IGNOU MA HISTORY (MAHI) NEW SYLLABUS 2023
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Course Code
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Title of the Course
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Credits
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First Year: First Semester |
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MHI-101
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Ancient and Medieval Societies
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6 |
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MHI-104
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Political Structures in India through the Ages
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8 |
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MHI-105
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History of Indian Economy-1: From Earliest Times to c. 1700 |
6
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First Year: Second Semester
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MHI-102
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Modern World
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6 |
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MHI-106
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Social Structures in India through the Ages
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8 |
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MHI-107
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History of Indian Economy-2: c.1700 to 2000
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6
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Second Year: Third Semester
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MHI-103
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Historiography and Research Methods
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8 |
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MHI-109
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Indian National Movement
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8 |
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MPSE-004
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Social and Political Thought in Modern India
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4 |
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MGP-004
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Gandhi‟s Political Thought
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4 |
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Second Year: Fourth Semester
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MHI-108
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Environmental Histories of the Indian Subcontinent
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8
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MHI-110 |
Urbanization in India-1: From Earliest Times to c. 1300 |
6 |
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MHI-111 |
Urbanization in India-2: c.1300 to 1950 |
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First Year: First Semester
MHI-101 - Ancient and Medieval Societies
Unit 1 Early Human Societies
Unit 2 Bronze Age Civilizations I
Unit 3 Bronze Age Civilizations 2
Unit 4 The Persian Empire
Unit 5 Ancient Greece
Unit 6 The Roman Empire
Unit 7 Latin America
Unit 8 Africa
Unit 9 Nomadic Empires
Unit 10 The Late Roman World
Unit 11 The Arab World
Unit 12 China
Unit 13 Debates on Feudalism
Unit 14 Feudalism: Forms, Structures and Phases
Unit 15 Trade and the Decline of Feudalism
Unit 16 Oceanic Trade
Unit 17 Business Communities
Unit 18 Commercial Practices
Unit 19 Craft Production
Unit 20 Science and Technologies and Expansion of
Knowledge
Unit 21 Religious Establishment
Unit 22 Urbanism
Unit 23 Technologies of Warfare and Communication
Unit 24 Transition to Modern World
For MHI-101 Playlist Video Click on it - MHI-101 - Ancient and Medieval Societies
MHI-104 - Political Structures in India
