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The document outlines the curriculum for a Bachelor in History (Honours) program focusing on the history of India from the 1600s to the 1750s. It details the learning objectives, outcomes, and syllabus units covering sources, political developments, religious ideas, visual culture, and economic aspects of the period. The course aims to engage students with various historiographical narratives and critical evaluations of historical sources and societal structures.
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SEMESTER - VI
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
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Learning Objectives
The course draws students into a discussion of the multiple historiographical narratives
available for the history of India in the period between the early seventeenth and the mid-
eighteenth centuries. It intends to familiarise them with challenges that the Mughal Empire
faced in the process of territorial expansion and regional contestations. Students also get
to explore state sponsored art and architecture as a visual expression of authority. They
would also be introduced to the nature of the pre-colonial agrarian society as well as Indian
Participation in the international trade. In addition, the course aims to introduce students
to contrasting religious ideologies of the times and their effect on the contemporary
political dispensation.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this course, the students shall be able to:
© Critically evaluate the gamut of non-Persian contemporaneous literature available
in the form of personal accounts and vernacular tradition.
© Describe the major social, economic, political and cultural developments of the
times
‘+ Explain the intellectual ferment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and its
relation to state policies.
© Discern the larger motives behind the Imperial patronage of art and architecture
149* Understand the complexities of medieval indian rural society and appreciate the
resilience of the mercantile communities in furthering the maritime trade of India
with long term economic implications.
SYLLABUS OF DSC-1
Unit |. Sources
1. Sanskrit Sources
2. Travelogues- Bernier and Manucci
3. Vernacular Literary Traditions- Mangal Kavya
Unit Il, Political Developments and State Formation
1. Rajput State Formation and Negotiations
2. Mughal State- Changes and Crises
3, Maratha State under Shivaji and Peshwas
Unit Ill. Religious ideas and Visual Culture
1. Religious ideas of Dara Shikoh; Aurangzeb’s policy towards Jizya, Temples and
Music
2. Articulation of Imperial ideology: Mughals and Nayakas
3. Art- Allegory and Symbolism in the Paintings of Rajput and Mughal Paintings
4. Architecture- Shahjahanabad
Unit IV. Economy and Society
1, Rural Society- Village Community; Role of Zamindars
2. Merchant Communities
3. Pattern of India’s Oceanic Trade and its impact on the Indian Economy
Practical component (if any) - NIL
Essential/recommended readings
Unit |: Introduces students to the historical source materials of the seventeenth and
the eighteenth centuries other than the official chronicles. Through reading non-
official, courtly and vernacular, public and personal accounts students shall be urged
to think through histories, genres, and sources and rethink the above categories. The
unit thus, contemplates a critical historiography. (Teaching Time: 9 hours Approx.)
* Truschke, Audrey (2016), Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court,
New Delhi: Penguin Allen Lane, (Introduction, Chapters 5 and 6)
© Tambiah, S.J. (1988). “What did Bernier Actually say? Profiling the Mughal
Empire”,
* Contribution to Indian Sociology, vol.31 no.2, pp. 361-86.
+ Ray, A. (2005). “Francoise Bernier’s Idea of India” in |.Habib, (Ed.). India: Studies
in the History of an Idea, New Delhi: Munshiram ManoharlalSubrahmanyam, Sanjay. (2008). “Further thoughts on an Enigma: The tortuous
life of Niccolao Manucci 1638-c.1720” in Journal of the Economic and Social
History of the Orient, Vol. 45. No. 1, pp. 35-76.
Curley, David L. (2008), Poetry and History. Bengali Mangal-Kabye and Social
Change in Pre-Colonial Bengal, New Delhi: Chronicle Books (Chaps. 1 and 5).
Chatterjee, Kumkum (2013), “Goddess Encounters: Mughals, Monsters and the
Goddess in Bengal” in Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 47, Issue-5, pp. 1435-87
Unit Il: Foregrounds issues in the formation and maintenance of political power and
its challenges in the Mughal, Rajput and Maratha states. It analyses events of alliances
and contestations to sketch an image of state formations in pre-colonial India.
(Teaching Time: 15 hours Approx.)
Alam, Muzaffar. (2013), Crisis of the Empire in Mughal North India, Delhi:
Oxford University Press. (Introduction)
Richards, J. F. (2007). The Mughal Empire: The New Cambridge History of India,
Volume 5, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Richard Eaton (2019). India in the Persianate Age, 1000-1765, New Delhi,
Penguin Allen Lane (Introduction, Chapters 6 and 7)
Moin, Afzar. (2012), The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in
Islam, New York: Columbia University Press. (Introduction, Chapter 5)
Lefevre, Corinne (2007), “Recovering a Missing Voice from Mughal India: The
Imperial discourse of Jahangir (1605-27) in his Memoirs”, in Journal of
Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 452-89.
Chandra, Satish (1993). Mughal Religious Policies, Rajputs and the Deccan, New
Delhi: Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1,2 and 4)
Bhargava, Meena (Ed.,) (2014). The decline of the Mughal Empire, Delhi: OUP
(Introduction, Chapters 2 and 3)
Sharma, G D. (1997). Rajput Polity: A Study of Politics and Administration of the
State of Marwar, Delhi: Manohar
Ziegler, Norman P. (2010). “Evolution of the Rathor State of Marwar: Horses,
Structural Change and Warfare” in Meena Bhargava (ed.) Exploring Medieval
India. Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century, Vol. |!, Delhi: Orient Black Swan
Ziegler, Norman. P. (1998). “Some nates on Rajput Loyalties during the Mughal
Period” in J. F. Richards (Ed.) Kingship and Authority in Southeast Asia. Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
Hallissey, Robert C. (1977). The Rajput Rebellion against Aurangzeb: A Study of
the Mughal Empire in Seventeenth-Century India, Columbia: University of
Missouri Press.
Sreenivasan, Ramya (2004). “Honoring the family: Narratives & Politics of
Kingship in Pre-colonial Rajasthan, in Chatterjee, Indrani, ed., Unfamiliar
Relations: Family and History in South Asia. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press.
