
: The Mahzar of Akbars reign, JUPHS, Vol. XVI,Part I.
8. - do : The Theory of Nurjahan Junta, Proceedings of IHC, Trivendrum,
1958.
9. Satish Chandra
: Mughal Religious Policies, the Rajputs and the Deccan.
9. Irfan Habib
: The Family of Nurjahan
during Jahangirs reign.
Medieval India A Miscellany Vol. I, 1969.
10. Rafat Bilgrami
: Akbars Mahzar of 1579', Islamic Culture, 1973.
11.Prof. Muhibbul Hasan
:
Historians of Medieval India (Chapter on Abul Fazl by
Noman A. Siddiqui.
12. KA Nizami
: Abul Fazl On History and Historians of Medieval India, pp.
141-60.
13. M Mujeeb
: Badauni in The Historians of Medieval India ed. Prof.
Mohibbul Hasan, pp.III-18.
14. Satish Chandra
: Medieval India from Sultanate to Mughal Part-II. The Mughal
Empire.
15. M. Athar Ali
: Mughal India: Studies in Politics Ideas, Society and Culture.
HS-203: MODERN INDIA, 1858-1950

Teachers: Dr Hassan Imam
Dr. (Mrs.) Shadab Bano (WC)
1.
2.
1.
2.
1.
2.
3.
UNIT-I
Changes and Reconstruction of British rule after the 1857-58 Rebellion:
Administration, army, policy towards states, revenue and fiscal policies. Judicial
system, Ripons reforms. Indian Councils Act, 1892.6
Colonization of the Indian economy to 1914. Railways. Commercialisation of
agriculture. Famines. Modern landlordism and tenancy. Drain of wealth. Beginnings
of modern industry in India: Imperialist policy towards industrialisation.
10
UNIT-II
Cultural regeneration. Socio-Religion reforms and educational movements:
progressive and revivalist. Keshav Chandra Sen. Arya Samaj. Aligarh Movement,
Jyotiba Phule.
6
Factors behind the rise of Indian Nationalism Economic Nationalism.
Early phase of the National Movement to 1905. The Moderates and Extremists,
Partition of Bengal, Swadeshi Movement, Formation of Muslim League.
6
UNIT-III
Indian Before and during World War I: Act of 1909, The 1911 concessions, World
War I, Ghadar Party, Home Rule Leagues, Congress-League Pact, 1916.
3
India at the end of World War I. Act of 1919.
2
Gandhi: Emergence of major elements of his thought, early struggles, movement
against Rowlett Acts.
2
UNIT-IV
1. Khilafat and Non- Cooperation Movements.
2
2. Indian Politics, 1922-29
2
3. Rise and Growth of Peasant and Working Class Movements
4
4. Civil Disobedience Movement, 1930-34. The emergence of the Left
in the Congress.
3
5.Women in National Movement
2
UNIT-V
1. Act of 1935. The Congress ministries.
2
2. World War II. Quit-India Movement. Revival of Muslim League. INA.
3. The post-war upsurge. RIN Mutiny. Constitutional negotiations.
Cabinet mission. Mountbatten Plan.
2
4. Partition and Independence. The new government. Communal
5.
Problem. Gandhis assassination.

Main principles of the Constitution of 1950: Significance.
3
2
DOCUMENTS
Note: Questions may be set on the following texts under appropriate Unit.
Queen Victorias Proclamation (as in V.A. Smith, Oxford History of India). Unit-I
Dufferin on the Congress, 1886 (CH Philips, Evolution of India are Pakistan, pp. 143-45).
Unit-II
G.K. Gokhales Presidential Speech 1905 (CH Philips, pp. 156-9). Unit-III
The Karachi Resolution of the Congress 1931. (J.S. Sharma, Indias Struggle for
Freedom, I, pp. 232-35). Unit-IV
Lahore Resolution of the Muslim Leage (1940) (Philips, p. 353). Unit-V
Quit-India Resolution (Sharma, I, pp. 340-42). Unit-V
Note: There will be five questions one from each Unit, and one out of these requiring
comments on passages from the Documents.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
Bipan Chandra
: Indias Struggle for Independence
M. Mukherjee, et.al.
: 1857-1947
Sumit Sarkar
: Modern India (1889-1947)
R.P. Dutt
: India Today
R.N. Agrawal
: National Movement and Constitutional Development of India
Tara Chand
: History of the Freedom Movement in India, Vols. III and IV
V.B. Singh (ed.)
: Economic History of India, 1850-1950
OMalley (ed.)
: Modern India and the West.
V.N. Gadgil
: Industrial Evolution of India
A.C. Bajerjee
: Indian Constitutional Documents, Vols. II & III.
R.C. Dutt
: Economic History of India, Vol.II: Victorian Age
Irfan Habib
: Essays on Indian History-towards a Marxist Perception.
Kenneth W. Jones : Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India
S.Gopal
: British Policy in India, 1858-1947.
Bipan Chandra
: The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India, 18801905.
Mushirul Hasan
: Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885-1930.
A.R. Desai
: Social Background of Indian Nationalism.
Geraldine Forbes : Women in Modern India
Shekhar Bandhopadhyay: From Plassey to Partition
David Lelyveld
: Aligarhs First Generation
Judeth Brown
: Gandhis Rise to Power
Sukomal Sen
: Working Class of India
Aysha Jalal
: Jinnah: The Sole Spokesman
Girish Mishra
: Economic History
B.R. Verma & Bakshi
: British Policy & Indian Nationalism
HS-204: HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 1485-1919
Teacher: Prof. Tariq Ahmad

Dr. Roohi Abida Ahmad (W.C.)
Total No. of Lectures 60
UNIT-I
TUDOR ENGLAND (1485-1603):
(a)
(b)
12
The New Monarchy: Henry VIIs anti-baronial measures; beginnings of

English Commercial power: The Reformation and the Price Revolution. The
first `enclosures and agrarian changes. The radical Reformation and Counter
Reformation under Edward VI and Mary Foreign Policies of the Tudor Rulers.
The Reign of Elizabeth (1558-1603): The Religious settlement. Conflict with
Spain. The rise of the gentry. Parliament, its growing power. English
Renaissance (Literature and thought).
UNIT-II
12
STUART MONARCHY AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION:

(a) James I: The doctrine of Divine right. Arbitrary Government under Charles I.
Foreign Policy of the Early Stuarts, Overseas expansion. The Aristocracy,
gentry and Yeomanry. The Puritans.
(b) The English Revolution (1640-60): The conflict between King and Parliament.
The Civil War (1642-45). Domestic and foreign achievements of Cromwells
government. Fall of the Commonwealth.
UNIT-III
12
RESTORATION (1660-88):
Significance of the Restoration. Domestic and foreign policies of Charles II. James
II, and his fall. The `Glorious Revolution (1689-1714). The economy of England
at the close of the 17th century, the merchants and the great land-owners. The
nature of the compromise of 1680-89. John Lockes theories. The emergence of
the Whig Oligarchy. William and Anne, (1688-1714).
THE WHIG OLIGARCHY AND ITS DECLINE (1714-84)
The nature of the Oligarchy. Walpole and the Cabinet system: The beginning of the
Colonial system and overseas wars (from 1789). Structure of Parliament and Regime
of George III (1760-84), Revolt of American colonies and England.
UNIT-IV
12
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1760-1850:

(a)
The Agricultural Revolution, Enclosures, Growth of population.
(b)
The new Industrial technology, textile and iron and coal. Improvements in
transport. Condition of the working class.
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS:
(a)
Government of England under Pitt the Younger and Impact of French
Revolution, Wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France. Economic
impact of the War. Social unrest after 1815.
(d)
Last Phase of Industrial Revolution, Railways: Utilitarianism and
drive for Reform, Reform Act of 1832, Free Trade, Chartism, Peels
ministry (1841-46); Corn Law repeal.
UNIT-V
12
THE BOURQEOIS ORDER, 1850-1919:
(a)
The Liberal Era 1846-85: British economic supremacy Foreign Policy,
Palmerston. The Liberals and Conservations, Israeli and the Reform Act of
1867. Gladstone and Liberalism (1868-84); Disraeli and New Conservatism
(1874-80); Gladstone and Ireland (1880-85).
(b)
New Imperialism: The Great Depression, English internal politics (1885-1905),
Trade Unions, and Rise of Labour, Rivalry with Germany.
(c)
Causes of Britains entry into the First world War. Consequences of
World War I for Britain.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. Warner & Martin
2. AL Morton
3. Carter Mayer
4. D. Richards & A Quick
5.
6. ER Elton
7. Reed Brett
8. Maurice Ashley
9. Roger Lockyer
10. SE Ayling
11. Christopher Hill
12. E. Hobsbom
13. Peter Mathias
14. C&D Roberts
15. David Thomson
: Ground Work of British History.

