Category III
BA (Prog.) with History as Non-Major
Credit distribution, Eligibility and Pre-requisites of the Course
DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC
DISCIPLINE CORECORE
SPECIFIC COURSE (DSC-1):
COURSE History
(DSC-1): of India
History from 1858
of India earliest times up
– 1947
to c. 300 CE
Course title & Code Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite
Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Practice (if any)
History of India 1858 – 4 3 1 0 Class XII History of
1947 India V
Learning Objectives
The paper aims to engage students in a critical discussion of socio-economic and political
trends in colonial India since the latter half of the 19th century. The paper focuses on the
rise of national consciousness which manifested itself into a powerful anti-colonial
nationalist movement that developed along several trajectories. It makes an attempt to
critically examine various currents of the national movement which often intersected with
one another each other. The paper would also look at the development of communal
politics as well as Partition and Independence.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this course the student shall be able to:
• Examine various reform movements as well as issues such as gender and caste.
• Understand how the socio-political and economic experiences of the people of India
under colonial rule provided a context for the emergence of a powerful anti-colonial
nationalist movement in India.
• Analyse the complexities of communal politics that resulted in Partition and
Independence.
SYLLABUS OF DSC-1
Unit I: Social issues and Reform Movements:
6. Revivalist / Reformist Movements of the 19th century
7. Phule, Ambedkar and the Caste question
8. Women
9. Peasants, Tribal and the Caste movements
10. Arya Samaj
Unit II: Economy under the colonial state:
4. Drain of Wealth
5. Modern Industries and Industrialization
6. Indian capitalist class
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Unit III: Nationalist Politics:
5. Rise and Growth of Nationalism
6. Foundation of Indian National Congress
7. ‘Moderates’ and ‘Extremists’ Nationalists
8. Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Nationalism: Gandhian thought, techniques and
movements
Unit IV: Other currents in Nationalism:
5. Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) and Bhagat Singh
6. Subhas Chandra Bose and INA
7. Left: peasants, workers movements, Jayaprakash and Narayans socialist party
8. Nationalist politics in southern India
Unit V: Towards Freedom:
3. Overview of the growth of communal politics
4. Freedom and Partition
Practical component (if any) - NIL
Essential/recommended readings
Unit I: The unit seeks to study various reform movements as well as issues such as
gender and caste. (Teaching time: 9 hours Approx.)
• Sarkar, Sumit and Tanika Sarkar. (Ed.). Caste in Modern India, Vol. 1&2. Delhi:
Permanent Black.
• Forbes, Geraldine. (1999). Women in Modern India. The New Cambridge
History of India – Volume 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Jones, Kenneth. (1994). Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India.
New Delhi: Cambridge University Press
• O’Hanlon, Rosalind. (2002). Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jyotirao
Phule and Low Caste Protest in 19th Century Western India. Ranikhet:
Permanent Black
• O’Hanlon Rosalind (2017). Caste and its Histories in Colonial India: A
Reappraisal,’ Modern Asian Studies 51, 2
• Kumar, Radha. (1993). History of Doing. New Delhi: Kali for Women,
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern
India. Delhi: Orient Longman
• Joshi, V.C. (1975). Rammohun Roy and the process of modernization in India.
Delhi: Vikas.
• Dube, Ishita Banerjee. (2015). A History of Modern India. Delhi: Cambridge
University Press.
• बंधोपाध्यार्, शेखर. (2012). प्लासी से तवभाि◌न तक: आधत
ु नक भारत का इततहास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
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• शुक्ल, आर॰एल. (Ed). (1987). आधुतनक भारत का इततहास, तहं ि◌◌ी माध्यम
कार्◌ा◌ान्वनर् त�नेशालर्, �तल्ल� तवश्वतवद्यालर्, �तल्ल�
Unit II: This unit examines aspects of the colonial economy and its critique, as well as
the emergence of the capitalist class. (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.