Theme 1: Early State
Formation
Unit 1 Pre-State to State
Unit 2 Territorial States to Empire
Unit 3 Polities from 2nd Century BCE to 3rd Century
CE
Unit 4 Non-Monarchical Political Formations in Ancient
India
Unit 5 Polities from 3rd to 6th Century
CE
Theme 2: States in
India: 7th-13th Century CE
Unit 6 Early Medieval Polities in North India: 7th to
13th Century
CE
Unit 7 Early Medieval Polities in Peninsular India: 6th
to 8th Century CE
Unit 8 Early Medieval Polities in Peninsular India: 8th
to 13th Century CE
Unit 9 Polities in Himalayan Region: Central and Western
Himalayas
Unit 10 Polities in Himalayan Region: Eastern
Himalayas
Theme 3: States in India: c. 1300-1800 CE
Unit 11 Delhi Sultanate
Unit 12 Rajput Polities
Unit 13 Polities of North-Eastern India
Unit 14 Vijayanagara, Bahamani and other Kingdoms
Unit 15 Mughal State
Unit 16 Maratha State
Unit 17 Maratha Administrative Structure
Theme 4: Eighteenth
Century States
Unit 18 Eighteenth Century Polities: 1
Unit 19 Eighteenth Century
Polities: 2
Theme 5: European
Companies, Colonialism and Empire
Unit 20 Colonial Powers –
Portuguese, Dutch and French
Unit 21 British Colonial
State
Unit 22 Princely States
Theme 6: Administrative and Institutional
Structures
Unit 23 Administrative and Institutional
Structures in Peninsular India
Unit 24 Administrative and
Institutional Systems in North India
Unit 25 Law and Judicial Systems
Theme 7: Administrative
and Institutional Structures
Unit 26 Delhi Sultanate
Unit 27 Vijayanagara, Bahamani and other Kingdoms
Unit 28 Mughal Empire
Theme 8: Colonialism
and Empire
Unit 29 Ideologies of the Raj
Unit 30 Colonial Governance
Unit 31 Colonial Control of Resources
Unit 32 Colonial Intervention: Education and Society
Unit 33
North-Eastern India under Colonial Rule
Unit 34 Independence and Establishment of Democratic Polity
For MHI-104 Playlist Video Click on it- MHI-104 - Political Structures in India
MHI-105 - History of Indian Economy-1: From Earliest Times to c. 1700
Theme1: Historiography,
Environment and Economy
Unit 1 Economic Historiography of Early India
Unit 2 Historiography of the Medieval Economy
Unit 3 Environmental Zones and Indian Economic History
Theme 2: Emergence of
Early Economic Structures
Unit 4 Origins of Agriculture, Animal Domestication, Craft Production to Urbanisation (Case of the Harappan Civilisation)
Unit 5 Archaeology and Geography of
Agricultural and Pastoral Communities of the Subcontinent to the Middle of the
First Millennium BCE
Theme 3: Complex Economic Structures
Unit 6 Comparative Structures of Economies in Some Early States: Maurya and Kushana
Unit 7 Comparative Structures of Economies in Some Early States: Satavahana and Gupta
Unit 8 Patterns of Trade, Urbanisation
and Linkages: North India (c. 600
BCE-300 CE)
Unit 9 Patterns of Trade, Urbanisation and Linkages:
Peninsular India (c. 300
BCE-300CE)
Theme 4: Early Medieval
Economy and Its Continuities
Unit 10 The Indian Feudalism Debate
Unit 11 Organisation of Agricultural and Crafts Production:
North India, c. 550-1300 CE
Unit 12 Regional Profiles of Agrarian Society and Nature of
Stratification: North India, c 550-1300
CE
Unit 13 Organisation of Agricultural and Crafts Production,
Regional Profiles of Agrarian Society, Nature of Stratification: South
India
Unit 14 Exchange Networks, Guilds, Merchant Lineages, Items of Trade and Commercial Tax, Urbanisation: North India, c. 300-1300 CE
Unit15 Exchange Networks, Guilds and Merchant Lineages, Items of Trade and Commercial Tax, Urbanisation: South India
Theme 5: Medieval Economy: c. 1300-1700Unit 15 Agricultural Production
Unit 17 Agrarian Relations: North India
Unit 18 Agrarian Relations: Deccan and South India
Unit 19 Non-Agricultural
Production and Organisation of Craft Production
Unit 20 Fiscal System: North India
Unit 21 Fiscal System: Deccan and South India
Theme 6: Trade,
Technology, and Urbanisation: c. 1300-1700
Unit 22 Inland and Maritime Trade
Unit 23 Business Practices and Monetary History
Unit 24 Technology and Economy
