इतिहास (History)

इतिहास (History) Syllabus For B.A. (Hons.) I Year of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University

Paper-I: History of India Upto 650 A.D.

Unit 1: Sources
Unit 2: Beginning of Indian Culture:

A. Paleolithic culture.
B. Chaleolithic cultures: The Harappa civilization; Origin, extent urbanization, religion, society, culture, and decline.

Unit 3: The Vedic Age :

Polity, Society, Economy, and Religion.

Unit 4: Jainism and Buddhism.
Unit 5 : Janapadas and Mahajanpadas.
Unit 6: The Mauryan Empire :

A. Territorial Expansion.
B. Mauryan Polity.
C. Ashoka’s Dhamma.
D. Society, Art, and Architecture.

Unit 7: Post Mauryan development, 200 BC-300 A.D.

A. Greek invasion and its impact.
B. The Kushanas: Polity, Society, Religion, Culture, Economy.
C. The Satavahanas: Polity, Society, Religion, Culture, Economy.

Unit 8: Age of the Guptas:

A. Expansion of the Gupta empire with special reference to Samudra Gupta and Chandra Gupta II.
B. Administration.
C. Cultural development.
D. Social and economic changes.

Unit 9: Post Gupta Period:

A. Harsha Vardhan: empire, administration.
B. The Palas.
C. Peninsular India Chalukyas, Pallavas, and Cholas: Polity, Society, Art, Architecture, and Culture.

Paper-II: History of Modern Europe, 1789-1945

Unit 1: A. French Revolution:

The ancient regime, Role of philosophers and other social classes, legacy
of the French Revolution.
B. Emergence of Napoleon Bonaparte-Rise, Contributions, Downfall.
C. Congress of Vienna-Concert of Europe, Metternich system Revolutionary Movement of 1830-1848.
D. Changes and developments 1848-1871 Italian unification, Change
in France (Louis Napoleon III).

Unit 2: A. Europe between 1871-1914:

Bismarckian diplomacy, Eastern question World War-I: Causes
and effects.
B. Europe 1914-1945 :
Russian revolution of 1917. Paris Peace Settlement, Great depression, and Fascism and Nazism, Origin of World War-II.
C. Place Initiatives :
League of Nations and U.N.O.