SYLLABUS
CBCS 2nd SEMESTER
NORTH BENGAL UNIVERSITY
HISTORY [HONOURS]
PAPER
III: HISTORY OF INDIA II
I.
Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
[a] Expansion of agrarian economy: production relations.
[b] Urban growth: north India, central India and the Deccan; craft
Production: trade and trade routes; coinage.
[c] Social stratification: class, Varna, jati, untouchability; gender;
marriage and
property relations
II.
Changing political formations (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
[a] The Mauryan Empire
[b] Post-Mauryan Polities with special reference to the Kushanas and the
Satavahanas; Gana Sanghas.
III.
Towards early medieval India [circa CE fourth century to CE 750]:
[a] Agrarian expansion: land grants, changing production relations;
graded Land rights and peasantry.
[b] The problem of urban decline: patterns of trade, currency, and urban
Settlements.
[c] Varna, proliferation of jatis: changing norms of marriage and
property.
[d] The nature of polities: the Gupta empire and its contemporaries:
post- Gupta polities -Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Vardhanas,
IV.
Religion, philosophy and society (circa 300 BCE- CE 750):
(a) Consolidation of the
brahmanical tradition: dharma, Varnashram, Purusharthas, samskaras.
(b) Theistic cults (from
circa second century BC): Mahayana; the Puranic tradition.
(c) The beginnings of
Tantricism
[a] A brief survey of
Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil literature. Scientific and technical
treatises
[b] Art and architecture & forms and patronage; Mauryan,
post-Mauryan, Gupta, post-Gupta
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