KANNUR

UNIVERSITY

(Abstract)
BA History Programme under Choice Based Course Credit System & Grading Conducted by the SDEScheme , Syllabus & Model Question Papers of Core , Complementary & Open Courses- Implemented
with effect from 2011 Admission - Orders Issued.
ACADEMIC BRANCH
U.O No.Acad/C1/3426/ 2001
K.U. Campus, Dated, 09-01--2012
Read 1 Minutes of the meeting of the Boards of Studies in History (UG) held on 09/08/2011 &
04/11/2011.
2. Letter dated 24-12-2011 from the Chairman Board of Studies in History( UG)
3. U.O.No .Acad/C2/11772/2011 dated 15-10-2011.
ORDER
1. As per the paper read (1) above ,the meeting of the Board of Studies in History (UG) held on 09-082011& 04-11-2011 has finalized the Scheme , Syllabus and Model Question papers for B.A Hisory
Programme under CCSS for implementation with effect from 2011 admission.
2. As per the paper read (2) above , Chairman Board of Studies in History (UG) has forwarded the
finalized copy of the Scheme , Syllabus and Model Question papers for B.A History Programme under
Choice Based Course Credit System & Grading for implementation with effect from 2011 admission.
3.As per the paper read (3) above the Regulations for UG Programmes under Choice Based Course
Credit System & Grading were implemented for UG Programmes conducted by the School of Distance
Education with effect from 2011 admission.
4 .The Vice Chancellor after considering the matter in detail and in exercise of the powers of Academic
Council conferred under section 11 (1) of Kannur University Act 1996 and all other enabling provisions
read together with has accorded sanction to implement the Scheme ,Syllabus and Model Question Papers
of Core, Complementary & Open courses of B.A. History Programme under Choice Based Course
Credit System & Grading Conducted by the SDE with effect from 2011 admission subject to report to the
Academic Council.
5. Orders are therefore issued accordingly.
6. The implemented Scheme , Syllabus & Model Question Papers are appended.
To
The Director, School of Distance Education.
Copy to :
1. The Examination Branch (through PA to CE).
2. The Chairman BOS in History ( UG)
3. PS to VC/PA to PVC /PA to R/PA to CE/ 4.DR/AR 1 (Acad).
5. SF/DF/FC.

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SYLLABUS FOR
BA PROGRAMME IN HISTORY
UNDER
CHOICE BASED COURSE CREDIT & GRADING
SYSTEM
FOR SDE
2011 ADMISSION

KANNUR UNIVERSITY
SYLLABUS OF B.A HISTORY (SDE) PROGRAMME 2011-ADMISSION

I Core Courses
SI.NO

Code

Name of the course

Credit

Exam
Time

Year/

SDE 1B 01HIS

3 hrs

SDE 2B 02HIS

Social formation in India upto750

AD
Emergence of Modern World

3 hrs

II

SDE 2B 03 HIS

Methodology and perspectives of

Social Sciences

3 hrs

II

SDE 3B 04 HIS

Historiography

3 hrs

III

SDE 3B 05 HIS

3 hrs

III

SDE 3B 06 HIS

Social Formation is Medieval

India
Colonialism and Nationalism in
Modern India

3 hrs

III

SDE 3B 07 HIS

Archival Studies and Informatics

in Social Sciences

3 hrs

III

SDE 3B 08 HIS

Kerala History and Culture

3 hrs

III

SDE 3B 09 HIS

Project

3 hrs

III

II Complementary
Courses
1

SDE 3C 01 HIS

History of Modern World

3 hrs

III

SDE 3C02 HIS

Colonialism and National

Movement in India

3 hrs

III

SDE 3C03 HIS

Social and Cultural History of

Britain

3 hrs

III

3 hrs

III

3 hrs

III

3 hrs

III

III Open Courses

1

SDE 3D01 HIS

SDE 3D02 HIS

Social Reform Movements in

Kerala
India Struggle for Freedom

SDE 3D03 HIS

History of Gender in India

SDE 1 B 01 HIS : SOCIAL FORMATIONS IN INDIA UP TO C. 750 AD

Credit 7
Module 1
Pre- Historic Period Forms of subsistence and survival - Paleolithic period- Mesolithic periodadvent of
food Production Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods.
Module 2
Harappan Culture Origin and extend -Settlement patterns and town planning- Indus script- religionagrarian base craft production and trade Decline of the culture
Module 3
Cultures in transition Early Vedic Phase - Settlement patterns- social stratification-Polity and economyLater Vedic Phase- Social stratification- Janapadas- PGW culture.
Module -4
Emergence of State Expansion of Agrarian economy production relations origin of State Gana
Sanghasand Monarchies- Origin of Jainism and Buddhisnm-trade and trade routes .
Module 5
Mauryan State Nature and Base of Mauryan State administrative system Asoka and the policy of
Dhamma
Module 6
Post Mauryan political transformations Sources and tools of Reconstruction - Central Asian contacts
Indo Greeks, Sakas ,KushansSatavahanas - Cultural expressions Mathura, Gandhara and Amaravathi
Art
Module 7
Gupta state Nature and Concept of State: Gupta State, Feudatories and Land grantsystem changing
social andcultural patterns proliferationof castes cultural expressions art, literature, science, and
technology-philosophy.
Module 8
Indian Feudalism Concept of Feudalism Feudalism Debate , Land grants - Decentralisation Changing
social and cultural patterns.
Map Study
1. Geographical extent of Harappan Culture
2. Mahajanapadas of early India
3. Towns and trade centres of early India
4. Political extent of Mouryan state
5. Extent of gupta state under Chandragupta
6 Extent of Kushan Kingdom

Essential Readings
Bridget and Raymond Allchin
F.R.Allchin
A .L. Basham
D .N. Jha
---------------------------------D .D. Kosambi
H.C. Raychandari
B .P. Sahu (ed.)
-----------------------(Ed)
R. S. Sharma
---------------------------------------Romila Thapar
__________
-----------------__________
---------------------IRfan Habib (Ed).
R .Champakalakshmi
Mohammed Habib
& K .A .Nizami
Mohammed Habib
N .Karashinia
Herman Kulke
R .N. Nandi
Burton Stein
Kesavan Veluthat
Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya

:The Rise of Civilisation in India and Pakistan.

:The Archaeology of Early South Asia.
:The Wonder that was India.
:Economy and Society in Early India :Issues and Paradigms
Ancient India an Introductory Outline
Feudal Social Foundation in Early India/ or Feudal Order.
An Introduction to the Study of Indian History.
Political History of Ancient India(1996).
Land System and Rural Society in Early India 1997.
Iron and social change in Early India
Material Culture and Social Formation in India .
Origin of State
Indian Feudalism
Indias Ancient Past
Recent Perceptives of Early Indian History.
Interpreting Early India
From Lineage to State .
Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas.
History of India vol 1
Indian History Peoples series
Trade ,Ideology and Urbanization :
South India 300 B. C A.D 1300.
Comprehensive History of India .
Politics and Society during the Early Medieval Period.
South Indian History and Society.
The State in India.
Social Roots of Religion in Ancient India.
Peasant State and Society in Medieval India.
The Early Medieval in South India.
The Making of Early Medieval India

QUESTION PATTERN
I. Objective type (A bunch of four questions)
II. Match the following (A bunch of four questions)
III. Map Question
IV. Short questions Answer any seven out of Nine questions
V. Short essay Answer any Five out of eight questions
VI. Essay type Answer any one out of two questions

Weightage 1
Weightage 1
Weightage 2
Weightage 1x7 =7
Weightage2x5=10
Weightage4x1 =4

SDE 1B01 HIS : SOCIAL FORMATION IN INDIA UPTO 750 AD

MODEL QUESTION PAPER
Duration 3 hours

Total Weightage 25

I 1. Objective Questions
1. Archaeology is the study of
(a) Material remains

(Weightage 1)

(b) Man (c) Inscriptions

2. Mohenjodaro means
(a) Mound of the dead (b) Abode of the living (c) Cradle of Civilisation
3 Gandhara school of art represents
(a) Indo Greek (b) Bodhic

(c) Graeco Roman

4 Huen Tsang belongs to

(a) China
(b) Arabia

(c) Rome

II 2. Match A with B and C

A
(1) Arthasastra
(2) Painted Grey Ware
(3) Punch marked coins
(4) Megaliths

(Weight age 1)
B
Silver
Iron
Later Vedic
Kautilya

C
6th Century B.C
Black & Red Ware
Gangetic Basin
Maurayas

III 3. On the outline map of India provided mark the following places

(Weight age -2)

a) Mohenjodaro (b) Harappa (c) Dholavira (d) Kalibangan (e) Banwali (f) Lothal
IV Short Notes (Any Seven of the following)
4. Indus script
5. Painted Grey Ware Culture
6. Trade in Early India
7 Allahabad pillar Inscription
8. Indo Greek coins
9. D.D.Kosambi
10. Land grant system
11. Golden age concept
12. Varna System

(Weight age 1x7=7)

V Short Essays (Any five of the following)

(Weightage2x5=10)
13. Explain the Neolethic Revolution
14 Discuss Harappan craft and trade
15. Describe the technological and material developments in Early India
16 Discuss Asokas Dhamma.
17. Examine the impact of central Asian contacts
18. Examine the six systems of Philosophy

