PROGRAMME: COURSE ID:

MA History HISTORICAL METHODS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY MHS-401

SEMESTER: CREDITS:
IV 04

UNIT-I
THE 19TH CENTURY TRADITION OF HISTORY WRITING

1. Enlightenment and Positivism

2. Marxism
3. Structuralism

UNIT-II
MAIN CURRENTS OF HISTORY WRITING IN THE 20TH CENTURY
4. The Annales
5. Post-Modernism
6. Feminism
7. Causation
8. Objectivity
9. Generalisation

UNIT-III
PERSPECTIVES ON INDIAN HISTORY WRITING
10. Imperialist History Writing
11. Nationalist History Writing
12. Communalist History Writing
13. Marxist History Writing
14. The Cambridge School
15. The Subaltern Group of historians

READING LIST

1. E. Breisach, Historiography Ancient, Medieval and Modern, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007.
2. E. H. Carr, What is History?, Macmillan, London, 1987.
3. E. J. Hobsbawm, On History, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1997.
4. E. L. R. Ladurie, The Territory of Historians, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979.
5. F. Braudel, On History, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980.
6. Fritz Stem, (ed.), The Varieties of History, Vintage Book, New York, 1973.
7. G. A. Cohen, Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978.
8. G. S. Jones, ‘History as Poverty of Empiricism’, in Robin Blackburn (ed.), Ideology in Social Science: Readings in Critical
Social Theory, Fontana Press, London, 1972.
9. Hayden White, ‘The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality’, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 7, 1984.
10. I. H. Siddiqui, Indo -Persian Historiography: up to the thirteenth century, Primus Books, Delhi, 2009.
11. J. Cliffordand George Marcus (ed.), Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, University of California Press,
Santa Cruz, 1986.
12. J. Le Goffand Pierre Nora (eds.), Constructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1985.
13. J. Vansina, Oral Tradition as History, James Currey, London, 1985.
14. Jenkins Keith, What is History? From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White, Routledge, London, 1995.
15. L. Stone, ‘Revival of the Narrative’, Past and Present, No. 85, 1979.
16. Louis Gottschalk (ed.), Generalization in the Writing of History, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1963.
17. Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft, Vintage Books, New York, 1953.
18. Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Pantheon Books, New York, 1972.
19. Peter Burke, History and Social Theory, Polity Press, Oxford, 1992.
20. Pierre Villar, ‘Marxist History’, New Left Review, 80, July-August 1973.
21. R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, Oxford University Press, London 1946.
22. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature, Oxford University Press, London, 1977.
23. Roger Chartier, Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1988.
24. Romila Thapar, Cultural Pasts, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2003.
25. Sanjay Subramanyam Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman, Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, 1600-
1800, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2003.
26. T. R. Tholfsen, Historical Thinking, Harper and Row, New York, 1967.
27. Umberto Eco, Interpretation and Overinterpretation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
PROGRAMME: COURSE ID:
MA History SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL INDIA (1200-1750) MHS-405
SEMESTER: CREDITS:
IV 04

UNIT-I
SOCIAL COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE OF RULING CLASSES IN MEDIEVAL INDIA
1. Social change in Medieval India: Historiographical perspectives
2. Social composition of ruling elites during the sultanate and Mughal periods; regional and local ruling elites- zamindars,
watandars and nayakas.

UNIT-II
MIDDLE CLASSES AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS
3. Different concepts of middle class, revenue officials, Hakims and Vaids (Physicians), Merchants, Brokers and Mahajans. A
case study of the social formation of kayasthas.
4. Religious classes and their Social background: Sanskrit intellectuals- circulation and patronage networks, Ulema, Sufis,
Bhakta Saints.

