Department of History

Programme : B A (H) History

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (H) Ist Year Sem: I

History of India – I

Course Code 12311203

Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Discuss the landscape and environmental variations in Indian subcontinent and their impact on the making of India’s history.
Describe main features of prehistoric and proto-historic cultures.
List the sources and evidence for reconstructing the history of Ancient India
Analyze the way earlier historians interpreted the history of India and while doing so they can write the alternative ways of looking at the past.
List the main tools made by prehistoric and proto- historic humans in India along with their find spots.
Interpret the prehistoric art and mortuary practices.
Discuss the beginning and the significance of food production.
Analyze the factors responsible for the origins and decline of Harappan Civilization.
Discuss various aspects of society, economy, polity and religious practices that are reflected in the Early Vedic and Later Vedic texts.
Describe the main features of the megalithic cultures of the Central India, Deccan and South India.

Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Ancient World-I

Course Code: 12311204

Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Trace long term changes in the relationship of humans to their landscapes, to resources and to social groups.
Discuss that human history is the consequence of choices made in ecological and biological contexts, and that these choices are not only forced by external forces like environmental change but are also enabled by changes in technology and systems of cultural cognition.
Delineate the significance of early food production and the beginning of social complexity.
Analyze the process of state formation and urbanism in the early Bronze Age Civilizations.
Correlate the ancient past and its connected histories, the ways in which it is reconstructed, and begin to understand the fundamentals of historical methods and approaches.

3. Delhi Through the Ages: The Making of its early Mo

dern History

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Category: GE

Learning Outcomes:

Analyze different kinds of sources -- archaeological, architectural and a variety of textual materials.
Use these materials and correlate their sometimes-discordant information.
Analyze processes of urbanization and state formation.
Describe the difficulties in appropriating narratives of the state with the history of particular localities.

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (H) Ist Year Sem: II

1. History of India –II

Course Code: 12311203

Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Discuss various kinds of sources that the historians utilize to write the history of early historical and early medieval India.
Analyze the processes and the stages of development of various types of state systems like monarchy, republican and centralized states as well as the formation of large empires.
Discuss the ways in which historians have questioned the characterization of the Mauryan state.
Delineate the changes in the fields of agriculture, technology, trade, urbanization and society and the major points of changes during the entire period.
Describe the factors responsible for the rise of a good number of heterodox religious systems and adjustments and readjustments by various belief systems.
Trace the processes of urbanization and de-urbanization & monetization and monetary crisis in early India.
Analyze critically the changes in the varna/caste systems and changing nature of gender relations and property rights.
Write and undertake projects related to literature, science, art and architecture.

2. Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the Ancient and Medieval World II

Course Code: 12311204

Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Identify the main historical developments in Ancient Greece and Rome.
Gain an understanding of the restructuring of state and society from tribebased polities to those based on territorial identity and citizenship.
Trace the emergence and institutionalization of social hierarchies and marginalization of dissent.
Explain the trends in the medieval economy.
Analyze the rise of Islam and the move towards state formation in West Asia.
Understand the role of religion and other cultural practices in community organization.

3. Delhi through the Ages: From Colonial to Contemporary Times

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Category: GE

Learning Outcomes:

Contextualize contemporary questions with regard to the city in the light of its colonial past and lived present.
Analyze the political developments and their legacy for the shaping of the city.
Discern importance of ‘local’ social, ecological and cultural processes that shape and reshape the city
Explain the historical roots of the problems of sustainable urbanization with regards to Delhi.

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (H) IInd Year Sem: III

1. History of India- III (c. 750-1200)

Course Code: 12311301

Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Critically assess the major debates among scholars about various changes that took place with the onset of early medieval period in India.
Explain, in an interconnected manner, the processes of state formation, agrarian expansion, proliferation of caste and urban as well as commercial processes.
Discuss the major currents of development in the cultural sphere, namely bhakti movement, Puranic Hinduism, Tantricism, architecture and art as well as the emergence of a number ‘regional’ languages.