Sreenivasan, Ramya (2014). “Rethinking kingship and Authority in South Asia:
‘Amber (Rajasthan), Ca. 1560-1615.” Journal of the Economic and Social History
of the Orient 57, no. 4, pp 549-86
151Gordon, Stewart. (1998). The Marathas, 1600-1818, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press,
Chandra, Satish. (1982). Medieval India: Society, the Jagirdari Crisis and the
Village. Delhi: Macmillan (Chapters 8,9 and 10)
Wink, Andre (1986), Land and Sovereignty in india: Agrarian Society and Politics
under Eighteenth Century Maratha Swarajya, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Unit III: Contends with state and doctrinal attitudes towards religious belief and
practice and their relation to state policy. In addition, the unit also highlights nuances
of the visual culture (art and architecture) as a mechanism to promote imperial
ideology. (Teaching Time: 12 hours Approx.)
Faruqui, Munis (2014). “Dara Shukoh, Vedanta and Imperial Succession”, in
vasudha Dalmia and MunisFaruqui, (Eds.). “Religious interaction in Mughal
India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.30-64
Gandhi, Supriya (2020), The Emperor Who Never Was. Dara Shukoh in Mughal
India, Harvard University Press. (introduction, Chapters 6 and 7)
Chandra, Satish. (1993). Mughal Religious Policies, the Rajputs and the Deccan.
Delhi: Vikas Publishing House. (Chapter 9 and 11)
Husain, Azizuddin $ M (2000), ‘Jizya- Its Reimposition During the Reign of
Aurangzeb’,
Indian Historical Review, Vol 27, Issue 2, pp 87-121
Brown Katherine B. (2007). “Did Aurangzeb Ban Music? Questions for the
Historiography of his Reign” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 77-120.
Eaton, Richard M. (2003). Essays in Islam & Indian History 711-1750, Delhi: OUP.
(Introduction and Chapter 4).
Asher, Catherine (1995). Architecture of Mughal India, The Cambridge History
of India: Vol. 1 Part 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Koch, Ebba, (2001). Mughal art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays, Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
Koch, Ebba, (2013). Mughal Architecture: An outline of its History and
Development (1526- 1858). Delhi: Primus.
Blake, Stephen. (1991). Shahjahanabad: The Sovereign City in Mughal india,
1639-1739.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Moin, Afzar. (2012), The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred kingship and Szinthood in
Islam, New York: Columbia University Press (Chapter 6)
Beach, M.C. (1992), Mughal and Rajput Painting, New Cambridge History of
India Vol.1. Part 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Desai, Vishakha N (1990), ‘Painting and Politics in Seventeenth-Century North
India: Mewar, Bikaner and the Mughal Court’, Art Journal, Vol 49, No 4, pp 370-
378
Unit IV: Acquaints students with core elements of the economy and society in pre-
Modern India. Alongside deeling with the complex rural society involving peasants and
152Zamindars, this unit also highlights the often ignored mercantile communities and
their role in facilitating India’s overseas trade during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. Besides it deals with the activities of the European trading companies in the
Indian Ocean trade network and its impact on the Indian economy. (Teaching Time:
9 Hours Approx.)
Kulkarni, A R, (1991), The Indian Village with special Reference to Medieval
Deccan (Maratha Country), General Presidential Address, PIHC, Vol 52, pp 1-43
Habib, Irfan (1999), The Agrarian System of Mughal India (1556-1707), OUP,
New Delhi (Chapter 4)
Habib, Irfan (1996). “Peasant Differentiation and the Structure of Village
Community: 16th and 17th Century Evidence From Northern India” in V K
Thakur and A Anshuman (Eds.) Peasants in Indian History, Patna
Chandra, Satish (1982), Medieval india: Society, The Jagirdari Crisis and The
Village,
New Delhi, Macmillan India Limited. (Chapters 3,4 and 6)
S Nurl Hasan, (2008), Religion, State and Society in Medieval India: Edited and
Introduced by Satish Chandra, OUP, New Delhi (Chapters 12 and 21)
Chaudhuri, K. N.(1982), “European Trade with India” in Tapan Raychaudhuri
and Irfan Habib (eds.) The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. 1 (c.1200-
¢. 1750). Delhi: Orient Longman
Das Gupta, Ashin and M N Pearson (eds) (1987), India and the Indian Ocean
1500-1800, Calcutta, OUP
Pearson, Michael N (1988), ‘Brokers in Western Indian Port Cities: their role in
servicing Foreign Merchants’, Modern Asian Studies, Vol 22, No 3, pp 455-472
Das Gupte, Ashin (2001), The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant, 1500-1800,
ouP
Gupta, Ashin Das (1998), “Trade and Politics in 18th Century India” in Alam,
Muzaffar and Subrahmanayam, Sanjay. (ed.) The Mughal State. Delhi: Oxford
University Press
Om Prakash, J. (1998). European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-colonial india.
The Cambridge History of India I1.5, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Chaudhuri, Sushil. (2017). Trade, Politics and Society: The Indian Milieu in the
Early Modern Era, London: Routledge, (Chapter 1)
Suggestive readings
Faruqui, Munis D (2012), The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719, New
York, Cambridge University Press. (Introduction, Chapters 4,5 and 6)
Alam, Muzeffar and $ Subrahmanyam (2014). Writing the Mughal World:
Studies in Political Culture, Delhi: Permanent Black
Habib, Irfan. (1995). Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perspective,
Delhi: Tulika.
Taft Frances H. (1994). “Honour and Alliance: Reconsidering Mughal-Rajput
Marriages” in Karine Schomer, Joan L. Erdman, Deryck O. Lodrick and Lioyé I.
Rudolph, (Eds.). The idea of Rajasthan, Delhi: Manohar, Vol. 1, pp. 217-41.
153© Dalmia Vasudha & Faruqui, Munis, (ed.) (2014). Religious Interactions in
Mughal India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, (Chap. 1-2)
* Koch, Ebba, (2001). “The Hierarchical Principles of Shah Jahani Painting” in Ebba
Koch,
‘© Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
© Richards, J. F. (1998). "Formulation of Imperial Authority under Akbar and
Jahangir” in Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam ed. The Mughal State,
Delhi: Oxford University Press
* Mukhia, Harbans. (2009). The Mughals of India, Delhi: Blackwell Publishing.