UNIT-III
PEASANTS AND ARTISANS
5. Social Composition and Social Stratification of Peasants;
6. Artisans: Their Social background and emergence of new crafts and artisans

READINGS

1. Burton Stein, Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1980.
2. Hiroshi Fukazawa, Medieval Deccan: Peasants and Social system and States-Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 1991.
3. K. A. Nizami, Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in India during Thirteenth Century, Asia Publishing House, Delhi, 1961.
4. K. M. Ashraf, Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan, Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1970.
5. M. Athar Ali, Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, revised 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997.
6. M. Mujeeb, Indian Muslims, Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1995.
7. Richard Eaton, The Rise of Islam and Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles,
1993.
8. Richard Eaton, The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700: Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India, Princeton University Press,
Princeton, 2015.
9. Satish Chandra, Historiography, Religion and State in Medieval India, Anand Publication, New Delhi, 1996.
10. T. Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib, The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge, 1982.
11. Yohanan Friedman, Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi: An Outline of his thought and a study of his image in the eyes of posterity,
McGill-Queen’s University Press, London, 1971.

Articles

1. A. J. Qaiser, ‘The Role of Brokers in Medieval India’, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Vol. 45, 1984, pp. 241-
287.
2. A. R. Kulkarni, ‘Indian Village with Special reference to Medieval Deccan (Maratha Country): General Presidential
Address’, Vol. 52, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress,1991, pp. 1-42.
3. B. D. Chattopadhyay, ‘The Origin of Rajputs: The Political, Social and Economic Process in Early Medieval Rajasthan’,
Indian Historical Review, Vol. 3, 1997, pp. 57-88.
4. HarbansMukhia, ‘The Ideology of Bhakti Movement: The Case of DaduDayal’, in History and Society, ed., D.
Chattopadhyaya.
5. I. A. Zilli, ‘Murids of Shaikh Nizamuddin Aulia-A Study in their Social Status and Background’, IHC, 1980.
6. I. A. Zilli, ‘Precepts and Paradox-the Chishti Attitude towards Social labour’, IHC, 1986.
7. Iqtidar Alam Khan, ‘The Nobility under Akbar and the Development of his Religious Policy, 1560-80’, Journal of Royal
Asiatic Society, 1968.
8. Irfan Habib, ‘Formation of Sultanate Ruling Class’, idem. Medieval India: Researches in the History of India-I, 1992.
9. Irfan Habib, ‘Social and Economic change in Northern India (1200-1500)’, Seminar, Kurukshetra University, 1981.
10. Irfan Habib, ‘The Middle Classes in Mughal Empire’, IHC, 1975.
11. Irfan Habib, ‘The Peasant in Indian History’, General Presidential Address, IHC, 1980.
12. Irfan Habib, ‘Theories of social change in South Asia’, The Journal of Social Studies, N. 33, Dacca.
13. Irfan Habib, Agrarian System of Mughal Empire, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1999.
14. Irfan Habib, Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perceptionwith the Economic History of Medieval India: A Survey,
Anthem Press, London, 2002.
15. Rajeev Kinra, ‘Master and Munshi: A Brahman Secretary’s Guide to Mughal Governance’, Indian Economic and Social
History Review, 2010.
16. Richard Eaton, A Social History of the Deccan 1300-1761: Eight Indian Lives, Cambridge University Press, Delhi, 2005.
17. Satish Chandra, Medieval India: Society, the Jagirdari Crisis and the Village, Macmillan, Delhi, 1982.
18. Sheldon Pollock, ‘New Intellectuals in the Seventeenth Century’, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2001.
19. Truschke Audrey, Encounter of Cultures: The Sanskrit at Mughal Court, Columbia University Press, New York, 2016.
PROGRAMME: COURSE ID:
MA History GENDER RELATIONS IN PRE-COLONIAL INDIA MHS-412
SEMESTER: CREDITS:
IV 04

UNIT-I
1. Theories of gender: social and biological theories of gender; cross cultural concept of gender.
2. Understanding gender through normative texts: Humayunnama; Stridhanapadhati; Bihisht-I Zewar

UNIT-II
3. Status of women in pre-colonial India - an overview and defining categories: problems of recovering women’s history; Sati;
widow; prostitutes; witches; women’s subordination.
4. Power relations and gender – political structure; family; patriarchy; marriage; harem

UNIT-III
5. Women and Religious traditions – Vedic traditions; Brahmanism; Jainism; Buddhism; Islam; Sikhism; Christianity; Sufi and
Bhakti saints.
6. Gender and Labour: Economic contributions of women : agrarian sector; urban sector; unorganized sector, different
professions Readings

READING LIST:

1. A. S. Altekar, The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization, 2nd ed., Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi, 1978.
2. Ann Fausto Sterling, Myth of Gender, Biological Theories about Men and Women, Basic Books, New York, 1985.
3. Arvind Sharma (ed.), Women in Indian Religions, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002.
4. Charlotte Vaudeville, Myths, Saints and Legends in Medieval India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1996.
5. Doris R. Jacobs (ed), Sikhisim and Women, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002.
6. Ernestine Friedl, Women and Men: An Anthropological View, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1975.
7. Ester Boserup, Women’s Role in Economic Development, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1970.
8. F. Engles, The origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, U.S.S.R., 1948.
9. Isabella Baudino, Jacques carre, and Cecile Revanger (eds.), The Invisible Woman: Aspects of Women’s Work in Eighteenth
century Britain, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2005.
10. Joan W. Scott, Gender and Politics of History, Columbia University Press, New York, 1989.
11. Kumkum Roy (ed.), Women in Early Indian Societies, Manohar, Delhi, 1999.
12. L. Doyal, S. Rowbotham and A. Scott (ed.), A History of Women Midwives and Nurses: Witches, Healers, Feminist Press,
London, 1976.
13. L. Roper, Oedipus and the Devil, Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early Modern Europe, Routledge, London, 1994.
14. Leslie, I. Julia (ed.), Role and Rituals for Hindu Women, Dickinsin University Press, Rutherford, 1991.
15. M. Anderson (ed.), Sociology of the Family, Penguin, London, 1971.
16. Meena A. Kelkar, Subordination of Women, Discovery Publication House, New Delhi, 1995.
17. Meena Khandelwal, Sandra L. Hausner, and Ann Zubaan, Grodzins Gold, Women’s Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns,
Yoginis, Saints and Singers, (eds.), Palgrave, New Delhi, 2006.
18. Merry E. Wiesner, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.
19. Michael Haralambos and Robin Heald, Sociology: Themes and Perspectives, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1997.
20. Mumtaz Ali Khan, Status of Rural Women in India, Uppal, New Delhi, 1982.
21. Peter Heehs (ed.), Indian Religions: The Spiritual Traditions of South Asia: An Anthology, Orient Longman, New Delhi,
2003.
22. Philippa Levine (ed.), Gender and Empire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.
23. Robert Connell, Gender and Power, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1987.
24. Susan Nelson Dunfee, Beyond Servanthood: Christianity and the Liberation of Women, University Press of America,
Lanham, 1989.
25. Susie Tharu and K. Lalita (ed.), Women writings in India, 2 vol., Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 1991.
26. Tanika Sarkar, Sumit Sarkar (ed.), Women and Social Reform in Modern India A Reader, 2 vols., Permanent Black, Delhi,
2007.
 PROGRAMME: COURSE ID:

MA History CONNECTED AND COMPARATIVE HISTORIES OF EMPIRES: MHS-413

SEMESTER: OTTOMANS, SAFAVIDS AND MUGHALS CREDITS:

IV 04

UNIT-I
HISTORIOGRAPHY AND FORMATION OF EMPIRES
1. Historiographic setting and approaches to the study of the three empires—The idea of ‘gunpowder empires’, ‘Islamic
empires’, patrimonial-bureaucratic empires’ and ‘early modern empires’.
2. Common heritage and shared political traditions
3. Brief historical sketches; decline of the empires

UNIT-II
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURES
4. Political, administrative and military institutions, core and periphery
5. The legitimacy of monarchs and theories of kingship
6. Trade and commercial networks and exchange

UNIT-III
IMPERIAL CULTURES AND CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
7. Historiographical traditions
8. Religious policies and non-Muslim subjects
9. Sufis, Ulema and Intellectual trends
10. Art, architecture and painting