Unit 25 Transport and
Communication
Unit 26 Urban Centres in
Medieval India
Theme 7: Women and
Economy
Unit 27 Women and Work Upto c. 1300
Unit 28 Women and Work: c.1300-1700
First Year: Second Semester
MHI-102 - Modern World
Unit1 Renaissance and the Idea of the Individual
Unit 2 Enlightenment
Unit 3 Political Revolution: France
Unit 4 Theories of the State
Unit 5 Bureaucratization
Unit 6 Democratic Politics
Unit 7 Modern State
and Welfare
Unit 8 Nationalism
Unit 9 Capitalist Industrialization
Unit 10 Socialist Industrialization
Unit 11 Imperialism
Unit 12 Colonialism
Unit 13 Decolonization
Unit 14 Migrations and Settlements
Unit 15 Nation-State System
Unit 16 International Rivalries of Twentieth Century
Unit 17 Political Revolution: Russia
Unit 18 Science and Its Implications
Unit 19 Knowledge Revolution: Printing and Informatics
Unit 20 Technological Revolution: Communications and
Medical
Unit 21 Modern Warfare
Unit 22 The Collapse of the Soviet Union
Unit 23 Demography
Unit 24 Ecology
Unit 25 Consumerism Unit 26 Globalization
MHI-106 - Evolution of Social Structures in India through the Ages
Theme 1: Introductory
Unit 1 Reconstructing Ancient Society with Special Reference
to Sources
Unit 2 Hunting-Gathering, Early Farming Society,
Pastoralism
Unit 3 Harappan Civilization and Other Chalcolithic
Cultures
Theme 2: Cultures in
Transition
Unit 4 Societies Represented in Vedic Literature
Unit 5 Iron Age Cultures
Unit 6 Socio-Religious Ferment in North-India : Buddhism and
Jainism
Unit 7 Emergence of Buddhist Central and Peninsular
India
Theme 3: Early Historic
Societies : 6th Century B.C. To 4th Century CE
Unit 8 Urban Classes : Traders and Artisans, Extension of
Agricultural Settlements
Unit 9 Chaityas, Viharas and Their Interaction with Tribal
Groups
Unit 10 Early Tamil Society - Regions and their Cultures and
Cult of Hero Worship
Unit 11 Marriage and Family Life, Notions of
Untouchability, Changing patterns in Varna and Jati
Theme 4: Early Medieval Societies
Unit 12 Transition to Early Medieval Societies
Unit 13 The Problem of Urban
Decline: Agrarian Expansion, Land Grants and Growth of Intermediaries
Unit 14 Proliferation and Consolidation of Castes &
Jatis
Unit 15 Religion in Society
Theme 5: Medieval
Society – 1
Unit 16 Village Community
Unit 17 Rural Society: North India
Unit 18 Rural Society: Peninsular India
Theme 6: Medieval
Society – 2
Unit 19 Clans and Confederacies in Western India
Unit 20 Urban Social Groups in North India
Unit 21 Changing Social Structure in Peninsular India
Unit 22 Socio-Religious Movements
Unit 23 The Eighteenth Century Society in Transition
Theme 7: Modern Society
Unit 24 Perception of the Indian Social Structure by the
Nationalist and Social Reformers
Unit 25 Studying Castes in the New Historical Context
Unit 26 Pattern of Rural-Urban Mobility: Overseas
Migration
Unit 27 Social Structure in the Urban and Rural Areas
Theme 8: Social Questions Under Colonialism
Unit 28 Colonial Forest Policies and Criminal Tribes
Unit 29 Gender/Women under Colonialism
Unit 30 Social Discrimination
Unit 31 Popular Protests and Social Structures
Unit 32 Studying
Tribes under Colonialism
Unit 33 Social Structures in the North East
India
107 History of Indian Economy-2: c.1700-2000
Theme 1: Historiography
and Economy
Unit 1 The 18th Century in Indian History
Unit 2 Historiography of the Colonial Economy
Theme 2: Trade and
Markets
Unit 3 Merchants and Markets-1757-1857
Unit 4 Colonialism and Trade - 1857-1947
Theme 3: The Rural Economy
Unit
5 Agrarian Policy and Land Rights
Unit 6 Patterns of Commercialisation
Unit 7 The Question of Agrarian Growth and Stagnation
Theme 4: Colonial
Economy
Unit 8 Currency
Unit 9 Drain of Wealth Debate
Unit 10 Colonial Economy and Its Impact
Unit11 Famines and Epidemics
Theme 5: Forests and
Commons
Unit 12 Forests and Tribal Societies
Unit 13 Tribal Society and Colonial Economy
Theme 6: Demography and
Economy
Unit 14 Demographical Changes in Colonial India
Theme 7: Craft