* Alavi, Seema. (ed.) (2002). The eighteenth century in India. Delhi: Oxford
University Press
«Alam Muzaffar and Sanjay Subrahmanyam (1998). The Mughal state 1526 —
1750, Delhi: Oxford University Press
* Chenoy, ShamaMitra (1998), Shahjahanabad, Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal
‘© Dutta, Rajat (2003) “Commercislization, Tribute and the transition from Late
Mughal to early Colonial in india” The Medieval History Journal , Vol:6 , No 2,
pp.259-91.
* Ehlers, Eckart and Krafft, Thomas (2003), Shahjahanabad / Old Delhi. Tradition
and Colonial Change, Delhi: Manohar
‘© Jha, Mridula (2017). “Mingling of the Oceans: A Journey through the Works of
Dara Shikuh”, in RaziuddinAquil& David L. Curley, (Ed..) Literary and Religious
Interactions in Medieval and Early Modern india, New Delhi: Routledge, pp. 62-
93.
* Mukherjee, Anisha Shekhar (2003). The Red Fort of Shahjahanabad, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press
* Tillotson, G.H.R (1990), Mughal India, New Delhi: Penguin Books. (Chapter on
Shahjahanabad and Red Fort)
* Bahuguna, R P (2017), ‘Religious Festivals as Political Rituals: Kingship and
Legitimation in Late Pre-Colonial Rajasthan’ in Suraj Bhan Bhardwaj, R P
Bahuguna and Mayank Kumar (eds) Revisiting the History of Medieval
Rajasthan. Essays for Professor Dilbagh Singh, Delhi,Primus Books
* Sreenivasan, Ramya. (2014). “Faith and Allegiance in the Mughal Era:
Perspectives from Rajasthan” in Vasudha Dalmia and Munis D. Faruqui (Ed.).
Religious Interactions in Mughal India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 159-
191.
* Talbot, Cynthia and Asher, Catherine 8. (2006), India Before Europe,
Cambridge; Cambridge University Press.
© Kinra Rajeev. (2009). “infantilizing Baba Dara: The Cultural Memory of Dara”, in
Journal of Persianate Studies, Vol. 2, pp. 165-93
Readings in Hindi Medium:
* Chandra, Satish (2018). Madhyakalin Bhacat (Part 1!), Sultonat se Mughal Ka ITok,
NewDelhi: Jawahar Publishers & Distributors
‘+ Habib, Irfan (Ed.).(2000). Madhyakalin Bharat, (Vols. 1-8, relevant articles), NewDelhi:Rajkamal Prakashan
© Habib, Irfan. (2017). Madhyakalin Bharat ka Arthikitihas: Ek Sarvekshan, New
Delhi:Rajkamal Prakashan
* Verma H C. (Ed.) (2017). Madhyakatin Bharat (Vol. 1!) 1540-1761, Hindi
‘Madhyamkaryanvan Nideshalaya, Delhi University
Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the Examination
Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.
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Learning Objectives
This paper introduces students to broad aspects of formation of identities and the manner
in which these identities unfolded themselves during the course of the Indian freedom
struggle. It provides an overview of socio-economic and political trends in colonial India
from the latter half of the 19th century. The paper critically analyses the various trends in
the national liberation movement and other aspects of politics which were foundational
for the modern Indian state. The aim is to develop interdisciplinary analytical skills at the
undergraduate level
Learning outcomes
After successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
Identify how community, caste, and national identity developed in the late 19th,
and early 20th centuries.
Outline the social and economic facets of colonial India and their influence on the
national movement.
Explain the various trends of anti-colonial struggles in colonial india.
Analyse the complex developments leading to partition and independence.
Discuss the key debates on the making of the Indian Constitution, and need for
socio- economic restructuring after independence
SYLLABUS OF DSC- 2
Unit 1: Colonial Economy
1.
2
Economic critique of colonial rule with special reference to Drain of Wealth
Rise of modern industry and capitalist class
Unit 2: Early Nationalism
1.
Emergence of Indian National Congress (INC)2. ‘Moderates’ and ‘Extremists’ Nationalist
3. Swadeshi and early Revolutionary Movements
Unit 3: Emergence and social base of Gandhian Nationalism
1. Foundations of Gandhian Nationalism
2. Gandhi and National Movements
a. Champaran, Kheda, Ahmedabad,
b. Rowlatt, Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movements
¢. Civil Disobedience Movement
d. d) Quit India Movement
Unit 4: Alternative trends in National Movement
1. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement, Dravidian movements
2. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) and Revolutionary
Movements
3. Gadhar, Singh Sabha and the Akali Movement
4. Peasants, Workers and Tribal movements; Emergence of the Left
5. Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian National Army; Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
Unit 5: Towards Independence and after
1. Independence and Partition
2. The Making of the Constitution
Unit 6: Formation of Identities
1. Caste
2. Community
3. Nation
Practical component [if any) - NIL
Essential/recommended readings
Unit |: This unit studies aspects of the colonial economy and its critique particularly
with reference to the phenomenon of ‘Drain of Wealth. It develops an understanding
of the emergence of modern industry and capitalist class in colonial India. (Teaching
Time: 6 hours Approx.)
Chandra, Bipan. (1966). The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India:
Economic Policies of Indian National Leadership, 1880-1905. New Delhi:
People’s Publishing House (introduction).
© Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. (2002). “The Other Side of Foreign Investment by
Imperial Powers: Transfer of Surplus from Colonies”, Economic and Political
Weekly, Vol. 37 (23), pp. 2229 - 2238.
© Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. (1972). Private Investment in India, 1900-1939.
Cambridge: Cambridge Univer- sity Press, pp. 3-25
157Mukherjee, Aditya. (2002). imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the
Indian Capitalist Class, 1920-1947, New Delhi: Sage (Introduction).
Ray, Rajat Kanta. (Ed.). (1994). Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800 -
1947. New Delhi: Ox- ford University Press, pp.1-69.
‘Unit Il; After the successful completion of this unit, students will be able to understand
various aspects of early nationalism and nationalist resistance. (Teaching Time: 6
hours Approx.)
Mclane, J.R. (1977). Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, pp.3-21; 89-178
Tripathi, Amales. (1967). The Extremist Challenge. India between 1890 and
1910. Bombay,Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi: Orient Longmans, Chapters 1-5
Chandra, Bipan, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan, K N
Panikkar. (1989). India’s Struggle for Independence. Delhi: Penguin Books,
chapters 4 to 10.