READINGS

1. Douglas E. Streusand, Islamic Gunpower Empire, Ottoman, Safavid and Mughals, Westview Press, 2011.
2. HalilInalcik, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600, New York, 1973.
3. IqtidarAlam Khan, Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2004.
4. J.R.I. Cole, Roots of North Indian Shiaism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859, Berkeley and Los
Angeles, CA, 1988.
5. K. Barkey, Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
6. Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
7. N. R. Farroqi, Mughal-Ottoman Relations: A Study of Political and Diplomatic Relations between Mughal India and the
Ottoman Empire 1556-1748, Idarah-I Adabiyat-I Dihli, Delhi, 1989.
8. S. A. A. Rizvi, Religious and Intellectual History of the Muslims in Akbar’s Reign with special Reference to Abu’l Fazl,
1556-1605, New Delhi, 1975.
9. Sholeh A. Quinn, Historical Writing during the Reign of Shah ‘Abbas: Ideology, Imitations and Legitimacy in Safavid
Chronicles, University Utah, Salf Lake City, 2000.
10. Stephen F. Dale, The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
2010.
11. Suraiya N. Farooqi and Kate Fleet, eds., The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603, The Cambridge History of
Turkey, Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013.
12. William H. Mcneill, The Age of the Gunpowder Empire 1450-1800, American Historical Association, Washington DC, 1989.

Articles

1. Alan Mikhail, ‘The Ottoman Empire and the Imperial Turn’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 54-4, pp. 721-745.
2. Ariel Salzmann, ‘An Ancient Regime Revisited: “Privatization” and Political Economy in the Eighteenth Century Ottoman
Empire’, Politics and Society, vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 1993, pp. 393-423.
3. Francis Robinson, ‘Ottoman-Safavid-Mughals Shared Knowledge and Connected System’, Journal of Islamic Studies, 8:2,
1997, pp. 151-184.
4. Gagan D. S. Sood, ‘Circulation and Exchange in Islamicate Eurasia: A Regional Approach to the Early Modern World’, Past
and Present, No. 212, 2011, pp. 113-162.
5. GulruNecippogli, ‘Framing the Gaze in Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Palaces’, Arts Orientalis, vol. 23, 1993, pp. 303-42.
6. Jack Goldtone, ‘The Problem of the Early Modern World’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 41,
No. 3, 1998, pp. 249-84.
7. Jamsheed K. Choksy and M. Usman Hasan, ‘An Emissary From Akbar to ‘Abbas-I: Incriptions, Texts and the Career of Amir
Muhammad Ma’sum al-Bhakkari’, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1991, pp. 19-
29.
8. Johan Foran, ‘The Long Fall of the Safavid Dynasty: Moving Beyond the Standard Views’, International Journal of Middle
East Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, May 1992, pp. 281-301.
9. John F. Richard, Early Modern India and World History, Journal of World History, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1997, pp. 197-209.
10. Jorge Flores and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘The Shadow Sultan: Succession and Imposture in the Mughal Empire, 1628-1640,
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2004, pp. 80-121.
11. Joseph Fletcher, ‘Integrative History: Parallels and Interconnections in the Early Modern Period, 1500-1800’, Journal of
Turkish Studies, 9, 1985, pp. 35-37.
12. Kathryn Babayan, ‘The Safavid Synthesis: From Qizilbash Islam to Imamite Shi’ism’, Iranian Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1-4,
1994, pp. 135-161.
13. M. Athar Ali, ‘The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case’, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 9, No. 3, 1997, pp. 385-96.
14. N. R. Farooqi, ‘An Overview of Ottoman Archival Document on their Relevance for Medieval Indian History’, Medieval
History Journal, 20, 1, 2017, pp. 112-229.
15. Peter Van Der Veer, ‘The Global History of Modernity’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 41,
No. 3, 1998, pp. 285-94.
16. Roger Savory, ‘The Safavid State and Polity’, Iranian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1-2, 1974, pp. 179-212.
17. Rudi Matthee, ‘Was Safavid an Empire?’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 53, No. 1-2, pp.
233-65.
18. Sajjad H. Rizvi, ‘Mir Damad in India: Islamic Philosophical Traditions and the Problem of Creation, Journal of the American
Oriental Society, Vol. 131, No. 1, 2001, pp. 9-23.
19. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia’, Modern Asian
Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3, Special Issue, 1997, pp. 735-762.
20. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘Interwined Histories: “CRONICA” and “TARIKH” in the Sixteenth Century Indian Ocean World’,
History and Theory: The Next Fifty Years, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2010, pp. 118-145.
21. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘Iranians Abroad: Intra-Asian Elite Migrations and Early Modern State Formation’, The Journal of
Asian Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2, 1992, pp. 340-363.
22. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ‘On World Histories in the Sixteenth Century Representations’, Vol. 91, 2005, pp. 26-57.
23. Stephen P. Blake, ‘Courtly Culture under Babur on the Early Mughals’, Journal of Asian History, Vol. 20, No. 2.
24. Stephen P. Blake, ‘The Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Empire of the Mughals’, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 39, No. 1, Nov.
1979, pp. 77-97.
25. Sumathi Ramaswamy, ‘Conceit of the Globe in Mughal Visual Practice’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49-4,
2007, pp. 751-782.
26. Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi, ‘The State, Shia’as and Shia’ism in Medieval India’, Studies in People’s History, 4-1, 2017, pp. 32-
45.
 PROGRAMME: COURSE ID:
MA History POLITICAL HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY INDIA (1950-2000) MHS-408
SEMESTER: CREDITS:
IV 04