19. Discuss Asokas Darama

VI Answer any one of the Following
(Weight age; 4x1=4)
20. Critically examine the nature of the Mauryan State
21. Examine the concept of feudalism with special reference to the Gupta state

SDE 2B02 HIS : EMERGENCE OF MODERN WORLD

Credit 7
MODULE I
Transition to Modern Age- Renaissance- Reformation- Discoveries of New Trade routs
MODULE II
Ideological Fermentation in the West during the dawn of the Modern Era - Commercial capitalism
& Industrial capitalism - Socialism - Communism - Adam Smith - Robert Owen- Louis Blanc.
MODULE III
English Revolution of 1688 - American war of independence.
MODULE IV
French Revolution- Back ground -Philosophers- Impact.
MODULE V
Russian Revolution & Chinese Revolution- Background- Ideologies- Impact.
MODULE VI
Imperialism & world wars- First World War -League of Nations- Rise of Dictatorships- Fascism
and Nascism- Second World War- UNO-Cold War- NAM- Neo Imperialism.
Essential readings
A.J.Toynbee
A Study of History
Oswald Spengler
Decline of the West
R.R.Palmer
History of Modern Worl
H>A.L.Fisher
History of Modern Europe
ArjunDev& Girish Misra
Contemporary World History
C.D.M.Kettelby
A History of Modern Times
E.J.Hobsbawn
Age of Revolution
E.J.Hobsbawn
Industry and Empire
E.J.Hobsbawn
Age of Capital
K.M.Panikkar
Asia and Western Dominance
Jacob Bronoski
Western Intellectual Tradition
Albert Soboul
Understanding of French Revolution
......................
The Crowd in the French Revolution
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours
Total Weight age 25
Objective type (A bunch of four questions)
Weight age 1
Match the following (A bunch of four questions)
Weight age 1
Short questions Answer any seven out of nine question Weightage 1x7=7
Shot essay Answer any six out of eight questions
Weight age 2x6=12
Essay type Answer any one out two questions
Weight age 1x4=4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

SDE 2B02 HIS: EMERGENCE OF MODERN WORLD

Time: 3 hours

total weightage: 25

I Objective type questions

1

weightage 1

English Revolution of 1688 took place during the reign of

a) James I,(b) Charles I (c)James II(d) Charles II
Boston Tea Party is associated with
(a)French Revolution (b) Chinese Revolution
(c) Russian Revolution (d) American War of Independence
The UNOs Head Quarters is at
(a) Geneva
(b) New York (c) London (d) Paris
Glasnost pertains to
(a)USA (b) USSR(c) France (d) Germany

3
4.

II . Match a with B and C

5

III
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

A
Keransky
Mao Tse Tung
Oliver Cromwell
Second World War

weightage 1
B
1939
Menshavik
Long March
Common Wealth

C
Chinese Revolution
English Revolution
Hitler
Russian Revolution

Short Notes on any seven of the following

Industrial Capitalism
Utopian Socialism
Stamp Act
Sun yat Sen
League of Nations
Mussolini
Hiroshima
Atlantic Charter
UNESCO

IV Short Essay on Any Six of the following:

weightage 7X1=7

weightage 6X2=12

15 Analyze the impact of Industrial Revolution.

16 Critically evaluate the contributions of American War of Independence.
17 Examine the results of Russian Revolution.
18 Explain the elements of Fascism
19 Examine the causes of the Arab Israel conflict.
20 Bring out the results of the First World War.
21 Explain Globalization and its impact
22 Examine the relevance of Marxian Ideology in the contemporary World
23 Essay on any one of the following.
weightage 1X4=4
24 Evaluate the causes and results of the French Revolution.
25 Examine the political developments in Europe during the post Second World War period.

SDE 2B03 HIS : METHODOLOGY AND PERPECTIVES OF SOCIAL

SCIENCES
Credit 7
Module 1 Introduction to Social Sciences
Social Science-its emergence-Social Sciences- anthropology, Economics, Political Science and History.
How they are related? How they are different?
Module 2 Social science disciplines
Relation of other fields of knowledge- Historical foundation of the social science- Interdisciplinary
approach in social science
Module 3 Objectivity in Social Science
Objectivity-Limits to objectivity in social science-subjectivity and bias-ethical issue in social science
Module 4 Meaning and definition of History
Nature, scope and values of history History as a Social Science
Module 5 Knowability of the past facts and its significance-objectivity in historical writing- philosophy
of history causation in history individual in history -value judgment.
Module 6 Research in History Nature of Historical research Selection of Topic -collection of data
primary and secondary sources-external and internal criticisms.
Module 7 Writing of History-Synthetic operation grouping of facts-generalization and Exposition
Module 8 Documentation-footnotes-form and purposes-bibliography general and select bibliography.
Essential readings
Martin Hollis
: The Philosophy of Social Science an Introduction
Christopher Lloyd
: Explanation in Social History
Mark J Smith (Ed)
Philosophy and methodology of Social Science
Sujatha Patel et.al(Ed). Thinking Social Science in India
Peter Burje
: History and Social theory
Wallerstein Immanuel : Open the Social Sciences
Perry Jon and Erna Perry ; Contemporary Society
E.H.Carr
: What is History, New York, 1962
Arthur Marwick
: The Nature of History, Macmillan, Loandon, 19979
..: the New Nature of History
Marc Bloch
: The Historians Craft, New York : Alfred A Knopf inc, 1953
Louis R. Gottschaik
: Generalisation in Writing History.
Allen Nevins
: Gateway to History, Boston , D.C Neath, 1992.
B.Sheik Ali
: History : its Theory and Method.
Keith Jenkins
: Rethinking History
Eric Hobesbawm
: On History.
E. Sreedharan
:A Manual of Research methodology in History.
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours Total Weightage 25
I.Objective type (A bunch of four questions ) Weightage 1
II.Match the following (A bunch of four questions ) Weightage 1

III.Short questions Answer any seven out of nine Weightage 1 x 7 =7

IV.Short essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weightage 6 x 2 =12
V. Eassy type Answer any one of two questions Weightage 4 x 1 = 4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

SDE 2B03 HIS : METHODOLOGY AND PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Time 3 Hrs
Total Weightage 25)
1.Objective Question
Weight age- 1
1) The concept of social fact is introduced by .
Herbert Spencer B) Emile Durkheim c) Kari Marx D) Francis Bacon
2) Great Man theory was propounded by
A) Kari Marx, B) E.H.Carr, C) A.L.Rouse, D) Herbert Spencer
3) The Idea of History is authored by
A) R.G. Collingwood, B) E.H.Carr, C) A.L.Rouse, D)Hegal)
4) Who suggests the tools of vestehends
A) August Comte b) Marx Weber C) Kari Popper D) Herbert Spencer
II Match A with B and C
Weight age-1
A
B
C
a) Spenglar
Objectivity
Positive stage
b) Theological Stage
What is History
Decline of the West
c) Ranke
Cyclic theory
Unending Dialogue
d) E.H. Carr
Metaphysical stage
Dialectics
III Short Notes (Any Nine of the following)
Weightage 1x9 =9
3.Meaning of History
4.Uses of History
5. History as a Social Science
6.Role of Individual in History
7.Value judgment
8.What are social facts ?
9.Explian inter disciplinary approach
10.Foot Notes.
11. What is objectivity
12.Bibliography
13.Internal criticism
IV Short Essays (Any five of the Following) Weightage 2x5 = 10
14. What do you understand by Positivism? What are three stages of developments of sciences that Comte
proposed ?
15.Causation in History.
16.Objectivity in History
17.Philosophy of History
18.Internal and external criticism.
19.Synthetic operations.
20.What are the advantages of the interdisciplinary approach to the study of social problems ?

V Essay (Any one of the following ) Weightage 4x1 -4

21.Discuss the nature and scope of History
22. Explain Marx Webers contributions to the methodology of social sciences

SDE 3B04 HIS : HISTORIOGRPHY

Credit 7
MODULE-1 MEANING AND DEFINITION
Beginning of Historiography-Graeco-Roman HistoriographyHerodotus-Thucydides-Livy and Tacitus-Characteristic features of Graeco-Roman Historigraphy.
MODULE II
Concept of past in Early India-Ithihasa-purana tradition-Jain and Buddhist traditions Harshacharitha
Mooshakavamsakakavya-Rajatharangani
MODULE III MEDIEVAL HISTORIOGRAPHY
St.Augustine-Characterstic features of Church Historiography-IBn-Khaldun- Salient features of Arab
historiography.
MODULE-V RENAISSANCE, ENLIGTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM- Its
Impact on Historiography- Machiavelli-Descartes- Vico- Voltaire-Gibbon-Rousseau- Thomas Carlyle and
Hegel
MODULE VII
Colonial Historiography-Orientalists-William Jones-Max Muller- Evangelists Utilitarian and Imperialist
approaches James Mill- Vincent Smith-Features of colonial Historiography.
MODULE VIII
Nationalist historiography-K.P. Jayaswal R.C Majumdar K.A.N. Sastri
K.M.Panicker-Features of nationalist historiography.
MODULE-IX TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORIOGRAPHY
Oswald Spengler Toynbee- Annaels School Modern world System theory Structuralism and Post
Structuralism Post Modernism
MODULE X Indian Historiography- Post independence Trends- D.D.Kosambi R.S.Sharma, Romila
Thapar- Irfan Habib--Bipan Chandra- Subaltern Studies- New Cambridge Historians- Modern Trends in
Kerala Historiography- Recent trends
Essential Readings
1.Arthur Marwick
: the Nature of History
2._____________
: The New Nature of History
3.R.G.Collingwood
: The idea of History
4.B.Sheik Ali.
History It theory and method
5. Immanuel Wallenstein : World System Analysis: Theory and Methidology
6.Manrice Aymard and :French Studies in History Vol.II
Herbans Mukhia
7.E.Sreedharan
:A Text Book of Historiography

