What is the syllabus? - BA History - SaraNextGen [2024-2025]

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History of India (from Ancient up till 600 AD)

• Religious Development
• Aspects of Society
• Age of the Guptas
• Mauryan and Post-Mauryan Era
• Vedic Corpus and Transition to Janapadas & Mahajanapadas
• Harappan Civilization
• Pre-Historic Hunter-Gatherers
• Reconstructing Ancient Indian History

History of India (600 AD to 1500 AD)

• Institutional Structure (Varna System)
• Cave Architecture Polity
• Sanskrit Literature Temple
• Indian & Oceanic Trade
• Urban Centres
• Agricultural Expansion
• Ghaznavi and Ghori’s Invasion of India
• The Emergence of Major Political Centres - Peninsular India Arab, Bengal and Kannauj

History of India (1500 AD to 1800 AD)

• The Mughal Empire - Foundation & Consolidation of Mughal Empire
• Society, Religion and Culture in Mughal India
• Crisis of the Mughal Empire
• Economy in Mughal India
• Ideology and State in Mughal India

History of India (1800 AD till Modern Times)

• Partition of India (1947-1964)
• Communal Politics
• Post War Upsurges
• Pre-War Political Developments
• New Trends in National Movement
• The Gandhian Era
• Indian Nationalism
• Colonial Intervention and Growth of Modern Education
• Revolt of 1857
• Early Resistance to Colonial Rule
• Rural Economy & Society
• Socio-Religious Movements in India
• East India Company - Theory of Rent

Ancient World History

• Political, Sociological and Cultural History of Rome
• Macedonia Expansion
• Political History of Greece
• Major Centres of Ancient Mediterranean World - Persia, Egypt and Mesopotamia
• Polis in Ancient Greece
• Slave Society in Ancient Greece
• Nomadic Groups in Ancient and Central Asia
• Bronze Age Civilization
• Paleolithic & Mesolithic Cultures

Transformation of Europe

• English Civil War of the 17th Century
• Europe Scientific Revolution
• Renaissance Humanism Economy of 17th Century
• Proto-Industrialization Renaissance
• Economic Expansion of Europe in the 16th Century
• Economy in the 15th Century
• Development of National Monarchy
• Fall of Constantinople
• Economic Crisis in the 14th Century
• Crisis of Feudalism
• Nature of Feudal Society

European History

• Russian Revolution
• Anglo-German Antagonism
• Age of Imperialism
• The Third Republic, German Reich and Paris Commune
• Rise of Working-class movements and Socialist thought Art and Culture, Religion, and Science of 18th century Europe
• Industrialization in Europe
• France Under the IInd Empire
• Russian Modernization
• Unification of Italy and Germany
• Emergence of Non-Nation States in Central Europe
• Metternich and the Conservative Order Pattern of Insurrection in France and other Central European Countries
• The Vienna Congress
• French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte – Rise and Fall
• Understanding the 18th century Europe; Social, Economic and Political background to French Revolution

World Politics

• The End of Cold War and Globalization
• The End of Socialist Regime and the Disintegration of USSR
• Reunification of Germany
• The Liberation Struggle of Vietnam
• India and the Liberation War of Bangladesh
• Indo-Pakistan Relations
• The Non-Aligned Movement
• The Disintegration of European Empires and the Emergence of the Third World
• Bipolarism and Regional conflicts – War in Korea, Crisis in Cuba, Conflict in the Middle East
• Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
• US foreign policy in the Post War period
• USSR’s relation with East European Countries
• Cold War
• United Nations Organization
• The Spanish Civil War
• Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
• Diplomatic Background of the Second World War – Policy of Appeasement, the Munich Pact
• Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany
• The Great Depression and its international repercussions
• The reparation issue and its impact on international relations
• The League of Nations
• The Versailles Settlement of 1919

History of East Asia

• Emergence of Japan as an Imperial Power
• Economic Modernization
• Popular & Democratic Movements
• Meiji Restoration
• Japan - PreResporation Period
• Nationalism and Communism in China
• Popular movements in China including the Taiping Revolution Restoration, Reform and Revolution in China
• Colonial Penetration in China
• China and Pre-Colonial China

History of the United States of America (USA)

• Making of the Republic
• Religious, Cultural and Intellectual Trends
• Women’s Movements
• Afro-American Movements
• U.S Imperialism
• Civil War Industrial America
• The Agrarian South AnteBellum Foreign Policy
• Early Capitalism
• Evolution of American Democracy

History of the USSR

• The Khruschev Era
• Planned Industrialization
• Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture
• The Great Debate of Soviet Industrialization
• The Comintern Formation of USSR
• Foreign Policy
• The New Economic Policy
• Civil War and War Communism
• The Russian Revolution of 1917 (February & October)

History of Africa

• Historiography of Africa
• Rebellion & National Liberation Movements
• Popular Protests
• Emergence of New Religious and Cultural Identities
• Economic Transformation
• Structures of Colonial Control
• Patterns of Colonization
• Commerce and Migration (1500-1900)

History of Latin America

• Assertion of the U.S Hegemony in the 20th Century
• Bolivar’s Vision and the Emergence of New States in the First Half of 19th Century
• Economic Transformations
• Conquest of America and its Repercussions