Category III

BA (Prog.) with History as Non-Major

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE

Course title & Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibility Pre-requisite
Code Lecture Tutorial Practical/ criteria of the course
Practice (if any)
History of India 4 3 1 0 12th Pass Should have
1700 – 1857 studied History
of
India 1550 –
1700

Learning Objectives
The paper introduces the students to the key features of the 18th century, and contextualise the
establishment of the early colonial state. The paper will focus on colonial policies and their impact
on the socio-economic life of the people of India as well as the discontent caused by such policies.
While introducing reform measures, colonial rule created a sense of self-consciousness and
assertion which manifested itself in variousuprisings against the colonial rule.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this course the student shall be able to:
• Explain the process of the establishment of Company rule and the policies and practises to
sustain the process of expansion and consolidation of the Company rule.
• Understand the impact of various economic policies and how they contributed to
dissatisfaction with colonial rule.
• Evaluate the reform measures implemented during under the colonial rule and how they
served the interests of the Empire, particularly in the context of education.

SYLLABUS OF DSC-1
Unit I: India in the 18th century: Background, Debate

Unit II: Expansion and consolidation of British power:

3. Bengal, Mysore, Maratha, Punjab
4. Ideologies/Strategies of Raj

Unit III: Making of a colonial Economy:

4. Land Revenue Settlements
5. Commercialisation of Agriculture
6. De-Industrialisation

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Unit IV: Social and Religious Reform Movements:
3. An overview of the reformist movements of the 19th century
4. Indigenous and Modern education

Unit V: The Revolt of 1857: Causes, Nature, and Consequences

Practical component (if any) - NIL

Essential/recommended readings
Unit I. This unit situates the major historiographical debates on the transformation ofthe
Indian society in the eighteenth-century. (Teaching time: 6 hrs. approx.)

• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History ofModern

India. Delhi: Orient Longman,
• Bayly, C.A. (1990). An Illustrated History of Modern India 1600-1947. London:
National Portrait Gallery.
• Bose, S and Ayesha Jalal. (1998). Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political
Economy. New Delhi: OUP.
• Lakshmi Subramanian. (2010). History of India, 1707-1857. Hyderabad: Orient
Blackswan. (Also in Hindi)
• Dube, Ishita Banerjee. (2015). A History of Modern India. Delhi: Cambridge
University Press
• स◌ुब्रमण◌्यण, ल�्मी, (2013), भारर◌् क◌ा इर्र्ह◌ास (1700-1857), नर्लल् ◌ी, ओररए◌ंटब्लैकतवान
• ब◌ंध◌ोप◌ाध◌्य◌ार, शेखर. (2012). प्लास◌ीस◌ेर्वभाि◌ नर्क: आध◌ुर◌्नकभारर◌्क◌ाइर्र्हास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
• श◌ुक्ल, आर॰एल. (Ed). (1987). आध◌ुर◌्नक भारर् क◌ा इर्र्हास, र्ह◌ं ि◌ ◌ी माध्यम
क◌ार ◌ा ◌ान◌्वनतर्ननश
◌े ◌ालर, नर्ल्ल◌ीर्वश्वर्वद◌्य◌ालर, नर्ल्ल�

Unit II. This unit discusses the process which led to the expansion and consolidation of the
British colonial power in India with the help of specific case studies. (Teaching time: 9 hrs.
approx.)
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2004) From Plassey to Partition. Delhi: Orient Longman.
• Metcalf, Thomas R. (2007 reprint). Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge: CUP
• Wagoner, Phillip B. (October 2003). “Pre- colonial Intellectuals and the Production of
Colonial Knowledge”. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 45 (4), pp. 783- 814
• Mann, Michael. (2015). South Asia’s Modern History: Thematic Perspectives. London:
Routledge.
• Chaudhary, Latika et al. (Eds.). (2016). A New Economic History of Colonial India.
London: Routledge.
• Chandra, Bipan. (1979). Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India. Hyderabad:
Orient Longman.
• ब◌ंध◌ोप◌ाध◌्य◌ार, शेखर. (2012). प्लास◌ीस◌ेर्वभाि◌ नर्क: आध◌ुर◌्नकभारर◌्क◌ाइर्र्हास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
• ग्र◌ोवर, ब◌ी. एल. (1995). आध◌ुरन् कभारर◌्क◌ाइर्र्हास, New Delhi: S. Chand & Co.