UNIT-I
1. Emergence of Contemporary India: Adoption of the Constitution-salient features; Provisional Parliament, First General
Elections and the Formation of Central and Provincial Governments, Structure of Democratic Institutions.
2. The Process of Nation-Building: Unity in Diversity and Diversity in Unity, Secularism, the Problem of Linguistic identity and
the issue of official Language; The Reorganization of States; concerns for Tribal and Scheduled castes; Regionalism versus
National integration; Development of Education, Science and Technology; Panchayati Raj and Community Development
Projects.
3. Foreign Policy: The Initial years.

UNIT-II
4. Political Parties: The Congress, the Left; Communal and Regional Parties; The Naxalites.
5. The Era of Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi, 1964-1977: Conflicts with Pakistan, 1965 and 1971; Origin of coalition
politics and Governments; Politics in the States; Congress split 1969: the J. P. Movement and the Emergency.
6. The Janata Experiment and the Re-emergence of Indira Gandhi: Crisis in Janata Party; Revival of the Congress; The Punjab
Crisis.

UNIT-III
7. The Rajiv Gandhi Years: the vision of New Millennium; Bofors and its Political implication; the issue of Babri Masjid and
Ram Janam Bhumi campaign.
8. V.P. Singh and the National Front Government; growth of caste politics and revival of communalism.
9. Indian Economy: Five Year Plans; Zamindari Abolition; Ceiling and Bhoodan Movement; Mixed Economy, Grow More
Food Campaign; Green Revolution; agrarian unrest after independence; Economy since 1991.
10. Experiment with Coalition Government at the Centre.

READINGS

1. Achin Vinaik, Communalism Contested: Religion, Modernity and Secularization, New Delhi, 1997.
2. Bimal Jalan, India’s Economy in the New Millennium, UBSPD, New Delhi, 2002.
3. Bipan Chandra, Essays on Contemporary India, Har-Anand Publication, New Delhi, 1999.
4. Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya Mukherjee, India Since Independence, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2008.
5. Christopher Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to the1990s, C. Hurst & Co., London, 1996.
6. Francis R. Frankel, India’s Political Economy 1947-1977, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1978.
7. Mushirul Hasan, ‘Indian Muslims Since Independence: In Search of Integration and Identity’,Third World Quarterly, Vol. 10,
No. 2, 1988, pp. 818-842.
8. Partha Chatterjee (ed.), Wages of Freedom: Fifty Years of the Indian-State, Oxford University Press, Delhi 1998.
9. Paul R. Brass, The Politics of India since Independence, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi 1992.
10. Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of World’s Largest Democracy, Pan Macmillan, New Delhi, 2008.
11. Shashi Tharoor, India From Midnight to the Millennium, Viking, New Delhi, 1997.
12. Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, Hamish Hamilton, London,1997
 PROGRAMME: COURSE ID:
MA History MHS-414
GENDER AND NATION IN COLONIAL INDIA
SEMESTER: CREDITS:
IV 04

UNIT-I
1. Women’s studies vs. Gender history
2. Sati Debate, Government regulations and Reformist discourses
3. Widow Remarriage and Social Reform
4. Women and Social Reform in Islam