8.H.E Barnes
9.Eric Hobbesbam
10.Peter Burke
12.Keuth Jenkins
13.____________
14.Satheesh.K.Bajaj
15.Romila thapar
16.________
17.T.R.Venugopal
18.C.H.Phillip.Ed.
19.R.C Majumdar
20.S.P.Sen.ed
21.Ranajit Guha.Ed
22.Elliot and Dorsen
23.Peter Hardy
24.D.N.Jha

: A History of Historical Writings

: On History
: French Historical Revolution. The Annales Schools 1129-89
: Rethinking History
: On What is History
: Recent Trends in Historigraphy
:Cultural Past
:Ancient Indian Social History Some Interpretations
:History and Theory
:Historians of India. Pakistan and Ceylon.
: Historiography in Modern India.
: History and Historians of Modern India
:Subaltern Studies Vol .1
:Medieval Historians of India
:Studies in Indo-Muslim Historical Writings
: Ancient India An Instructor Outline.

QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours
Total Weightage 25
I.Objective type (A bunch of four questions )
Weightage 1
II.Match the following (A bunch of four questions ) Weightage 1
III.Short questions Answer any seven out of nine Weightage 1 x 9 =9
IV.Short essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weightage 2 x 5 =10
v Essay type- Answer any one out of two questions Weightage 1x4=4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

SDE 3B04 HIS : HISTORIOGRAPHY
Time: 3 Hours
1.

Total Weightage: 25

I. Objective type questions.

1. What is the Anti-Historical Tendency of Greek thought ?

a)Epicureanism b) Particularism c) Sophism d) Substantialism
2. The author of Harshacharitha is
a) Kalhana b) Harisena c) Banabhatta d) Bilhana
3. Ranjith Guha is associated with
a) Subaltern Studies b) Annals School c) Structuralism d) World System Theory
4. History of British India was written by
a) Vincent Smith b) James Mill c) Christian Lassen d) Charles Grant
11.2. Match A with B and C

Weightage:1

A
1.Roman historiography
2.Muquaddimma
3.Kalhana
4.Little Narratives
Weightage:1

B
Rajatharangini
Tacitus
Post modernism
Kitab-al -Ibar

C
Intertextuality
Kashmir
Ibn Khaldun
Germania

111. Short notes on any Seven of the following:

3. Ithihasa-purana Tradition
4. Ziauddin Barani
5. Positivism
6. Orientalists
7. Challenge and Response theory
8. Structuralism
9. World System Analysis
10. Subaltern Studies
11. MGS Narayanan
Weightage: 7x1=7
1V. Short Essays on any Six of the following:
12. Enumerate the characteristics of Greeco-Roman historiography.
13. Comment on St.Augustines concept of History.
14. Highlight the contributions of Ibn-Khaldun.
15. Describe the features of Enlightenment Historiography.
16. Trace the importance of Berlin Revolution in Historiography.
17. Examine the colonial phase of Indian Historiography.
18. Evaluate the contributions of D.D.Kosambi to Indian Historiography.
19. Point out the significance of Annaels School of History.
Weightage: 6x2=12
1V. Essay on any One of the following:
20. Assess Herodotus as a historian.
21. Analyse the materialist interpretation of History.
Weightage: 4x1=4

SDE 3B05 HIS : SOCIAL FORMATION IN MEDIEVAL INDIA

Credit 7
Module 1 Rise of Regional States
Nature and concept of Regional States-fragmentation of centralized state Harsha-Rise of RajputsChalukayas, Pallavas, Rashtrakutas, Cholas-Palas-cultural expressions
Module-2 Delhi sultanate
Central Asian intrusion-Sultanate-state and society : nature and concept of Sate AlauddinKhiljiMohammed Bin Tughaq-Administrative reforms-Social Structure-Nobility-Iqta Mukti System-Trade and
Urbanization-art, Literature, Bhakti movement.
Module 3 Sate and society under Vijayanagra and Bahmani
Nature and concept of state-Krishana Deva Raya-Mohammed Gawan-Administration Nayankara
system- Changes in social structure-Economy and trade-Cultural expressions.
Module 4 Mughal State and Society
Nature and concept of state Sher Shah and Akbar Administrative changes Mansabdari system- peasant
economy -Jagirdari / Zamindari systems-art and architecture -religion

Module 5 Regional developments

Marathas, skhs, Rajaput State and Society cultural expressions.
Module-6 Advent of the Europeans
Concept of colonialism-Colonialism in Indian context-stages of colonialism-traders to conquerorsCarnatic wars, Battle of Plassey and Buxar
Module-7 Administrative and Economic policies
De-industrialization Commercialization of agriculture-Land revenue policies
Map Study
1.Places of artistic and cultural importance
2.Extent of Alauddin Khiljis empire
3.Extent of Vijayanagara Kingdom
4.Mugal Sate under Akbar
5.Major trade centres of Medieval India
Essential Readings
Mohammed Habib
Politics and during the Early Medieval Period.
D.N.Jha
Feudal social foundation in Early India.or deudal order.
N.Karashi
South Indian History and Society.
D.D.Kosambi
An introduction to the study of Indian History (Chap 9 & 10).
R.S Sharma
Indian Feudalism
R.S.Sharma
Social Changes in early Medieval India.
Burton Stein
Peasant Sate and Society in Medieval India.
Kesavan Veluthat
The Early Medieval in south India.
Brajadulala Chattopadhyaya
The making of Early Medieval India
K.A.N.Sastri
A History of south India
U.N. Day
:The Mughal Administration.
Steward Gordon
: The Marathas.
Irfan Habib
: Agrarian System and the Mughal India.
: An Atlas of Mughal India.
S.Nurul Hassan
:Thoughts in Agrarain Relations in Mughal India.
Shireen Moosvi
:Economy and the Mughal Empire.
: People Taxation and Trade in Mughal India(OUP2008)
W.H.Moreland
:From Akbar to Aurangazeb.
Herbans Mukhia
:Historians and Historigraphy During the Reign of Akbar.
Satish Chandra
:Religion and State in Medieval India.
Historiography
:Religion and State in Medieval India.
Medieval India
:Society, the Jagirdari Crisis in the Village.
: The 18th Century in India, its Economy and the Marathas.
Peter Jackson
:The Delhi Sulthanate Political and Military History.
S.R.Sharma
: Mughal. Empire in India
A.R.Desai
:Social Background of Indian Nationalism
:Peasant Struggles in India
Bipan Chandra
:Modern India
.. :Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India
Darshana Kuamr and
Tapan Roya Chaudhari :Cambridge economic History of India 1707-1970
D.N.Dhanagare
:Peasant Movement in India

R.C Majumdar
:History of Indians Struggle for freedom
Tapan Roy Chaudhari :India 1707-1970
Sekhar Badho[adhyaya : From Pleassey to Partition
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours
Total Weightage 25
I.Objective type (A bunch of four questions )
Weightage 1
II.Match the following (A bunch of four questions ) Weightage 1
III Map question
Weightage 2
IV.Short questions Answer any seven out of nine
Weightage 1 x 7 =7
V.Short essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weightage 5x2=10
VI. Eassy type Answer any one of two questions
Weightage 4 x 1 = 4

SDE 3B 05 HIS : SOCIAL FORMATION IN MEDIEVAL INDIA

Weight age 25
Time 3 Hrs
I
Objective Type Questions
Weight age 1
1 Gandhara School of Art represents
a)Indo Greek b) Greco Roman c) Indo Arab d) Indo British
2 The first battle of Tarain was in the year
a)1191 AD, b)1192 AD, c)1526 AD, d)1556 AD
3 Din Ilahi was founded by
a)Shisha b) Akbar c) Humayaun d) Gru Nanak
4. Robert Clive was the Governer General of
a) French East India Company, B) Dutch East India Company, c) .English Est India Company d)
Non of this
II- Match the following
Weight age 1
5
A
B
C
Pallava
Akbar
Vijayanagara
Nayankara System
Shivaji
Rock Art
Ashta Pradhan
Krishna Devaraya
Maratha
Fatheh Pur Sikri
Mahabalipuram
Mugals
III
6.On the Outline Map of India mark the major trade centres of medieval India.
Weight age 2
IV
Write Short Notes (any seven ) of the following
7. Cultural expression of Chalukyas
8. Hieun Tsang
9. Pallava Art
10. Mansabdari system
11. Khalsa
12.Market regulations of Alauddin Khilji
13. Mohammed Gawan
14. Battle of Plassey
15. De-Industrialization
Weight age 7 x 1= 7
V Short Essay (any seven) of the Following
16. Assess the Character and Achievement of Harsha
17. Identify the cardinal features of Sultanate Polity
18. Critically examine the Revenue Administration of Shersha
19. Give an account of the agrarian system under the Mugal
20. Explain the concept and nature of the Viajayanagara state

