CBCS 2nd Semester CC:3 History Honours Syllabus//North Bengal University

 

CBCS 2^nd Semester CC:3 History Honours Syllabus

SEMESTER- II

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

V. Cultural developments (circa 300 BCE - CE 750):

[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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