CBCS 2nd Semester CC-3
History Honours
Calcutta University
CC-3 Syllabus History Honours
CC-3: History of India C 300 BCE to C 750 CE
1. 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 Poliities 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, Purushastras, Samskaras.
b)Theistic cults (from circa
second century BC); Mahayana; the Puranic tradition.
c) The beginnings of
Tantricism.
V. Cultural developments (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 750):
a)A brief survey of Sanskrit,
Pali, Prakrit and Tamil literature. Scientific and technical treatises.
b)Art and architecture and
forms and patronage; Mauryan, Post-Mauryan, Gupta, Post-Gupta
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