• Mukherjee, Aditya. (2002). Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the
Indian Capitalist Class, 1920-1947. New Delhi: Sage,
• Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. (2002). ‘The Other Side of Foreign Investment by Imperial
Powers: Transfer of Surplus from Colonies’, Economic and Political Weekly,
XXXVII (23)
• Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. (1972). Private Investment in India, 1900-
[Link]: Cambridge University Press
• Ray, Rajat Kanta. (Ed.). (1994). Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800 -
1947. New Delhi: Oxford University Press
• Bahl, Vinay. (2009). 'Attitude of the Indian National Congress Towards the
Working Class Struggle in India, 1918-1947', in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Ed.),
Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, ·
भट्टाचार्◌ा, सब्यसाची (2008).आधत
ु नक भारत का आतथाक इततहास,(1850-1947)
�तल्ल�, राि◌कमल प्रकाशन
• बंधोपाध्यार्, शेखर. (2012). प्लासी से तवभाि◌न तक: आधत
ु नक भारत का इततहास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
Unit III: After the successful completion of this unit, students will be able to grasp
many facets of anti-colonial resistance and how Gandhi's politics constituted a new
paradigm of rallying vastly divergent social groups in the national movement.
(Teaching time: 9 hours Approx.)
• Sarkar, Sumit. (1983). Modern India 1885-1947. Delhi: Macmillan.
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern
India. Delhi: Orient Longman.
• Chandra, Bipan. (1989). India’s Struggle for Independence. Delhi: Penguin, (Also
in Hindi)
• Pandey, Gyanendra. (2002). The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh
1926-34: A Study in Imperfect Mobilization. New Delhi: Anthem Press (Second
edition).
• Bose, S and Ayesha Jalal. (1998). Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political
Economy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Dube, Ishita Banerjee. (2015). A History of Modern India. Delhi: Cambridge
University Press.
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• Seth, Sanjay. (2009). ‘Rewriting Histories of Nationalism: The Politics of
Moderate Nationalism in India, 1870-1905’, in Sekhar Bandyopadhyay (Ed.),
Nationalist Movement in India : A Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (Ed), (2009). Nationalist Movement in India: A Reader.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• तत्रपाठ�, अमलेश. भारतीर् राि◌नीतत म� गरमपंथ क� चुनौती, नई �तल्ल�, ग्रंथ तशल्पी
प्रकाशन ,
• हा�लार, मोतहत कु मार ,भारतीर् न�वागरण और पुनरुत्थानवाि◌◌ी चेतना, नई
�तल्ल�, ग्रंथ तशल्पी प्रकाशन ,
• तसंह, ह�रालाल , (1971). असहर्◌ोग आंि◌◌ोलन क� झाँतकर्◌ा◌ँ, �तल्ल�, प्रकाशन
तवभाग
• ि◌◌ेसाई, ए. आर. , (2018), भारतीर् राष्टर वाि◌ क� सामा�तक पष्ृ ठभूतम, सेि◌ प्रकाशन,
नई �तल्ल�
• तम�ल, सतीश चंद्र, (2012), भारत का स्वाधीनता संघषा (1858-1947), नई �तल्ल�,
ग्राफ� वल◌्र् ा
• पाण्डेर,् �प्रीप कु मार (1990), गांधी का आतथाक और सामा�तक तचंतन, तहं ि◌◌ी
माध्यम कार्◌ा◌ान्वनर् त�नेशालर्, �तल्ल� तवश्वतवद्यालर्, �तल्ल�
• गोपाल, राम, (1986), भारतीर् स्वतंत्रता संग्राम, लखनऊ, सुलभ प्रकाशन
Unit IV: This unit looks at the history of caste, class, and community mobilisation, as
well as revolutionary movements and the I.N.A. (Teaching time: 12 hours Approx.)
• Moffat, Chris. (2019). India’s Revolutionary Inheritance; Politics and the
Promise of Bhagat Singh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 21-114.
• Habib, S. Irfan. (2007). To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of
Bhagat Singh and his Comrades, New Delhi: Three Essays, 2007.
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2017). From Plassey to Partition and After: A History
of Modern India, New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2nd edition. (Also, in Hindi)
• Marston, Daniel. (2014), The Indian Army and the end of the Raj, CUP
• Stephen P Cohen. (1963). ‘Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army’,
Pacific Affairs, 411-429,
• Sarkar, Sumit. (1983). Modern India: 1885—1947, Delhi, Macmillan. ( Also in
Hindi)
• Barnett, M. Ross (2015). The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India,
Princeton University Press.
• Basu, Raj Sekhar. ‘The Making of Adi-Dravid Politics in early Twentieth century
Tamil Nadu’, Social Scientist, Vol. 39, No.7/8, July-August2011.
