1.

Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee

K.N.Panikkar, Sucheta Mahajan Indias Struggle for
Independence Penguin Books, New Delhi 1989.
2. B.L.Groover, Alka Mehta A new look at Modern
Indian History (From 1707 to the Modern Times) S.Chand & Company 2010.
3. Sumit Sarkar - Modern India, 1885-1947, Macmillan
India 2002.
Recommended Reading:
1. B.R.Tomlinson - The Economy of Modern India
2. K.N.Panikkar - Culture, Ideology, Hegemony:
Intellectuals and Social Conscious in Colonial India,
Tulika Books, Delhi, 1998.
3. Irfan Habib - Indian Economy, 1858-1914, A peoples
History of India, Vol.28, Tulika Books, Delhi 2006.
4. Aparna Basu - The Growth of Education and Political
Development in India 1898-1920, Oxford University
Press, Delhi 1974.
5. A.R.Desai - Peasant Struggles in India, Oxford
University Press, Delhi 1979.
6. K.N. Panikkar(ed) - National Left Movements in India.
Vikas, New Delhi 1980
7. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya - Development of Modern
Indian thought & the Social Sciences
8. Peter Heels - Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism,
Essays in Modern Indian History Oxford University
Press 2000
9. Bidyuk Chakraborthy, Rajendra Kumar Pandey Modern Indian political thought: text and context, Sage
publications 2009.
10.Donald Anthony Low - Congress and the Raj; facts of
Indian Struggle 1947-47 Oxford University Press

2004.
11. Mridula Mukherjee - Peasants in Indias non-violent
revolution; practice and theory, Sage publications
2004.
12.Rakesh Batabyal - Communalism in Bengal; from
famine to Noakhali, 1943-47, Sage Publications 2005.
13.Herman Kulke - A history of India Routledge 1998
14.Burton Stein - History of India. Oxford University
Press 1998.
15.Erwin Neumayer & Christine Schelberger Bharatmata; Indias Freedom movement in Popular art
Oxford University Press 2008
16.Sekhar Bandyopadhyay - From Plassey to Partition; a
history of modern India Orient Longman 2004.
Visual Texts :
Unit-1
I India Independent up to 1964

Teaching Hours:20

Level of Knowledge: Basic

The Legacy of National movement 1950 Constitution
Historiographical trends, the Subalterns Lohia.
1)

b)

Integration & Consolidation of National Identities Linguistic,

Tribals, Regions (Hyderabad, Kashmir & Junagadh).

2)

Nehruvian Socialism Planning & Public sector Agriculture and

Industries in the first three five year plans Foreign Policy, Nonalignment India & the World- The Korean war, Crisis at Congo,
Relations with USA and USSR.

Unit-2
Independent India from 1965 to
1977
Level of Knowledge: Analytical

Teaching Hours:21

Period of Transition 1964 to 1969, Internal Conflicts in the

Congress.

1)

b)

Politics & political parties from 1969 to 1977 Issues of

Legitimacy, Administration and popular Anti Government
movement. Turmoil in Congress Hegemony, The Bangladesh Crisis,
Sampooran Kranti, Emergency.

2)

Political Formulations from 1977 to 2000 - Technology Missions

Social Turmoil Foreign Policy initiatives

3)

Unit-3
Regional Identities

Teaching Hours:18

Level of Knowledge: Conceptual

Assertions of Regions - Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

1)

b)

2)

Regional Identities West Bengal & Assam.

3)

Crisis of National Unity Punjab.

Unit-4
Reforms & Movements

Teaching Hours:16

Land Reforms Zamindari Abolition & Tenancy reforms Land

ceiling & Bhoodan Movement Green revolution.
1)

b)

2) Agrarian struggle since independence Telangana peasant struggle

Naxalite Peasant movement Srikakulam struggle

3)

New Farmers movement with special reference to Karnataka

Unit-4
CIA themes

Teaching Hours:16

) Cinema Issues of Diaspora, inter and intra.