Seth, Sanjay. (2009). ‘Rewriting Histories of Nationalism: The Politics of
Moderate Nationalism in In- dia, 1870-1905’, in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Ed.),
Nationalist Movement in India : A Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
pp.30- 48
Sarkar, Sumit. (1973). Swadeshi Mavement in Bengal, 1903 - 08. New Delhi,
People’s Publishing House. (also in Hindi:{ GHARTAN, TTTASTOSeST
co¥efe¥(1903-1908), Chapter 1 and 2.
Sarkar, Sumit. (1983). Modern India: 1885—1947. Delhi: Macmillan. chapters II]
a&IV.
Unit Ill: This unit deals with Gandhian mass nationalism and Gandhi's methods of mass
mobilization cutting across different social groups in the national movement.
(Teaching Time: 9 hours Approx.)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ‘Hind Swaraj’
Hardiman, David. (2005). Gandhi in his time and ours. Delhi: Orient Blackswan,
pp.1-81; 109-184.
Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (Ed.) (2009). Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 55-155.
Pouchepadass, Jacques. (1974). “Local leaders and the intelligentsia in the
Champaran satyagraha (1917): a study in peasant mobilization”, Contributions
to Indian Sociology, Vol. 8 (2), Jan 1, pp. 67-87
kumar, Ravinder. (1971). Essays on Gandhian Politics, Rowlatt Satyagraha 1919.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 1-30
Chandra, Bipan, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan, K N
Panikkar. (1989). India’s Struggle for Independence. Delhi: Penguin Books.
Sarkar, Sumit. (1983). Modern India: 1885—1947. Delhi: Macmillan.
Minault, Gail. (1982). The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political
Mobilisation in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press (Intraduction, Chapters II,
U,V).* Amin, Shahid. (1996). Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922 - 1992.
enguin. Re- print, 2006, pp. 9-19, 45-56, 69-93.
* Sarkar, Sumit. (1983). Popular Movements and Middle Class Leadership in Late
Colonial India. S.G. Deuskar Lectures on Indian History. Centre for Studies in
Social Sciences, Calcutta.
‘* Pandey, Gyanendra, (1988). The Indian Nation in 1942. Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi and
Company (Chapters 1,2,3, 4, 8).
Unit IV: It enables students to understand the way in which the national movement
gave a new meaning to social and political movements and to diverse range of
struggles. (Teaching Time: 12 hours Approx.)
* Zelliot, Eleanor. (1996). From Untouchable to Dalit: Essays on the Ambedkar
Movement. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, pp. 53 - 177
Grewal, J.S. (1990) The New Cambridge history. II.3. The Sikhs of the Punjab,
Chapter 8, pp.157-180
Habib, [Link], (2007). To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of
Bhagat Singh and his Com- rades, New Delhi: Three Essays Collective, pp. 29 -
14a
* Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2017). From Plassey to Partition and After: A History
of Modern india, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2nd edition (Chapter 7, “Many
Voices of a Nation”).
Nagaraj, D.R. (2011). Flaming Feet, Delhi, Seagull Books. (Chapter 1).
Sarkar, Sumit. (1983). Popular Movements and Middle Class Leadership in Late
Colonial India. S.G. Deuskar Lectures on indian History. Centre for Studies in
Social Sciences, Calcutta.
© Habib, Irfan. (1998). "The Left and the National Movement”, Social Scientist,
Vol. 26 (5/6), May-June, pp. 3-33.
Chandra, Bipan. (1983) The indian Left: Critical Appraisal. New Delhi: Vikas.
Chandra, Bipan, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan, K N
Panikkar. (1989). India’s Struggle for Independence. Delhi: Penguin Books.
Dhanagare, D.N. (1991). in Peasant Movements India 1920-1950.
‘Amin, Shahid. (1988). “Agrarian Bases of Nationalist Agitation in india: An
Historiographical Survey,” in 0.A. Low (Ed.), The Indian National Congress:
Centenary Highlights, New Delhi: OUP, pp. 54-97.
* Pandey, Gyan. (1982). ‘Peasant Revolt and indian Nationalism: The Peasant
Movement in Awadh, 1919- 1922’ in Ranajit Guha ed. Subaltern Studies 1
Writings on South Asian History and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.
143-197
© Amold, David. (1982). ‘Rebellious Hillmen: the Gudem-Rampa Risings, 1839-
1924’, in Ranajit Guha (Ed.), Subaltern Studies |. Writings on South Asian History
and Society. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 88- 142
© Mohapatra, Prabhu P. (2005). ‘Regulated informality: Legal Construction of
Labour Relations in Colonial India, 1814-1926’, in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and
Jan Lucassen (Ed.), Workers in the Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History,
1800-2000. Delhi: Macmillan india Ltd.
159Sarkar, Sumit. (1983). Modern India 1885-1947. Delhi: Macmillan, pp. 153-155,
198-203, 239-243,266-278, 339-342.
Unit V: This unit will enable students to analyse the complex developments leading to
communal vio- lence, independence and partition. Students will be introduced to the
key debates on the making of the constitution of India. (Teaching Time: 6 hours
Approx.)
Pandey, Gyanendra. (1992). The Construction of Communalism in Colonial
North India. Delhi: Oxford University Press (Chapters 1, 2&7).
Chandra, Bipan. (2008). Communalism in Modern india. New Delhi: Har-Anand
Publications.
Peter Hardy, The Muslims of British India, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1972
Jaffrelot, Christophe. (1996). The Hindu Nationalist Movement and indian
Politics: 1925 to the 1990s. London: C. Hurst & Company Publishers, pp. 1-45
Chatterjee, Joya. (1995). Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition
1932 - 1947.
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (introduction and Chapters 3,5 & 6)
Jalal, Ayesha. (1985). The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the
Demand for Pakistan. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Introduction,
Chapters 1, 2& 5).
Lelyveld, David. (2005). ‘The Colonial Context of Muslim Separatism: from
Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi to Sayyid Ahmad Khan,’ in Mushirul Hasan and AsimRoy
(Ed.). Living Together Separately: Cultural India in History and Politics. Delhi,
Oxford University Press.