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Unit III. This unit provides a critical perspective on the changing patterns of land relations,
agricultural practices, and trade and industry in the Indian sub-continent under the British
colonial rule. (Teaching time: 12 hrs. approx.)

• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History ofModern

India. Delhi: Orient Longman.
• Dutt, R.P. (1986). India Today. Calcutta: Manisha.
• Mann, Michael. (2015). South Asia’s Modern History: Thematic Perspectives.
London: Routledge.
• Bose, S and Ayesha Jalal. (1998). Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political
Economy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press
• Chaudhary, Latika (et. al. Eds.). (2016). A New Economic History of ColonialIndia.
London: Routledge
• Sarkar, Sumit. 2014. Modern Times: India 1880s-1950s: Environment,Economy and
Culture. Ranikhet: Permanent Black.
• भट्ट◌ाच◌ार ◌ा, सब्यसाच◌ी (2008).आध◌ुरन् कभारर◌् क◌ा आर्ि◌◌ाकइर्र्ह◌ास,(1850-1947)
नर्ल्ल◌ी, र◌ाि◌ कमलप्रक◌ाशन
• ब◌ंध◌ोप◌ाध◌्य◌ार, शेखर. (2012). प्लास◌ीस◌ेर्वभाि◌ नर्क: आध◌ुरन् कभारर◌्क◌ाइर्र्हास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
• श◌ुक्ल, आर॰एल. (Ed). (1987). आध◌ुर◌्नक भारर् क◌ा इर्र्हास, र्ह◌ं ि◌ ◌ी माध्यम
क◌ार ◌ा ◌ान◌्वनतर्ननश
◌े ◌ालर, नर्ल्ल◌ीर्वश्वर्वद◌्य◌ालर, नर्ल्ल�

Unit IV. This unit examines social and religious reform movements, the state of education in
India, and the influence of various policies designed to serve the interests of the Empire.
(Teaching time: 12 hrs. approx.)
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India.
Delhi: Orient Longman.
• Joshi, V.C. (1975). Rammohun Roy and the process of modernization in India. Delhi:
Vikas
• O’Hanlon, Rosalind. (2012). Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma JotiraoPhule and
the Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
• Panikkar, K.N. (1995). Culture, Ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social
Consciousness in Colonial India. New Delhi: Tulika.
• Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi (ed.). (1998).The Contested Terrain: Perspectives on
Education in India. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan
• ब◌ंध◌ोप◌ाध◌्य◌ार, शेखर. (2012). प्लास◌ीस◌ेर्वभाि◌ नर्क: आध◌ुरन् कभारर◌्क◌ाइर्र्हास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
• श◌ुक्ल, आर॰एल. (Ed). (1987). आध◌ुर◌्नक भारर् क◌ा इर्र्हास, र्ह◌ं ि◌ ◌ी माध्यम
क◌ार ◌ा ◌ान◌्वनतर्ननश
◌े ◌ालर, नर्ल्ल◌ीर्वश्वर्वद◌्य◌ालर, नर्ल्ल�

Unit-V: This Unit shall enable students to identify and discuss the issues reflected in the major
uprisings of the nineteenth century. In the context of heavy revenueassessment, changing
land rights, deepening stratification within the rural society, emergence of new social forces
in agrarian economy, etc., students shall discuss the discontent of the landed elite, and those

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of struggling peasants and tribals during theCompany Raj. (Teaching time: 6 hrs. approx.)