2. Rise of the Modern West- I

Course Code: 12311302

Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Outline important changes that took place in Europe from the medieval period.
Acquire an integrated approach to the study of economic, social, political and cultural developments in Europe.
Explain the processes by which major transitions unfolded in Europe’s economy, state forms, social structure and cultural life. Examine elements of early modernity in these spheres.
Critically analyze linkages between Europe’s state system and trade and empire.

3. History of India- IV (c. 1200–1500)

Course Code: 12311303

Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Discuss different kinds of sources available for writing histories of various aspects of life during the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries.
Critically evaluate the multiple perspectives from which historians have studied the politics, cultural developments and economic trends in India during the period of study.
Appreciate the ways in which technological changes, commercial developments and challenges to patriarchy by certain women shaped the times.

4. Archives and Museums

Course Code: 12313353

Category: SEC

Learning Outcomes:

Examine these two repositories of history from close quarters.
Discuss the role of Colonialism in the growth of Archives and Museums.
Explain how the documents and artefacts are preserved and the difficulties faced in the process.
Demonstrate the way in which museums are organized and managed.
Examine the considerations which govern the way exhibitions in museums are managed.

5. Politics of Nature

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Category: GEN

Learning Outcomes:

Critique an understanding of environmental concerns based on a narrow scientific/ technological perspective
Discuss environmental issues within a social and political (or social scientific?) framework
Examine the role of social inequality. How does unequal distribution of and unequal access to environmental resources help understand the environmental crisis of the world - from the global to the local
Examine the complexities of resource distribution and inequalities of resource use, locating these within specific social contexts, with reference to case studies regarding water rights and forest rights
Locate solutions to environmental problems within a framework of greater democratization of resource use
Problematize (or critique?) the notion of a pristine past - of perfect balance between human societies and nature in pre-modern times

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (H) IInd Year Sem: IV

1. History of India – V (c. 1500-1600)

Course Code: 12311402

Category: Core Course

Learning Outcomes:

Critically evaluate major sources available in Persian and vernacular languages for the period under study
Compare, discuss and examine the varied scholarly perspectives on the issues of the establishment, consolidation and nature of the Mughal state.
Explain the changes and continuities in agrarian relations, land revenue regimes, Bhakti and Sufi traditions
Discuss how different means such as visual culture was used to articulate authority by the rulers
Discern the nuances of the process of state formation in the areas beyond the direct control of the Mughal state.

2. Rise of the Modern West- II

Course Code: 12311401

Category: Core Course

Learning Outcomes:

Explain major economic, social, political and intellectual developments in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Contextualize elements of modernity in these realms.
Discuss the features of Europe's economy and origins of the Industrial Revolution.
Analyze the relationship between trade, empire, and slavery and industrial capitalism. Examine the divergence debate.

3. History of India- VI (c. 1750-1857)

Course Code: 12311403

Category: Core Course

Learning Outcomes:

Outline key developments of the 18th century in the Indian subcontinent.
Explain the establishment of Company rule and important features of the early colonial regime.
Explain the peculiarities of evolving colonial institutions and their impact.
Elucidate the impact of colonial rule on the economy.
Discuss the social churning on questions of tradition, reform, etc. during first century of British colonial rule.
Assess the issues of landed elite, and those of struggling peasants, tribals and artisans during the Company Raj.

4. Understanding Popular Culture

Course Code:

Category: SEC

Learning Outcomes:

Discuss the range of theoretical perspectives that define popular culture,
Describe the methodological issues involved in a historical study of popular culture,
Identify the relevant archives necessary for undertaking a study of popular culture, while pointing out the problems with conventional archives and the need to move beyond them
Interpret these theoretical concerns through a case study,
Examine the role of orality and memory in popular literary traditions,
Demonstrate the evolution of theatre and dance within the popular performative traditions,
Analyze the role of technology in the transformation of music from elite to popular forms,
Examine the relationship between recipes/recipe books and the construction of national/regional identities,
Discuss the history of the cultures of food consumption and its relationship with the constitution of a modern bourgeoisie.
With specific reference to art, media and cinema, examine the processes through which a pattern of 'public cultural consumption' emerged in contemporary times

5. Religion and Religiosity

Course Code:

Category: SEC

Learning Outcomes:

Describe the basic chronological, spatial and substantive contours of each of the religious traditions as well as certain intellectual currents that questioned them.
Analyze and articulate the long-term changes that each religious tradition undergoes in a dynamic relationship with its own past, with non-religious aspects of life, and with other religious traditions.
Identify and describe the formation of religious boundaries, identities and the scope for the liminal spaces in between.
Appreciate, examine and relate to the debates on the ways in which modern Indian state and its constitution must deal with the issue of plurality of religious beliefs and practices.