: Peoples History of England.
: History of Britain.
: Britain under Tudors and Stuarts.
: Britain 1851-1945.
: Tudor England.
: Tudor Century.
: Great Britain to 1688.
: Tudor and Stuart Britain.
: The Georgian century.
: Reformation to Industrial Revolution.
: Industry and Empire.
: First Industrial Nation.
: A History of England, (Chapters IX-XV)
: England in the Nineteenth Century.
HS-205: HISTORY OF WEST AND CENTRAL ASIA

Teacher: Dr. M. Wasim Raja
Dr. S. Jabir Raza (WC)
UNIT - I
Geographical background: Mongolia, Central Asia, Turkey, Persia. A brief survey of Mongol,
Central Asian, Persian and Turkish sources.
Mongol Empire under Chingiz Khan: Establishment of Mongol Empire; Conquest of Central
Asia; Military organisation, Yasa; religious policy; state structure.
UNIT - II
A brief survey of political events in the Chaghataid State: Reforms of Kebeg Khan;
Amir Timur: Factors responsible for the rise of Timur; Consquests; Military system; religious
policy. Chief features of Timurid State Structure; Development of art and architecture under the
Timurids.
UNIT - III
Establishment of Uzbek rule in Central Asia: its nature. Achievements of Ubaidullah Khan.
Abdullah Khan Uzbek and his age; religion and state; Uzbek Relation with the Mughal India and
Persia. Development of Culture and art under the Uzbek.
Central Asia on the eve of Russian conquest; Anglo- Russian rivalry; the Jadidists Movement.
UNIT - IV
Origin of the Ottomans: Muhammad II. Sulaiman, the Magnificent: Ottoman Polity and
administrative structure until 17th century.
Ottoman Institution: Timar, Ziamat, Sanjak, Devishermah. Army organisation. The Millet System.
Decline of the Ottoman Empire: Causes and Consequences.
UNIT V
The Establishment of the Safavid Empire in Iran: Achievements of Shah Ismail, Shah
Tahmasp and Shah Abbas; the structure of the Empire. Safavid Relation with India.
Causes of the downfall of the Safavids.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. Cambridge History of Iran Vols. V and VI (relevant portions only).
2. Cambridge History of Islam Vol. I, (relevant portions).
3. J.J. Saunders
: The History of the Mongol Conquests
4. Skrine and Ross
: The Heart of Asia
5. E.D. Phillip
: The Mongols
6. Paul, Ratchnevshy
7. M., Prawdin
8. B.F. Manz,
9. V.V. Barthold
10. Creasy
11. P. Sykes
12. Ghulam Sarwar
13. Audrey Burton
14. Mansura Haidar
15. do16.
do17.
-do-
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:
:
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:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
18.
-do19.
-do20. -do21.
-do22.
-do23. A.H.Dani
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:
:
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Genghis Khan
Mongol empire its rise and legacy
Rise and rule of Tamerlane.
Four Studies: Part I: Lecture on History of Turkistan.
The History of the Ottomans
History of Persia
Shah Ismail of Persia
The Bukharans
Central Asia in sixteenth Century
Mongol traditions and their survival in Central Asia, Turcia, 1976
The Sovereign in the Timurid Empire, Turcica, Vol.VIII/2 1976.
Relations of Abdullah Khan Uzbeg with Akbar, Cahier du Monde,
Paris, 1978.
Timurs methods of Administration IHC Session
Agrarian System of Uzbeg Khanates of Central Asia, Turcica, 1977.
Religious Policy of Timur Proceedings of IHC, Calicut session.
Central Asian Heritage in the Mughal Polity
Sufis, Sultan and Feudal Orders.
New Light on Central Asia.
TR-201: MEDIEVAL INDIAN ART AND MONUMENTS

Teachers: Dr. M.K. Pundhir
UNIT I
Grammar of Architecture: The Saracenic style. Main features of important buildings of the
Sultanate period (Delhi: Detailed study of Qutb complex and the Tughlaq monuments).
UNIT-II
The Regional styles: Gujarat (Ahmedabad), Bengal, Mandu, Jaunpur. Saiyyid, Lodi and Sur
Architecture.
UNIT-III
Mughal Architecture: From Babur to Humayun; its development under Akbar and Jahangir.
UNIT-IV
Shah Jahan: The Taj & other buildings at Agra (Shahjahani Buildings inside the Agra Fort)
Shahjahanabad (Delhi): Red Fort and Jami Mosque of Delhi .
UNIT-V
Mughal painting under Akbar, Jahangir and Shahjahan.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. Charles Fabri
2. Percy Brown
3. Z.A. Desai
4.Syed A. Khan
Introduction to Indian Architecture.

Indian Architecture (Islamic Period).
Indo-Islamic Architecture.
Asar-us-Sanadid (Translation by R.
Monuments of Delhi; Historical Study).
5. Percy Brown
6. I Carel
7. S.A.A. Rizvi
8. Y.D. Sharma
9. R. Nath
10. George Mitchell
11. L. Ashton (ed.)
12. David Talbot Rice
13. Subhash Parihar
14. Daljeet
Indian Painting under the Mughals.

Art of Islam.
Fatehpur Sikri.
Delhi & Its Neighbourhood.
Coloured Decoration in Mughal Architecture.
Islamic Heritage of the Deccan.
Art of India and Pakistan, vol.II.
Islamic Art
Some Aspects of Indo-Islamic Architecture.
Mughal and Deccani Paintings
Nath
entitled
as
15. S.P.Verma
Mughal Painters and their Works (A bibliographical survey

and Comprehensive Catalogue)
TR-202: FRENCH LANGUAGE

Teacher: Mrs Ruquia Kazim Hussain
60
No. of Lectures =
UNIT-I
GRAMMER:
(i)
(ii)
Sentence Structure in French. Change in Gender and Number.

Conjugation of Verbs.
15
UNIT-II
Translation of simple words and sentences from French into English.
15
UNIT-III
Translation of Simple words and sentences from English into French.
15
UNIT-IV
CONVERSATION:
Replying in French from questions in French
15
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
G. MAUGER
: Cours De Langue Et De Civilisation Francaises, Hachette,

Paris. Volume One Lessons 1-14.
B.A. PartIII
HS-301: ANCIENT INDIA (SURVEY COURSE)
Teacher: Dr. S. Chandni Bi
1.
UNIT-I
Indus (Harappan) Civilization:
08
Geographical setting, the environment, antecedents, spread and date, town
planning, arts and crafts, trade, religion, decline.
2.
The Vedic Age:

7
The Indo-European Languages and Aryan immigration; society, polity and
economy under the Rigveda: its Vedic gods, sacrifices; Beginnings of
Upnishads philosophy.
LATER VEDIC PERIOD: EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY; BEGINNINGS OF THE CASTE
SYSTEM.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
UNIT-II
Jainism and Buddhism:
Gautama Buddha, social and economic factors behind the rise of Buddhism;
doctrines of Buddhism and teachings of Mahavira; development of schools within
later Buddhism; Alexanders invasion and its consequences.
Mauryan Empire:
8
The rise of Mauryas and the conquests of Chandragupta Maurya.
Asoka: The Kalinga conquest. Asokan Dhamma.
Asokan Inscriptions: their contents and significance.
The emergence of writing: Brahmi and Kharoshti.
Megasthenes; Arthasastra and its evidence.
Mauryan society and administration.
UNIT-III
South India: The Sangam age. Trade with Roman Empire, State formation in
South India. 7
Kushanas:
8
The Central Asian tribes and the Kushanas.
Early Kushanas.
Kanishka: conquests, empire and date.
Culture: Gandhara and Mathura art.
Economy of the period, Indo-Mediterranean trade.
The Guptas:
History of the Gupta dynasty

Administration and social life under the Guptas
Art and architecture of Gupta period. Ajanta, Sarnath.
Literature.
UNIT-IV
8.
Science and Technology in Ancient India

Origin and development of metal use: iron.
Agricultural and craft Technology.
The Sciences: astronomy, mathematics, medicine.
UNIT-V
9.
Feudalism:
Harsha: Polity and Society.
Rise of Indian Feudalism, its meaning and significance.

Structure of feudalism.
10.
Society and culture Post Gupta Period: Caste system, major philosophical schools,
status of women.
DOCUMENTS
Unit-I Hymns of the Rigveda (translation by RTH Griffith)

HYMNS
BOOKS
I
L, CVIII, CXIII
X
LXXV, XC
Unit-II a.Strabo (paragraphs 39 to 52) in R.C., Majumdar, Classical Accounts of India, pp.2639.
b.Asoka RE XIII and PE VII (as in Romila Thapar, Asoka by B.M.Barua)
Unit-III Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta, as trans. In D.R. Bhandarkar, et.
Al., corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. III.
Unit-IV a)Manusmriti. X, 1-6, 24-40, 42-43, 51-56 (Buhlers translation). Sacred books
of the East, vol. XXV.
b)Yuan Chwang (Hiuen Tsi ang); (Beal. Buddhist Records of the Work vol. I. Pp.6990).
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
Romila Thapar
Rajesh Kochar
- Early India
- The Vedic People.
D.N. Jha
- Ancient India An Outline.
B & FR Allchin
- Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan.
R.C.Majumdar
- The Vedic Age.
P.L. Bhargava
- India in the Vedic Age.
Irfan Habib
- Vedic Age
Irfan Habib
- Indus Civilization.
HC Raychaudhury
- Political History of Ancient India.
RC Majumdar
- The Age of Imperial Unity.
KAN Shastri
- The Age of Nandas and Mauryas.
Romila Thapar
- Asoka and the Decline of Mauryas.
V.S. Agarwal
- Indian Art.
P.L. Gupta
- The Gupta Empire
R.C. Majumdar
- The Classical Age.
Haldhar Pathak
- Cultural History of the Gupta Empire.
DD Kosambi
- Introduction to the Study of Indian History.
Bose, Sen and Subbarayappa
- A Concise History of Science in India.
V.K. Thakur
- Historiography of Indian Feudalism towards a Model
of Early Medieval Indian Economy CAD 600-1000.
HS-302: MEDIEVAL INDIA: SURVEY

Teacher: Dr. Mrs. Azra Alavi (WC)
Dr. Reyaz Ahmad Khan
UNIT-I
1.
2.
3.
4.
Ghorian Conquests: causes and consequences: Sultanate under Iltutmish.

