History BA (Hons) Semester II : Course Pack , University of Delhi

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Contents
Preface
Part I: Ancient India II
	Chapter 1: Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE–CE 300)
		Expansion of Agrarian Economy: Production Relations
			Agriculture and Irrigation
			Production Relations: Ownership Rights
		Urban Growth: North India, Central India, and the Deccan; Craft Production: Trade and Trade Routes; Coinage
			Indo-Roman Trade
			Impact on Indian Society
			Coins of Foreign Polities
			Coins of Gana-sanghas
			Coins of Indigenous Monarchies
			Coins of Cities or Guilds
			Roman Coins
			Important Urban Centres and Trade Routes
			Important Ports and Trade Routes
		Short Notes
		Social Stratification: Class, Varna, Jati, Untouchability; Gender; Marriage and Property Relations
			Dharmashastric View on the Origin of Castes (Jatis)
			Untouchablility
			Eight Forms of Marriages
		Short Notes
	Chapter 2: Changing Political Formations (circa 300 BCE–CE 300)
		The Mauryan Empire
			Towns and Trade
			Literary Works
			Material Remains
			Sources Dealing with Mauryan Origin
			Nature of the Mauryan State
			The Administration
			The Central Administration
			The Provincial Administration
			The Local Administration
			Revenue Administration
			Ashoka and Buddhism
			Ashoka’s Dhamma: The Nature and Important Features
			The Decline of Mauryas
			Architecture
			Dhamma
		Post-Mauryan Polities with Special Reference to the Kushanas and the Satavahanas; Gana-Sanghas
			Political and Administrative System
			The Significance of the Kushana Rule in Ancient India
		Short Notes
	Chapter 3: Towards Early Medieval India (circa CE 400–750)
		Agrarian Expansion: Land Grants, Changing Production Relations; Graded Land Rights and Peasantry
		The Problem of Urban Decline: Pattern of Trade, Currency, and Urban Settlements
			Decline of Trade and Commerce
			Paucity of Coins
			Urban Contraction
			Agrarian Expansion
			Some Criticisms
			Overseas Trade
			The Guilds
			Trade and Crafts
			Urban Centres and Markets
			The Guilds and Merchants
			Overseas Trade
		Varna, Proliferation of Jatis; Changing Norms of Marriage and Property; Woman in Non-Shastric Literature
			Proliferation of Jatis
			Purity and Impurity Concept
			Brahmanization and Peasantisation of Tribes
			Emergence of Occupation Based Castes
			Women and Caste
			Marriage Forms
			Women Participation in Rituals
			Women in Non-shastric Literature
		Short Notes
		The Nature of Polities: The Gupta Empire and its Contemporaries: Post-Gupta Polities—Pallavas, Chalukyas, and Vardhanas
			Discuss the administrative system of the Guptas as reflected in their sources.
			The Central Administration
			Council of Ministers and Other Officials
			Army
			Other Administrative Officials
			Provincial Administration
			Local Administration
			Revenue Administration
		Short Notes
	Chapter 4: Religion, Philosophy, and Society (circa 300 BCE–CE 750)
		Consolidation of the Brahmanical Tradition: Dharma, Varnashram-Dharma, Purusharathas, and Samskaras
		Short Notes
		Theistic Cults (from Circa Second Century BCE); Mahayana Buddhism and the Puranic Tradition
		The Beginnings of Tantricism
		Short Notes
	Chapter 5: Cultural Developments (circa 300 BCE–CE 750)
		A Brief Survey of Sanskrit, Pali-Prakrit, and Tamil Literature, Scientific, and Technical Treastises
			Literature
			Scientific Developments and the Related Texts
		Art and Architecture—Forms and Patronage; Mauryan, Post-Mauryan, Gupta, Post-Gupta
			Architecture
			Sculpture
			Mathura School of Art
			Gandhara School of Art
			Architecture
			Art
		Short Notes
Part II: Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Ancient and Medieval World
	Chapter 6: Roman Republic, Principate, and Empire
		Types of Slaves
		Law
		Manumission
		Revenue Reforms
		Local Self-Government
		Architectural Marvels
	Chapter 7: Religion and Culture in Ancient Rome
		Roman Literary Achievements
		The Age of Cicero
		The Augustan Age
		Art
		Architecture
	Chapter 8: Crises of the Roman Empire
		Social Causes
		Political Causes
		Economic Causes
	Chapter 9: Economic Developments in Europe from the 7th to the 14th Centuries
		The Germanic Invasions
		France
		England
		Germany
		Italy
		Feudal Mode of Production
		Vassal
		Homage
		Feudal Hierarchy
		Manor
		Serfdom
		Other Taxes (Banalities, Taille, and Tithe)
		Population Growth
		Technological Changes
		Expansion of Agriculture
		Towns and Trade in High Middle Ages
		The Italian City-State
		Reasons of the Peasant Rebellions
		The Peasant Rebellions
		Arab Contribution
		Chinese Contribution
	Chapter 10: Religion and Culturein Medieval Europe
		Church and Germanic Kingdoms
		The Papal Monarchy
		Revival of Monasticism
		Church and Monasticism
		The Impact of Church and Papacy
	Chapter 11: Societies in Central Islamic Lands
		The Tribal Background, Ummah, Caliphal State; Riseof Sultanates
			The Orthodox Caliphate (632–661 CE)
			The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE)
			The Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258 CE)
			Pre-Islamic Period
			Emergence of Islam
			Spread of Islam
		Short Notes
		Religious Developments: The Origins of Shariah, Mihna, Sufism
		Short Notes
		Urbanization and Trade
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