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (H) IIIrd Year Sem: V

1. History of Modern Europe – I

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Category:

Learning Outcomes:

Identify what is meant by the French Revolution.
Trace short-term and long-term repercussions of revolutionary regimes and Empire-building by France.
Explain features of revolutionary actions and reactionary politics of threatened monarchical regimes.
Delineate diverse patterns of industrialization in Europe and assess the social impact of capitalist industrialization.
Analyze patterns of resistance to industrial capital and the emerging political assertions by new social classes.

2. History of India- VII (c. 1600-1750)

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Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Critically evaluate the gamut of contemporaneous literature available in Persian and non-Persian languages for the period under study
Describe the major social, economic, political and cultural developments of the times
Explain the intellectual ferment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and its relation to state policies.
Discern the larger motives behind the Imperial patronage of art and architecture
Appreciate and express the continued expansion and dynamism ofagriculture, crafts and maritime trade in India

3. History of the USA: Independence to Civil War

Course Code: 12317508

Category: DSE

Learning Outcomes:

Explain the evolving and changing contours of USA and its position in world politics.
Examine the limits of American democracy in its formative stages.
Analyze the character of early capitalism in USA and resultant inequities.
Describe the economics of slavery in USA along with details of slave life and culture
Explain the main issues related with the Civil War in USA and its various interpretations

4. HISTORY OF MODERN CHINA (c. 1840s-1950s)

Course Code:

Category: DSE

Learning Outcomes:

Develop an in-depth understanding of China’s engagement with the challenges posed by imperialism, and the trajectories of transition from feudalism to a bourgeois/ capitalist modernity.
To locate these historical transitions in light of other contemporaneous trajectories into a global modernity, especially that of Japan.
Analyze significant historiographical shifts in Chinese history, especially with reference to the discourses of nationalism, imperialism, and communism.
Investigate the political, economic, social and cultural disruptions caused by the breakdown of the century’s old Chinese institutions and ideas, and the recasting of tradition to meet modernist challenges.
Comprehend the genesis and unique trajectories of the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Locate the rise of China and Japan in the spheres of Asian and world politics respectively

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (H) IIIrd Year Sem: VI

1. History of India VIII (c.1857 - 1950)

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Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Identify how different regional, religious, linguistic and gender identities developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Outline the social and economic facets of colonial India and their influence on the national movement.
Explain the various trends of anti-colonial struggles in colonial India.
Analyze the complex developments leading to communal violence and Partition.
Discuss the negotiations for independence, the key debates on the Constitution and need for socio-economic restructuring soon after independence

2. History of Modern Europe- II

Course Code: 12311604

Category: Core Courses

Learning Outcomes:

Trace varieties of nationalists and the processes by which new nation-states were carved out.
Discuss the peculiarities of the disintegration of large empires and remaking of Europe’s map.
Deliberate on the meaning of imperialism and the manifestations of imperialist rivalry and expansion in the 19th and early 20th century.
Analyze the conflict between radical and conservative forces, and the gradual consolidation of ultra-nationalist and authoritarian regimes in Europe.
Contextualize major currents in the intellectual sphere and arts

3. History of the USA: Reconstruction to New Age Politics

Course Code: 12317608

Category: DSE

Learning Outcomes:

Explain the reasons for the implementation of ‘Reconstruction’ and the causes for its limited success.
Analyze the growth of capitalism in USA especially in terms of big business, Monopolism, etc.
Examine the features of Labour Union movements.
Discern the history of Populist and Progressive movements along with introduction of New Deal in response to the Great Depression.
Describe the nature of Women’s Liberation movement and also explain the ‘Pastoralization’ of Housework
Illustrate the significance of Civil Rights Movements and Martin Luther King Jr