Production, Technological Change and Industrialisation
Unit 15 The De-Industralisation Debate
Unit 16 Patterns of Industrialisation
Unit 17 Emergence of Capitalist Class
Unit 18 Crafts Industries and Small Scale Production
Unit 19 Labour in Colonial India
Unit 20 Women and Work
Unit 21 Technology, Science and Empire
Theme 8: Economy of
Post-Independence India
Unit 22 Planning and Development
Unit 23 Land and Tenancy Reforms
Unit 24 Agriculture and Industries
Unit 25 Growth of Modern Banking System, Nationalisation of
Banking and Industries
Theme 9: Towards
Liberalisation Unit 26
Globalisation
Unit 27 Political Economy of Liberalisation
Second Year: Third Semester
MHI-103 - Historiography and Research Methods
Part I: Non-Indian
Historiography
Unit 1 Greek and Roman Traditions
Unit 2 Traditional Chinese Historiography
Unit 3 Western Medieval Historiography
Unit 4 Arabic and Persian Historiography in Medieval
Period
Unit 5 Mainstream Western Historiography in the Nineteenth
Century
Unit 6 Classical Marxist Thinking on History
Unit 7 Western Marxist Historiography
Unit 8 The Annales
School
Unit 9 Local, Oral and Micro Histories
Unit 10 Postmodernism and History-writing
Unit 11 Environmental History
Part II: Indian
Historiography
Unit 12 Historiographical Traditions in Early India
Unit 13 Indo-Persian Historiography in Medieval India
Unit 14 Colonial Historiography in India
Unit 15 Nationalist Historiography in India
Unit 16 Communalist Trends
Unit 17 Indian Marxist History-writing
Unit 18 The Cambridge School
Unit 19 History from Below
Unit 20 Subaltern Studies
Unit 21 Gender in Indian History-writing
Unit 22 The Idea of Race in Indian History-writing
Unit 23 Peasantry, Working Class, Caste and
Tribe
Unit 24 Religion and Culture
Unit 25 Environment, Science and Technology
Unit 26 Economic History in India
Part III: Research and
Writing Method
Unit 27 Historical Sources
Unit 28 Analysis and Organization of Evidences
Unit 29 Generalization
Unit 30 Causation
Unit 31 Objectivity and Interpretation
Unit 32 Ethics in History-writing
109 Indian National Movement
Unit 1 Nation and Nationalism
Unit 2 Anti-colonial National Liberation Movements – Asia
and Africa
Unit 3 Perspectives on Indian Nationalism I
Unit 4 Perspectives on Indian Nationalism II
Unit 5 Revolt of 1857
Unit 6 Foundations of Indian Nationalism
Unit 7 Economic Nationalism
Unit 8 Resistance to Colonialism in Intellectual and Social
Spheres
Unit 9 Towards Radical and Mass Politics – Swadeshi
Movement
Unit 10 Nationalist Politics during the First World War and
the Turning Point
Unit 11 Emergence of Gandhi
Unit 12 Khilafat and Non-Cooperation
Unit 13 Revolutionary Trends
Unit 14 Resistance within the Councils and Outside
Unit 15 Civil Disobedience Movement
Unit 16 Constitutional Developments
Unit 17 The Ideological Spectrum in the 1930s
Unit 18 Nationalist Struggles in Princely States
Unit 19 Congress Ministries
Unit 20 Prelude to Quit India
Unit 21 Quit India Movements
Unit 22 Subhas Chandra Bose and Azad Hind Fauj
Unit 23 Post-War National Upsurge, 1945-47
Unit 24 Towards Freedom I
Unit 25 Towards Freedom II
Unit 26 National Movement and the Peasantry
Unit 27 National Movement and the Working Class
Unit 28 National Movement and the Capitalist Class
Unit 29 National Movement and the Landlords
Unit 30 National Movement and Women
Unit 31 National Movement and the Dalits
Unit 32 National Movement and the Minorities
Unit 33 National Movement and its Strategies
Unit 34 National Movement and the Communal Problem
Unit 35 Making of the Indian Constitution
Unit 36 Legacies of the National Movement
MPSE-004 - Social and Political Thought in Modern India
Unit 1 Pre-Modern Socio-religious and Political Thought in
India: Diverse Strands
Unit 2 Orientalist Discourse and Colonial Modernity
Unit 3 Salient Features of Political Thought in Modern
India
Unit 4 Early Nationalist Responses: Ram Mohan Roy, Bankim
Chandra Chatterjee, Jyotiba Phule and Dayanand Saraswati
Unit 5 Moderates and Extremists: Dadhabai Naoroji, M.G.