Metcalf, Barbara D. (2017). ‘Maulana Ahmad Madani and the Jami‘at ‘Ulama-i-
Hind: Against Pakistan, against the Muslim League’ in Qasmi, Ali
Usman,(Ed.),Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of
Pakistan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-34 and pp. 220-254.
Arbab, Safoora. (2017). ‘Nonviolence, Pukhtunwali and Decolonization: Abdul
Ghaffar Khan and the Khuda’iKhidmatgar Politics of Friendship’, in Qasmi, Ali
Usman. ed., Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of
Pakistan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 220-254.
Brown, Judith. (1984). Modern india. The Origins of an Asian Democracy.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 307 - 350
Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. (2015). Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives. Delhi, Penguin.
Sucheta Mahajan, Independence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power
in India, Sage Publications, New Delhi
Menon, V.P. (2014). integration of the Indian States. New Delhi: Orient
Blackswan. Chapter Il,1V,V
Kamtekar, Indivar. (2002). “A Different War Dance: State and Class in India
1939-1945,"
Past & Present, Vol. 176, pp. 187-221.
Chandra, _Bipan,Mridula. Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee. (2000).
India Since Independence. New Delhi: Penguin books, chapters 3, 4 and SGranville, Austin. (1966). The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of 2 Nation.
Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Chaube, S.K. (2009). The Making and Working of the Indian Constitution, Delhi,
National Book Trust.
Unit Vi: Caste, Community and Nation: The unit seeks to identify the developments in
post-1857 India in terms of the shaping of caste, religious/cammunity and national
identities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the role of reform and debates
in this. (Teaching Time: 6 hours Approx.)
Dirks, Nicholas B, (1997), “The invention of caste: civil society in colonial India”
in. HL Seneviratne (€d.), Identity, Consciousness and the Past; Forging of Caste
and Community in india and Sri Lanka. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Sarkar, Sumit and Tanika Sarkar. (Eds.). (2013). Caste in Modern India, Vols. 1 &
2. Delhi: Permanent Black (Vol. I-Chapters 2 & 3, pp. 24-87; Vol. 2-Chapter 8,
pp. 200-233).
O'Hanlon, Rosalind. (2002). Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jyotirao
Phule and Low Caste Protest in 19th Century Western India. Ranikhet:
Permanent Black, pp. 3-11
Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (1997). Caste, Protest and identity in Colonial india:
the Namasudras of Bengal, 1872-1947. London: Curzon Press
Jalal, Ayesha. (2000). Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South
Asian Islam since 1850. London: Routledge.
Rai, Santosh Kumar. (2021). Weaving Hierarchies: Handloom Weavers in Early
Twentieth Century United Provinces. Delhi: Primus Books.
Hatcher, Brian A. (2020). Hinduism Before Reform. Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press.
Anderson, Benedict. (1994) “Imagined Communities” in J. Hutchinson and A.D.
Smith (Eds.) Nationalism Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 225-231
Hardgrove, Anne. (2004). Community and Public Culture: the Marwaris in
Calcutta. New York: Oxford University Press, chapter 1.
Prakash, Gyan. (2002) ‘Civil society, community, and the nation in Colonial
India’ Etnografica, Vol. 6 (1), pp.27-40.
Jones, Kenneth, (1994). Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India.
New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, pp.73-101.
Oberoi, Harjot. (1994). The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture,
Identity and Diversity, in the Sikh Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, Chapter 4,5,6
Hardgrave, R.L. (1968). “The Breast-Cloth Controversy: Caste consciousness and
Social Change in Southern Travancore”, Indian Economic and Social History
Review (IESHR), June 1, Vol. 5 (2), pp. 171-87.
Suggestive readings (if any)
Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. (2002.) Capital and Labour Redefined: India and the Third
World. New Delhi: Tulika.
161Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2017). From Plassey to Partition and After: A History
‘of Modern India, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2nd edition
Banerjee-Dube, |. (2015). A History of Modern india. Delhi: Cambridge
University Press.
Banerji, A.K. (1982). Aspects of Indo-British Economic Relations 1858 — 1898.
Bombay: Oxford Univer- sity Press.
Basra, Amrit Kaur. (2025). Communal Riots in the Punjab, 1923 - 28. Delhi:
Shree Kala Prakashan.
Bhargava, Rajeev (ed). (2008). Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution.
New Delhi, Oxford Uni- versity Press.
Brown, Judith. (1977). Gandhi and Civil Disobedience. The Mahatma in Indian
Politics 1928-34, Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chandra, Bipan, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, Sucheta Mahajan, K N
Panikkar, (1989). India’s Struggle for Independence. Delhi: Penguin Books.
Chatterjee, Partha, (1986). Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, A
Derivative Discourse?, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Deshpande, Anirudh. (2009). “Sailors and the Crowd: Popular Protest in Karachi,
1946”, in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.336 ~ 358.
Dutta, Vishwa Nath. (2000). Gandhi and Bhagat Singh. New Delhi: Rupa and
Company.
Gandhi, Rajmohan. (2017). Modern South india: A History from the 17th
Century to our Times, Delhi, Aleph Press
Gilmartin, David. (1988). Empire and |slam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan.
California: University of California.
Guha, Amalendu. (2019). Freedom Struggle & Electoral Politics in Assam From
Planter Raj to Swara.
Delhi, Tulika Books (Chapters 5 & 6).
Guha, Ramachandra. (2018). Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World: 1914-
1948. New Delhi: Pen- guin.
Guha, Ranajit. (2000). A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995. Delhi: Oxford
University.
Gupta, Amit (1997). “Defying Death: Nationalist Revolutionism in india, 1897-
1938”,
Social Scientist, Vol. 25 (9/10), pp. 3-27.
O'Hanlon Rosalind (2017). Caste and its Histories in Colonial India: A
Reappraisal,’
Modern Asian Studies $1, 2 pp. 432-461
Hasan, Mushirul and Asim Roy (Eds.). (2005). Living Together Separately:
Cultural india in History and Politics. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Hasan, Mushirul ed. (1993). India’s Partition: Process, Strategy and
Mobilization. (Themes in Indian History. Oxford india Readings. Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
162Hasan, Mushirual, Gupta, Narayani. (1993). India’s Colonial Encounter. Essays
in Memory of Eric Stokes. Delhi: Manohar, pp. 183-199; 325-362.