2) Literature Concerns of Linguistic identities and sub
nationalism in Hindi,
Kannada, and English and Urdu writings.
3)

Media and communications Media in Free India Issues of

Patronage, Prioritization and Publicity.

Self Study Topics.

1) Agriculture and Industries in the first three five year

Plans.
2) Non- Alignment, India and the world.
3) Zamindari abolition and Tenancy reforms, Green
Revolution, Telangana Peasant struggle.

Essential Text Books:

1.

Paul R.Brass - The politics of India since Independence

Cambridge University Press, 1993
2. Bipan Chandra (Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee) India after independence 1947 2000, Penguin publication
1999

Recommended Reading:
1. 1. Chandi Lahiri - Since freedom, New Central Book Agency
1994
2. Selig S.Harison Paul H.Kriesberg & Dennis Kun (ed) India & Pakistan the first fifty years, Cambridge University
Press 1999
3.

C.P.Srivastava - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Oxford University

Press, 1995
4. Arun Shourie - Mrs Gandhis Second Reign, Vikas publishing,
1983
5.

S.Gopal - Nehru an Anthology, Oxford University Press

1980

6.

K.M. George - Modern India & Literature an Anthology

Fiction Vol.2 Sahitya Academy 1993

7.

P.N.Dhar - Indira Gandhi, the Emergency and Indian

Democracy Oxford University Press 2001

8.

Tapan Raychaudhari - Perceptions, emotions, sensibilities;

essays on Indias Colonial & Post colonial experiences
Oxford University Press 1999

9.

Preben Kaarsholm, Menaka Bisvasa -City flicks; Indian

Cinema & the urban experience Seagull books 2004

10. Brian Z Tamanaha - On the rule of Law, history, politics,

theory Cambridge University Press 2004
11. Mushirul Hasan - The Partition Omnibus Oxford University
Press 2002
12. Sudarshan Ranjan - Jayaprakash Narayan; Prophet of
Peoples Power National Book Trust, New Delhi 2002
13. Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal - Modern South Asian History,
Culture, political Economy Routledge, New York 2004
14. Saurab Dube - Postcolonial passage, contemporary history
writing on India Oxford University Press 2005
15. Priya Jaikumar - Cinema at the end of empire, a politics of
transition in Britain & India Duke University Press 2006
16. Madhubala Sinha - Encyclopedia of Kannada Literature
Anmol Publications 2009
17. G.S.Amura - Adhunika Kannada Vimarshe Swapna Book
house 2008

HIS331 - POST COLONIAL ASIA - 1945 TO 2000 (2014

Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for
No of Lecture

Semester:75
Max Marks:100

Hours/Week:5
Credits:04

Course Objective
Post 1990s, the focus of Worlds attention has turned towards Asia.
The balance of power has shifted from Euro-American territory to
strengthened economies of South-East Asia. There is a change in
practice of politics & economics in West & Central Asia.
Development, Political Structure, Cultural Identity are all issues that
are being articulated from regional perspective, thus contesting the
western notions about them. Hence it becomes imperative to engage
with these issues from a historical background. This paper attempts to
(1) Understand Asia from a post colonial world.
(2) Trace the various binaries of positions & opinions in the
process of constructing nations & national identities.

Learning Outcome
The study of this course helps the student to trace the emergence of
Asia as an important player in international relations through oil
politics and liberalized economies.

Unit-1
Near East

Teaching Hours:22

Level of Knowledge: Empirical

a) China Mao and the communist victory China & the super
powers New initiatives Xinjiang & Tibet.
b) Japan- post war Japan- From 1960 to 2000

c) Neutralism & Realignments

Unit-2
South East, South & Central Asia
Level of Knowledge: Conceptual

Teaching Hours:13

a) Myanmar Indonesia The IndoChina Peninsula

b) Srilanka Ethnic and nationalist conflicts
c) Afghanistan Cold war and post cold war developments Central Asia, Decolonization & after

Unit-3
West Asia

Teaching Hours:21

Level of Knowledge: Critical

a) Formation of Israel Arab-Israeli frictions- The wars of Suez,
Six days & Yom Kippur.
b) Destruction of Lebanon- Israels invasion civil war Camp
David
c) Palestinian state & Israels dilemma

