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🏛️ B.A. (Hons) History – 3rd Semester Notes
📘 Core Course V: History of India – III (c. 750–1200)
Unit I: Studying early medieval India
[a] Dynamic and divergent topographies
[b] Sources: texts; inscriptions; coins
[c] Debates on the early medieval
Unit II: Political structures and processes
[a] Evolution of political structures: Rajput polities; Chola state; Odisha
[b] Symbols of political power: Brahmanas and temples; sacred spaces and conflicts; courtly cultures
[c] Issue of ‘Foreign and Indian’: Arabs and Ghazanavids in the north-west, Cholas in Southeast Asia
Unit III: Social and economic processes
[a] Agricultural expansion; forest-dwellers, peasants and landlords
[b] Expansion of varna-jati order and brahmanization
[c] Forms of exchange; inter-regional and maritime trade
[d] Processes of urbanization
Unit IV: Religious, literary and visual cultures
[a] Bhakti: Alvars and Nayanars
[b] Puranic Hinduism; Tantra; Buddhism and Jainism
[c] Sanskrit and regional languages: interactions
[d] Art and architecture: temples – regional styles
📗 Core Course VI: Rise of the Modern West – I
I. Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
[a] Issues and debates
[b] Question of Eurocentrism
II. Early colonial expansion
[a] Factors for colonization
[b] Trade and Empire
[c] Mines and plantations
[d] Labour Systems – indigenous populations and African slaves
III. Renaissance
[a] In Italy: its social roots
[b] Humanism and its spread in Europe
[c] Art
IV. European Reformation (16th century)
Origins, course, and results
V. Economic developments of the 16th century
[a] Shift of economic balance from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
[b] Commercial Revolution
[c] Price Revolution
VI. Emergence of European State system
With two case studies: Spain, France, England, Russia
📙 Core Course VII: History of India – IV (c. 1200–1500)
Unit I: Survey of sources
[a] Persian ta’rīkh traditions: Barani and Mushtaqi
[b] Malfuzat and premakhyans; Persian, Sanskrit and Vernacular interactions
[c] Inscriptions and regional identity: Kakatiyas
[d] Architecture: the study of Hampi
Unit II: Political structures
[a] Sultanates of Delhi: transitions in ruling elites, service cultures, iqtas
[b] Articulating political authority: monuments and rituals
[c] Consolidation of identities: Rajputs and other warrior lineages
[d] Political cultures: Vijayanagara and Gujarat
Unit III: Society and economy
[a] Ecological context; agricultural production
[b] Technology and changes in society
[c] Monetization; market regulations; urban centres; trade and craft
Unit IV: Religion, society and cultures
[a] Sufi silsilas: Chishtis and Suhrawardis; doctrines and practices; social roles
[b] Bhakti; Sant tradition: Kabir and Nanak; cults: Jagannath and Warkari
[c] Gender roles: women bhaktas and rulers
[d] Terms of Identification: Modern Labels and Contingent Identities
📕 GE-VI: Politics of Nature
Unit 1: ‘Spaceship called earth’ – competition for bounded resources and livelihoods
Unit 2: Energy in Human History
[a] Before the era of coal, gas and oil
[b] Era of fossil energy
Unit 3: Ecological Imperialism
[a] Flora-fauna transfer
[b] Diseases and Migration
Unit 4: Unequal access and Industrial Production
[a] Industrial Agriculture
[b] Gendered access to natural resources
[c] Cities and inequalities
Unit 5: Anthropocene
[a] Climate change and writing ecological histories
[b] Debating the Anthropocene / Capitalocene
📖 GE-VII: Making of Post Colonial India
Unit I: Laying the foundation of independent India
[a] Making of the Constitution
[b] Linguistic re-organisation
Unit II: Envisioning a new order
[a] Economic Development: five year plans; Problems of Development case study of Punjab and Bihar
[b] Indian Foreign Policy till 1964
Unit III: Democracy at Work
[a] Congress and other political formations
[b] (i) Left parties (ii) Caste politics (iii) Dravidian movement
[c] Women and politics
(i) Hindu Code Bill
(ii) Status of Women in India Report
Unit IV: Turning Point: Emergency and After
[a] Railway Strike, J.P. Movement and Emergency
[b] Developments in the1980’s: (i) Coalition politics; (ii) Mandal Commission and aftermath
[c] Judiciary, Civil Society and Rights: Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation
[d] Popular and parallel Cinema
📙 SEC I: Understanding Heritage
Unit I: Defining heritage: Meaning of ‘antiquity’, ‘archaeological site’, ‘tangible heritage’, ‘intangible heritage’ and ‘art treasure’
Unit II: Evolution of heritage legislation and the institutional framework
[a] Conventions and Acts – national and international
[b] Heritage-related government departments, museums, regulatory bodies
[c] Conservation initiatives
Unit III: Challenges facing tangible and intangible heritage
Development, antiquity smuggling, conflict (specific cases studies)
Unit IV: Heritage and travel
[a] Viewing heritage sites
[b] Relationship between cultural heritage, landscape and travel; recent trends
Unit V: A visit to a heritage site is an essential part of this course
📕 SEC II: Archives and Museums
Unit 1: The Archive
[a] Early Manuscript Collections (Jain, Persian, Sitamau Library)
[b] Colonialism and collections
[c] National project and the archive
[d] Taxonomies and cataloguing
[e] Project work: learn the cataloguing system of your college library and compare with the catalogue of a major collection (see online catalogues of Ethe and Rieu)
Unit 2: The Museum
[a] The colonial gaze
[b] Artefacts
[c] The post-colonial state and the museum – project work: National Museum and National Gallery of Modern Art
📖 Skill Enhancement Paper III: Historian’s Craft
Unit 1: Historicizing Human Activities
Unit 2: The Historian’s Craft
Unit 3: Sources and interpretations
Unit 4: Primary sources in application
🎓 B.A. History Programme – 3rd Semester Notes
📔 Core Course II: History of India, c. 300 to 1200
Unit I: Survey of the sources
Unit II: The Guptas and Vakatakas: State and administration, economy, society, religion, literature, art
Unit III: Changes in the post-Gupta period, characterizing early medieval
Unit IV: Vardhanas, Pallavas and Chalukyas: political and cultural developments
Unit V: Rashtrakutas, Palas and Pratiharas: The tripartite struggle
Unit VI: Emergence of Rajput states in Northern India: Socio-economic foundations
Unit VII: The Cholas: State and administration, economy and culture
Unit VIII: The Arabs, the Ghaznavids in the northwest, trans-regional exchange
📒 Communicating Culture – Tellings, Representations and Leisure
Unit I: Tellings: Myths, tales and folklore
Unit II: Performance as communication: Theatre, puppetry and music
Unit III: Processions as display: Yatra, barat & julus
Unit IV: Sporting: Mind, body & nation
💾 DU BA History 3rd Semester Notes – Download Table
| Course Type | Paper Title | Download Link |
| BA (Hons) History | Core Course V: History of India – III (c. 750–1200) | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | Core Course VI: Rise of the Modern West – I | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | Core Course VII: History of India – IV (c. 1200–1500) | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | GE-VI: Politics of Nature | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | GE-VII: Making of Post Colonial India | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | SEC I: Understanding Heritage | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | SEC II: Archives and Museums | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | Skill Enhancement Paper III: Historian’s Craft | [Download PDF] |
| BA Programme History | Core Course II: History of India, c. 300 to 1200 | [Download PDF] |
| BA Programme History | Communicating Culture: Tellings, Representations and Leisure | [Download PDF] |
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