Ranade, B.G. Tilak
Unit 6 Hinduism: Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo
Ghosh
Unit 7 Hindutva: V.D Savarkar and M.S. Golwalkar
Unit 8 Muslim Thought: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Mohammed Iqbal, Maulana Maudoodi and Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Unit 9 Nation and Identity Concerns: E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker,
Nurul Islam, Pandita Ramabai, Jaipal Singh, Kahn Singh
Unit 10 M.K. Gandhi
Unit 11 Jawaharlal Nehru
Unit 12 B.R.Ambedkar
Unit 13 Rabindranath Tagore
Unit 14 Communist Thought: M.N. Roy and E.M.S. Namboodiripad
Unit
15 Socialist Thought: R.M. Lohia and Jayaprakash Narayan
MGP-004 - Gandhi’s Political Thought
Block 1: Gandhi on
State and Nation
Unit 1 Introduction to Gandhian Political Thought
Unit 2 Gandhi‟s Views on State and Citizenship
(Ramrajya)
Unit 3 Gandhi‟s Views on Democracy (Gramswaraj)
Unit 4 Gandhi‟s Concept of Nationalism
Block 2: Individual and
the State
Unit 5 Rights and Duties
Unit 6 Means and Ends
Unit 7 Liberty and Equality
Unit 8 Power and Authority
Block 3: Political
Ideologies
Unit 9 Gandhi‟s Views on Colonialism and Imperialism
Unit 10 Gandhi‟s Views on Liberalism and Constitutionalism
Unit 11 Anarchism
Unit 12 Gandhi‟s Views on Socialism and Marxism
Block 4: Peace by
Pacific Means
Unit 13 Gandhi on Structural Violence
Unit 14 Satyagraha as a Means of Conflict Resolution
Unit 15 Gandhi on Pacifism
Unit 16 World Order
Second Year: Fourth Semester
108 Environmental History of the
Subcontinent
Theme 1: Writing
Environmental History
Unit 1 Inter-disciplinary Approaches
Unit 2 Nature and Women
Unit 3 Variety of Sources: Archival
Unit 4 Variety of Sources: Archaeological
Unit 5 Variety of Sources: Material Culture
Unit 6 Varied Knowledge Systems
Theme 2:
Paleoenvironments
Unit 7 Paleoenvironments and Adaptations
Theme 3: Monsoon
Ecologies
Unit 8 Riparian, Deltaic and Doab
Unit 9 Forests and Foragers; Sacred Groves
Theme 4: Agro-pastoral
Regimes
Unit 10 Arid and Semi-arid Landscapes: Grasslands,
Deserts
Unit 11 Watershed Terrains
Unit 12 Hills and Mountains
Unit 13 Coastal Terrains and Wetlands
Unit 14 Animal Energy and Animals as Symbols of Power
Unit 15 Shikar and
Gun powder
Theme 5: Agrarian
Regimes under Colonial Rule
Unit 16 Changing Land Use
Unit 17 Deforestation and Aforestation
Theme 6: Global
Connections
Unit 18 Nature, Capital and Imperialism
Unit 19 Industrial Agriculture
Theme 7: Control and
Conservation of Nature
Unit 20 Loss of livelihood and Migrations
Unit 21 Forest Conservation
Unit 22 National Parks and Zoological Parks
Unit 23 Mining
Theme 8: Waterscapes
Unit 24 Irrigation: Canal Colonies
Unit 25 Deltaic Region
Unit 26 Big Dams and Displacement
Unit 27 Fisheries
Theme 9: Urban Spaces
Unit 28 Vijayanagara
Unit 29 Cities of Delhi
Unit 30 Kolkatta and Brihan-Mumbai
Unit 31 Jodhpur and Jaisalmer
Theme 10:
Provincialising the Anthropocene
Unit 32 New Energy Regimes
Unit 33 Growing Human-Wildlife Conflicts
Unit 34 Natural Calamities
Unit 35 Industrial Pollution and Disasters
Unit 36 Climate Change
