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DU BA History 5th Semester Notes PDF
DU BA History 5th Semester Notes PDF

🏛️ B.A. (Hons) History – 5th Semester Notes

📘 Core Course XI: History of Modern Europe – I

Unit I: A Period of Revolutions 1789–1850
[a] Crisis of the Ancien Regime and the Enlightenment
[b] Phases of the French Revolution 1789–99
[c] Social classes and emerging gender relations
[d] Bonapartist State and Features of the first French Empire
[e] Restoration of the old order, social and political currents in the early nineteenth century, revolutions:1830s–1850s

Unit II: Industrial Revolution and Social Transformation (19th century)
[a] Process of capitalist development in industry and agriculture; changing class structure in France, Germany and Russia
[b] Industrial Revolution and society: Family Life and Gender

Unit III: Liberal democracy, working class movements and Socialism in the 19th and 20th centuries
[a] The struggle for parliamentary democracy and civil liberties in Britain: Parliamentary and institutional reforms; working class discontent: Chartists; suffragettes
[b] Socialism: Early socialist thought, Marxian socialism, Debates and Strategies: The International working class movement

Unit IV: Culture and Society: 1789–1850s
[a] Art and culture in revolutionary France: neo classical art; reformation of the royal academies
[b] The Consumption of Culture in 19th century Europe; Romanticism in art and literature
[c] The City in the age of Industrialization

📘 Core Course XII: History of India- VII (c. 1600–1750)

Unit I: Sources
(a) Persian Histories, Memoirs: Jahangirnama, Ma’asir-i Alamgiri
(b) Travelogues: Bernier, Manucci
(c) Vernacular literary cultures: Mangalkavya and Rekhta

Unit II: Political developments and state formation
(a) Issues in the wars of succession
(b) Mughal relations with Rajput States (Mewar and Marwar)
(c) Maratha state formation under Shivaji and expansion under the Peshwas
(d) Sikh Community formation in the seventeenth century

Unit III: Religion, Society and the State
(a) Orthodoxy and syncretism: Naqshbandi Sufis and Dara Shukoh
(b) Historiography on Aurangzeb: jizya, temples and music

Unit IV: Political and Visual Culture
(a) Mughal courtly culture: Umara, Haram, Mirzai
(b) Shahjahanabad
(c) Mughal Painting: allegory and symbolism under Jahangir and Shah Jahan

Unit V: Trade and Crafts
(a) Indian Oceanic trade: European commercial enterprise-Kerala, Coromandel coast, Western India
(b) Crafts and technologies

Unit VI: Interpreting the Eighteenth Century

📘 DSE-I: History of the USA: Independence to Civil War

Unit I: A New World
Unit II: Limits of American democracy
Unit III: Early Capitalism and its inequities
Unit IV: U.S. quest for dominance
Unit V: Slavery
Unit VI: The Civil War

📘 DSE-II: History of the USSR: From Revolution to World War II (c. 1917–1945)

Unit I: Background to the Russian Revolutions of February and October 1917
Unit II: Consolidation of Bolshevik Power, Economic Policies and Debate in the 1920s
Unit III: Collectivisation and industrialisation
Unit IV: Ideology, Party and State: Centralization and its Problems
Unit V: Life under the Soviet System: 1917–1945
Unit VI: Foreign Policy Issues: Comintern and World War II

📘 DSE-III: History of Africa, c.1500–1960s

Unit I: Africa as ‘The Dark Continent’
Unit II: Trade in gold and slaves between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa
Unit III: Africa in the Atlantic world
Unit IV: The abolition of the slave trade 1800 onwards
Unit V: Imperialism and ‘The Scramble for Africa’
Unit VI: Decolonization, 1940s to 1960s
Unit VII: Case studies: Apartheid in South Africa; Algeria under French rule

📘 DSE-IV: Gender in Indian History up to 1500 CE

Unit I: Theories and concepts
Unit II: Aspects of Gender: Politics, Power and Household
Unit III: Gender, Representation and Literature

📘 DSE-IX: History of Modern China (c. 1840s–1950s)

Unit I: Late Imperial China: Society, Economy, Polity
Unit II: Imperialism, Popular Movements and Reforms in the 19th century
Unit III: Emergence of Nationalism
Unit IV: Nationalism and Communism

📘 DSE-X: The Making of pre-Colonial Southeast Asia

Unit I: Introducing maritime and mainland Southeast Asia
Unit II: Sources and historiographical trends
Unit III: State formation, social structures, trade, art & architecture
Unit IV: Religion: spread and localization of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity
Unit V: The Age of European Commerce

📘 DSE-XI: Global Ecological Histories

Unit I: Political Ecologies and Societies
Unit II: Energy Regimes in World History
Unit III: Ecologies of the Industrial World
Unit IV: Industrial Appropriation of Nature
Unit V: Debating Anthropocene/Capitalocene

💾 DU BA History 5th Semester Notes – Download Table

Course TypePaper TitleDownload Link
BA (Hons) HistoryCore Course XI: History of Modern Europe – I[Download PDF]
BA (Hons) HistoryCore Course XII: History of India- VII (c.1600–1750)[Download PDF]
BA (Hons) HistoryDSE-I: History of the USA: Independence to Civil War[Download PDF]
BA (Hons) HistoryDSE-II: History of the USSR: From Revolution to World War II[Download PDF]
BA (Hons) HistoryDSE-III: History of Africa, c.1500–1960s[Download PDF]
BA (Hons) HistoryDSE-IV: Gender in Indian History up to 1500 CE[Download PDF]
BA (Hons) HistoryDSE-IX: History of Modern China (c.1840s–1950s)[Download PDF]
BA (Hons) HistoryDSE-X: The Making of pre-Colonial Southeast Asia[Download PDF]
BA (Hons) HistoryDSE-XI: Global Ecological Histories[Download PDF]

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