4. HISTORY OF MODERN JAPAN (c. 1868-1950s)

Course Code: 12317612

Category: DSE

Learning Outcomes:

Explain Japan’s attempts to create new institutional structures and recast traditions to encounter challenges of the west.
Analyze historiographical shifts in Japanese history in the context of global politics.
Examine the divergent pathways to modernity followed by Japan.
Examine distinct perspectives on imperialism and nationalism in East Asia, and understand how historiographical approaches are shaped by their contexts.
Conceptualize how these distinct histories can be rooted in common cultural traditions.
Locate and contextualize the history of Japan in world politics.
Critically discuss contemporary international studies with much greater clarity based on the knowledge of history and culture of Japan.

Department of History

Programme : B A (Prog) History

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (Prog) Ist Year Sem: I

1. History of India from the earliest times up to c.300 CE

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Category: Core Course

Learning Outcomes:

Delineate changing perceptions on ‘Ancient/early’ India.
Explain the importance of archaeological sources for study of proto-history and recognize the belated growth of literacy.
Distinguish between civilization and culture, particularly in the context of first ever civilization in the Indian subcontinent.
Outline the key features of the first ever empire under the Mauryas.
Locate the shift of historical focus from Gangetic belt to newer areas.
Discuss the processes of assimilations of people and ruling houses from outside the Indian subcontinent in to the mainstream

2. Communicating Culture: Tellings, Representations and Leisure

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Category: MIL

Learning Outcomes:

Identify significant features of India’s intangible cultural heritage.
Distinguish between various technical forms like myth, folklore, theatrical and ritual performance, as well as know about evolving patterns of sporting traditions.
Identify how culture is communicated through narrative strategies and performative acts.
Appreciate that textuality and performance are not binary opposites and are mutually interactive.
Develop analytical skills that are necessary for students of literature, sociology, anthropology, religion, psychology, political science and South Asian studies

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (Prog) Ist Year Sem : II

1. History of India, c. 300 to 1200

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Category: Core Course

Learning Outcomes:

Identify the historical importance of the accelerated practice of land grants issued by ruling houses.
Delineate changes in the realm of polity and culture; puranic religion; the growth of vernacular languages and newer forms of art and architecture.
Contextualize the evolution and growth of regional styles of temple architecture and the evolving role of these temples as centers of socioeconomic and political activities.

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (Prog) IIndYear Sem : III

1. History of India, c. 1200-1700

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Category: Core Course

Learning Outcomes:

Identify the major political developments in the History of India during the period between the thirteenth and the seventeenth century.
Outline the changes and continuities in the field of culture, especially with regard to art, architecture, bhakti movement and Sufi movement.
Discuss the economic history of the period under study in India especially, where agrarian production and its implications are concerned.
Delineate the development of trade and urban complexes during this period.

2. Histories of Inequalities

Course Code:

Category: MIL

Learning Outcomes:

Outline how hierarchies and inequalities are a part of their histories and everyday experiences.
Explain the contexts that produce these inequalities
Identify the importance of social justice.
They learn the difficulty in studying the impoverished and the disadvanted.
Delineate the problems associated with the hegemonic historical narratives which are circulated by the elites

3. Heritage and Tourism

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Category: SEC

Learning Outcomes:

Enhance his/her ability to discern the nature of the cultural heritage of the nation.
Contextualize his/her country’s history of heritage representation, to effectively comprehend the present.
Draw inference from different aspects of tourism, its varieties and be sensitive to the impact of overkill tourism in different geographical areas with specific local sensibilities, thus making a case for sustainable tourism.
Equip himself / herself with theoretical knowledge of heritage and tourism

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (Prog) IIndYear Sem: IV

1. History of India, c. 1700-1950

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Category: Core Course

Learning Outcomes:

Trace the British colonial expansion in the political contexts of eighteenthcentury India and the gradual consolidation of the colonial state power in the nineteenth century.
Identify the key historiographical debates around the colonial economic policies, including the land revenue collection, commercialization of agricultural production, trade policies and deindustrialization.
Delineate and explain the ideological, institutional, and political formations of the anticolonial nationalist movement.
Discuss the colonial context of the emergence of communal politics in India and the subsequent partition of India.

