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🏛️ B.A. (Hons) History – 6th Semester Notes
📘 Core Course: History of India VII (c.1605–1750s)
Unit I: Sources: Persian and vernacular literary cultures, histories, memoirs and travelogues
Unit II: Political Culture under Jahangir and Shah Jahan
(a) Extension of Mughal rule; changes in mansab and jagir systems; imperial culture
(b) Orthodoxy and syncretism – Naqshbandi Sufis, Miyan Mir, Dara Shukoh, Sarmad
Unit III: Mughal Empire under Aurangzeb
(a) State and religion under Aurangzeb; issues in the war of succession; policies regarding religious groups and institutions
(b) Conquests and limits of expansion
(c) Beginning of the crisis: contemporary perceptions; agrarian and jagir crises; revolts
Unit IV: Visual Culture: Paintings and Architecture
Unit V: Patterns of Regional Polities
(a) Rajput political culture and state formation
(b) Deccan kingdoms; emergence of the Marathas; Shivaji; expansion under the Peshwas
(c) Mughal decline; emergence of ‘successor’ states
(d) Interpreting eighteenth century India: recent debates
Unit VI: Trade and Commerce
(a) Crafts and technologies; Monetary system
(b) Markets; transportation; urban centres
(c) Indian Ocean trade network
📘 Core Course: History of India VIII (c.1857–1950)
Unit VII: Cultural Changes and Social and Religious Reform Movements
[a] The advent of printing and its implications
[b] Reform and Revival: Brahmo Samaj, Prarthna Samaj, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Arya Samaj, Wahabi, Deoband, Aligarh and Singh Sabha movements
[c] Debates around gender
[d] Making of religious and linguistic identities
[e] Caste: Sanskritising and anti-Brahminical trends
Unit VIII: Nationalism: Trends up to 1919
[a] Political ideology and organizations, formation of INC
[b] Moderates and extremists
[c] Swadeshi movement
[d] Revolutionaries
Unit IX: Gandhian nationalism after 1919: Ideas and Movements
[a] Mahatma Gandhi: his Perspectives and Methods
[b] (i) Impact of the First World War (ii) Rowlatt Satyagraha and Jallianwala Bagh (iii) Non-Cooperation and Civil Disobedience (iv) Provincial Autonomy, Quit India and INA
[c] Left-wing movements
[d] Princely India: States’ people’s movements
[e] Nationalism and Culture: literature and art
Unit X: Nationalism and Social Groups: Interfaces
[a] Landlords, Professionals and Middle Classes
[b] Peasants
[c] Tribals
[d] Labour
[e] Dalits
[f] Women
[g] Business groups
Unit XI: Communalism: Ideologies and practices – RSS, Hindu Maha Sabha, Muslim League
Unit XII: Independence and Partition
[a] Negotiations for independence, and partition
[b] Popular movements
[c] Partition riots
Unit XIII: Emergence of a New State
[a] Making of the Constitution
[b] Integration of princely states
[c] Land reform and beginnings of planning
📘 History of China and Japan II (c.1840–1949)
Unit I: Nationalism and Communism in China (1921–1937)
(a) Formation of the CCP
(b) The Guomintang (Nationalist Party or KMT)
(c) The First United Front
Unit II: The Communist Movement (1928–1949)
(a) The Jiangxi Period and the rise of Mao Tse-tung
(b) The Second United Front
Unit III: Transition from feudalism to capitalism
(a) Crisis of Tokugawa Bakuhan system
(b) Meiji Restoration: Its nature and significance
(c) Political Reorganization
(d) Military Reforms
(e) Social, cultural and educational reforms (bunmeikaika)
(f) Financial reforms and Economic development in the ‘Meiji’ era
(g) Meiji Constitution
Unit IV: Japanese Imperialism
(a) China
(b) Korea
(c) Manchuria
Unit V: Democracy and Militarism/Fascism
(a) Popular/People’s Rights Movement
(b) Nature of political parties
(c) Rise of Militarism – Nature and significance
(d) Second World War; American occupation
📘 History of Modern Europe II (c.1780–1939)
Unit X: Liberal Democracy, Working Class Movements and Socialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries
[a] The struggle for parliamentary democracy and civil liberties in Britain
[b] Forms of protest during early capitalism: food riots in France and England: Luddites and Chartism
[c] Early socialist thought; Marxian Socialism – the First and Second International
[d] German Social Democracy – Politics and Culture
[e] Christian Democracy as a political and ideological force in western and central Europe
Unit XI: The Crisis of Feudalism in Russia and Experiments in Socialism
[a] Emancipation of serfs
[b] Russian Populism and Social Democracy
[c] Revolutions of 1905; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
[d] Programme of Socialist Construction
Unit XII: Imperialism, War, and Crisis: c.1880–1939
[a] Theories and mechanisms of imperialism; growth of militarism; Power blocks and alliances; expansion of European empires; War of 1914–1918
[b] The post-1919 World Order: economic crises, the Great Depression and Recovery
[c] Fascism and Nazism
[d] The Spanish Civil War
[e] Origins of the Second World War
Unit XIII: Cultural and Intellectual Developments since circa 1850
[a] Changing contexts: Notions of Culture; Creation of a new public sphere and mass media; Mass education – extension of literacy
[b] Creation of new cultural forms: from Romanticism to Abstract Art
[c] Major intellectual trends: Institutionalisation of disciplines – history, sociology and anthropology; Darwin and Freud
[d] Culture and the making of ideologies: Constructions of Race, Class and Gender, ideologies of Empire
💾 DU BA History 6th Semester Notes – Download Table
| Course Type | Paper Title | Download Link |
| BA (Hons) History | History of India VII (c.1605–1750s) | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | History of India VIII (c.1857–1950) | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | History of China and Japan II (c.1840–1949) | [Download PDF] |
| BA (Hons) History | History of Modern Europe II (c.1780–1939) | [Download PDF] |
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