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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