HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY (AG)
Objective: The objective of this course is to introduce the students to the basics of the discipline of History and acquaint them to the understanding of its sources in their varied forms, contents, uses and analysis. It aimed to acquaint the students to some selected prominent foreign Historiographers through the ages and to give them an idea of the significant stages of developments of Historiography in India
Unit -I.
1.01: History-Definition, nature and scope 1.02 History and other disciplines Archeology, Geography, Anthropology, Economics.
Literature, Epigraphy And Numismatics.
1.03: Sources for the Historians Primary source and Secondary source, Internal Criticism and External Criticism of the sources.
Unit: II
2.01. Historiography: Its meaning, preconditions of Historiography
2.02 Historiographers through the ages: Herodotus, Thucydides. Ibn Khaldun, Leona Von Ranke, Karl Marx, Marc Bloch.
2.03 Historiography Major trends of History writing in India- Imperialist, Nationalist, Marxist and Subaltern.
Unit III
3.01 Ancient Indian Historiography: Historical Sense.
3.02 Beginning of the Indian Historical Traditions. Oral tradition. Puran and Itihas, the
Vamsa and Charita
3.03 Kalhan and Rajtarangini
3.04 Ancient Indian Historiography, a critical Analysis, Characteristics of Ancient Indian
Historiography.
Unit: IV
4.01 Indo-Islamic Historical Traditions, Sultanate Period, AlBeruni, Ziauddin Barani
4.02 Features of Pre-Mughal Indo-Muslim Historiography
4.03 Mughal Period: ABul Fazl, Badauni
4.04 Nature of Mughal Historiography
Unit: V
5.01 British Imperialist Historiographers: James Mills, Vincent Smith 5.02 Imperialist Historiographer: An Analysis.
5.03 Some modern Indian Historian: RC Dutt, KP Jayaswal, RC Majundar, JN Sarkar, Ramila Thapar, Bipan Chandra, Irfan Habib, Ramchandra Guha
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