21. Highlight the significance of the Karnatic wars.

22. Discuss the British land revenue policy in India
Weight age 5 x 2= 10
VI Write an Essay on any one of the following
23. describe the nature and concept of Mugal state
24. Analyse the administrative and economic policies of the English East India Company in India
Weight age 1 x 4 = 4
SDE 3B06 HIS :COLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN MODERN INDIA
Credit-7
MODULES I - COLONIAL HEGEMONY : METHODS AND POLICIES
Introductions of modern Education and Agencies-Subsidiary Alliance Doctrine of Lapse
MODULE II- REGENERATION OF INDIAN SCOCIETY
Socio-religious reform movements-Brahmasamaj, Arayasamaj, Ramakrishna Mission, Theosophicial
Society, Aligarh movement
MODULE III - RESISITANCE AGAINST COLONALISM
Revolt of 1857- Nature, Causes, and Impact Administrative Changes after 1857
MODULE IV- EMERGENCE OF NATIONALISM
Concept of Nationalism-Writings on Nationalism Causes of the Emergence of Nationalism-Formation of
Indian National Congress Moderate phase of National Movement ideology, Programmes and methods
MODULE V- EXTRIMIST PHASE
Method of Agitation Rise of Extremism- Partition of Bengal Swadeshi Movement- Gadhar Party
Montague Chelmsford reforms
MODULE VI -EMERGENCE OF GANDHIJI
Champaran Sathyagraha Rawlett Act Khilafath and Non- Coperation Movement- Swarajist party
Gandhian Method of Agitation-Constructive Programmes Emergence of New Forces - Workers and
peasants - Simon Commission - Nehru Report- Emergence of Socialist ideas - Trade Union
Movement- Revolutionary movements -Bhagat Singh - Surya Sen.
MODULE VII-TOWARDS FREEDOM
Civil Disobedience Movement- Round Table Conferences, Poona pact- Rise of Leftism in
Congress - Growth of peasant Movements - Government of India Act of 1935- National
Movement and World War II- Cripps Mission - Quit India Movement - Subhash Chandra Bose
and INA -RIN Mutiny - Rise of Communal Politics and its effects - Jinnah and Two Nation
Theory - Mountbattan plan - Indian Independence - Integration of Indian States
MODULE VIII - LEGACY OF NATIONAL MOVEMENT
Indian Republic -Indian constitution - India's Foreign Policy -Non-Alignment Policy - Problems of
National Integration
MAP STUDY
1.Early European Settlements in India
2. Important sites of the Revolt of 1857.
3 Major centers of Freedom struggle in India
4 Partition of India in 1947.
5 Republic of India ; States and Union Territories.
Essential Readings
A.R Desai
Bipan Chandra

Darsan Kumar and

Tapan Roychaudhari

: Social background of Indian Nationalism

:Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India
:Essays on Colonialism
:India 1707-1970

Sathish Chandra
:Medieval India (Macmillan,1982)
Sekhar Badhopadhyaya :From Plassey to Partition
Thomas R Matcalf
: The New Cambridge History of India
Tharachand
:History of Freedom Movement in India
R.C Majumdar
:British Paramountancy and the Indian Renaissance
Biswamoyi Pati (Ed) :1857 Rebellion
A.R Desai
:Social Background of Indian Nationalism

: Peasent Struggles in India

Bipan Chandra
: India,s Straggles for independence

:Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India

: Modern India

:Communalism in Modern India

:India After Independence
Darshan Kumar and :Cambridge economics History of India 1707-1970
Tapan Roy Choudhari
K.N Panikkar
:Culture, ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social
C
Consciousness in Colonial India
Sumit Sarkar
: Modern India 188-1947
R.C Majumdar
: History of Indias Struggle for Freedom
Bidyut Charkraborthy (ed) : Communal identity in India
Ramachandra Guha
:India After Gandhi
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours Total Weightage 25
1 Objective type (A bunch of four questions) Weightage1
2 Match the following (A bunch four questions) Weightage1
3 Map question
Weghtage 2
4 Short question Answer any seven out of nice Weight age1x7=7
5 Short essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weight age5x2=10
6 Essay type Answer any one out of two questions Weightage 4x1=4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

SDE306 HIS : COLONIALISM AND NATIONALISM IN MODERN INDIA
Time: 3 hours

total weightage: 25

I Objective type questions

weightage 1
1 Poverty and the un-British Rule in India is a book written by
(a)Dadha bahi Navoroji(b)Mahathma Gandhi
(c)R.P Dutt (d)Sumit Sarkar
2.
The Battle of Plassey was fought in
(a) 1769 (b) 1764 (c) 1757 (d) 1763
3.
Mangal Pandey was associated with
(a) Sanyasi rebellion (b) The Revolt of 1857 (c) Salt Sathyagraha (d) Quit India Movement
4.
Brahma Samaj was founded by
(a) Justice Ranade
(b) Dayananda Saraswathi
(c) Sreerama Krishna Paramahamsa (d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
II 2. Match a with B and C
weightage 1

B
Subsidary Alliance
Aligarh Movement
Dupliex
Annie Beasant
Theosophical Society
Lord Wellesley
Syed Ahmed Khan
Karnatic War
III.3. Mark on the out line map the partition of India in 1947
IV. Short Notes on any seven of the following
4. Battle of Buxar
5 Dual Government
6 Doctrine of Lapse
7 Raja ram Mohan Roy
8 A.O. Hume
9 Champaran Sathyagraha
10 Lucknow Pact
11 Bhagath Singh
12 Chipps Mission

C
Annexation Princely States
Muslim Education
French Governor General
Adyar
weightage 2
weightage 7X1=7

V Short short Essays on Any five of the following:

weightage 5X2=10
13 Discuss the impact of Modern Education.
14 Examine the Land Revenue policies of the British.
15 Sketch the economic impact of the British rule.
16 Bring out the significance of socio religious reform movements in India.
17 Analyze the causes for the rise of Extremist Nationalism.
18 Examine the Quit India Movement.
19 Discuss the Two Nation Theory
20 Discuss the salient features of Indias foreign policy .
VII Essay on any one of the following.
Weightage 1X4=4
21 How far do you consider the Revolt of 1857 as the First War of Indian Independence?
22 Explain the Civil Disobedience Movement.

SDE 3B07 HIS : ARCHIVAL STUDIES AND INFORMATICS IN SOCIAL

SCIENCES
Credit 7
MODULE I
Meaning of the term Archives-The term and its three different things, The Records, Building which
houses the Records and the administrative set up-Archives and Libraries-Use of Archives-Historical
value-Administrative value and Intellectual value.
MODULE II
Organization, Preservation and Management of Records Public and Private Archives-Methods of
Preservation.
MODULE III
National Archives Of India-Origin, Growth And Activities-Regional Archives South India Kerala.
MODULE IV Overview of Information Technology

Features of modern personal computer computer networks and internet, wireless technology,
introduction to mobile phone technology, introduction to ATM, overview of operating systems and major
application software.
MODULE-V Knowledge skills for Higher Education
Data ,information and knowledge , knowledge Management- internet access methods internet as
knowledge repository , academic search techniques, case study of academic websites , open access
publishing models, use of IT in teaching and learning, case study of educational software.
MODULE-VI Social Informatics
IT and society issues and concerns IT industry: new opportunities, new threats, and cyber ethics
crime, security, law, and addictions guidelines for proper usage of computers-health issues-IT and
regional languages.
MODULE-VII-IT Applications
IT for national integration publishing communication, resource management, education ,film and
media-introduction to windows vista, MS word creating document data analysis with excel
introduction to SPSS

Essential reading
M Sundara Raj

A Manual of Archival Systems and the World of Archives

Sailenghose

Archives of India

Schollen berg

Modern Archives Principles and Techniques

Jenkinso Hillary

A Manual of Archives Keeping

Sarvaswaran

Archives Keeping

Alan Evans, Kendal Martin Et. Technology In Action, Pearson Prentice Hall(Third Ed .)
V .Rajaraman,

Introduction to Information Technology, Prentice Hall

Alexis Leon and Mathews Leon, computers today, Leon visas.

Peter Norton,

Introduction to Computers (Indian Adapted Edition)

Web recourses
www.fgcu.edu/support/office 2000
www.microsoft.com/office MS Office website

www.computer.org/history/timeline
www.computerhistory.org
www.keralaitmission.org
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours total weightage25
1 objective type (a bunch of4 questions)weightage1
2 match the following (a bunch of4 questions)weightage1
3 Short question Answer any 7out 9 questions weightage7x1=7
4 Short essay Answer any 6 out of four questions weight age 2x6=12
5 Essay type Answer any one out of two questions weight age 4x1=4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER:

SDE 3B07 HIS :ARCHIVAL SCIENCE & INFORMATICS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Time: 3 Hours

Total Weightage: 25

(1) Answer may be written either in English or in Malayalam.