MHI-110 - Urbanisation in India-1: From Earliest Times to c. 1300
Theme 1: Introduction
to Urban History
Unit 1 Understanding Urban History
Unit 2 Approaches to the Study of Ancient Cities
Theme 2: The Earliest
Cities In The Subcontinent
Unit 3 An introduction to Early Urbanism
Unit 4 Distribution and Morphology of Harappan
Settlements
Unit 5 Harappan Economy and Occupations
Unit 6 Harappan Urban Societies
Unit 7 Case Study of a Major Urban Centre: Mohenjodaro
Theme 3: Early Historic
Cities: North India
Unit 8 Archaeology of Early Historic Urban Centres in North India: Emergence and the Characteristics
Unit 9 Urban Centres and Other Types of
Space
Unit 10 Cities in Texts
Unit 11 Early Historic Cities in the Taxila Valley:
Archaeological Perspectives
Unit 12 Case Study: Pataliputra
Unit 13 Case Study: Mathura
Theme 4: Early Historic
Cities: Deccan And South India
Unit 14 Archaeology of the Emergence of Early Cities and the
Characteristics of the Early Historic Urban Centres: Deccan and South
India
Unit 15 Case Study: Nagarjunakonda
Unit 16 Case Study: Amravati
Unit 17 Case Study: Kanchipuram and Tondaimandalam
Unit 18 Case Study: Kaveripattanam/Puhar
Theme 5 : Patterns Of
Early Medieval Urbanisation
Unit 19 Urbanisation in Post-Gupta Period: Archaeological
Evidence
Unit 20 Early Medieval Urbanisation from Epigraphy and
Texts
Unit 21 Case Study: Kanauj
Unit 22 Case Study: Pratishthan
Unit 23 Port Town: Chandraketugarh
Unit 24 Case Study: Sisupalgarh
Unit 25 Case Study: Al-Mansura/Brahmanabad
MHI-111 - Urbanisation in India-II: c. 1300-1950
Theme 1: Introduction
to Urban History
Unit 1 Approaches to the Study of Medieval Urbanisation
Unit 2 Themes on Modern Cities
Theme 2: Patterns of
Urbanisation: C. 1300-1600
Unit 3 Sultanate and Its Cities
Unit 4 Regional Cities
Unit 5 Temple Towns in Peninsular India
Unit 6 Southern Dimension: The Glory of Vijayanagara
Unit 7 Sultanate Capital Cities in the Delhi Riverine
Plain
Unit 8 Port Town: Cambay
Theme 3 : Patterns of
Urbanisation in Mughal India
Unit 9 Spatial Characteristics of Mughal Cities
Unit 10 Urban Patterns in Medieval Deccan
Unit 11 Urban Culture and Society
Unit 12 Primate Cities: Agra-Fathpur
Sikri-Shahjahanabad
Unit 13 Sacred City Spaces:: Ajmer- Banaras-Pandharpur
Unit 14 Case Study: Masulipatnam
Unit 15 Case Study: Surat
Theme 4 : Early Modern
Cities
Unit 16 Capitalism, Colonialism and Cities in Early Modern
India
Unit 17 Port Cities - 16th to 18th Centuries
Unit 18 Cities in the 18th Century-1
Unit 19 Cities in the 18th Century-2
Unit 20 Case Study: Lucknow
Unit 21 Case Study: Pondicherry
Theme 5 : Colonial
Cities- 1
Unit 22 Dependent Urbanisation and New Urban Forms in
Colonial India
Unit 23 Race, Class and Ethnicity in the Colonial City
Unit 24 The City as the Site of Spectacles: Colonial Delhi
and the New Imperial Capital
Unit 25 The City as the Site of Movements
Theme 6 : Colonial
Cities-2
Unit 26 Modernity and the City in Colonial India
Unit 27 City Planning in India under British Rule
Unit 28 Case Study: Bombay
Theme 7 : Post-Colonial
Cities
Unit 29 Predicaments of Post-Colonial Cities