4
India under the Khaljis and the first two Tughluqs: economic policies; political and
administrative structure.
8
UNIT-II
Vijayanagar: salient features of political and administrative and, Socio-economic aspects.
4
Outlines of culture, 13th 16th century: Sufism: its main concepts and orders: Chishti
and Suhrawardi, Shaikh Nizamuddin Auliya and Shaikh Bahauddin Zakarya Bhakti
Movement: Kabir, Nanak and Chaitanya; Persian Literature: Amir Khusrau, Main
features of Sultanate architecture.
8
5.
6.
UNIT-III
Babur and the establishment of Mughal Empire, Sher Shah and his Administration.
Akbar: Major conquests, Deccan & North-West, Rajput and Religious policy;
Nobility & Administrative Structure of the Empire: Mansab and Jagir system. 6
7.
8.
UNIT-IV
Rajput and Religious policy of Aurangzeb. Shivajis career and administration. 6
Culture in Mughal India: Art; architecture; religious thought: Abul Fazl and Dara
Shukoh.
6
9.
10.
UNIT-V
Economy of Mughal India: Social stratification, Agriculture, Craft, Towns, Foreign
trade.
6
Decline of the Mughal Empire: Various theories, agrarian problem under the Mughals
4
during 17th Century.
DOCUMENTS
1.
2.
3.
UNIT-I
Elliot & Dowson (Eng. trans). III, pp 191-97 (Price measures of Alauddin Khalji),
238-42 (Projects of Muhammad Tughluq).
UNIT-III
a. Ain-i Akbari, Eng. Trans. Blochmann: Vol. I, pp.170-76: Ain, 77 (His Majesty as
the Spriitual guide of the people), (Land and its classification, and the proportionate
dues of sovereignty: pp. 94-7).
b. Ain-i Dahsala: Moreland, Agrarian system of Moslem India, Appendix E
(Translations only).
Berniers Travels (tr. ed. V.A. Smith) pp. 223-232.
Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit, and one out of these requiring
comments on passages from the Documents
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
1. Habib & Nizami
2. Irfan Habib
2. Ishwari Prasad
3. RP Tripathi
4. -do5. Tara Chand
6. Swell
7. VA Smith
8. JN Sarkar
9. SR Sharma
10. TR Chaudhuri &
Irfan Habib
11. Irfan Habib
12. Yusuf Husain
13. Percy Brown
14. Qanungo
15. J. Sarkar
16. KA Nizami
:
Comprehensive History of India, Vol. V (Selected
Chapters).9.
:
Story of Civilization: Medieval India, NBT, New Delhi, 2008.
:
Medieval India.
:
Some Aspects of Muslim Administration.
:
Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire. Vols. I, II
:
Influence of Islam on Indian Culture.
:
A Forgotten Empire.
:
Akbar the Great Mughal.
:
Short History of Aurangzeb.
:
Mughal Administration.
:
Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol.I.
:
:
:
:
:
:
Agrarian System of Mughal India.

Some Aspects of Medieval Indian Culture.
Indian Architecture (Islamic period)
Dara Shukoh (Selected Portions)
Shivaji.
Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in India
during the 13th Century.
Socio-Religious outlook of Abul Fazl. (Second
17. Azra Alavi

:
edition).
18. Satish Chandra
:
Medieval India Part-I, From Sultanate to the Mughals.
Medieval India Part-II, Mughal Empire 1526-1748.
19. M. Athar Ali
:
Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, revised edition (chapter II).
20. J. Sarkar
:
Fall of the Mughal Empire, Vols I & II (Relevant
Chapters).
21. Afzal Husain
:
Nobility under Akbar & Jahangir
22. Ibn-Hasan
:
The Central Structure of the Mughal Empire
23. Mohibbul Hasan
:
Babur, The founder of Mughal Empire
24. V.A. Smith
:
Akbar the Great Mughal
25. Tanvir Anjum
:
Chishti Sufis in the Sultanate of Delhi 1190-1400 A.D.;
from Restrained in-difference to calculated defiance.
26. Sunil Kumar
:
O.U.P., Karachi, 2011
Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate: A.D. 1192 to 1286.
Permanent Black, Delhi, 2010.
27. K.A. Qanungo
:
Sher Shah and His Times.
ARTICLES:
1. Athar Ali
2. Athar Ali
3. Shireen Moosvi
5. J.F. Richard
The Sulh-i-Kul and the Religious ideas of

Akbar Proceedings of the India History Congress, 1981.
Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case, Modern
Asian Studies, Vol. 9 No.3, 1995.
The Evolution of mansab under Akbar until
1596-7, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London,
1981, Part-I.
Nobility under Akbar and the Development of
his Religious Policy Journal of the Royal Asiatic
Society, London, 1968.
The Mughal Empire
HS-303: MODERN INDIA (Survey Course)

Teacher: Dr. M.K. Pundhir
No. of Lectures=60
UNIT-I
1. British Expansion: (1757-1857)

Wars with Mysore, the Marathas, Conquest of Bengal; Indian states from Subsidiary
Alliances to Paramountcy (1798-1857).
2. Colonial Economy:
The Tribute, 1757-1857; Land revenue settlements - Permanent, Ryotwari and
Mahalwari; De-industrialization and De-Urbanization upto 1872.
UNIT-II
3. Resistance to Colonial Rule:
Early uprisings. Causes, nature and impact of the revolt of 1857.
Re-organisation of the British Raj after the revolt.
4. Social and Cultural Awakening:
Official social reform measures (1828-1857). Coming of English education and
the press. Raja Ram Mohan Roy and reform movements in Bengal.
Satyashodhak Samaj, Pandita Ramasai Arya Samaj, Aligarh movement.
UNIT-III
5. Indian Economy 1858-1914:
Railways, Commercialisation of Indian agriculture. Beginning of modern
industry.
6. Early Indian Nationalism:
Social background; Formation of national associations; Foundation of the
Indian National Congress; Moderates and Extremists; Partition of Bengal and
Swadeshi Movement (1905). Muslim League; Home Rule Movement; The
Govt. of India Act of 1919.
UNIT-IV
7.National Movement, 1919-1934:
Gandhis career, thought and methods of mass mobilisation; Khilafat and noncooperation movement (1919-22); Indian Politics, 1922-29, Civil Disobedience
movement (1930-34).
8. Rise & Growth of Peasant & Working Class Movements. Karachi Resolution, 1931.
9. Women in National Movement.
UNIT-V
10. The Act of 1935; Congress ministries: 1937-39; Quit India Movement.
11. Post War Upsurge, Constitutional Negotiations and Transfer of Power, Communal
Problem, Partition.
DOCUMENTS
British Rule in India, Future Results of British Rule in
India in Marx and Engels, On Colonialism, Moscow, n.d.,
pp.88-95, 132-139.
Unit-II
Jogendra Chunder Ghose (ed.)- The English Works of Ram Mohan Roy,
Vol.II, pp.365-72; 469-74.
Unit-III Dufferin on the Congress, 1888 (C.H. Philips, Evolution of India and Pakistan, pp.14345).
G.K. Gokhale, Presidential Speech 27 Dec.1905 (Philips, pp.156-59).
Unit-IV The Karachi Resolution of the Congress, 1931 (J.S. Sharma, Indias
Struggle for Freedom, Vol.I, pp.232-35).
Unit-V Lahore resolution of the Muslim League (Philips, p.353). Quit-India Resolution
(Sharma, Vol.I, pp.614-17).
Unit-I Karl Marx,
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
1. A.C. Banerji & D.K. Ghosh
2. H.H. Dodwell
3. Bipan Chandra, et.al.,
4. Tara Chand
5. R.C. Dutt
6. Sarkar & Dutta
7. Sumit Sarkar
8. R.P. Dutt
9. R.N. Agarwal
10. Bipan Chandra,
R.R. Tripathi & Barun De
11. Bipan Chandra
12. David Lelyveld
13. Shan Mohammad
14. N.K.Sinha
15. Judith Brown
16. A.R.Desai
17. Shekkar Bandhopadhyay
18. Geraldine Forbes
19. Mushirul Hasan
20. Sukomal Sen
: Comprehensive History of India, Vol.8.

: Cambridge History of India, Vol.5.
: Indias Struggle for Independence 1857-1947.
: History of the Freedom Movement in India, Vols.I, to IV.
: Economic History of India, Vols. I & II.
: Modern Indian History.
: Modern India (1885-1947).
: India Today.
: National Movement and Constitutional Development of
India.
: Freedom Struggle.
: India Since Independence.
: Aligarhs First Generation.
: The Aligarh Movement.
: Economic History of Bengal.
: Modern India
: Social Background of Indian Nationalism.
: From Plassey to Partition
: Women in Modern India
: Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885-1930
: Working Class of India
HS-304: MAURYAN EMPIRE

Teacher: Dr. Jaya Menon
Dr. S. Jabir Raza (W.C.)
UNIT-I
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
1.
2.
The geography of Magadha

Resources
Routes of Communication
Sources
Greek accounts
Megasthenes Indika and its associated problems
Arthasastra: Limitations of the text
Inscriptions
Pre-Mauryan Political Conditions
Political Structures of gana-sangha and monarchy
Consolidation of the monarchical form
UNIT-II
Rise and fall of the Mauryan Empire
Strategies of early rulers: Chandragupta, Bindusara
Asoka: consolidation of empire
Late Mauryans
Factors for the end of the Mauryan Empire
Mauryan Administration
The issue of centralization
The ministers and the bureaucracy
Judicial administration
Provincial administrative structure
Military organization
UNIT-III
Religion in the Mauryan Empire
Brahmanism
Influence of other religions and cults: Ajivikas, Jainism, Buddhism
Asoka and dhamma
Nature of dhamma
Asokas propagation of dhamma: institution of dhamma-mahamattas,
pilgrimages, inscriptions as a medium.
UNIT-IV
1.
15
Society in the Mauryan period

Caste System: information from Megasthenes
Monastic orders and the laity
2.
Trade and pilgrimage: opening up of the subcontinent

Developments in art
Mauryan pillars and sculpture
The beginnings of cave architecture: a study of Barabar caves
UNIT-V
1.
2.
Agriculture, agrarian relations and the state

Expansion of agriculture
The political economy of the Mauryans: revenue administration
Trade and Crafts
Long-distance trade
Regional trade specialities
Expansion of craft production
Technologies: black wares, stone cutting, stone polishing
DOCUMENTS
I. Classical Accounts of India . ed. R.C. Majumdar, Calcutta, 1960, pp.224226, 261-269 & 273-282.
II. (a)Asokan Insriptions: (English tr. in B.M. Barua, Inscriptions of Asoka, Calcutta,
1943).
Rock Edicts: I-XIII
Pillar Edicts: I-VII
Separate Rock Edict I & II and Rummindei Pillar Inscription.
(b)Mahasthan Stone Plaque Inscription, (English translation in K.G.
Krishnan,
Uttankita Sanskrit Vidya Aranya Epigraphy, Vol.II, No. 39,pp.104-105).
III. Arthasastra (R.P. Kangles transl.) Bk II, Chap.1 (whole) Bk II, Chap.12. Paras 24
& 25 Bk 3, Chapter 2 (whole).
Note: There will be five questions, one each from the four Units, and one requiring
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
Barua, B.M.
Brown, P.
Fussman, G
Kosambi, D.D.
Levin, G.M. Bongard
Ray, N.R.
Asoka and his Inscriptions.