• Stokes, Eric and C.A. Bayly. (1986). The Peasant Armed: the Indian Revolt of 1857.
Clarendon Press
• Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. (1993). “The Sepoy Mutinies Revisited”, in Mushirul Hasan
and Narayani Gupta (Eds.), India’s Colonial Encounter, New Delhi: Manohar
• Hardiman, David. (1993). Peasant Resistance in India, 1858- 1914. New Delhi: OUP.
• Desai, A.R. (ed.) (1979). Peasant Struggles in India. Bombay, OUP
• Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (2004). From Plassey to Partition: A History ofModern
India. Delhi: Orient Longman.
• Mann, Michael. (2015). South Asia’s Modern History: Thematic Perspectives.
London: Routledge.
• Pati, Biswamoy. (Ed.). (2007). The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: Exploring
transgressions, contests and diversities. London: Routledge.
• Bose, S and Ayesha Jalal. (1998). Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political
Economy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Taneja, Nalini. (2012). “The 1857 rebellion.” in K. N. Panikkar, (Ed.).Perspectives of
Modern Indian History. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan.
• Guha, Ranajit. (1983) Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in ColonialIndia.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press
• Chandra, Bipan. (et.al Eds.) (1989). India’s Struggle for Independence. Delhi:
Penguin
• सरक◌ार, स◌ुरम् र्(2009). आध◌ुरन् कभारर◌्, नर्ल्ल◌ी, र◌ाि◌ कमलप्रक◌ाशन
• ब◌ंध◌ोप◌ाध◌्य◌ार, शेखर. (2012). प्लास◌ीस◌ेर्वभाि◌ नर्क: आध◌ुरन् कभारर◌्क◌ाइर्र्हास.
Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
• श◌ुक्ल, आर॰एल. (Ed). (1987). आध◌ुर◌्नक भारर् क◌ा इर्र्हास, र्ह◌ं ि◌ ◌ी माध्यम
क◌ार ◌ा ◌ान◌्वनतर्ननश
◌े ◌ालर, नर्ल्ल◌ीर्वश्वर्वद◌्य◌ालर, नर्ल्ल�

Suggestive readings
• Alavi, Seema ed. (2002).The Eighteenth Century in India. New Delhi: OUP.
• Bara, Joseph (2002) “Tribal Education, the Colonial State and Christian Missionaries:
Chotanagpur 1839-1870.” In Education and the Disprivileged: Nineteenth and
Twentieth Century India, edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. New Delhi: Orient
Longman.
• Bayly, Susan. (1999). Caste, Society and Politics in India from the 18th Century to the
Modern Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi ed. (2007).Rethinking 1857. Delhi: Orient Longman.
• Chaudhury, Sushil. (2000). The Prelude to Empire: Plassey Revolution of 1757. Delhi:
Manohar.
• Constable, Philip. (2001). “The Marginalization of a Dalit Martial Race in the Late
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Western India”. Journal of Asian Studies, 60
(2), pp. 439- 78.
• Dirks, Nicholas B. (2001).Castes of Mind. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
Press.
• Guha, Ranajit. (1983) Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press .

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 • Jones, Kenneth. (2003)Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India. New
Cambridge History of India, Vol.3.1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kapila, Shruti ed. (2010). An Intellectual History for India.Delhi: Cambridge University
Press.
• Ludden, David ed. (2005). Agricultural Production and South Asian History. New Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
• Metcalf,Thomas. (1995). Ideologies of the Raj. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Mukherjee, Mithi. (2010) India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History
1774- 1950. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. (1984)Awadh in Revolt 1857-1858. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press.
• Pollock, Sheldon ed. (2011). Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia. Delhi:
Manohar.
• Raj, K N. et al ed. (1985). Essays on the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture. New
Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Skuy, David. (July 1998). “Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of
the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to
India's Legal System in the Nineteenth Century”, Modern Asian Studies, 32 (3), pp.
513-557.
• Stein, Burton (ed.) (1992).The Making of Agrarian Policy in British India, 1770- 1900.
Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Stokes, Eric. (1986).The Peasant Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 In C.A. Bayly
(Ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
• Rosanne Rocher, “British Orientalism in the Eighteenth century: The Dialectics of
Knowledge and Government”, in Peter van der Veer and Carol Breckenridge eds.
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on SouthAsia, University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the Examination

Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.

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