Kumar, Dharma. (1983) The Cambridge Economic History of India. Vol. 2: ¢.
1757-1970.
Delhi: Orient Longman in association with Cambridge University Press.
Kumar, Ravinder. (1969). ‘Class, Community or Nation? Gandhi's Quest for a
Popular Consensus in In- dia’ Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 3, Issue. 4, pp. 357-
376.
Metcalfe, Barbara. (2014). Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900.
Princeton: Princeton University Press
Mishra, Yuthika. (2004). “The Indian National Movement and Women’s Issues:
1850- 1950”, in The En- cyclopaedia of Women’s Studies, Vol. I. Women’s
Movements, ed. Subhadra Channa, New Delhi: Cosmo Publications.
Mukhopadhyay, Amitabh. (1995). Militant Nationalism in india: 1876 - 1947.
Calcutta: Institute of His- torical Studies.
Naik, J.V. (2001). “Forerunners of Dadabhai Naoroji's Drain Theory”, Economic
and Political Weekly, Vol. 36 (46), pp. 4428-32
Pandey, Gyanendra. (2001). Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and
History of India. Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press
Pandey, Gyanendra. (2002). The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh
1926-34: A Study in Im- perfect Mobilization. Second edition. New Delhi:
Anthem Press (Introduction and Chapter 4).
Parekh, Bhikhu. (2001). Gandhi a Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, e-book.
Pati, Biswamoy. (Ed.). (2000). Issues in Modern Indian History: For Sumit Sarkar.
Mumbai: Popular Prakshan (Chapter 8).
Robinson, Francis. (1994). Separatism Amongst Indian Muslims: The Politics of
the United Provinces’ Muslims, 1860-1923. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Roy, Tirthankar, (2000). The Economic History of India 1857-1947. New Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
Sarkar, Sumit. (2014). Modern Times: 1880s-1950s, Environment, Economy and
Culture. Ranikhet: Per- manent Black,
Sarkar, Sumit. (1998). Writing Social History. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Singh, Kumar Suresh. (2002). Birsa Munda and His Movement, 1872 — 1901: A
Study of a Millenarian Movement in Chotanagpur. Chotanagpur: Seagull Books.
Tomlinson, B.R. (1979). The Political Economy of the Raj: 1914-1947, The
Economics of Decalonisa- tion in India. London: Macmillan Press.
Panikkar, K.N. (Ed.). (1980). National and Left Movements in India. Delhi: Vikas.
Sen, Amartya.(1981). Poverty and Famines. An Essay on Entitlement and
Deprivation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 52-85
Srimanjari. (1998). ‘Denial, Dissent and Hunger: Wartime Bengal, 1942-44’, in
8. Patied.,
Turbulent Times: India 1940-44. Mumbai: PPH, 1998, pp. 39-66* Suhrud, Tridip. (2011). The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi. Cambridge: CUP,
pp. 71-92.
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History of Modern | 4
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Learning Objectives
This paper offers 2 historical overview of the development of nationalities and nation-
states in the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the various case studies discussed, the
paper traces the build-up to a revolution in the disintegrating Russian empire. it also
introduces students to the concept of imperialism. In this light, the paper discusses
the varied historical writings on World War One and on the nature of developments
during the inter-war period. It familiarises students with the intellectual and art
movements that were linked to the changes in the socio-economic and political milieu
of 19th and early 20th century Europe.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this course the student shall be able to:
* Trace varieties of nationalists and the processes by which new nation-states
were carved out.
© Discuss the peculiarities of the disintegration of large empires and remaking of
Europe's map.
© Deliberate on the meaning of imperialism and the manifestations of imperialist
rivalry and expansion in the 19th and early 20th century.
‘© Analyse the conflict between radical and conservative forces, and the gradual
consolidation of ultra-nationalist and authoritarian regimes in Europe.
* Contextualise major currents in the intellectual sphere and arts.
SYLLABUS OF DSC-3
Unit I: Nations and Nationalism in the nineteenth century
1, Theories of Nationalism
1652, Nationalist aspirations in Germany, Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire /
Ottoman Empire
3. State and Politics in post-unification Germany / Italy
Unit ll: The First World War and Revolutions
1. Theories of imperialism
2. Causes and Impact of the War: Historiographical debates
3. Revolutions: Russia 1905 and 1917
Unit Ill: Europe Between the World Wars
1, Fascism: Historiographical debates
2. Nature of the State in Fascist Italy / Nazi Germany
3. Origins of the Second World War
Unit IV: Cultural Transformation of Europe (1850-1939)
Choose any two sub themes for study (1) or (2) or (3)
* Trends in Painting, Architecture and National Art Galleries
* [Emerging Forms of Expression: Photography, Radio and Cinema
* Institutions of Knowledge: Exhibitions, Museums / Archives and History as a
discipline
Practical component (if any) - NIL
Essential/recommended readings
Unit I: At the end of this rubric the student will be expected to comprehend the
important theories on nationalism, which are crucial for recognising the nature of
different nationalist aspirations that emerged in nineteenth century Europe. The
student would also be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complex political
and economic interplay associated with the unification of Germany and Italy. Students
will be able to trace these complexities into the politics of state formation post
unification, (Teaching time: 12 hours Approx.)
© Beals, Derek and Eugenio F. Biagini. (2002). The Risorgimento and the
Unification of Italy. London and New York: Routledge (Chapters S to 9)
Blackbourn, David. (2002). History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long
Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Chapters 5-9)
© Waller, Bruce (ed.) (1990) Themes in Modern European History 1830-90,
London: Routledge. {Chapters 5 & 8)
* Eley, Geoff. (1986). From Unification to Nazism: Reinterpreting the German
Past. London and New York: Routledge. (PLEASE INDICATE CHAPTERS...| DO
NOT HAVE THIS BOOK)
‘* Hutchinson, John and Anthony Smith (eds.). (1994). Nationalism. Oxford:
Oxford University Press. (Chapters 9 to 12, 14, 16, 25 & 27)
© Mazower, Mark. (2002). The Balkans: A Short History, The Modern Library: New
YorkWaller, Bruce (ed.), (1990) Themes in Modern European History 1830-90,
Routledge: London
Riall, Lucy. (1994). The Italian Risorgimento: State, Society and National
Unification. London and New York: Routledge. (Chapters 5 & 6)
Sarnoff, Daniella. (2017). “Nationalism: Triumphs and Challenges in the Long
Nineteenth Century and Beyond. In Revisiting Modern European History: 1789-
1945, edited by Vandana Joshi, Pearson.