Indian Architecture.
Central and Provincial Administration in
Ancient India: The problem of the Mauryan Empire,
Indian Historical Review, 1987-88, xiv, pp.43-72.
Introduction to the Study of Indian History.
Mauryan India.
Maurya and Sunga Art.
Ray, N.R.
Rhys Davids, T.W.
Sharma, R.S.
India.
Sharma, R.S.
India.
Thapar, R
Thapar, R.
Thapar, R.
Thapar, R.
Maurya and Post-Maurya Art.

Buddhist India.
Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient
Perspective in Social and Economic History of Early
Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas.

From Lineage to State.
The Mauryas Revisited.
Early India.
HS-305: AGE OF AKBAR

Teachers: Mrs. Azra Alavi (WC)
Dr. Mrs. Ruquia K. Husain
1.
2.
3.
UNIT-I
SOURCES OF AKBARS REIGN:
5
Official histories; Non-official histories; Jesuit Accounts. Detailed study of Ain-i
Akbari and Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh, Vol. II.
INTERNAL DIFFICULTIES AND EXPANSION, 1556-67:
5
i) Situation at Humayuns death and battle of Panipat
ii) Bairam Khans Regency, his contribution to consolidate the Mughal empire and
his fall, 1556-60
iii) Struggle for Wakalat, 1560-64
iv) Akbars conflict with the Turani nobility, 1564-67; Uzbek Revolt
(v) Major military conquest until 1589: Malwa, Rajput states, Gujarat and eastern
provinces
RE-ORGANISATION OF THE NOBILITY:
5
Timurid concept of monarchy. Composition of Akbars nobility - Recruitment
of new groups; Rajputs and Indian Muslims; promotion of Iranis. Evolution of
Akbars Rajput policy.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
UNIT-II
THE STRUCTURE OF CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT:
5
i) The Emperor and his role in administration
ii) The Principal Central Ministers
iii)Provincial Administration: Creation of Provinces (Subas); main provincial
offices
REVENUE ADMINISTRATION:
5
The evolution of Zabt system under Akbar: Significance of Ain-i Dahsala and the
dasturs. Other methods of assessment. Mode of realization of revenue.
The Evolution of the Jagir system under Akbar, Jama. Resumption of Jagirs
under Karori experiment: Restoration of Jagirs.
5
UNIT-III
Mansab System: Pattern of military administration before Akbar; evolution of
mansab system under Akbar; Zat and Sawar ranks.
4
The Evolution of Akbars Religious Policy:
5
i) Akbars religious policy; its phases
ii) The mahzar of 1579. The rebellion of 1580-81
9.
10.
iii) The Theory of Sulh-i Kul. The Tawhid-i Ilahi and Abul Fazls concept of
sovereignty.
iv) Criticism from Muslim religious classes
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER POLICY :
3
i) The Geo-political factors, trade routes, passes, position of Kabul, Qandhar and
Badakhshan.
ii) Rivalry between Uzbeks and safavids
iii)Relations with Abdullah Khan: Akbars quest for natural frontiers
iv) Relations with Persia
DECCAN POLICY:
3
i) The Principal Deccan States, Akbars relations with the Deccan States to 1583.
ii) Mughals in the Deccan, 1583-1605
UNIT-IV
11.
ECONOMY, SOCIETY & CULTURE:

15
i) Population
ii) Rural Society; peasants, Zamindars and revenue grantees; impact of land
revenue on agrarian condition.
iii) Urban Economy: The Court. Industries. Middle Classes.
iv)Oversea Commerce
v) Literary developments. Historiography; poetry (esp. Persian).
vi) Evolution of Mughal Court Painting
vii) Architecture: Fatehpur Sikri
viii) Abul Fazls religious thought. Tulsi Das and his Ramacharitmanas.
DOCUMENTS
Moreland, Agrarian System of Moslem India (Appendix-E) Abul Fazl, Akbarnama tr.
Beveridge, III, pp. 165-8. Unit-II & III
Text of Mahzar as in Badauni, Muntakhabut Tawarikh, tr. Low, II, pp. 278-80.Unit-III
Badauni, Muntakhab-ut Tawarikh (Elliot and Dowson Vol.IV) pp. 513-15,517-19, 52122, 531-33, 534-35. Unit-III
Monserrate, Commentary, tr. JS Hoyland and SN Banerjee, London, 1922, pp. 64-70, 8890, 205-212. Unit-IV
Abul Fazl, Ain-i Akbari (tr. Blochmann, Vol.I), pp. 1-4, 170-75 (Ain-i Rahnamuni). Unit-II
Tuzuk-i Jahangiri (tr. Rogers & Beveridge) pp. 37-38, 60-61. Unit-III
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
1. VA Smith
:
Akbar the Great Mughal.
2. RP Tripathi
Akbar).
3. Shireen Moosvi
Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire (Chapter on
4. Ibn Hasan
5. P Saran
6. WH Moreland
7. - do 8. Irfan Habib
9. SR Sharma
10. Percy Brown
11. Percy Brown
12. Abdur Rahim
13. Harbans Mukhia
14. Shireen Moosvi
15. Mohibul Hasan (ed.)
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
17. Tapan Raichaudhuri
18. Athar Abbas Rizvi
19.
-do-
20. S.P. Verma

21. Azra Alavi
22. Tara Chand
:
:
:
23. C.R. Boxer

24. Qureshi, IH
25. Nizami, KA
26. Ramakrishna Mission
27. Douglas E. Streusand
28. C.B. Asher
29. Satish Chandra
Empire)
30. Afzal Husain
Family Groups.
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
Episodes in the Life of Akbar: Contemporary

Records and Reminiscences.
The Central Structure of the Mughal Empire.
Provincial Administration of the Mughal Empire.
Agrarian System of Moslem India (Chapter IV).
Indian at the Death of Akbar.
Agrarian System of Mughal India.
Religious Policy Under the Mughals (Chapter II).
Indian Painting under the Mughals (Chapters II to V).
Indian Architecture (Islamic Period Chapter XVIII).
Mughal Relations with Persia and Central Asia.
Historians and Historiography during the reign of Akbar.
The Economy of the Mughal Empire C. 1595.
The Historians of Medieval India (Chapters by
M. Mujeeb and N.Siddiqui).
The Political Biography of a Mughal Noble,
Munim Khan Khan-i Khanan.
The Cambridge Economic History of India.
Vol. I (Chapters VI, and Irfan Habib IX and XI).
Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India
in the 16th & 17th Centuries.
Religious and Intellectual History of the Muslims in
Akbars reign with special reference to Abul Fazl
(1556-1605).
Art and Material Culture in the Painting of Akbars Court.
Socio-Religious outlook of Abul Fazl (Second edition).
Influence of Islam on Indian Culture (Chapter on 16th
Century Saints).
Portugese Seaborne Empire (1415-1825).
Akbar
Akbar and Religion.
Cultural Heritage of India.
The Formation of the Mughal Empire.
Mughal Architecture (New Cambridge History of India).
Medieval India from Sultanate to Mughals Part-II (Mughal
The Nobility under Akbar and Jahangir-A Study of
PERIODICAL LITERATURE:
1. KA Nizami
Malik Ram.
2. M. Athar Ali
:
:
Abul Fazl, Zakir Husain Presentation Volume, ed.
The Sulh-i Kul and the Religious Ideas of Akbar,

Proceedings of IHC, 1981.
:
The Mughal Court Politics during Bairam Khans
Regency, Medieval India - A Miscellany, Vol.I.
4. - do :
The Nobility Under Akbar and the development of
His religious policy 1560-80', Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 1968.
5. - do :
A note on the conception of Akbars religious policy,
History & Society; ed.Nihar Ranjan Ray, Debi Prasad
6. S. Nurul Hasan
:
The Mahzar of Akbars Reign, Journal of UP
Historical Society, Vol. XVI, Pt. I.
7. Satish Chandra
:
The Deccan Policy of the Mughals - A Reappraisal,
The Indian Historical Review, Vol.IV, No.2.
8. Shireen Moosvi
:
Evolution of Mansab System Under Akbar Journal
of Royal Asiatic Society, 1980, Part. II.
9. Shireen Moosvi
:
`Making and Recording History Akbar and the
Akbarnama Akbar and His Age, ed. I.A.Khan.
10. Shireen Moosvi
:
`Formation of Provincial Administrative Structure
under Akbar Proceedings of the Indian History
Congress 57th Session, chennai, 1996.
11. Afzal Husain
:
Growth of Irani Elements in Akbars Nobility,
Proceedings of Indian History Congress, 1980.
12. Mansura Haidar
:
`Relations of Abdullah Khan Uzbeg with Akbar,
Cashieress De, Monde, Russect Sovietque Journal of
Advanced Studies in Social Science. Vol. XXII, 3-4
July-Dec. 1982.
13. Mansura Haidar
:
`The Sovereign in the Timurid State, Turcica: Paver
Due Studies Turques VIII/2, 1976.
HS-306: NATIONAL MOVEMENT 19191942