Unit-4
Arab World

Teaching Hours:19

Level of Knowledge: Basic

a) Oil & Nationalism The shah & the ayatollah
b) Saddam Hussein Kuwait & the Gulf war
c) The Arabian Peninsula The Saudi Kingdom The Southern
Fringe The Kurds

Essential Text Books:

1. Peter Calvocoressi - World Politics 1945-2000, Person
Education, 2006
2. Norman Lowe - Mastering Modern World History
Macmillam, 1997
Recommended Reading:
1. Immannel C.Y Tsu -The rise of Modern China- OUP
1983

2. Ainslie T. Embree & Carol Gluck -Asia in Western &

World History Spring Books, 2004
3. Aylett.J F - The Cold War & After-Hodder &
Stoughton, 1996
4. Mansfiled P - A History of the Middle East-Penguin,
1992
5. Lynch.M - China: From Empire to Peoples
Republic-Hodder & Stoughton, 1996
6. Albert Hourani, Philip Khoury & Mary C. Wilson (ed)The Modern Middle East I.B. Tauris -2004
7. Harold Vinaike - A History of the Far East in Modern
Times Kalyani Publishers -1996
HIS431 - RESEARCH AND WRITING (2014 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for
No of Lecture
Semester:75
Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:04
Course Objective
Knowledge of how History is & has to be written is as important a
component as studying the discipline. Issues that are contested,
problems of ideological orientation as well as the structure in writing
history are areas that are relevant for a better understanding of the
Discourse. As an extension this whole process translates well into
understanding Writing as a creative & intellectual activity that
requires a certain extent of academic rigor for greater validation. This
paper attempts to
1) Understand the primacy of research as a vital component of
academic activity.
2) Explore the various nuances of writing as a thought & as an
activity

Learning Outcome
This course trains the learner in the technique of data

collection, field study and in writing skills in relation to

History as well as a general learning tool.
Unit-1
The Scope of History

Teaching Hours:23

Level of Knowledge: Analytical

a) What is History? Uses of History
b) History & National myth Ideology, Sources & History
c) History & Sociology, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Unit-2
Historical Method

Teaching Hours:17

Level of Knowledge: Basic

a)

Preliminary Operations Research Types, Requisites &

Stages of Research

b) Sources Written and Unwritten Sources, Categorisation of

Sources
c) Historians & Sources Using the Sources

Unit-3
Analytical Operations

Teaching Hours:19

Level of Knowledge: Conceptual

a) Hermeneutics & Heuristics
b) Positive Interpretative Criticism
c)

Negative Interpretative Criticism Errors of Good faith &

Errors of Accuracy

Unit-4
Synthetic Operations
Level of Knowledge: Empirical

Teaching Hours:16

a) Synthesizing Negative Reasoning Positive Reasoning

b) Concluding operations Framing the Questions
c) Exposition

Essential Text Books:

1. Jeremy Black and Donald D Macraild - Studying
History Macmillan 2000
2. Peter Lambert and Phillipp Schofield - Making
History: An Introduction to the history and practices of
a discipline- Routledge 2008
3. B. Sheik Ali - History its theory & method Macmillan
2000
Recommended Reading:
1. E.H Carr -What is History? Macmillan 1983
2. R.G. Collingwood - The Idea of History Oxford
University Press
3. R.J. Evans- In defense of History Granta 1997
4. Loewenberg - Psychohistory in M. Kammen (ed) The
Past Before Us: Contemporary Historical Writing in
the United States Cornell University Press 1980
5. M.C. Lemon - Philosophy of History (Chapter 12)
Rutledge -2008
6. A. Tucker -Our Knowledge of the Past: A philosophy
of Historiography (Chapter 3) Cambridge University
Press, 2004
7. Mark Day - The Philosophy of History (Part 1
chapters 1,2 & 3) Viva Continuum -2008
8. Alan Bullock & Stephen Trombley (ed) The
New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought Harper

Collins 2000