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Unit-Il: At the end of this rubric the student will be familiar with the key theories on
imperialism which are important for understanding the outbreak of the World Wars
and the complex post-War scenarios. The student will also be familiarized with a range
of historiographical issues reflected in historical analyses of the First World War. The
student will also learn of how revolutionary possibilities emerged during the First
World War. In this regard, the economic, social and political issues that led to the fall
of the Tsarist regime in Russia and emergence of a socialist state by October 1917 will
be explained. (Teaching time: 12 hours Approx.)
Brewer, Anthony. (2001). Marxist Theories of Imperialism. A Critical Survey.
London and New York: Routledge. (Chapters 4, 5, 6 & 7)
Fitzpatrick, Sheila. (1994), The Russian Revolution, Oxford: Oxford University
Press. (Chapters 1 & 2)
Gleason, Abbot (Ed.). (2009). A Companion to Russian History. Sussex: Wily-
Blackwell. (Chapters 12, 13, 14, & 16)
Henig, Ruth. (2003). The Origins of the First World War. London and New York:
Routledge.
Jones, Heather, (2013). “Historiographical Review As The Centenary
Approaches: The Regeneration Of First World War Historiography.” In The
Historical Journal Vol. 56 (3): 857-78.
Kiernan, V.G. (1974). “The Marxist Theory of Imperialism and its Historical
Formation.” In Marxism and Imperialism. London: Edward Arnold.
Martel, Gordon (ed). (2006). A Companion to Europe 1900-1945. (Chapter 15,
16, 17 & 18). Malden, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing.
Porter, A. (1994). European Imperialism 1860-1914. Hampshire: Palgrave
Macmillan. (Chapters 2,4 & 5)
Wood, Alan. (2003). The Origins of the Russian Revolution 1861-1917. London
and New York: Routledge.
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Unit- Ill: The student will be expected to develop an understanding of European
politics of the inter-war period. She/he will examine the emergence of international
institutions and the impact of war on European society and economy. This would also
be essential to the students’ understanding of the emergence of right wing
movements in Europe. The student will be expected to demonstrate a familiarity with
the historiographical debates and discussion associated with the rise and development
of the fascist/Nazi state in Italy and Germany, eventually leading to the outbreak of
the Second World War. (Teaching time: 12 hours Approx.)
© Thurlow, Richard, (1999. Fascism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(Chapters 1- 4)
McDonough, Frank, (1999). Hitler and Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
© Passamore, K. (2002). Fascism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. (Chapters 1 to 5; Chapters 8 to 10)
‘+ Kershaw, lan, (1985). The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and perspectives of
Interpretation. London: Edward Arnold. (Chapters 1 and 2)
‘© McDonough, Frank . (1997). The Origins of the First and the Second World War.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Chapters 4, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 24, 26
&29)
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Unit-IV: At the end of the rubric the student will be expected to build on her/his
understanding of European history to understand the cultural and intellectual
transformations experienced in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe.
The student will develop familiarity with how mass education, print culture, changes
in artistic styles, emergence of photography and the academic institutionalization of
disciplines shaped the modern European worldview. (Teaching time: 9 hours Approx.)
Winders, James A. (2001). European Culture Since 1848. New York: PalgraveWhitehead, Christopher, (2005) The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century
Britain: The Development of the National gallery, Routledge: London. (Chapters
1,5and 7)
Aronsson, Peter and Elgenius, Gabriella, (2015), National Museums and Nation
Building in Europe 1750-2010: Mobilisation and legitimacy, continuity and
change, Routledge: London (Chapters 1, 3, 6 and 7)
Vincent, David. (2000).The Rise of Mass Literacy: Reading and Writing in
Modern Europe. New Jersey: Wiley.
Brettell, Richard. (1999). Modern Art, 1851-1929: Capitalism and
Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Colquhoun, Alan. (2002). Modern Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, pp. 13- 35 & 87-109.
Clarke, Graham, (1997). The Photograph. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997
(p. 11-54)
Thompson, Kenneth, (1976). August Comte: the Foundation of Sociology. New
Jersey: Wiley.
Kuper, Adam. (1975). Anthropology and Anthropologists. London: Penguin
Books.
Eriksen, T.H. and F.S. Nielsen. (2013). A History of Anthropology. London: Pluto
Press.
Suggested Readings:
Bayly, C. A. (2004). The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing, pp.199-242.
Berger, Stefan (Ed.). (2004). A Companion to Nineteenth Century Europe 1789-
1914.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Berger, Stefan. (Ed.). (2004) .A Companion to Nineteenth Century Europe 1789-
1914.
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 178-192
Gooch, John. (2001). The Unification of Italy. London: Routledge.
Gorman, Michael. (1989). The Unification of Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press (Introduction).
Henig, Ruth. (2003). Origins of the First World War. London and New York:
Routledge.
Hobsbawm, E.J. (1990). Nations and Nationalism: Programme, Myth, Reality
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hopkins, A.G. (2000). “Overseas Expansion, Imperialism, and Europe” in T.C.W.
Blanning, (Ed.). The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789-1914. Oxford: OUP, pp.
210-24.
Hunt, Lynn, Tomas R. Martin, Barbara H, Rosenwein, Bonnie G. Smith. (2010)
The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, A Concise History. Boston and
New York: Bedford / St. Marti.
Joll, James. (1999), Europe since 1870. London: Penguin Books, pp. 78-112Kohn, David. (1985). The Darwinian Heritage. Princeton: Princeton University
Press.
McMaster, Neil. (2001). Racism in [Link]: Macmillan Education.
Merriman, John. (2002). A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to
the Present. London. New York: W.W. Norton.
Merriman, John. (2002). A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to
the Present. London, New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 1056-2111
Merriman, John. Open Yale Course Lectures (audio).
Perry, Marvin and George W. Bock. (1993). An intellectual History of Modern
Europe. Princeton: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Perry, Marvin [Link]. (2008). Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics and Society,
Vol.2. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Perry, Marvin [Link]. (2008). Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics and Society, Vol.