Teachers: Dr. S. Chandni Bi
Dr. Sumbul Halim Khan (W.C.)
No. of Lecture = 60
UNIT I
1. INDIA DURING AND AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR:
8
(a) National politics during the War: Ghadar Movement; Congress-League Pact Home Rule
Leagues.
(b) Emergence of Gandhi: His political Philosophy; Champaran, Kheda and Ahmedabad
struggles.
(c) Economic and Political Impact of the first World War.
(d) Rowlatt Acts. The Montagu-Chemsford Reforms and the Indian response.
2. KHILAFAT AND NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT (1920-22).
7
(a) The April Satyagraha (1919) and its consequences.
(b) Impact of the issues of the Khilafat and Turkish independence. Formation of
Khilafat Committees. Congress and the Khilafat Question.
(c) The Non-cooperation and Khilafat Movement, 1920-22, its objectives, organisation
and extent of mobilisation. Factors behind its withdrawal.
(d) Response of various social classes to the Congress.
UNIT-II
3. AFTER NON-COOPERATION (1922-27):
5
(a) The aftermath of Non-cooperation. The Pro-Changers: The Swaraj PartyNoChangers: Gandhis Constructive Programme. The extent of Swarajist success.
(b) Growth of communalism in the twenties.
4. EMERGENCE OF NEW FORCES IN THE TWENTIES:
5
(a) Political and Economic Tensions. Communist Party & Trade Union Movement,
Revolutionary Terrorism, from the Kakori case to Bhagat Singh. Jawahar Lal
Nehru and radical trends in Congress.
(b) Progress of Gandhian Programme, Bardoli. Khudai Khidmatgars.
5. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT:
5
The Simon Commission and the Nehru Report. The questions of federation and
communal electorate.
UNIT-III
6. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TO THE 1937 ELECTIONS:
15
(a) The road to Civil Disobedience. The Madras and Lahore Resolutions of the Congress.
(b) Civil Disobedience (First phase, 1930-31); Gandhi-Irwin Pact and Its consequences.
The Karachi Resolution. Second Round Table Conference; Civil Disobedience,
Second phase 1932-34. Third Round Table Conference, the Communal award. The
Poona Pact.
(c) The Government of India Act of 1935: nature of `Provincial autonomy.
(d) The National Movement after Civil Disobedience Labour and Kisan Movements;
Congress Sessions at Lucknow and Faizpur, Elections (1937). Reasons for Congress
Successes.
UNIT-IV
7. PROVINCIAL AUTONOMY & THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1937-42): 15
(a) The formation of Congress Ministries; The Congress Government Policy towards
Labour and Kisans. The Muslim Mass contact Programme. The outbreak of the
War and resignation of the Congress Ministries.
(b) The Left in the Congress: The Tripuri Crisis.
(c) Congress in the early years of the War, 1939-41.
(d) Freedom Movements in the Princely States.
(e) The Communal Problem and the Muslim Mass Contact Movement: The revival of
the Muslim League and the Lahore Resolution of 1940.
(f) Cripps Mission and the reason for its failure.
(g) The Quit-India Resolution: its intentions and impact.
UNIT-V
1. C.H. Philips:
DOCUMENTS
The Evolution of India and Pakistan 1885-1947. Mahatma Gandhis
statement on Satyagraha, 1 November, 1919, pp.215-16. The Swaraj
Resolution, 1920, pp.216-18. The
Government of Indias
Resolution on the Non-cooperation Movement, 1920, pp.218-19.
Unit-I
2. Mahatma Gandhi and the Swarajist Leaders 22 May, 1924, pp. 225-27.
Mahatma Gandhi on Indias place in the Empire, 26 December, 1924, p.228.
The Moti Lal Nehru Committee Recommendations, 1928, pp.228-33.
M.A. Jinnahs draft resolution of March 1929, pp.235-37. Pledge taken on
Independence Day, 26 January, 1930, pp.238-39. Unit-II
3. Gandhi-Irwin Agreement 5 March, 1931, pp.241-42. Jawahar Lal Nehrus Presidential
Address at the Lucknow Session of the National Congress, 12 April 1936, pp.246-250.
B.R. Ambedkar on the depressed classes, 1 January, 1931, pp.294-98. Resolution of the
Indian National Congress at Ramgarh, 20 March 1940, pp.283-39. Lahore Resolution of
Muslim League, 24 March, 1940, pp.354-55. The Cripps Mission, 30 March, 1942,
pp.371-73. Congress Demand for British Withdrawal, 1942, pp.340-42. Unit-III & IV
4.
Jagdish Saran Sharma: Indias Struggle for Freedom (Selected Documents and
Sources), Vol.I. Resolution of the Indian National Congress on Fundamental Rights as
amended by the All-India Congress Committee, 6-8 August, 1931, pp.232-35.
Resolution of the All-India Congress Committee, 18 March, 1937, pp.567-68. UnitIII & IV
NOTE:- There will be five questions, one each from the four Units, and one requiring
comments on passages from the Unit-V on Documents.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
Tara Chand
History of the Freedom Movement in India, Vols. III and

IV.
Mahatma, Vols. I, II and III.
Gandhi: Rise to Power. Indian Politics, 1915-1922 (1972)
Locality Province and Nation.
Agrarian Unrest in North India.
Peasant in Revolt.
Crisis of Indian Unity, 1917-1940.
Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India.
Jawahar Lal Nehru, Vol. I.
History of Freedom Movement in the Princely States.
The Indian Struggle.
Congress and the Raj.
Communal and Islamic Trends inColonial India.
Ideology and Politics.
Indian National Congress and the Raj., 1929-42.
Essays on Gandhian Politics: The Rowlatt Satyagrah. of 1919
(1971)Essays on Social History of Modern India.
Peasantry and the Indian National Movement.
Peasants and Workers Movement in India (1905-1929).
Working Class of India.
Imperialism & the British Labour Movement, 1914-1964.
Papers of India (Oxford University), vol. I, Part 2.
Trade, Tariff and Empire.
Khilafat to Partition.
The Sole Spokesman.
Modern Islam in India.
Towards a Common Destiny: a Nationalist Manifesto.
The Critical Trainangle: India, Britain & Turkey 1908-1924.
India wins Freedom: An Autobiographical Narrative (1959).
D.G. Tendulkar
Judith Brown
Gallagher, Jhonson & Seal (ed.)
M.H. Siddiqui
Kapil Kumar
R.J. Moore
Bipan Chandra
S. Gopal
R.L. Handa
Subhas Bose
DA Low (ed.)
Mushirul Hasan
Mohammed Ali
BR Tomlinson
Ravinder Kumar
Shive Kumar
Sukhbir Chaudhary
Sukomal Sen
Parthasarthi Gupta
NJ Allen & others (ed.)
Basudev Chatterji
Moin Shakir
Ayesha Jalal
W.C. Smith
Tufail Ahmad
R.K. Trivedi
Abul Kalam Azad
David Hardiman
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Kapil Kumar
Sumit Sarkar
Bipan Chandra
Congress and Classes

Modern India
Indias Struggle for Independence
Mradula Mukharji
Aditya Mukherji
Sucheta Mahajan
Judith Brown
- Gandhi and Civil Disobidiance
-do- Modern India
Article: Krishna Gopal, Religion in Politics IESHR Vol. VIII No. 4, 1971.
HS-307: FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789-99

Teachers: Dr Roohi Abida Ahmad (W.C.)
Mrs. Tahmeena Javed
UNIT-I
1. Origins & Causes of the French Revolution:
04
Socio-economic change in Europe since 1600. The Age of Reason and its
impact. Political ideas of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu and the
impact of Voltaires writings.
2.
The Ancient Regime:
03
Social stratification in France, Economic conditions of the People. PreRevolutionary French feudalism. Bourbon Absolutism. Administrative structure of
France.
3.
State Finances and the Estates General :
05
Financial position of the French Government in 1788. Demand for the Estates
General. Election Pamphlet of Abbe Sieyes. Doubling of the Third. The
Cahiers.
4.
Popular Reaction:
03
Fall of the Bastille. Establishment of the Commune and the National Guard.
Great Fear, anarchy and the abolition of Feudalism. The great March to
Versailles and the Kings return to Paris. Popular clubs and their role. Kings
flight to Varennes, Massacre of Champ de Mars.
UNIT-II
5.
6.
7.
8.
The Constitution of 1791:

05
Parties and opinions in the National Assembly. Rights of Man and the Citizen.
Organic provisions of the Constitution. Civil Constitution of the clergy. Local
Government.
The Period of the Legislative Assembly-I:
04
The new government. Political parties in the Assembly. The position of the
King, Legislation Against the emigres and the priests. The question of war.
Narbonne. Fall of the Feuellant Ministry.
The Period of the legislative Assembly-II:
06
Brissotin Ministry. Dumouriez. Insurection of June 20, Lafayette. Fete of the
Federes. Brunswick Manifesto. The Sections. Insurrection of August 10. Fall
of the Monarchy and country-wide reaction. Lafayettes defection. The
Commune. The September massacre.
UNIT-III
The National Convention-I:
05
Parties and leaders in the convention. Struggle between the Jacobins and the
Girondins. Trial and execution of the King. The decrees of November 19 and
December 15. Reaction to the Kings execution. The Vendean insurrection.
9.
The National Convention II:

04
The conspiracy of March 9. The theatre of war, Neerwinden and defection of
Dumouriez. The first Committee of General safety. Representatives on
mission. The law of the maximum. The Committee of Twelve. Insurrection of
May 31, and the fall of the Gironde. The role of the Parisian Sansculottes.
10.
The Reign of Terror:

06
Suppression of Vendean revolt. Suppression of revolt in the southern
provinces. Suppression of Hebertism. Robespierre and Danton. Dantons trial
and execution. Fate of the Supreme Being. The Law of 22 Prairial. Fall of
Robespierre.
UNIT-IV
11.
12.
13.
14.
The Thermidorean Reaction:

04
The Thermidore. Moderates and extremists. Measures for the liberation of the
Press. Reconstruction of the Committee of Public safety. Restoration of
religious freedom. Rehabilitation of the Girondins. Insurrection of 12
Germinal. The white Terror. Insurrection of the Prairial. Royalist reaction. The
constitution of the year III. The decree of the 2/3. Educational Policy of the
Thermidorians. The Vendemiaire insurrection and its consequences.
The Directory:
03
The new government. Parties and politics in the legislature. War policy of the
Directory. Domestic affairs and corruption in government. French reverses in
war. The Babeuf conspiracy.
The Clergy. The Coup detat of 18 Fructidor. Coup of Floreal. The law of
conscription.
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte:
03
Life of Bonaparte. The Italian and Austrian fronts. Napoleon given command
of the Army of Italy. The First Italian campaign. The Egyptian campaign.
Overthrow of the Directory.
Interpretations of the French Revolution:
05
The Jacobin, the conservative the Marxist and other Schools.
DOCUMENTS
J.H. Stewart:
Documentary Survey of The French Revolution Documents
Nos.7,15,17, 25,26,31, (Arts. 1.4-17,20,24,25) 45, 46, 48, (Chapters II & V
only) 64, 75, 76 (Preamble & Arts. 1 & 2).101 (Sec.2), 116, 123, 129 (Title I
only), 131, 135, 151 (excluding Secret Articles).
Note: Candidates will be expected to attempt five questions of which one will be on
quotations from the documents, and one each from the four Units.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. G. Lefebvre
: French Revolution.
2. -DO: The coming of the French Revolution.
3. AD Tocqueville
:
The Ancient Regime and the French Revolution.
4. JM Thompson
:
The French Revolution.
5. JM Sydenham
:
The French revolution.
6. A Goodwin
: The French revolution.
7. Acton (ed. Ward )
:
Cambridge Modern History of Europe Vol.VIII
8. Stanley Loomis
: Paris in terror.
9. Soboul
: Parisian Sans Culottes.
10. G.Rude
: Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815.
11. -DO: The crowd in History.
12. -DO: Robespierre.
13. Gershoy
: French Revolution and Napoleon.
14. Madelin
: The French Revolution.
15. A Cobban
: Social Interpretation of the French revolution.
16.Eric Thompson
:
Popular Sovereignty & the French Constituent Assembly
of 1789-91.
17. Michel Vovelle
:
The fall of the French Monarchy 1787-92.
18. Denis Woronoff
:
The Thermidorean Regime and the Directory
1794-99.
19. Blanning
: The Origins of the French Revolutionary Wars.
20. Soboul,Albert
: Understanding the French Revolution.
21. William Doyle
:
The oxford History of the French Revolution.
22. Florin Aftalion
:
The French Revolution: An Economic
Interpretation.
23. Baker
: Inventing the French Revolution.
24. Francois Furet.
:
Interpreting the French Revolution.
HS-308: HISTORY OF ENGLAND (1760-1867)

Teacher: Dr.(Mrs.) Roohi Abida Ahmad (WC)
Lectures = 60
Dr. Jawaid Akhtar
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Total No. of
UNIT-I
15
ENGLAND AT THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE III
(a) Political structure. Parliament, Cabinet and King. The Oligarchy.
(b) Economy: Population, Agrarian relations. Industry and trade.
PARLIAMENTARY REGIME UNDER GEORGE III
(a) Parliamentary Politics; 1760-70.
(b) Personal Rule of George III, 1770-83.
(c) England and the American War of Independence.
THE REGIME OF
PITT THE YOUNGER
(a) Pitt; Parliament & King.
(b) Pitts financial measures, influence of Adam Smith,
(c) Impact of the French Revolution on English Politics, Burke; Pitts
repressive policy.
UNIT-II
15
THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION:
(a) The New agricultural `Science
(b) Enclosures, and the rise of capitalist farming.
(c) Effects of the Enclosures. The Speenhamland system.
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO 1815:
(a) Primary (primitive) accumulation of capital: its sources and significance.
(b) The early mechanical inventions: The textile industry. New sources of
power: Water and coal; coal mining and iron industry.
(c) Transport: roads, canals.
(d) Formation of the industrial working class: early Labour conditions.
(e) Population: growth and changes in composition and distribution.
WARS WITH REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC FRANCE:
(a) The coalitions against Revolutionary France.
(b) War with Napoleon. The Continental system, Economic conditions during
the war.
(c) The Vienna Settlement, Castlereaghs foreign policy.
UNIT-III
15
IRELAND AND THE OVERSEAS COLONIES:
(a) The economic decline of Ireland. The religious question.
(b) West Indies. Plantation economy, and British Overseas trade. Abolition of
slave trade.
ENGLAND, 1815-52:
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
(a) Social unrest after 1815; The extension of machinery to Agriculture.

Working class agitation; the Radicals.
(b) The Utilitarians, and the Movement for free trade Ricardo.
(c) The `Tory reforms and foreign policy of Canning.
THE REFORM ACT OF 1832:
(a) Factors behind the demand for parliamentary reform.
(b) The Reform Act of 1832.
(c) Impact of the Reform Act on distribution of political power.
THE LAST PHASE OF THE INDUSTRIAL RVOLUTION:
(a) The Railways, as the last stage in British Industrialisation.
(b) The Chartist Movement: its principles, strength and decline.
UNIT-IV
15
GOVERNMENT OF ENGLAND, 1837-48:
(a) The Whig ascendancy
(b) The anti-Corn Law League. Cobden and Bright.
(c) Peelite Toryism (1841-46); Factory legislation, Corn Law Repeal and its
significance.
BRITISH WORLD SUPERMACY, 1848-67:
(a) Beginning of Export of Capital.
(b) Movement of wages. Emergence of Aristocracy of labour.
(c) The climax of the British colonial System. The Mutiny, the Opium Wars,
Competition with Russia for Asia, (Crimean War).
(d) Palmerstons foreign policy.
BRITISH POLITICS, 1847-67:
(a) The emergence of the Conservative and Liberal Parties.
(b) Political instability, 1846-67.
(c) The Second Reform Act, 1867 its political consequences.
DOCUMENTS
A. English Historical Documents (Eyre & Spotiswood, 1956-77).
(a) Vol. X (1714-83) Nos. 12, 13,14,16,51,78,117,223. Unit-I
(b) Vol. XI (1783-1832) Nos. 298, 356, 390, 487. Unit-II
(c) Vol. XII (i) (1833-74) Nos. 138, 260. Unit-IV
B. Documents of English History (1688-1832) ed. W.A. Barker, Aubyn & R.L.
Ollard, London, 1952, pp.18-20, 31-35. Unit-I
C. From Cobbett to the Chartists (1815-48): Nos. 14, 18, 30,37,54. Unit-II
D. Liberal Tradition, ed. A. Bullock & M. Slwek London, 1956, Nos. 20, 22, 23, 33.
Unit-I
E. British and Europe Pitt to Churchill (1793-1940) ed. J. Joll. (London) Nos.9, 15,18.
Unit-IV
F. Capital, Vol. I, Moore-Aveling tr., Karl Marx., Moscow ed. Chapter XXV Sect. 5
(a), chapter XXVII. Unit-II
Note: Candidates will be expected to attempt five questions of which one will be on
quotations from the documents, and one each from the four Units.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
J.S. Watson
: The Reign of George III, 1760-1815.
L. Namier.
: The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III.
R. Pares
: George III and the Politicians
Dorthy Marshall : England in the 18th Century
L. Namier
: England in the Age of American Revolution.
Asa Briggs
: The Age of Improvement 1783-1862.
E.L. Woodward : The Age of Reform 1815-1862.
C.L. Clark
: The Making of Victorian England.
W.H. Mahel
: The Reform bill of 1832
Asa Briggs
: Chartist Studies.
E.J. Hobsbawm : Industry and Empire.
T.S. Ashton
: Economic History of England.
Paul Mantoux
: Industrial Revolution in England.
L.C.A. Knowles : The Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain
during the 19th Century.
P. Mathias
: The First Industrial Nation.
P. Dean & Cole : British Economic Growth.
H. Butterfield
: George III and the Historians, History, 1958, pp.14-33.
Pauline Gregg
: Social & Economic History of Britain, 1760-1950.
Max Morris
: From Cobbett to the Chartists, vol. I, 1815-1848.
HS-310: ISLAMIC HISTORY (RISE OF ISLAM TO 661 A.D.)