UNIT-II
5. Revivalist ideas: Ideas of Conjugality and the Child-Marriage Controversy
6. Advice Literature for Women and Domesticity
7. Motherhood and Mother India
8. Women and Personal Laws

UNIT-III
9. Nationalism, Caste and Gender
10. Partition and the Gendered Wars
11. Gender and the New Nations
12. Gender Justice in Postcolonial India

READING LIST:

1. Anshu Malhotra, Gender, Caste and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab, Oxford University Press,
Delhi, 2002.
2. Charu Gupta, Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India, Permanent Black,
Delhi, 2001.
3. Gail Minault, Secluded Scholars: Women's Education and Muslim Social Reform in Colonial India, Oxford University Press,
Delhi, 1998.
4. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996.
5. Janaki Nair, Women and Law in Colonial India; A Social History, (Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1998.
6. Judith E. Walsh, Domesticity in Colonial India: What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice. Rowman & Littlefield
(Colorado), 2004.
7. Judith E. Walsh, How to be the Goddess of Your Home: An Anthology of Bengali Domestic Manuals, Yoda Press, New Delhi,
2005.
8. Kumkum Sangari and Suresh Vaid (ed.), Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, Zubaan, Delhi, 1989.
9. Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998.
10. Mrinalini Sihna, Colonial Masculinity: The 'manly Englishman' and The 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century,
Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995.
11. Mrinalini Sihna, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire, Duke University Press, New York, 2006.
12. Prem Chowdhry, The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994.
13. Radha Kumar, The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India 1800-
1990, Delhi, 1993.
14. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, (ed.), Borders and Boundaries; Women in India’s Partition, Kali for Women, New Delhi,
1998.
15. Ruby Lal, Coming of Age in Nineteenth Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness, Cambridge University
Press, New York, 2013.
16. Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar (ed.), Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader, Permanent Black, New Delhi,
2008.
17. Tanika Sarkar, ‘The Hindu wife and the Hindu nation: Domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth century Bengal’, Studies in
History, Vol. 8, 1992, pp. 213-225.
18. Urvashi Bhutalia, The Other Side of Silence; Voices from the Partition of India, Penguin, Delhi, 2017.
19. Urvashi Bhutalia, Women and Partition: A Reader, Zubaan Book, Delhi, 2018.
 PROGRAMME: COURSE ID:
MA History MHS-407
NATIONALISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE
SEMESTER: CREDITS:
IV 04

UNIT-I
1. State and Nation: definitions, types.
2. Civic nationalism: France and the United States
3. Ethnic/Romantic nationalism: Germany
4. Early theorists: Rousseau, Jefferson, Herder, Renan

UNIT-II
5. The nation as a historically constructed entity: the invention of tradition and the imagining of community.
6. The Western nation-state and modernity: anti-clericalism, vernacularization and print-capitalism.
7. Critiques of and alternatives to the nation-state and nationalism: Marxism and Pan-Islamism.
8. Modern Western theorists: Stalin, Weber, Gellner, Hobsbawm, Anderson,

UNIT-III
9. Non-Western nation states and the templates of Western nationalism.
10. Turkey and Japan as derivative nationalisms
11. Indian nationalism as the exception to the Andersonian rule
12. Post-colonial theorists: Chatterjee, Chakravarty, Guha and Bhabha.

READINGS

1. Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986.
2. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflection on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, London, 1983.
3. C.A. Bayly, Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi, 1997.
4. Dipesh Chakravarty, Provincialising Europe, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2000.
5. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger(eds.), The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.
6. Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality,Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
1991.
7. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983.
8. Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1976.
9. Homi Bhabha (ed.), Nations and Narration, Routledge, New York, 1990.
10. John Breuilly, ‘Approaches to nationalism’, in Gopal Balakrishnan (ed.) Mapping the Nation, Verso, London, 1996.
11. Max Weber, ‘The Nation’ in Max Weber, Essays in Sociology, Routledge, London, 1948, Ch. 3.
12. Nikki R. Keddie, ‘Pan-Islam as Proto-Nationalism’, The Journal of Modern History, 41, No. 1 (Mar., 1969), pp. 17-28.
13. Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and The Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse, Zed Books, London, 1996.
14. Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993.
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