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Gujarat SLET History Subject Paper 2 Syllabus Download

Gujarat SLET History Subject Paper 2 Syllabus

Subject Code No. : 08

HISTORY SYLLABUS

Note :

There will be two question papers, Paper—II and Paper—III. Paper—II will cover 50 Objective Type Questions carrying 100 marks. Paper—III will be of 200 marks and will consist of four sections, in all containing 26 questions (short and essay type) to attempt. For detail structure of Paper-III please visit our website http://www.msubaroda.ac.in

PAPER-II

1. CONCEPTS, IDEAS AND TERMS

Bharatvarsha
Sabha and Samiti
Varnasrama
Purusharthas
Rina
Samskaras
Yajna
Doctrine of Karma
Dandaniti/Arthasastra
Saptanga
Dharmavijaya
Stupa/Chaitya
Nagara/Dravida/Vesara
Bodhisattva/Tirthankara
Alvars/Nayanars
Sreni
Chauth
Hundi (Bills of Exchange)
Sarraf
Polygars
Jagir
Subsidiary Alliance
Panchsheel
Hindu Code Bill
Dastur
Mansab (Rank)
Deshmukh
Nadu
Pargana
Bengal Vaishnavism
Alt magha
Shahna-i-Mandi
Mercantilism
Economic Nationalism
Indian Renaissance
Economic Drain
Colonialism
Paramountcy
Kara/Vishti
Stridhana
Memorial stones
Agraharas
Khilafat
Sulh-i-kul
Maharashtra-dharma
Evangelicalism
Turkan-i-Chahlghani
Watan
Baluta
Iqta
Jizyah
Madadi-maash
Amaram
Raya-Rekho
Jangama
Dyarchy
Federalism
Utilitarianism
Filtration Theory
Forward Policy
Doctrine of Lapse
Satyagraha
Swadeshi
Revivalism
Communalism
Orientalism
De-industrialisation
Bhudan

2. ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY

Sources :
Archaeological Sources Exploration, excavation epigraphy, numismatics, monuments
Literary Sources Indigenous : Primary and Secondary—problems of dating, myths. legends, poetry, scientific literature, literature in regional languages, religious literature. Foreign
accounts : Greek. Chinese and Arab writers.
Pre-history and Proto-history
Man and Environment—geographical factors. Hunting and gathering (Paleolithic and Mesolithic): Beginning of agriculture (Neolithic and Chalcolithic). Indus Valley Civilization—origin, date, extent, characteristics, decline, survival and significance. Iron age; Second urbanisation.
Vedic Period
Migrations and settlements; dating the Vedlc. literary and archaeological evidences, evolution of social and political Institutions: religious and philosophical Ideas, rituals and practices.
Period of Mahajanapadas
Formation of States (Mahajanapadas); Republics and Monarchies; rise of urban centres; trade routes; economic growth; Introduction of coinage; pread of Jainism and Buddhism; rise of Magadha and Nandas. Iranian and Macedonian Invasions and their Impact.
Mauryan Empire
Foundation of the Mauryan Empire, Chandragupta. Kautilya and Arthashastra; Ashoka; Concept of Dharma; Edicts; Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts.
Administration; economy; architecture and sculpture; external contacts. Disintegration of the empire; Sungas and Kanvas.
Post-Mauryan Period (Indo-Greeks, Sakas, Kushanas. Western Kshatrapas)
Contact with outside world; growth of urban centres, economy, coinage. development of religions, Mahayana, social conditions, art and architecture, literature and science. Early state and society—in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
Kharavela, The Satavahanas, Tamil States of the Sangam Age. Administration; economy, land grants, coinage, trade guilds and urban centres. Buddhist centres, Sangam literature and culture; art and architecture.
Imperial Guptas and Regional States of India
Guptas and Vakatakas, Harsha, Administration, economic conditions, coinage of the Guptas, land grants, decline of urban centres, Indian feudalism, caste system, position of women, education and educational Institutions—Nalanda, Vikramshlla and Vallabhi. contact with neighbouring countries—Central Asia, South-East Asia and China, Sanskrit literature, scientific literature, art and architecture.
The Kadambas, Gangas, Pallavas and Chalukyas of Badami— Administration, trade guilds, Sanskrit literature and growth of regional languages and scripts; growth, of Vaishnava and Saiva religions, Tamil Bhaktl Movement. Shankaracharya—Vedanta; Institutions of temple and temple architecture.
Varmanas of Kamrup; Palas and Senas, Rashtrakutas. Prathiharas, Kalachuri-Chedls; Paramaras; Chalukyas of Gujarat; Arab contacts—Ghaznavl Conquest Alberunl.
The Chalukyas of Kalyana, Cholas, Cheras, Hoysalas, Pandyas—Administration and local Government, growth of art and architecture, religious sects. Institution of temple and Mathas, Agraharas. education and literature, economy and society, contact with Sri Lanka and South- East Asia.