Teacher: Dr. F.Z. Bilgrami (W.C.)
Dr. Maksud Ahmad Khan
UNIT-I
15
1. Survey of Cotemporary & Later Source Material :
(i) The Quran - its use as source of Islamic History.
(ii) The Hadith Literature - a critical study of its development.
(iii)Literature on Sirah and Caliphate: Ibn Ishaq, al-Waqidi, Ibn Sad, Baladhuri.
(iv) Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry: problem of authenticity.
2. Society, economy and religion of Arabia on the eve of the rise of Islam.
3. The Makkan phase of the Prophets mission. Makkan response; the two pledges at
Aqabah; migration to (Madinah) Yathrib and its significance; the political and social
situation at Yathrib at the time of migration.
UNIT-II
15
4. Establishment of the Islamic State; the First Phase:
(i) Creation of the Ummah Islamic community at Madinah
(ii) Constitution of Madinah.
5. War and peace with the Arab tribes:
(i) The struggle with the Makkans and other opponents: Major battles
(ii) The Treaty of Hudaibiyah and its significance.
(iii) The conquest of Makka and its consequences.
6. The Prophets relations with the Jews and Christians:
(I) Expulsion of the Banu Qainuqa and Banu Nadhir. Action against Banu Quraizah,
Conquest of Khaiber
(II) Prophets charter to the Christians of Najran.
7. Society under the Prophet:
(I) His Last Serman
(II) The Reform of the Social structure. Status of Women, slaves and non-Muslims;
property, marriage and the family; prohibition of usury and wine.
(III) Administration under the Prophet.
UNIT-III
8. Caliphate of Abu Bakr:
(i) The Problem of succession; the nature of early Caliphate.
(ii) Achievements of Abu Bakr, Ridda Wars, Collection of the Quran.
9. Umar I.
15
(i) Expansion of the Caliphate, treatment of conquered populations in Byzantine & Persian
territories.
(ii) Umars Administrative measures.
10. Uthman:
(i) Usmans measures
(i) The preceding shift from oral communication to writing. Collection of Quranic verses,
and its circulation.
(ii) Causes of discontent, Caliph Uthmans assassination.
UNIT-IV
15
11. Ali:
(i) His accession and early problems.
(ii) Civil Wars under Hazrat Ali (a) Battle of Jamal (b) Battle of Siffin.
(iii) The Kharijis, and Alis assassination.
12. Society and administration under the Pious Caliphs:
(i) Composition of society, Mawali & Zimmis. Outward migration of Arab tribes.
(ii) The Central, Provincial, Revenue Administration. Organisation of the Army.
DOCUMENTS
1. Montgomery Watt
: Muhammad at Medina: The Constitution of Medina,
pp.221-225. Unit-I
2. Ibn Ishaq
: Life of Muhammad, Eng. tr. R. Guillaume. The Farewell Pilgrimage,
pp.651-52.Unit-II
3. Extracts from Futuhal Buldan of Baladhuri (Eng. Tr. by P.K. Hitti under the title The
Origins of the Islamic State, Vol.I: Unit-IV
Part I Chapter VII : Makkah, pp.60-70. Part I Chapter XIV : The Christians of Najran, pp.98103. Unit-II
Part I Chapter XIX : Apostacy of the Arabs,pp.143-52. Unit-III
Part II Chapter VIII : The Conquest of Damascus & Provinces, pp.186-99. Unit-III
Part IX Chapter VII : Fiscal and administrative arrangements in as-Sawad, pp.422-33.
Unit-IV
Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit, one out of these requiring
1. Ibn Ishaq
2. Shibli Numani
3. DS Margoliouth
4. Joseph Horovitz
:
:
:
5. Nisar Ahmad Faruqi

6. Mohammad Zaki
:
:
7. Robert Simon
8. M. Watt
9. -do10. -do11. William Muir
12. Maxime Rodinson
13. M. Hamidullah
14. do-
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
15. Barakat Ahmad

:
16. Dennett
:
17. Athar Husain
:
18. Shibli Numani
:
19. Thomas Arnold
20. Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi :
21. F Lokkegaard
:
22. W. Montgomery Watt
23. William Muir
:
24. P.K. Hitti
:
25. Levy R.
:
26. Lewis Bernard
:
27. Joseph Hell
:
28. Husaini S.A.
:
Reference Reading:
1. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan :
2. Marshall G.S. Hodgson
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
Sirat Rasulullah, Eng. Tr. by A Guillaume (The Life of
Muhammad) a translate of Ibn Ishaqs Sirat Rasul Allah.
Sirat un-Nabi, Eng. Tr. Vols.I, II.
Arabic Historians.
The Earliest Biographies of the Prophet and their authors,
Eng.Tr. by Marmaduke Pickthall in Islamic Culture, 1927,
Vol.IV, pp.535-559; 1928Vol.I, pp.22-50; Vol.III, pp.164182, Vol.IV, pp.495-526.
Early Muslim Historiography.
History of Muslim Rule The Prophet and the Early Rulers
(relevant Portion).
Meccan Trade and Islam.
Muhammad at Mecca-Introduction.
Muhammad at Madina.
Muhammad, the Prophet and Statesman.
Caliphate, its Rise decline and fall.
Mohammad.
The Muslim Conduct of State. (Relevant portions)
Battlefields of the Prophet Muhammad, with maps, illustrations
and sketches, a contribution to Muslim military history. New rev.
ed.
Muhammad and the Jews.
Poll-tax and conversion in Early Islam.
The Glorious Caliphate.
Al-Faruq, Eng. Tr. by M. Saleem.
:
Caliphate.
Organisation of Government Under the Prophet.
Islamic Taxation in the Classical Period.
:
Muhammads Mecca: History in the Quran.
Life of Muhammad from original sources.
History of the Arabs
Social Structure in Islam (relevant chapters)
The Arabs in History.
The Arab Civilization.
The Arab Administration.
The Life of Muhammad

:
The Venture of Islam Conscience & History in a world
Civilization Vol.I
HS-311: MODERN WORLD (1500-1870)

Teacher: Dr. M. Waseem Raja (W.C.)
Dr. Tahmeena Javed
UNIT-I
1.
2.
ENGLIGHTENMENT & MODERN IDEAS:

Renaissance, Humanism in literature and Art.
Evolution of Scientific and rationalistic thought with special reference to Kant
& Descartes.
Reformation: From the Age of Scholasticism to Secularization of Intellectual
and Cultural Environment.
EMERGENCE OF MODERN WORLD:
Feudalism & `Feudal Crisis, Debates on the transition period.
Discovery of the New World; Colonialism and Mercantilism.
UNIT-II
1.
2.
3.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND:

Factors for Industrial Revolution in England. Agricultural Revolution and
Enclosure Movement, Factory System, Impact on Society.
INDUSTRIALISATION IN EUROPE:
Industrial Revolution in Europe; France and Germany.
RISE OF SOCIALISM:
Utopian Socialism, Scientific Socialism: Ideology and Impact.
UNIT-III
1.
2.
3.
4.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION:
Nature, British Colonial Policies and Internal Factors, Course of Events, Social
and Political Significance.
FRENCH REVOLUTION:
State of the Ancien Regime. Causes, the new political and social ideas.
Political and Economic consequences.
Napoleon: His reforms and the Continental Systems.
AGE OF REACTION:
Age of Matternich: Congress of Vienna and Concert of Europe Concert,
Revolutions of 1830 & 1848.
UNIT-IV
1.
COLONIALISM IN THE 19TH CENTURY:
Colonial system: exploitation of New World, bullion influx, Trans Atlantic

Slave Trade, Tribute from the Asian conquests.
The Opium wars & Opening up of China.
Eastern Question: State of Ottoman Empire, Independence of Greece and Crimean
War.
UNIT-V
1.
2.
3.
4.
RUSSIA: Decembrist Movement. Reaction; Alexander II and Reforms.

American Civil War: Reconstruction.
UNIFICATION OF ITALY: Young Italy and Mazzini, Cavour, victory over
Austria, Garibaldi, The Kingdom of Italy.
UNIFICATION OF GERMANY: From Zollverein to Unification, Bismarck
and the wars of 1866-1870-71. The Treaty of Frankfurt.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
Green, V.H.H.
Charles G. Nauert
Maurice Dobb
Frank E. Manuel
Penington, D.H.
Coleman, D.C.
:
:
:
:
:
:
Thompson David
Fieldhouse, D.K.
:
:
Palmer and Cotton

Edward M. Burns, Philip
Lee Ralph et. Al.,
Christopher Hill
C. Lefebvre
Edward McNau Burns
P.L. Ralph, R.E.
:
:
:
:
:
:
R.L. Greaves, R.
:
Kevin Reilly, Zaller et.al.
Immanuel Wallesrstein
Lipson. E;
Mack Smith. Denis;
Pflan Ze Otto;
:
:
:
Renaissance and Reformation.

Hummanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe.
Studies in the Development of Capitalism.
The Age of Reason.
Seventeenth Century Europe.
Revision in Mercantilism. The Cambridge Economic History of
Europe, Vols. I.II, & IV.
Europe Since Napoleon.
Colonial Empires; A Comparative Survey Since the Eighteenth
Century.
Modern World.
World civilizations, vol. B, Vol. C
(Selected Chapters)
Reformation to Industrial Revolution.
The Coming of the French Revolution.
World Civilizations
Civilizations of the World
LERNER, S. MEACHAM
Readings in World Civilizations.
Modern World System Capitalist agriculture and the Origin

of the European World Economy in the 16th Century.
Europe in the 19th C. & 20th C. (1815-1939).
Cavour & Garibaldie, A Study In Political Conflict.
Bismark and the Development of Germany, the Period of
Unification (1815-1871).
Allen & Unwin (Ed.)
Donald Kagan
UNESCO History, History of Mankind, Cultural & Scientific

Development, Vol.6.
The Western Heritage
HS-314: ART & ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA (MAURYAS TO MUGHALS)

