V SEMESTER

V SEMESTER PAPER - V ADMINISTRATIVE, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF 19TH C INDIA
OBJECTIVES
• To help students to acquire basic knowledge about Social, Economic and Administrative aspects of 19th C India • To provide foundation for the study of other branches of History
• To develop analytical, reasoning and presentation skills.
• To enable the students to appreciate the utility of administrative aspects of History in day to day life.

UNIT I:
Introduction - Orientalist Discovery of India -William Jones, Colebrooke. Utilitarians. Consolidation of the British Rule – Colonial Encounter - Battle of Plassey - Battle of Buxar - Anglo French Wars. Expansionist policies - Subsidiary Alliance - Doctrine of Lapse. Events of 1857. (18 hours)

UNIT II:
British Land Revenue Mechanism - Permanent Settlement system – Ryotwari –Mahalwari system. Economic Drain Theory – Dadabhai Naroji – R C Dutt. Tribal and Peasant Movements – Santhals – Kols – Mundas. (15 hours)

UNIT III:
Educational - The Charter Act of 1833 – Debate on Education – Macaulay’s Minutes of 1835 – Filtration theory – Growth of University system- Woods Despatch, Hunter Commission Report – Indian Universities Act 1904. Judicial Reforms- Cornwallis Code - Ilbert Bill – Gentoo Laws. (12 hours)

UNIT IV:
Socio - Religious Reform Movements - BrahmoSamaj -Raja Ram Mohan Roy – Arya Samaj- Dayananda Saraswati – Ramakrishna Mission - Swami Vivekananda – Aligarh Movement - Syed Ahmed Ali Khan – SatyashodakSamaj- JyotibaPhule. (10 hours)
MAP WORK:
PLACES OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE: 1. Wandi Wash 2. Calcutta3. Plassey4. Buxar 5. Delhi 6. Madras 7. Mahe 8. Surat 9. Pondicherry 10. Barrackpore 11. Murshidabad 12. Chandranagore 13. Jhansi 14. Bombay 15. Allahabad 16. Dacca17. Kanpur 18. Meerut 19. Aligarh 20. Kanyakumari.

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE:
1. SumithSarkar: Modern India 2. Percival Spear: Modern India 3. A.R. Desai: Social Background of Indian Nationalism 4. J.P. Andrews: The Renaissance in India 5. C.Y. Chinthamani: Indian Politics since the Mutiny 6. Annie Besant: India A Nation 7. R.C. Majumdar: History of Political Thought from Ram Mohan to Dayananda 8. Bipin Chandra, Barunde&AmaleshTripathi: Modern India (NCERT) 9. Jawaharlal Nehru: Discovery of India 10. RavindraKumar: Essays on the Social History of Modern India. 11. Bernard S. Kohen: Colonialism and its Forces of Knowledge 12. Metcalfe Thomas: Ideologies of the Raj 13. David Koff: British Orientalism and Indian Renaissance. 14. R.C. Majumdar: Advanced History of India.

V SEMESTER PAPER – VI MODERN WORLD OBJECTIVES
• To help students to acquire basic knowledge about the Political aspects of the Modern World
• To provide foundation for the study of other branches of History
• To develop analytical, reasoning and presentation skills.
• To enable the students to think about the factors which shook the very foundation of World peace

UNIT I:
Europe in the 18th century- Unification of Italy – Germany - World War I - League of Nations. Rise of dictatorship - Fascism and Nazism – Factors leading to II World War – Results - U.N.O – Achievements in political and non-political sphere -Suez Crisis, Korean Problem - Vietnam Crisis - Cuban Missile Crisis. (18 hours)

UNIT II:
Bi polar world – Cold War – NATO – Warsaw Pact – Regional Alliances – SEATO- CENTO - Non Alignment - USSR & Stalinist era - Question of Disarmament - NPT, CTBT.Disintegration of Soviet Union - Mikhail Gorbhachev –End of Cold War – Unipolar World –Multi Polar World. (15 hours)

UNIT III:
Arab Israeli conflicts - Yasser Arafat – Gulf Crisis – Iran Iraq War – Kuwait War – Saddam Hussein. Young – Turk Movement. (12 hours)

UNIT IV:
The New Trends - Ecology and Environment – The Earth Summit at Rio - Gender issues and Global concern – Human Rights –Terrorism and its Impact (10 hours). MAP WORK: (5 hours)

PLACES OF HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE:
1. Suez Canal 2. Paris 3. Baghdad 4. Warsaw 5. Beirut 6. Moscow 7. Kabul 8. Helsinki 9. Seoul 10. Kuwait 11. Dunkirk 12. Geneva 13. Berlin 14. Belgrade 15. Camp David 16. Rio 17. Colombo 18. Tel Aviv 19. Hiroshima 20. Hanoi.

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE
1. Agosin M (Ed.): Women, Gender and Human Rights: A Global Perspective
2. SymonidesJ: New Dimensions and Challenges to Human Rights
3. Lobo Nancy: Globalisation, Hindu Nationalism and Christians in India
4. Went R: Globalisation
5. Vyas V S. (Ed.): Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
6. Evan T: Politics of Human Rights
7. Jogdand&Michael: Globalisation and Social Movements
8. Cohen R: Global Social Movements
9. Jain and Hexamer: Nuclearization in South Asia
10. S.K.Ray: Refugees and Human Rights
11. BimalChakraborty: The United Nations and the Third World – Shifting Paradigms
12. Kathleen C Bailey (Ed.): Weapons of Mass Destruction
13. Partha S. Ghosh: Co-operation and Conflict in South Asia
14. A. C. Roy: International Affairs since 1919
15. A.K. Sen: International Relations since 1919 16. Prakash Chandra, PremArora: Comparative Politics and International Relations.