I. 1. Objective questions
1. The records of Government agencies are called
(a) Private Archives (b) Family Archives(c) Public Archives (d) Personal Archives
2. The revenue records of the Cholas are known as
(a) Varipottagam (b) Ashtapatalikas(c) lekhaha (d) likhitas
3. Artificial Intelligence is concerned with making computers behave like:
(a) Humans (b) Robots(c) Home Appliances (d) None of these
4. Which of the following devices can be considered as input devices?
(a) Keyboard& Mouse (b) Microphone & CD-ROM drive (c) Hard Drive& speakers
(d) Scanner& Printer

(Weightage 1x1=1)

II.2) Match A with B and C

A

a) Reprography

BRNET

UNRRA

b) International Refugee

Microfilms

INFLIBNET

Biological information

New York

JST

d) Library Network

Digital content

Organisation

Records

(Weightage 1x1=1)

III. Write short notes in about 100 words on Any Seven of the following:
3. Archival record
4. Elimination of records
5. Imperial Record Office
6. Avana Amudham
7. Foxing
8. Spam
9. Tourist Guide
10. Phishing
11. Biocomputing.

(Weightage 1x7=7)

Iv. Write short essays in about 200 words on any Six of the following)
12. Indian Historical Records Commission
13. Tamil Nadu Archives

14. Private Archives

15. Library & Museum
16. Deacidification
17. What are knowledge based systems?
18. Describe any three e-governance applications.
19. What do you understand by cyber security?
20. What are the different modes of Internet connections?

(Weightage 2x6 =12)

V. write an essay on any one of the following in 800 words

21) Discuss the origin and growth of National Archives of India.
22) Explain the various health- related issues associated with computer usage and
explain the remedies and guidelines to counter such issues. (Weightage 4x1 = 4)
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SDE 3B08 HIS : KERALA HISTORY AND CULTURE

Credit 7
Module I-Sources and Historiography
Primary And Secondary Sources Traditional Sources Archaeological Sources-Material RemainsInscriptions-Coin-Literary Sources -Indigenous And Foreign Accounts Myths And Legends- Mooshaka
Vamsa Kavya- Tuhafat uI Mujahiddin-Modern Writings
Module II- Geography and Early Human Settlements
Geographical features of Kerala as a mould of history stone age-Neolithic settlements megalithic
culture tinai concept Resource Mobilisation centers and forms of exchange.
Module III- Emergence of New Power Structure
Migrations Buddhist And Jaina Influence Brahmin Migrations And Aryanisation-Brahmin SettlementEmergence of new power Structure-Perumals Of Mahodayapuram Non Brahmin Settlements-Jews,
Christians And Arabs- Trade-Guilds-Bhakti Movement-Role Of Temples-Evolution Of Malayalam
Language .
Module IV. Decentralized Polity
Decline Of The Perumal Rule Growth Feudalism-Nadus-Swaroopams-Militia-Ankam-PoithuMamankam-Social Stratification-Occupational Groups-Devaswam-Brahmaswams-Temple SankethamsKnowledge System Marumakkathayam Janmi System.
Module V- Foreign contacts
Chinese-Arabs-Jews-advent of Europeans-Portuguese Dutch, English and French traders-conflict between
the Portuguese and Kozhikode Kunhali Marakkars-impact of European contacts.
Module VI- Colonial Transformation

Pre-Colonial Kerala Missionary Intervention Western Education Administrative Changes Resistance

Against Colonial Penetration Attingal Revolt ,Pazhassi Revolts ,Velu Thampi,Kurichiya Revolts
Mappila Revolts.
Module VII- Society in Transition
Social Movements Sree Narayana Guru Sahodaran Ayyappan-Mitavadi C.Krishnan And Tiya Caste
Movement In Malabar Ayyankali And Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham Other Dalit Movement -Anti
caste movement-Shivayogi and Vaghatananda-Siddha Samajam,Swami Ananda Thirtha Reform and
caste consolidation-SNDP-Nair Service Society ,Nambudiri Yogakshema Sabha other caste
organizations -Vakkom Moulavi and Others Muslim Educational Society.
Module VIII-Emergence of National Movement
From social reforms to political awakening-role of print media growth of political activity memorials
nationalist activities in Malabar-Manjery conference and Mappila rebellion nationalism as catalyst of
social change-temple entry movements-temple entry proclamation(1936) Madras temple entry Act. Civil
Disobedience movement salt sathyagraha-Quit India agitation Nationalist agitations in Cochin and
Travancore-growth of class politics CSP-Communist party peasant and working class movement role
of woman in national movement .
Module IX Formation of Kerala state
Towards A New Society Aikya Kerala Movement Communist Ministry Of 1957-land reforms
education reforms new changes-impact of migration on Keralas economy and society land question
after land reforms Keralas development experience woman in modern Kerala society.
Map study
Important megalithic sites of Kerala
Major ports of Early Kerala
Nadus of Kerala in the 16th century
Important European settlements in Kerala
Major centers of freedom struggle in Kerala

Essential Readings
1. Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai
: Studies in Kerala History
2.
:Therenjedutha Krithikal
3. MGS Narayanan
: perumals of Kerala
: Cultural symbiosis in Kerala
: Re-interpretations of south Indian history
4 .Raghava Varrior,Rajan Gurukkal :Kerala charithram (mal)
5 . Raghava warrior
:Madhyakala Keralam (mal),
Village C ommunity
in pre-colonical Kerala
samoohathinte sampathi
6 . K.N Ganesh :Keralathinte innalakal (mal) Kerala samooha padangal(mal)\
7 . EMS Namboothiripadu : Keralam malayalaikalude mathrubhoomi
8 . Chembaka laxmi .R
: trade technology and urbanization in south India: 300 BC toad 300
9. K .Damodaran
:Kerala Charithram(mal)
10. Keasavan Veluthattu : Brahmin Settlements in Kerala
11. Guru raja rao B.K
: The megalithic Culture of South India
12. Kailasapathi
: Tamil heroic poetry
13. Kanaka sabha
:The thamils Eighteen Hundred years ago
14. Rajan Gurukkal
:Kerala tumble and Medival Agrarian system.
15. A Sreedhara Menon :Survery of Kerala History
: Kerala History and its makers
16. P.J Cherian (Ed)
: perspectives on Kerala History
17. P.K Gopalakrishnan :Keralathinte samskarika Charithram (mal)

18. K .N . Panikkar
: against Lord and State
19.M.S.A.Rao
: social movements and social transformation
20. P.K.K Menon
: Pathonpatham Noottantile Keralam
21.S.Ramachandran Nair :Social And Cultural History of Colonial Kerala
22.Goerge Mathew.
:Communal Road to secular Kerala
23. P.K.K. Menon
:Freedom Movements in Kerala Vol.II
24.S. Raimon (ed)
Freedom Movements in Kerala Vol.lll
25EMS Namboothiripad
:National Question in Kerala
26.K.N Panicker : Culture, Ideology, Hegemony : Intellectuals and
Social consciousness in colonial India
27. K.K.N. Kurup Modern Kerala
28
Quit India Movementum Keralavum (mal)
29.Joseph Tharamangalam : Dalit Movements in South India
30.Rolland S . Miller : Mappila Muslims Of Kerala
30.Abdul azeez
Institution and Movements among Kerala Muslims
31. K.J John (Ed,) Christian Heritage of Kerala:
32. Victor M.Fic. Kerala, The Yenan of Indian
Reference
William Logan
: Malabar Manual . (IIVols.)
Asgar Ali Engineer
:Kerala Muslims :A Historical Perspective.
K.T Muhammad Ali: Development of Education Among The mappilas of Malabar :1800-1965.
K.J John (ed,): Road to Diamper.
V.V.Kunhi Krishnan :Tenancy Legislation in Malabar(1880-1970).
M.J. Koshy: Last days of Monarchy in Kerala.
T.T. Sreekumar: Charithravum Athuneekathayum (Malayalam)
P.Govinda Pilla :Keralathile Samoohyanavodhana Prasthanam (Malayalam)
K.P Kesava Menon :Kazhinna Kalam (Malayalam)
A.K. Pilla : Congerssum Keralavum (Malayalam)
Fr. Vadakkan: Ente Kuthippum (Malayalam)
N.K Jose :Nivarthana Charithram (Malayalam)
Pavanan :Yukthi Darshanam (Malayalam)
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours
Total Weightage25

Objective type (a bunch of four questions) weight age 1

Match the following (a bunch of four questions) weight age 1

Map Question
weight age -2

Short Questions Answer any seven out of Nine questions weight age 1x7=7

Short essay Answer any Five Out of eight question weight age 2x5=10

Essay type answer any one out of two questions weight age 4x1=4

MODEL QUESTION
SDE 3B08 HIS :: Kerala History and Culture

Time: 3 Hours

Total Weightage: 25

Instruction
(1) Answer may be written either in English or in Malayalam.
I. 1. Objective questions

(Weightage 1x1=1)

A. Kudakallu is connected with

a) Paleolithic b) Neolithic c) Megalithic d) Mesolithic
B. The first European fort in India
a)Fort Manuel b) Fort Angelo c) Pallippuram fort d) Kalnad fort
C. Kizariyoor Bomb Case is associated with
a) Abstention Movement b) Non-Co-operation Movement c) Civil Disobedience
Movement d) Quit India Movement
D. Editor of Swadeshabhimani
a)Vakkom Abdul Khadar Moulavi b) K.Ramakrishna Pillai c) Sahodaran Ayyappan
d) C.Kesavan
II.2) Match A with B and C

(Weightage 1x1=1)

a) Vaikom Satyagraha

Sree Padmanabhan

Thrippadidhanam

b) Jathikkummi

King of Pulayas

E.V.Ramaswami Naikar

c) Ayyankali

Pandit K.P. Karuppan

Sree Moolam Prajasabha

d) Marthanda Varma

1924

Dalit Consciousness

III.3 On the outline Map of Kerala mark the following:

(a) Tellicherry (b) Anjengo (c) Cannanore(d) Mahe (e) Chaliyam (f) Madras

(Weightage-2)

IV. Write short notes in about 100 words on Any Seven of the following:
4. Megalithic Culture

(Weightage 1x7=7)

5. Jenmi system
6. Marumakkathayam
7. Attingal Revolt
8. Revathi pattathanam
9. Educational activities of Basel Mission
10. Malayali Memorial
11. Manjeri Conference
V. Write short essays in about 200 words on any Five of the following
12. Examine the importance of the literary sources for the study of Kerala history.
13. The Press and Political awakening in Kerala.
14. Explain Colonial Modernity.
15. Describe the struggle for responsible government in Cochin
16. Karshaka Sangham and anti-colonial mobilisation.
17. Aikya Kerala Movement.
18. 'Punnapra Vayalar agitation.