2. Archives and Museum

Course Code:

Category: SEC

Learning Outcomes:

Examine these two repositories of history from close quarters
Contextualize how the heritage is preserved and kept alive here and the difficulties faced in the process.
Demonstrate the way in which museums are organized and managed.
Examine the considerations which govern the way exhibitions in museums are managed.
Assessment will be based on assignments and projects involving visits to the archives and museum, which is an essential component of this course

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (Prog) IIIrd Year Sem: V

1. Issues in Twentieth Century World History –I

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Category: DSE

Learning Outcomes:

Define world history and explain the evolving polities.
Categorize the economies and cultures of the twentieth century world.
Define the making of the geopolitical order and ‘North-South’ distinctions.
Delineate the complex character of modernity and its differences.
Demonstrate critical skills to discuss and analyze diverse social movements and cultural trends.

2. Gender in Modern World

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Category: GE

Learning Outcomes:

Discuss the issues related to gender in world history in a comparative frame.
Analyze gender realities in larger international context.
Describe the main facets of Suffrage movement in Britain or in the USA.
Delineate the role of women in anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
Trace the role of women in the Russian revolutions.
Critically discuss the women’s participation in Chinese revolution.

3. Popular Culture

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Category: SEC

Learning Outcomes:

Engage with a range of theoretical perspectives in an attempt to define popular culture,
Describe the methodological issues involved in a historical study of popular culture,
Identify the relevant archives necessary for undertaking a study of popular culture, while pointing out the problems with conventional archives and the need to move beyond it
Interpret the above theoretical concerns to actual historical studies, through a case study, Estimate the popular aspects of everyday experience of religion and religiosity, through a wide range of case studies relating to festivals and rituals, healing practices as well as pilgrimage and pilgrim practices,
Examine the role of orality and memory in popular literary traditions
Demonstrate the evolution of theatre and dance within the popular performative traditions,
Analyze the role of technology in the transformation of music from elite to popular forms,
Examine the relationship between recipes/recipe books and the construction of national/ regional identities,
Identify the history of the cultures of food consumption and its relationship with the constitution of a modern bourgeoisie,
Examine the process of emergence of a pattern of 'public consumption' of culture in contemporary times, with specific reference to art, media and cinema

Courses offered by Department of History under BA (Prog) IIIrd Year Sem: VI

1. Issues in Twentieth Century World History-II

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Category: DSE

Learning Outcomes:

Define world history.
Discuss and explain the evolving polities, economies and cultures of the twentieth century world.
Analyze the interconnectedness in world history
Demonstrate critical skills to discuss diverse social movements and cultural trends.

2. Delhi Through the Ages

Course Code:

Category: GE

Learning Outcomes:

Analyze the historical contexts of tangible and intangible heritage of Delhi.
Discuss the Ecology of Delhi and outline changes in it through the ages.
Describe the archaeological cultures that flourished in and around Delhi.
Analyze the processes leading to the establishment of urban settlements of Delhi
Outline the importance of Shahjahanabad and its importance in the development of the great imperial city of Delhi.
Trace the role of Delhi College in the political and literary culture of Delhi.
Discuss various aspects of the Revolt of 1857 and its consequences for the future development of Delhi
Delineate the processes leading to the making of the New Imperial Capital under the British.
Analyze the impact of Partition on the structure and settlement pattern of Delhi
Describe Delhi’s importance as economic and cultural centre

3. Understanding Text, Rituals and Orality in Indian History

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Category: SEC

Learning Outcomes:

Organize archival or field work relating to historical research.
Contextualize sources in a meaningful and critical manner.
Analyze texts, point out ethnography of ritual practices and performances, and use oral narratives for historical purposes.
Demonstrate a variety of vocational areas like administration, development, culture and art, economy and environmental work.

DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM

Programme: BA (Hons) Journalism

Courses offered by Department of Journalism under BA (Hons) Journalism