Syllabus & Course Curriculam
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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