• Blackburn, Stuart. (2001) Print, Folklore and Nationalism in Colonial South India.
Delhi, Permanent Black.
• सरकार, सुतमत (2009). आधुतनक भारत, �तल्ल�, राि◌कमल प्रकाशन
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• बंधोपाध्यार्, शेखर. (2012). प्लासी से तवभाि◌न तक: आधुतनक भारत का इततहास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman
• शुक्ल, आर॰एल. (Ed). (1987). आधुतनक भारत का इततहास, तहं ि◌◌ी माध्यम
कार्◌ा◌ान्वनर् त�नेशालर्, �तल्ल� तवश्वतवद्यालर्, �तल्ल�
Unit V: This unit critically contextualise the political and social conditions that led to
communal mobilisation as well as its impact on the social and political fabric of the
Indian subcontinent. (Teaching time: 9 hours Approx.)
• Sarkar, Sumit. (1983). Modern India 1885-1947, Delhi: Macmillan.
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern
India. Delhi: Orient Longman.
• Pandey, Gyanendra. (1990). The Construction of Communalism in Colonial
North India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Chandra, Bipan. (2008). Communalism in Modern India. New Delhi: Har Anand.
• Bose, S and Ayesha Jalal. (1998). Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political
Economy. New Delhi: OUP.
• Chandra, Bipan. (1979). Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
• Misra, Salil. (2012). “Emergence of Communalism in India.” in K. N. Panikkar
(Ed.), Perspectives of Modern Indian History. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan.
• Jaffrelot, Christophe. (1996). The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian
Politics: 1925 to the 1990s. London: C. Hurst & Company Publishers
• सरकार, सत
ु मत (2009). आधत
ु नक भारत, �तल्ल�, राि◌कमल प्रकाशन
• बंधोपाध्यार्, शेखर. (2012). प्लासी से तवभाि◌न तक: आधुतनक भारत का इततहास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
Suggestive readings
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (Ed.). (2009). National Movement in India: A Reader.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Brown, Judith. (1972). Gandhi’s Rise to Power, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
• Chandra, Bipan. (1996). Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, Delhi:
Orient Longman.
• Chandra, Bipan. (1966, Reprint 2004). The Rise and Growth of Economic
Nationalism in India. New Delhi: Anamika Publishers.
• Desai, A.R. (1981). Social Background of Indian Nationalism. Delhi: Popular
Prakashan.
• Gopinath, Ravindran. (2012). “The British Imperium and the Agrarian
Economy”, in K. N. Panikkar, (Ed.). Perspectives of Modern Indian History,
Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, pp. 62- 90.
• Habib, Irfan. (2013). Indian Economy 1757-1857, New Delhi: Tulika Books. ·
Habib, Irfan. (2006). Indian Economy 1858-1914, New Delhi: Tulika Books. ·
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Hasan, Mushirul, (1993). India’s Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilisation.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Kumar, K. (Ed.). (1998). Congress and Classes: Nationalism, Workers and
Peasants, Delhi: Manohar.
• Metcalf, B. D. and T.R. Metcalf. (2002). A Concise History of India, Cambridge:
University Press.
• Metcalf, Thomas. (2001). Ideology of the Raj, Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
• Omvedt, Gail. (1994). Dalits and Democratic Revolution, Delhi: Sage.
• Pandey, Gyanendra. (2001). Remembering Partition, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
• Pati, Biswamoy (Ed.). (2007). The 1857 Rebellion, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Roy, Tirthankar. (2000). The Economic History of India 1857-1947, New Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
• Sarkar, Sumit and Tanika Sarkar (Eds.). (2014). Caste in Modern India: A Reader,
Vols. I & II, Delhi: Permanent Black.
• Sarkar, Sumit. (2014). Modern Times: India 1880s-1950s: Environment,
Economy and Culture. Ranikhet: Permanent Black.
• Sarkar, Sumit (1993). Popular movements and Middleclass leadership in late
colonial India. Delhi: Aakar.
• Stein, Burton. (1998). A History of India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp.
239- 366.
• चंद्र,तबतपन, (2009), आधत
ु नक भारत का इततहास, Delhi: Oriental BlackSwan.
Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the Examination
Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.
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