Teachers: Dr. M.K. Pundhir
Dr. Arshia Shafaqat (W.C.)
UNIT-I
1. Architectural Forms & Techniques; Building Material:
10
Buddhist Architecture: Stupa (Sanchi); Rock-cut Architecture (Ajanta). Temple
Architecture: Early Temples: Sanchi, Devgarh, Bhitargaon. The Aryan and Dravidian
styles of temples: Bhubaneshwar, Konarak, Pallava, and Chola temples.
UNIT-II
2. Sculpture: Mauryan Sculptures: Asokan Pillars. Sunga & Satvahana Sculptures:
Sanchi, Bharhut, Amravati. Gandhara School & Mathura School. Kushana Sculptures (Ist
to 3rd C. A.D.) Gupta Sculptures (4th to 6th C.A.D.): Mathura & Sarnath.
UNIT-III
3. Sultanate Architecture:
10
The Development of Mosque and Tomb architecture from 13th to 15th century especially
Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque, Jamal Khan, Kali Masjid, Khirki Masjid, Begumpuri Masjid,
Sultan Gari, Tomb of Iltutmish, Tomb of Ghiyasuddin Tughluq, square tombs and Tomb
of Khar-i-Jahani Telangani. Provincial Architecture: Jaunpur, Malwa and Gujarat.
Features & elements of Sur Architecture: Old Fort, The Mosques (esp. Qila-i Kuhna),
Tombs (e.g. Sher Shah).
UNIT-IV
4. Mughal Architecture:
10
Development of Mughal Architecture under Babur: Gardens, Mosques. The Tombs
(Humayun, Akbar, Itimadud Daulah and the Taj). The Mosques (esp. Jami Masjids of
Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Delhi). Temples (esp. Gobind Dev Temple of Vrindavan).
Secular Structures: Fatehpur Sikri, Agra Fort, Red Fort, Delhi.
UNIT-V
5. Indian Painting:
(A) Basic Features of Buddhist School of Painting (Ajanta)
(B) Jain School of Painting.
(C) Mughal School of Painting under Akbar and Jahangir.
10
BOOKS RECOMMENDED
1. Percy Brown
-do-do2. R. Nath
3. James Fergusson
4. Manorama Jauhari
5. Edith Tomory
6. Charles Fabri
7. Charles Fabri
8. Chintamoni Kar
9. K. Krishnamurthy
10. S.K. Bhattacharya
11. A.K. Coomaraswamy
12. E.B. Havell
13. Catherine B. Asher
14. J.P. Guha
15. K.V. Soundara Rajan
16. Satish Grover
17. Ebba Koch
: Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Period).

: Indian Architecture (Islamic Period)
: Indian Painting.
: History of Sultanate Architecture.
: History of Indian & Eastern Architecture, Vol. I & II.
: South India and Its architecture.
: A History of Fine Arts in India and the west.
: Discovering Indian Sculpture.
: An Introduction to Indian Architecture.
: Classical Indian Sculpture.
: Early Indian Secular Architecture.
: The story of Indian Art.
: Introduction to Indian Art.
: Indian Architecture through the Ages (Chapter X).
: The New Cambridge History of India, Mughal Architecture.
: Introducing Indian Art
: Islam builds in India
: The Architecture of India (Islamic Period).
: The Mughal Architecture
: The Karwan Sarais of Mughal India: A Study of
Surviving Structures, IHR, Vol.XIV, No.1-2.
19. Margaret H.Case (ed.) : Govindadeva: A Dialogue in Stone.
20. G.H.R. Tillotson (ed.) : Paradigms of Indian Architecture
21. S.P. Verma
: Art and Material Culture in the Paintings of Akbars
Court, New Delhi, 1978.
22. K. Khandalwala
: Documents on Indian Painting. Moti Chandra
23. M.C. Beach
: The Cambridge History of India: Mughal and Rajput
Paintings
24. Surendra Sahai
: Indian Architecture, Islamic Period.
25. Bianca Maria Alfieri : Islamic Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent.
HS-316: MODERN WORLD (1871-1992)

Teacher: Dr. Jawaid Akhtar
Dr. Reyaz Ahmad Khan (W.C.)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
UNIT-I
12
THE CAPITALISM, COLONIALISM AND SOCIALISM IN WESTERN
EUROPE (1870-1914):
THE GERMAN EMPIRE: BISMARCKS FOREIGN POLICY. THE THIRD FRENCH
REPUBLIC. GROWTH OF MONOPOLY CAPITALISM, FINANCE CAPITAL. THE
CHALLENGE OF SOCIALISM.
IMPERIALISM AND WORLD WAR-I:
NEW IMPERIALISM: INTER-IMPERIALIST RIVALRIES. WORLD WAR-I: CAUSES,
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES.
THE PEACE SETTLEMENT:
THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES. OTHER PEACE TREATIES. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
EUROPE AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR I.
UNIT-II
12
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917:
CAUSES. THE CIVIL WAR. CONSTRUCTION OF SOCIALIST STATE UNDER LENIN AND
STALIN.
NATIONAL LIBERATION IN ASIA:
The Rise of Arab Nationalism. Anti-Imperialism and Reform in Egypt. The
Kamalist Revolution in Turkey. Meiji Restoration and modernization of Japan.
THE INTER-WAR PERIOD:
Fascism in Italy. Nazism in Germany. Depression of 1929-32.The New Deal.
UNIT-III
7. WORLD WAR-II:
Origin. Factors for the defeat of Fascist powers. War aims of allies.
8. POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION:
The United Nations. Marshall aid and European Recovery. The Cold War.
9. DECOLONISATION AFTER 1945:
Decolonisation in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
UNIT-IV
12
10. THE CHINESE REVOLUTION:
Chief Features of the revolution. China after Mao.
12
11. FACTORS FOR THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION. PERESTROIKA. GLASNOT.
COLLAPSE OF SOCIALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE. EMERGENCE OF A UNIPOLAR
WORLD. GLOBALISATION. FORMS OF RESISTANCE TO GLOBALISATION.
12. FACTORS. THE EXPANSION OF WELFARE PROVISIONS. MULTI-NATIONAL
CORPORATIONS. THE WORLDS POPULATION.
13. THE RISE OF THE FAR EAST, 1945-1992:
Industrial development in Japan. Economic and social developments in South
Korea.
UNIT-V
12
14. THE THIRD WORLD, 1945-1992:

NEW-COLONIALISM. THE RESOURCE CRISIS. AID AND EXPLOITATION. THE OIL
RICH STATES. THE OIL CRISIS (1937-1983). THE PROBLEM OF THE PERSISTENCE OF
UNDER DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD.
15. THE NEW TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION, 1973-1992:
Microelectronics and biotechnology. Social and economic consequences. New
Technology and the Labour Force.
16. New Political and Economic Order, Globalization and Third World.
Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
1. E.J. Hobsbawn
2. CJH Hayes
3. Alec Nova
4. SJ Woolf
5. G. Barrachlough
6. F. Lee Benn
7. RW Harris
8. William Woodruff
9. Eric Hobsbawm
10. Ray Spangenburg &
1990s.
11. JM Roberts
12. George Lichtheim
13. Richard Allen
14. David Thompson
15. W. Rustow
16. Walter Laqueur
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
:
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914.

Contemporary History Since 1870.
An Economic History of the USSR.
European Fascism.
An Introduction to Contemporary History.
:
Europe Since 1914.
An Historical Introduction to the 20th Century.
:
A Concise History of Modern World.
Age of Extremes.
The History of Science from 1946-to the Diana K. Mosa
:
Twentieth Century.
:
Europe in the 20th Century.
Imperialism and Nationalism in the Fertile Crecent.
:
Europe Since Napolean.
:
The World Economy: History and Prospect.
Europe since Hitler

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HS-102: MEDIEVAL INDIA C. 900 1526

7. The supremacy of the Turkish Slave-aristocracy (Turkan-i Chihalgani).

10. Alauddin Khalji: Agrarian measures, Market control.

(A) Bhakti Movement in Northern India: Ramanand, Kabir & Nanak

HS-103: MODERN INDIA (1707-1858)

Total No. of Lectures = 60

Indian Powers on the Eve of British Conquests:

Organisation of British Rule 1805:

The Wahabi Movement.

: Comprehensive History of India vol. 9

HS-104: EUROPEAN HISTORY (1500-1919)

Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit.

Europe in the Sixteenth Century.FL Mossee

HS-105: HISTORY OF ISLAM TILL THE FALL OF BAGHDAD

2. The Prophet: his Life and Teachings (570-632):

4. Pious Caliphate (632-661)

TR-101: TOURISM IN INDIA PAPER I

Centres of Tourist Attraction

TR-102: TOURISM - PAPER II ANCIENT INDIAN ART & MONUMENTS

Early Indian Architecture

Dasavatara Temple at Deogarh,

Note: There will be five questions, one from each Unit.

: Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods),

IM-101: INDIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT (1885-1947)

Note: There will be five questions one from each Unit.

Modern India, Chapter Relevant Chapters.

POLITY AND SOCIETY: 2nd Century BC to 2nd Century AD

CULTURE, RELIGION AND ECONOMY: 2nd. C.B.C. to 2nd C.A.D.

POLITY AND SOCIETY: 3rd-6th Centuries A.D.

CULTURE, RELIGION AND ECONOMY: 3rd-6th Centuries A.D.

POLITY, SOCIETY AND ECONOMY: 7th-9th Centuries A.D.

Manusmriti, x, 1-6, 24-40, 42-43, 51-56 (Buhlers tr.) - Unit-I

: The Wonder that was India

HS-202: MUGHAL EMPIRE TO 1707

Total No. of Lectures 60

Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire.

: Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb

FOR FURTHER READING:

: The Mughal Court politics during Bairam Khans Regency,

: Evolution of Mansab System Under Akbar, JRAS, London,

HS-203: MODERN INDIA, 1858-1950

Total No. of Lectures = 60

Problem. Gandhis assassination.

HS-204: HISTORY OF ENGLAND, 1485-1919

Teacher: Prof. Tariq Ahmad

Total No. of Lectures 60

The New Monarchy: Henry VIIs anti-baronial measures; beginnings of

STUART MONARCHY AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION:

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, 1760-1850:

: Ground Work of British History.

HS-205: HISTORY OF WEST AND CENTRAL ASIA

TR-201: MEDIEVAL INDIAN ART AND MONUMENTS

Introduction to Indian Architecture.

Indian Painting under the Mughals.

Mughal Painters and their Works (A bibliographical survey

TR-202: FRENCH LANGUAGE

Sentence Structure in French. Change in Gender and Number.

: Cours De Langue Et De Civilisation Francaises, Hachette,

Total No. of Lectures = 60

The Vedic Age:

History of the Gupta dynasty

Science and Technology in Ancient India

Rise of Indian Feudalism, its meaning and significance.