इतिहास (History)

इतिहास History Syllabus

Paper-I: History of Medieval India (1200–1526 A.D.)

Unit 1

1. The significant source material of medieval India: Archaeological literary and historical
2. Historiography – Different Approaches
3. Rise of Turks, causes of Success of Arab invasion and its impact.

Unit-2 Slave Dynasty:

1. Aibak – Early career, achievements as a commander, difficulties, an assessment.
2. Illtutmish – Early life, problems, achievements, an estimate, the successors and the rule of forty.
3. Razia – Her state policy, causes of her downfall, an assessment.
4. Balban – Early life and accession, his problems, a theory of kingship, achievements, an estimate.
5. Causes of the downfall of the slave dynasty.
6. Khilji Dynasty: Jalaluddin Firoz Shah Khilji – Early life and career, significant events of his reign, foreign policy, estimate.  Alauddin Khilji – Early career and accession, difficulties, a theory of kingship, Hindu policy, Domestic policy, revolts, and its remedies, Administrative system, Price control, and Market regulations, foreign policy, southern conquest, mongol invasion, and its effects, an assessment.

Unit-3 Tughlaq Dynasty:

1. Ghiasuddin Tughlaq – Domestic policy, foreign policy, death of Ghiasuddin.
2. Mohammad-bin-Tughlaq – Domestic policy schemes of Mohd. Tughlaq, Revenue reforms, Administrative reforms, foreign policy, Deccan policy, revolts, the significance of his reign.
3. Firoz Shah Tughlaq – Early life, accession, was Firoz a usurper? Domestic policy, foreign policy, Administrative reforms, an estimate. Invasion of Timur, causes and its effects. Causes of the downfall of the Tughlaq dynasty.
4. Sayyid Dynasty: Khizr Khan – Victories, achievements, character. Mubarak Shah – His achievements. Alam Shah – Administrative achievements.
5. Lodhi Dynasty: Bahlol Lodhi – Accession, main events of reign, character, assessment. Sikander Lodhi – Main events of his life, foreign policy. Ibrahim Lodhi – Domestic policy, foreign policy, causes of failure, an estimate.

Unit-4

1. Nature of state, different theories of kingship.
2. Causes of the Downfall of Delhi Sultanate.
3. Central and provincial administration, army organization.
4. Development of literate and architecture.

Paper-II: History of Europe (1450–1815 A.D.)

Unit-1

1. Renaissance – Emergence, Nature & Impact.
2. The Reformation and Counter-Reformation – Causes, nature of reformation, results.
3. Rise of National States – Causes, main monarchies, and their growth – Ferdinand, Isabella of Spain, Louis XI of France, England – Henery VII, Holy Roman Empire.
4. Rise and Decline of Spain – Foreign Policy of Charles V, Philip II, Revolt of Netherland, Thirty Years War, Causes of the downfall of Spain.

Unit-2

1. The Ascendancy of France – Background of religious and civil wars, Domestic policy of Henry IV, Regime of Louis XIII.
2. France at her Zenith – Domestic and foreign policy of Louis XIV.
3. England and Industrial Revolution – Queen Elizabeth I, the age of Stuarts, the civil war, Charles II, James II and Glorious revolution, causes of the industrial revolution and its effects.
4. The age of Enlightened Despotism – Meaning, prominent enlightened despots – Fedrick the great, Maria Theresa, Joseph II of Austria, Catherine II, Weakness of enlightened despotism.

Unit-3

1. Rise of Modern Russia – Peter the Great, Catherine II their foreign policies.
2. Austrian Empire – War of Austrian succession – Treaty of AixLA-Chapple, Causes of seven years war, the treaty of Hubertusberg, Foreign policy of Joseph II.
3. The Rise of Prussia – Domestic, foreign and religious policy of Frederick the Great.

Unit-4

1. American War of Independence – Causes, events, results.
2. Commercial Revolution – Causes of Mercantilism’s main thinkers, the importance of Mercantilism and Criticism, Causes of its decline.
3. The Age of Reason – Main intellectuals, salient features of the age of reason, the impact of the age of reason.
4. France on the eve of resolution – Political, economic, religious and social condition, intellectual revolution.
5. French Revolution: Causes, Impact on the world.

Unit-5

1. Napoleonic Era, Early achievements of Napoleon, Foreign Policy as First Consul, Napoleon as Emperor of France, Continental System, Causes of Napoleon’s Downfall.
2. Vienna Congress – Main Principles and Working, Reconstruction of Europe.

इतिहास History विषय-सूची

मध्यकालीन भारत का इतिहास : (1200 ई. से 1526 ई. तक)

1. मध्यकालीन इतिहास के प्रमुख स्रोत तथा इतिहास लेखन
2. तुर्कों का उदय, अरब अभियान
3. दास-वंश: ऐबक, इल्तुतमिश, रजिया, बलबन, गुलाम वंश के पतन के कारण
4. खिलजी-वंश
5. तुगलक-वंश
6. सैय्यद एवं लोदी वंश
7. सल्तनतकालीन राज्य का स्वरूप, प्रशासन तथा राजत्व का सिद्धान्त
8. दिल्ली सल्तनत के पतन के कारण
9. अल्तनतकालीन साहित्य एवं समाज का विकास
10. सल्तनतकालीन कला का विकास

यूरोप का इतिहास : (1450 ई. से 1815 ई. तक)

1. पुनर्जागरण
2. धर्म सुधार एवं धर्म सुधार विरोधी आन्दोलन
3. राष्ट्रीय राजतन्त्रों का उदय
4. स्पेन का उत्थान एवं पतन
5. फ्रांस उत्थान के पथ पर
6. फ्रांस का चरमोत्कर्ष एवं लुई चतुर्दश
7. इंग्लैण्ड एवं इंग्लैण्ड में औद्योगिक क्रान्ति
8. प्रबुद्ध निरंकुशता का युग
9. आधुनिक रूस का उत्थान: पीटर एवं कैथरीन
10. आस्ट्रिया-साम्राज्य: हैप्सबर्ग राजवंश
11. प्रशा का उत्थान एवं फ्रेडरिक महान
12. अमरीका का स्वतन्त्रता संग्राम
13. व्यापारिक क्रान्ति एवं वाणिज्यवाद
14. तर्कवाद का युग
15. क्रान्ति से पूर्व फ्रांस
16. नेपोलियन का युग
17. विएना कांग्रेस