(Weightage 2x5 =10)

VI. Write an essay on any one of the following in 800 words

21. The salient features of the government, society and economy in Kerala during the
Sangham age.
22. The cultural renaissance and social awakening in Kerala in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries
(Weightage 4x1 =4)

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SDE 3B09 HIS :

PROJECT

Credit 6

Project must be related to a topic relevant to the present syllabus.

It is intended to familiarize the method of historical Writing and to promote research

orientation in history.

Selection of the topic shall be in consultation with the teacher concerned

The SDE shall arrange the supervising teacher.

Project shall be prepared by the students individually or in groups consisted of not more
than five students.

Proper style of bibliography and references should be followed by the students

The project report shall be around 30 pages word processed in 12 point font (double
spaced ) in 44 size paper.

The project report should be submitted before the end before the final year examination.

Valuation of the project shall be conducted by a panel teachers not less than two
members.

SDE 3C01 HIS : HISTORY OF MODERN WORLD

(For Non History Faculty)
Credit -8
MODULE I BEGINNING OF MODERN AGE
Renaissance-Enlightenment- Rise of Nation States-Commercial Revolution
MODULE II- ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE WORLD
English revolution American War of Independence French revolution Napoleonic Europe
MODULE III BIRTH OF NEW NATIONS
Unification of Italy- Unification of Germany
MODULE IV FIRST WORLD WAR
World on the eve of the First World War Diplomatic Background Balkan Question-Moroccan CrisisFirst World war Russian Revolution Peace Settlement of 1919.
MODULE V EUROPE BETWEEN WORLD WARS

League of Nations Rise of Fascism and Nazism Emergence of USSR Economic crisis
MODULE VI SECOND WORLD WAR
Causes of the Second World War Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan Cold War Korean Crisis
Cuban Crisis
MODULE- VII RISE OF ARAB NATIONALISM
West Asian Crisis Establishment of Israel Conflict Growth
Of PLO Fatah Hamas Camp- David Agreements Role of Yassar Arafath Palastenian State
MODULE VIII END OF COLD WAR
USA-USSR Summits Non Alignment Movement Collapse of USSR USA USSR Glasnost and
Perestroika Eastern Erope European Common Market- European Union Disarmament
Essential readings
1. CDM Ketelby
History of the Modern world
2. CJH Hayes
Modern Europe to 1870.
3..
Contemporary Europe to 1870
4.Norman Davies
Europe A History
5. J AP Jones
The Early Modern World
6. Palmer & Perkins
International Relations
7. Noam Chomsky
World Orders Old and New
8. E.J. Hobsbawn
Age of Revolution
9.Albert Soboul
French Revolution
10.H.A.L.Fisher
History of Europe
11.R.R. Palmer
History of Europe
12.E.H.Carr
A History of Sovient Russia Bolshavik revolution (3
Vol)
13Calvocoressi Peter
World Politics Since 1945
14. Graefner Peter
Cold War Diplomacy 1945-1960
15.Triska, Jan , F Finchy David D
Soviet Foreign policy
16.K.M Panikkar
Asia and Western Dominance
17.D.G.E. Hall
A History of South East Asia
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours total weight age 25
I. objective type (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
II. Match the following (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
III. Short Questions Answer any seven out of Nine Weight age 1 x 7 = 7
IV. Short essay Answer any six out of questions Weight age 2x 6 = 12
V. Essay type answer any one out of two questions Weight age 4 x 1 =4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

SDE 3C01 HIS : HISTORY OF MODERN WORLD
(For Non History faculty)
Time: 3 hours
I Objective type questions

total weightage: 25
weightage 1

1.English revolution of 1688 took place during the reign of

James I,(b) Charles I (c)James II(d) Charles II
2.Boston Tea Party is associated with
(a)French revolution (b) Chinese revolution
(c) Russian revolution (d) American War of Independence
3. The UNOs Head Quarters at
(a) Geneva
(b) New York (c) London (d) Paris
4. Glasnost is associated with
(a)USA (b) USSR(c) France (d) Germany
II 2. Match a with B C
weightage 1
A
B
C
1 Keransky
1939
Chinese Revolution
2 Mao Tse Tung
Menshavik
English Revolution
3 Oliver Cromwell
Long March
Hitler
4 Second World War
Common Wealth
Russian Revolution
III Short Notes on any seven of the following
weightage 7X1=7
4
Industrial Capitalism
5
Utopian Socialism
6
Stamp Act
7
Sun Yat Sen
8
League of Nations
9
Hiroshima
10 Mussolini
11 Atlantic Charter
12
UNESCO
IV Short Essay on Any Six of the following:
weightage 6X2=12
12. Analyze the impact of Industrial Revolution.
13 Critically evaluate the contribution of American War of Independence.
14 Examine the results of Russian Revolution.
15 Explain the elements of Fascism
16 Examine the causes of the Arab Israel conflict.
17 Bring out the results of the First World War.
18 Explain Globalization and its impact
19 Examine the relevance of Marxian Ideology in the contemporary World
V Essay on any one of the following.
weightage 1X4=4
20 Evaluate the causes and results of the French Revolution.
21 Examine the political developments in Europe during the post Second World War period.

SDE 3C02 HIS COLONIALISM

AND NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN INDIA

(For Non History Faculty)
Credit-8
MODULE I ADVENT OF THE EUROPEANS
Concept of colonialism in Indian context-stages of colonialism-traders to
Conquerors-Carnatic wars, Battle of Plassey- Battle of And Buxar
MODULE-II ADMINISTRATIVE AND ECONOMICS POLICIES
Impact of colonialism economic policies De-industrialization Commercialization of agriculture-Land
revenue policies Urbanization-Under development of India Economic drain
MODULES III COLONIAL HEGEMONY : METHODS AND POLICIES
Introductions of modern Education, Agencies-Subsidiary Alliamce Doctrine of Lapse
MODULE IV REGENERATION INDIAN SCOCIETY
Socio-religious reform movements-Brahmasamaj, Arayasamaj, Ramakrishna Mission, Theosophicial
Society, Aligarh movement
MODULE V RESISITANCE AGAINST COLONALISM
Revolt of 1857- Nature, Causes, and Impact Administrative Changes after 1857
MODULE VI EMERGENCE OF NATIONALISM
Concept of Nationalism-Writings on Nationalism Causes of Emergence of Nationalism-Formation of
Indian National Congress Moderate phase of National Movement- ideology, Programmes and methods
MODULE VII EXTRIMISTS PHASE
Method of Agitation Rise of Extremism- Partition of Bengal Swadeshi Movement Gadar Pry
Montague Chelmsford reforms
MODULE VIII EMERGENCE OF GANDHIJI
Champaran Sathyagraha Rawlett Act Khilafath and Non- Coperation Movement- Swarajist party Gandhian Method of Agitation-Constructive Programmes Emergence of New Forces - Workers and
peasants - Simon Commission - Nehru Report- Emergence of Socialist ideas- Trade Union
Movement- Revolution movements -Bhagat Singh , Surya Sen
MODULE IX -TOWARDS FREEDOM
Civil Disobedience Movement- Round Table Conferences, Poona pact- Rise of Leftism in
Congress - Growth of peasant Movements - Government of India Act of 1935- National
Movement and World War II- Cripps Mission - Quit India Movement - Subhash Chandra Bose
and INA -RIN Mutiny - Rise of Communal Politics and its effects - Jinnah and Two Nation
Theory - Mountbattan plan - Indian Independence - Integration of Indian States
MODULE X - LEGACY OF NATION MOVEMENT
Indian Republic -Indian constitution - Indias Foreign Policy -Non-Alignment Policy- Problems of
National Integration
Essential Readings
A.R Desai
Social background of Indian Nationalism
Bipan Chandra
Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India

Essays on Colonialism
Darsan Kumar and
Tapan Roychaudhari India 1707-1970
Sathish Chandra
Medieval India (Macmillan,1982)
Sekhar Badhopadhyaya : From Plassey to Partition
Thomas R Matcalf
The New Cambridge History of India
Tharachand
History of Freedom Movement in India
R.C Majumdar
British Paramountancy and the Indian Renaissance
Biswamoyi Pati (Ed) 1857 Rebellion

