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BA(Hons.) History syllabus- delhi pathshala

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On this page, we are providing the B.A. History (Hons) Syllabus 2024, covering important topics such as ancient, medieval, and modern history, historical research methods, and world civilizations. This syllabus offers a clear outline of the course structure, helping students prepare for careers in fields like archaeology, academia, public history, and civil services.

Syllabus of History (Hons.)

Here we provide the syllabus for B.A. (Hons) History, which explores major historical events, civilizations, and cultural movements. Students will study key periods from ancient to modern times, with a focus on critical analysis and interpretation of historical sources. The curriculum fosters a deep understanding of global history, preparing students for careers in research, education, and public service.

Syllabus of History (Hons.) Semester 1

Course Units
(DSC-1): History of india 1
  • Introducing early Indian History; Sourse(upto 750CE) and Historiographycal trends
  • Pre-historic Hunters Gathrers and early food Producing Societies
    • Paleolithic Culture: Sequence and distribution; tools typology and technology, subsistance patterns
    • Mesolithic culture: regional distribution; typology and subsistance patterns
    • early food producing communities: regional and chronological distribution of neolithic and chalcolithic culture; subsistance; patterns of interaction and exchange
  • The harappan civilization
    • origin
    • settlement patterns and town planning
    • Agrarian base
    • pyrotechonology and water management
    • Craft poroduction and trade
    • social and political organization
    • Religious beliefs and practices
    • art
    • Late/post harappan evidence
  • Social and cultural transitions (upto 400 BCE)
    • Archeological Culture: PGW, NBPW, Megalithic, Metallic coins, role of iron technology
    • Litratry and textual traditions: Vedical and Brahmanical; Shramanical
    • The Aryan Quetion
    • Emergence of social and political institutions; Urbanization; social stratification and state formation
(DSC-2): social formation and cultural pattern of the ancient world 1
  • Evolution of Humans and hunting gathering cultures
    • Understanding Prehistory
    • biological and cultural evolution of humans: lithic and other technologies
    • changing subsistance patterns; funerary practices and art
  • transition to food poroduction
    • Mesolithic cultures: west asia and europe
    • Origins of food production: Debates
    • features of neolithic Base on sites from west asia, Europe and Mesoamerica/China
  • The Bronze Age
    • Any one Case study: Ancient mesopotamia(sumarian and akkadian period)/ Egypt (old kingdom)/ China (shang Dynasty)
    • Concepts: 'Bronze Age', 'civilization', 'urban revolution' and 'state'
    • Ecological context of early civilizations
    • kingship, religion and state; social and economic complexity: class, gender
  • Nomadic culture in transition
    • Nomadic Pastoralism in west asia in the third and second millennium BCE
    • Iron technology and it's spread
(DSC-3): History of the USA: independence to civilwar
  • a new world:
    • Contribution of indigenous tribes, Indentured servants and slave labour in the growth and expansion of american colonies
    • American revolution: Sourse, Historiographycal
  • Limits of american democracy:
    • marginalization anddisplacement of indigenous tribes (Shawnee and cherokee)
    • Policies of thomas jeffeson and andrew jeckson thet placed the original peoples (Indigenous tribes) beshind 'reserves'
  • United States Quest for dominance: Imperialism and changing Diplomacy:
    • menifest destiny
    • war of 1812
    • monroe doctrine
  • slavery and the civil war:
    • the economics of slavery: south vs north Debates
    • slave culture and slave resistances (including the nature of female slavery and resistance)
    • Issues of civil war and the interpretation

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