Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University

Syllabus & Course Curriculam

Syllabus (HISTORY)

Course Type: ME-2

Semester: 2

Course Code: BHISMEB12T

Course Title: Idea of India and Its History up to 600 BC

(L-P-Tu): 3-0-1

Credit: 4

Practical/Theory: Theory

Course Objective: X

Learning Outcome: X

Idea of India and Its History up to 600 BC

UNIT-I: Concept of Bharatvarsha

I. Understanding of Bharatvarsha

II. The glory of Indian Literature: Ved, Vedanga, Upanishads, Epics, Jain and

Buddhist Literature, Smriti, Puranas etc.

UNIT-II: Indian Philosophy, Science and Environment

I. Indian educational system

II. The ethics of Indian valor

III. Science and Technology

IV. Environmental conservation: Indian View

UNIT – III: Sources and Historiography

I. Sources and Historiographical trends of ancient Indian History up to 600 C.E.

III. The Indus Civilization, Debate on the relationship of Indus and Vedic civilization.

IV. Significant features of Indus, its continuity, fall and survival.

UNIT – IV: A Survey of Prehistoric India

I. Old Stone age /Paleolithic- Lower/ Middle/ Upper: Sequence and distribution; stone industries and other technological developments

II. Late Stone age/Mesolithic cultures- regional and chronological distribution; new developments in technology and economy; Rock Art

III. New Stone age/Neolithic Cultures- Beginning of agriculture, innovations in technology, Invention of pottery, development of technologies, and sites and importance– 15 Classes

UNIT – IV: Harappa and Vedic Civilization

I. Its origins and Phases of Harappan Civilization- settlement patterns and town planning system; General Features of the Civilization

II. Agrarian base; Industries and craft productions- pottery and trade; social and political organizations; religious beliefs and practices; famous Harappan Sites -the problem of urban decline - 20 Classes

III. Original home land of Aryans, Myths of Aryan Invasion: Various theories

IV. Vedic Cultures- Early Vedic and Post Vedic Literature and Vedic Polity, society and Economy

UNIT- V: India from Sixth Century BCE to Mauryan Age

I. Sources

II. India in sixth centuryBCE Mahajanpada, Republic and Growth of Urban centres, Rise

of Magadhan Imperialism.

III. Religious systems in 6th century BCE, Buddhism and Jainism.

IV. The Maurya Empire, Chandragupta Maurya, Mauryan administration, Ashok and

Ashoka’s Dhamma. Mauryan Society, Fall of Mauryan Empire. Greek Invasion and its

Impact -25 Classes

Reading References:

A.l Basham: The Wonder that was India, Rupa, Delhi 1994

A.S Altekar, Education in Ancient India, Nand Kishore & Bros, Varanasi 1944

Balbir Singh Sihag: Kautilya: The true founder of Economics, Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd,

Delhi, 2014

R.K Mookherjee: The Fundamental Unity of India

Will Durant: The Story of civilization, five communication, US, Jan. 1993(11 Vol)

Irfan Habib, People’s History of India I: Pre-history, Tulika

Shereen Ratnagar, Understanding Harappa: Civilization in the Greater Indus Valley , New Delhi

Dilip Kr. Chakraborty (ed), Indus Civilization Sites in India: New Discoveries, Mumbai

R.C. Majumdar, The Classical Accounts of India, Calcutta

R. Thapar, From Lineage to State: Social Formations in the Mid-first Millennium BC in the Ganga Valley, OUP, Delhi; Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, New Delhi

D.D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History, Bombay

R.S, Sharma, Aspects of Political Ideas and Institutions in Ancient India, Delhi

Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India, from Stone Age to the 12th Century, Delhi

Dilip Kr. Chakraborty, The Oxford Companion to Indian Archaeology, OUP, New Delhi

Sankalia, HD: Prehistory and Prohistory of India and Pakistan, Poona 1974

Sastri, K.A Nilakanta: A History of South India, from Prehistoric Times to the

fall of Vijyanagar, Oxford University Press, 1955; Also, in Hindi Translation

by Bihar Hindi Granth Academy.

Singh, Kripa Shankar: Rigveda, Harrappa Sabhyata and Sanskritic

Nirantarta, Kitab Ghar publication, New Delhi, 2007

Raychaudhary, H.C: Political History of Ancient India, rev Edition, 1953

শর্মা, রামশরণ, ভারতের সমাজতন্ত্র, (Indian Feudalism), কে. পি. বাগচি এন্ড কোং, কলকাতা

শর্মা, রামশরণ, আর্যদের অনুসন্ধান, (Looking for the Aryans), প্রগ্রেসিভ পাবলিশার্স, কলকাতা

শর্মা, রামশরণ, আর্যদের ভারতে আগমন, (Advent of the Aryans), ওরিয়েন্টলংম্যান, ২০০১

Basic Features

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Note: The eligibility condition of doing the UG degree (Honours with Research) is- minimum75% marks to be obtained in the first six semesters.

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