A.R Desai
Social Background of Indian Nationalism

Peasants Struggles in India

Bipan Chandra
Indias Straggles for independence
.
Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India
.
Modern India
..
Communalism in Modern India
India After Independence
Darshan Kumar and
Cambridge economics History of India 1707-1970
Tapan Roy Choudhari
K.N Panikkar
Culture, ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social
Consciousness in Colonial India
Sumit Sarkar
Modern India 188-1947
R.C Majumdar
History of Indias Struggle for Freedom Struggle
For Freedom
Bidyut Charkraborthy (ed) Communal identity in India
Ramachandra Guha
India After Gandhi
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours Total Weightage 25
Objective type (A bunch of four questions) Weightage1
Match the following (A bunch four questions) Weightage1
Short question Answer any seven out of nice Weight age1x7=7
Short essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weight age2x6=12
Essay type Answer any one out of two questions Weightage 4x1=4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

SDE 3C02 HIS : COLONIALISM AND NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN INDIA
(For Non-Histury Faculty)
Time: 3 hours

Total weightage: 25

I Objective type questions

weightage 1
1. Poverty and the un-British Rule in India in a book written by
(a)Dadha bahi Navoroji (b)Mahathma Gandhi
(c)R.P Dutt (d)Sumit Sankar
2.
The Battle of Plassey was fought in
(a) 1769 (b) 1764 (c) 1757 (d) 1763
3.
Mangal Pandey was associated with
(a) Sanyasi rebellion (b) The Revolt of 1857 (c) Salt Sathyagraha (d) Quit India Movement
4. Bhahma Samaj was founded by
(a) Justice Ranade
(b) Dayananda Saraswathi
(c) Sreerama Krishna Paramahamsa (d) Rajaaram Mohan Roy

II 2. Match a with B and C

A
B
Subsidary alliance
Aligarh Movement
Dupliex
Annie Beasant
Theosophical Society
Lord Wellesley
Syed Ahmed Khan
Karnatic War
III. Short Notes on any seven of the following
3. Battle of Buxar
4 .Dual Government
5
.Doctrine of Lapse
6 .Raja Ram Mohan Roy
7
.A.O. Hume
8
.Champaran Sathyagraha
9.
Lucknow Pact
10 .Bhagath Singh
11 .Chipps Mission

weightage 1
C
Annexation Princely States
Muslim Education
French Governor General 4
Adyar
weightage 7X1=7

IV Short Essays on Any SIX of the following: weightage 6X2=12

12 Discuss the impact of modern Education.
13. Examine the Land Revenue policies of the British.
14 Examine the economic impact of the British rule.
15 Discuss the impact of socio religious reform movements in India.
16. Analyze the causes for the rise of Extremist Nationalism.
17. Examine the Quit India Movement.
18
Discuss the Two Nation theory.
19
Discuss the salient features of India s foreign policy .
VII Essay on any one of the following.
Weightage 1X4=4
20. How far do you consider the Revolt of 1857 as the first War of Indian Independence?
21. Examine the Civil Disobedience Movement.

SDE 3C03 HIS : SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN

(For Non-History Faculty)
Credit-8
MODULE 1.EARLY HISTORY
Geographical Features---Roman Conquest Of Britain---Result-Anglo-Saxon Conquest---Result. AngloSaxon Life and Society-Language And Literature-The Viking Conquest And Its Results-Christianity In
England-Results Of Christian Conversion.
MODULE 11 MEDIEVAL EGLAND
The Norman Conquest-Feudalism Under The Normans---The Manorial System ---Results Of The
Norman Rule-England Under The Angevins Henry II And Anti Feudal Measures-Quarrel Between
Church And The State The Crusades And Its Results The Magna CartaSimon De MontfortEdward
I The evolution Of The Parliament-The Hundred Years War And The Results The Black Death-Peasant
Revolts And The Results.
MODULE 111. MEDIEVAL LIFE AND SOCIETY.

Wars Of Roses And Results Chivalry And Romance Marriage System-Medieval Church Monastic
Orders Wycliffe And Lolland-Towns And Guilds ---Medieval Universities-Medieval English LiteratureLiterature Before Chaucer-Chaucer And Others.
MODULE IV TRANSITION TO MODERN PERIOD.
Voyages And Discoveries Renaissance In England-Reformation In England And Scotland-Rise Of
Middle Classes-Elizabethan England-Queen Elisabeth And Reformation Social Reforms-The Spanish
Armada-Life And Society In Elizabethan England Reforms-Elizabethan Theatre Marlowe, Ben
Johnson William Shakespeare Development Of Prose Literature-Sidney And Bacon.
MODULE V STUART ENGLAND
The Struggle Between The Crown And The Parliament The Civil War and its Results-Commonwealth
Government Puritan England Puritanism and Literature The Age Of Milton ---Jacobean and Caroline
Poets and Dramatists Restoration Glorious Revolution and its Results Literature of the Age Dryden
and Pope.
MODULE VI EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND
Neo Classicism Romantic Revival Words Worth ,Coleridge,Shelly And Keats Novels Of Sir Walter
Scott And Jean Austin Impact Of French Revolution Burke And Carlyle.
MODULE VII VICTORIAN ENGLAND
Industrial And Agrarian Revolution Factory System Rise Of Working Class Catholic Emancipation
Oxford Movement Growth Of Empire-Gladstone And Disraeli Fiction-Charles Dickens-ThackerayHardy-New Criticism And Prose.
MODULE VIII TWENTIETH CENTURY ENGLAND
Society And Culture Enfranchisement Of Women Socialist Movement Fabian Philosophy And
Labour Party-British Commonwealth Results Of World War-Decline Of Colonialism Colonial
Literature In English Language Russel, Huxley, Churchil, Toyanbee, Yeates, Eliot And Others New
Trends In Arts And Literature.

Essential Reading \
Carter and Mears
A History Britain
History of England
GM Trevalliyan
social history of England
Green J R
The Making Of England

A Short History of England

HAL Fischer
Political History of England 1485-1945
A J Ireland
Episodes in the history of England
Harper and Raw
England before Elisabeth
LCB Seaman
A New History of England
Pelican History of England (8 volumes)
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours Total Weight age 25
Objective type (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
Match the following (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1

Short questions Answer any seven out of Nine questions Weight age 1x7=7
Shot essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weight age 2x6=12
Essay type Answer any one out two questions Weight age 1x4=4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Reg : no
BRITAIN

SDE 3C03HIS : SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF GREAT

Name
(For Non history
faculty)

Total weightage :25

I .Objective type questions

( weightage 1)

1) Glorious Revolution was in the year

A.1686

B.1786

C.1688

D.1788

2) King John sighned Magna Carta in the year

A.1625

B. 1215

C. 1612

D. 1216

3) Head quarters of the League of Nations is at

A. New York

B. Geneva

C. Rome

D.Venice

4) Father of English Poetry

A. Shelly

B. Chaucer

C. Erasmus

D.Marlow

II 5. Match a with B and C

A

( weightage 1)

B
Cromwell

C
Flying shuttle

French Philosopher

Thomas More

Social Contract

civil war

Rousseau

Common Wealth

Oxford Movement

John Key

Utopia

Industrial revolution

III. Write short notes (each in about 100 words) on any seven of the following
( weightage1x7=7)
6

Restoration

Manorial system

Results of First World War

Alexander Pope

10 Agrarian revolution

11 Reformation in England
12 Gladston
13 Magna Carta
V Short Essays in about 200 words on any six of the following:

(weight age =2X6=12)

12.

Influence of geography on the history of Britain

13.

Evaluate the significance of the English revolution of 1688

14.

Roman impact on British Society

15.

Critically analyse the results of the Industrial Revolution

16.

Effects of Crusades

17.

Discus the relation between Purritanism and literature during the Puritan era

18.

Examine the growth of Working Class Movement in England

19.