3. MEDIEVAL INDIAN HISTORY

Sources

Archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic materials and monuments.
Chronicles.
Literary sources—Persian, Sanskrit and Regional languages.
Archival materials.
Foreign travellers’ accounts.
Political Developments
The Sultanate—the Ghorids. the Turks, the Khaljis. the Tughluqs, the Sayyids and the Lodis.
Foundation of the Mughal Empire—Babur, Humayun and the Suris:
expansion from Akbar to Aurangzeb.
Decline of the Mughal empire—political, administrative and economic causes.
Later Mughals and disintegration of the Mughal empire. The Vijayanagara and the Bahmanis—rise, expansion and disintegration. The Maratha movement, the foundation of Swaraj by Shivaji; its expansion under the Peshwas; Maratha Confederacy—causes of decline.
Administration
Administration under the Sultanate—civil. Judicial, revenue, fiscal and military.
Sher Shah’s administrative reforms; Mughal administration—land revenue and other sources of Income; Mansabdari and Jaglrdari.
Administrative system in the Deccan—the Vljayanagara. the Bahmanis and the Marathas.
Economic Aspects
Agricultural production—village economy; peasantry. Urban centres and population.
Industries—cotton textiles, handicrafts, agro-based Industries. organisation, karkhanas, technology.
Trade and commerce—State policies, internal and external trade;
European trade, trade centres and ports, transport and communication.
Financing trade, commerce and Industries; Hundi (Bills of Exchange) and Insurance.
Currency.
Socio-religious Movements
The Sufis—their orders, beliefs and practices, the leading Sufi saints. Bhaktl cult—Shaivism and its branches : Vaishnavism and Its branches. The Saints of the medieval period—north and south—their Impact on socio-political and religious life.
The Sikh movement—Guru Nanak Dev and his teachings and practices, Adi Granth; the Khalsa.
Society
Classification—ruling class, major religious groups, the mercantile and professional classes.
Rural society—petty chieftains, village officials, cultivators and non-cultivating classes, artisans.
Position of women.
Cultural Life
System of Educational and Its motivations.
Literature—Persian, Sanskrit and Regional languages.
Fine Arts—major schools of painting; music.
Architectural developments of the North and South India: Indo-Islamic architecture.

4. MODERN INDIAN HISTORY

Sources and Historiography :

Archival materials, biographies and memories, newspapers.
Oral evidence, creative literature and painting.
Concerns in Modem Indian Historiography—Imperialist, Nationalist, Marxist and Subaltern.
Rise of British Power
European traders In India In the 17th and 18th centuries—Portuguese.
Dutch. French and the British.
The establishment and expansion of British dominion In India.
British relations with and subjugation of the principal Indian
Powers—Bengal, Oudh, Hyderabad, Mysore, Marathas and the Sikhs.
Administration of the Company and Crown
Evolution of central and provincial structure under the East India Company, 1773-1853, Paramountacy. Civil Service. Judiciary, Police and the Army under the Company and Crown. Local Self-Government
Constitutional changes, 1909-1935.
Economic History
Changing composition, volume and direction of trade; The Tribute’.
Expansion and commercialisation of agriculture, land rights, land settlements, rural indebtedness, landless labour.
Decline of Industries—changing socio-economic conditions of artisans:
De-urbanisation.
British Industrial Policy; major modem Industries; nature of factory legislation; labour and trade union movements.
Monetary policy; banking, currency and exchange. Railways and Road
Transport.
Growth of new urban centres: new features of town planning and architecture.
Famines and epidemics and the government policy.
Economic Thought—English utilitarians: Indian economic historians: the Drain theory.
Indian Society in Transition
Contact with Christianity—the Missions; critique of Indian social and economic practices
and religious beliefs; educational and other activities.
The New Education—government policy: levels and contents: English
language; modem science; Indian initiatives in education.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy; socio-religious reforms: emergence of middle class; caste
associations and caste mobility.
Women’s Question—Nationalist Discourse: Women’s Organisations;
British legislation concerning women; Constitutional position.
The Printing Press—journalistic activity and the public opinion.
Modernisation of Indian languages and literary forms—reorientatlon in painting, music and
performing arts.
National Movement
Rise of Indian nationalism, social and economic bases of nationalism.
Revolt of 1857 and different social classes.
Tribal and peasant movements.
Ideologies and programmes of the Indian National Congress. 1885- 1920.
Trends In Swadeshi movement.
Ideologies and programmes of Indian revolutionaries In India and abroad.
Gandhian Mass Movements.
Ideology and programme of the Justice Party.
Left Wing Politics. Movement of the Depressed classes.
Communal politics and genesis of Pakistan.
Towards Independence and Partition.
India after Independence (1947-1964)
Rehabilitation after Partition.
Integration of the Indian States; The Kashmir Question.
The making of the Indian Constitution.
The structure of Bureaucracy and the Police.
The demographic trends.
Economic policies and the planning process.
Linguistic reorganisation of States.
Foreign policy initiatives.
World History : Concepts, Ideas and Terms
Pre-history Humanism
Burial Practices Enlightened Despotism
Mother-Goddess Divine Right
Law codes Supremacy of Church
Athenian Holy Roman Empire
Imperial Rome Social Contract and General Will
Slavery Nation States
Aristocracy Renaissance
Confucianism Reformation
Manorial system Darwinism
Black Death Great Depression (1929)
Feudalism Feminism
Non-alignment Parliamentary
Democracy
Nazism
Commonwealth
Imperialism
Socialism
Balance of Power
Apartheid
Rights of Man
Cold War
Post-modernism
Research in History
Scope and value of History
Objectivity and Bias In History
History and Its auxiliary sciences
Area of research—proposed
Sources—Primary/secondary In the proposed area of research
Modem Historical Writing in the researcher’s area of research

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