2.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, pp. 708-
745
Rapport, Michael. (2005). Nineteenth Century Europe. Hampshire: Palgrave
Macmillan
Rapport, Michael. (2005). Nineteenth Century Europe. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Said, Edward. (1978). Orientalism; Western Conception of the Orient. New
York: Pantheon Books.
Sheehan, James J. (2000). “Culture”, in T.C.W. Blanning )Ed.) The Nineteenth
Century: Europe 1789-1914. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Simonton, Deborah. (1998). A History of European Women's Work: 1700 to the
Present. London and New York: Routledge.
Teich, Mikulas anc Roy Porter. (Eds.). (1993).The National Question in Europe
in Historical Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 181 - 194
Thompson, David. (1990). Europe Since Napoleon. London: Penguin Books.
Todd, Allan. (2002). The European Dictatorships: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wade, Rex A. (2000). The Russian Revolution, 1917. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Wagner, kim A., and Roque, Ricardo, (2012) Engaging Colonial Knowledge:
Reading European Archives in World History, Palgrave Macmillan: London.
Waller, Bruce (ed.). (2002). Themes in Modern European History 1830-1890.
London and N.Y.: Routledge. (Chapter: Germany: Independence and Unification
with Power, pp. 99- 122.)
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History of 12™Pass | NIL
America ¢.
1960s
Learning Objectives
This paper offers a historical overview of Latin America. It traces major long- term
continuities and changes in Latin America’s socio-economic structures, cultural life and
political formations from the 16th century to the mid-twentieth century. The paper closely
examines colonial trade and rule, as well as anti-colonial resistance. It offers a critical
analysis of the immediate years post-independence, and situates the specific positioning
of Latin America in connected histories of a globalising world.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this course the student shall be able to.
* Critique stereotypes on Latin America and outline major shifts in Latin American
history,
‘* Explain elements of change and continuity in Latin American polities, economy,
society and cultural milieu from the 16th to 20th centuries.
Contextualise the impact of colonialism on Latin America.
Explain social protest and anti-colonial resistance in Latin America, as well as
practices of ‘transculturation’
* Discuss the dilemmas and contradictions emerging from the post-
independence economic, social, political and cultural milieu.
SYLLABUS OF DSE-4
Unit I: Historiography
Unit I: Colonization of Central and South America by Iberian powers and Movements
for In-dependence:
1. Driving forces for conquest; Impacts of colonization - key agrarian
transformation; the question of labour and slavery; transatlantic commerce
1882.
and the modern world system; institutions of state; the advent of Christianity
and evangelization.
Movernents for independence in the early 19th century
Unit Ill: Developments in the new Latin American Nations (1830s-1930s): Case studies
1.
2
of Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil
Class and state formation, industrialization, export economies, immigration
Popular culture
Unit IV: Political and socio-cultural developments, 1930s to the 1960s
1,
2.
Authoritarianism, populism, revolutions
Politics of literature, music and sports
Practical component (if any) - NIL
Essential/recommended readings
Unit-1: This Unit provides an introduction into what constitutes as Latin America and
the importance of the engaging with the modern history of the region. The Unit also
familiarizes the students with the historiography of Latin America. (Teaching time: 9
hours Approx.)
Bethell, L., ed. (1997). Cambridge History of Latin America: Colonial Latin
America, Vol.
i. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bethell, L., ed. (2002). Cambridge History of Latin America: From independence
toc. 1870, Vol. Ill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Unit I: This Unit provides an overview of the colonization of Central and South
‘America by Spain and Portugal from 1490s onwards. It will also examine the nature of
important transformations ushered in by the colonial encounter, as well as the
early independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese. (Teaching time: 9
hours Approx.)
Chasteen, J. (2006). Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America.
New York: W.W. Norton and Company.
Frank, A.G. (1967). Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. New
York: Monthly Review Press.
Galeano, E. (2010). Century of the Wind: Memories of Fire, Volume Ill. New
York: Nation Books
Burns, E.B. (1992). Latin America Conflict and Creation: A Historical Reader.
New York: Pearson.
Skidmore, T. and Peter H. Smith. (2010). Modern Latin America. New York:
Oxford University Press.
Williamson, E. (2010). The Penguin History of Latin America. London: Penguin
BooksUnit-il: This Unit address history of class and state formation, industrialization,
immigration, and popular culture from 1830s to the1930s with specific reference to
case studies of Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. (Teaching time: 9 hours Approx.)
Bothell, L, ed. (1985). Mexico Since Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Galeano, E. (2010). Faces and Masks: Memories of Fire, Volume ||. New York:
Nation Books.
Galeano, E. (2010). Genesis: Memories of Fire Volume |. New York: Nation
Books.
Levine, R.M., and John Crocitti, (Eds.). (2002). The Brazil Reader: History,
Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
Nouzeilles, G., and Graciela Montaldo. (Eds.). (2002). The Argentine Reader:
History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press.
Unit-IV: This Unit deals with emergence of authoritarianism, reactions against it as
manifested in populism and subsequent revolutions. It will also examine the politics
of literature, music and sports; 1930s to the 1960s. (Teaching time: 9 hrs Approx.)
Galeano, E. (1897), Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of
a Continent. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Gott, R. (2005). Cuba A New History. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Wright, T. (2001). Latin America in the Era of the Cuban Revolution.
Connecticut: Praeger
Suggested Readings:
Note:
Bellos, A. Futebal. (2003). The Brazilian Way of Life. London: Bloomsbury.
Chavez, L., 9ed). (2005). Capitalism, God and Good Cigar. Durham: Duke
University Press.
Craske, N. (1999). Women and Politics in Latin America. New Brunswick:
Rutgers University Press.
Hanke, L., and Jane M. Rausch. (Eds.). (1999). Latin American History from
Independence to the Present. Princeton: Markus Wiener.
Karush, M.B., and O. Chamosa, (Eds.). (2010). The New Cultural History of
Peronism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Levine, R.M. (1998). Father of the Poor: Vargas and His Era. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Marichal, C. etal. (2006). From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity
Chains and the Building of World Economy, 1500-2000. Durham: Duke
University Press.
Marquez, G.G. (1996), Autumn of the Patriarch. London: Penguin.
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