Elizabeth and religous settlement

V. Write an Essay on any one of the following in about 800 Words

20. Critically evaluate the characteristic feachers of Victorian England
OR
21.Renaissance and English literature

Weightage 1X4=4

(Open Course 1)
SDE 3D01 HIS : SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS IN KERALA
Credit 4
Module I Impact of the West
Introduction of English education- social and economic changes- colonial modernity- work of Christian
Missionaries LMS,CMS,Basal Mission Missionary publications Rajya Samacharam,
Paschimodayam, Nasrani Deepika- Channar revolt.
Module II Kerala Renaissance
Sreenarayana Guru,- Chattambi Swamikal,- Vagbhadananda,- Brahmananda Sivayogi Ananda
Theerthan V.D.Bhattathiripad Sahodaran Ayyappan- C.Krishnan growth of Caste organisations
SNDP/ NSS/Yogaksema Sabha, - Reform among Muslims- Vakkam Abdul Khader Maulavi - Christiya
Jataikya Sangam
Module III Reform movements among Dalits
Ayyankali Poikayil Kumara Guru Devan- Krishnadiyasan- Pampadi John Joseph- Pandit
K.P.Karuppan- Pulaya Maha sabha- K. Kannan.
Module IV Nationalist Movement in Malabar and the Upliftment of the Depressed Classes
K.Kelappan- Sreedananda Vidyalayam- Balika Sadanam- T.R.Krishna Swami Ayyer. Subari AshramLeft and social movements.
Module V Reform Movement and their impact.
Agitation against untouchability- Vaikam satyagraha- Kalpathi, Sucheendram satyagraha- Guruvayoor
satyagraha- Paliyam satyagraha- Temple entry proclamation- Temple entry Act.
Module IV Press and Literature.
History of Malayalam Press- Herman Gundart- Swaeshabhamani Ramakrishna pillai- Kesari Balakrishna
pillai- New trends in literature- O. Chandu Menon- Potheri Kunchambu- Vallathol, Ulloor, Kumaran
Asan- Progressive Literary Movement.
Essential Reading
M.K.Sanu
Sree Narayan guru
P.K.Velayudhan
SNDP Yogam Charithram
T.K.Ravindran
Asan and Social Revolution in Kerala.
-------------Vaikam Satyagraha and Gandhi
P.J.Cherian(ed)
Perspectives on Kerala History
A.Sreedhara Menon
Survey of Kerala History
---------------------Kerala History and its makers.
P.Govinda Pillai
Keralathila Samuhya navodhana Prasthanam
P.K.Gopala Krishnan
Keralathinta Samskarika Charithram
EMS Namboodiripad
Kerala Charithram Marxist Veekshanathil
P.K.Bala Krishnan
Jathi Vyavasthayum Kerala Charithravum.
MODEL QUESTION PAPER
SDE HIS Open Course
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours Total Weight age 25
Objective type (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
Match the following (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
Short questions Answer any seven out of Nine questions Weight age 1x7=7
Shot essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weight age 2x6=12
Essay type Answer any one out two questions Weight age 1x4=4

SDE 3D01 HIS : SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENTS IN KERALA

Time
I
1.
2.
3.
4.

: 3 Hours

Weightage 25

I. Objective Question
Rajaya Samacharam the first news paper was published by
(Herman Gundert, William Logan,H.V.Conolly,Macleod)
SNDP Yogam was organized in ___________
(1903, 1913, 1923, 1928)
Who was the founder of Sadhujana paripalana yogam?
( Mannath Padmanabhan, C.Krishnan, Ayyankali, Sri Narayana Guru)
Saraswathi vijayam was written by
( Pandit.K.Karuppan, T.R.Krishana Swami Iyer, K.Kelappan, Potheri Kunhambu)
(weightage =1 )

II 2. Match A with B and C

A
B
1. K.Kelappan
Shri.Chithira Thirunnal Balarama Varma
2. Channar Revolt
Chandu Menon
3. Temple Entry Proclamation Salt Sathyagraha
4. Indulekha
Kalkulam
(Weightage= 1)
III Short notes on any seven of the following.

C
Novel
Payyannur
1859
1936

3. London Mission Society

4. Yogakshema Sabha.
5. Pandit.K.P.Karuppan
6. Temple Entry Act.
7. Herman Gundert.
8. Sucheendram Satyagraha.
9. Ananda Theerthan.
10. V.T.Bhattatirippad.
11. Vakkam Abdul Khader Maulavi
(weightage 7x1=7)
IV. Short Essays on any six of the following
12. Channar Revolt.
13. Examine the role of Ayyankali in the upliftment of Harijans.
14. Point out the relevance of 'Aruvipuram Pradhishta'
15. write a note on Sahodaran Ayyappan.
16. Analyse the role of Christiya Jataikya Sangham in the Social reform movement in Kerala.
17. Discuss the role played by K.Kelappan in the Nationalist Movement in Malabar.
18. Guruvayur Sathyagraha.
19. Examine the role of Kumaranasan in the development of Malayalam literature
(weightage 6x2=12)
V Essay on any one of the following.
20. Write an essay on the impact of the West in the social awakening of Kerala.
21. The left played a formidable role in the upliftment of the dipressed classes in Malabar Discuss
(weightage 1x4=4)

( Open Course-2)

SDE 3D02 HIS :INDIA'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM

Credit- 4
MOULE-I RESISTANCE AGAINST COLONIALISM
Revolt of 1857-Nature, causes, and impact administrative changes after 1857
MODULE II EMERGENCE OF NATIONALISM
Concept of nationalism Writings on Nationalism causes of emergence of Nationalism Formation of
Indian National Congress Moderate phase of national movement-Ideology programmes and methods.
MODULE-III EXTREMIST PHASE
Method of agitation- Rise of Extrimism- Partition of Bengal- Swadeshi Movement- Minto Morley
Reforms- FIrst World War and National movement- Home Rule League Gadhar Party Montague
Chelmsford Reforms.
MOULE-IV EMERGENCE OF GANHI
Champaran Sathyagraha Rawlett Act- Khilafath and Non Coperation Movement Swarajist Party.
Gandhian method of agitation constructive programmes- Emergence of new forces workers and
peasants Simon Commission Nehru Report Emergence of socialist ideas Trade union movement
Revolutionary movements Bhagath Singh Surya Sen .
MOULE-V TOWARDS FREEDOM
Civil Disobediance Movement- Round Table Conferences, Poona Pact Rise of Leftism in CongressGrowth of Peasant movements-Government of India Act of 1935 National movement and world war IICripps Mission Quit India Movement- Subhash Chandra Bose and INA- RIN Mutiny Rise of
Communal politics and its effects Jinnah and Two Nation Theory Mountbatten Plan Indian
Independence Integration of Indian states .
Essential reading
A.R Desai
Social Background of Indian Nationalism
..
Peasant struggles in India
Bipan Chandra
Indias struggle for Independence

Nationalism and colonism in Modern India

Modern India
. . .
communication Modern India
.
India after Independence
Darshan kumar and
Cambridge economic in India
Tapan Roy Chodhari
D.N Dhanagare
Present movement in India
Sumit sarhar
Modern India 1885-1947
R.C Manjumdar
History of Indias Struggle for Freedom
Struggle for Freedom
bidyut Charkraborhy (ed)
Communal Identify in India
Ramachandra guha
India after Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Discovery of India
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours Total Weight age 25
Objective type (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
Match the following (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
Short questions Answer any seven out of Nine questions Weight age 1x7=7
Shot essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weight age 2x6=12
Essay type Answer any one out two questions Weight age 1x4=4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

B.A. Degree Examination under SDE
Open Course
Max Weight:25

SDE 3D02 HIS: INDIA'S STRUGGLE FROM FREEDOM

I This part consist of two bunches of question carrying equal weight age of one. Each bunch
consist of four objective type questions. Answer all question
(Weightage I)
1

The Revolt of 1857 started at

a) Delhi b)Lucknow c)Meerut d)Agra
2 The first president of Indian National Congress
a) S.N. Banerjb
b) W.C Bannerjee
c) A.O.Hume d) Dadabai Naoroji
3 The Lion of Punjab, was the little given to
a) Bipan Chandra pal, b) Lala Lajpat Rai, c) B.G. Tilak, d) G.k Gokhale
4 C.R. Das was associated with
a) Abhinav Bharat, b) Socialist Party, c) Swarajst party, d)Communist party
ii
Match the following
(Weightage 1)
A
B
C
5
Lala-Bal-PAL- Poverty and UnBritish Rule in india
Divide and Rule
6
Lord Curson Sir Staford Cripps
Swadeshi Movement
7
Dadabhai NaorojiPartition of Bengal
1942
8.
Cripps MissionExtermist Nationalism
Drain Theory
III. Write short note on any seven out of twelve questions. Each question carries a weightage of one
9.
A.O. Hume
10
Gopala Krishna Gokhale
11. Surat split
12.
Lucknow pact
13. Rowlatt Act
14.
Bhagat Singh
15. Poona Pact
16.
Simon Commission
17. RIN Mutininy
18.
Mountbattan
19 Cripps Mission
20 Cabinet Mission
(Weightage 7x1=7)
IV. Write short Essay on any six ofthe following ., Each carries a weightage of two.
19. Discuss the role of Moderates in the Freedom stuggle.
20. Analyse the cause for the rise of extremism.
21. Examine the Home Rule Movement.
22. Discuss the Khilafat and Non-co-operation Movement.
23. Bring out the significance of Round Table conferences.
24. Examine the Quit India movement.
25. Evaluate the Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930s
26. Assess the role of Subhash Candra Bose and INA in Indias Stuggle for Freeom.
27. Briefly discuss the rise of communal politics and Two Nation Theory
28. Describe the role of Sardar Vallabhai Pattel for the integration of Indian states.
(Weightage 6x2=12
V. Write an Essay on any one of the following.
29. Analyse factors that led to the emergence of National Movement in India.
30. Evaluate the role of Gandhi in Indias struggle for Freedom (Weightage 1x4=4)

Open Course 3 SDE 3D03 HIS : The History of Gender in India

Module I Feminist History in India

Indian woman in the writings of colonial historians and nationalist historians - Marxist History and
sexual inequality
Module II Position of Women in India
Position of women in Ancient India- Women in Hinduism-Women in Budhism and Jainism. Position of
women in medieval India. Women issues and Reform movements.-Role of women in the Nationalist
movement-Local self govt and the role of women.-Women's education in India.
Module IV Womens Organisations
Emergence of women organizations in pre- independent India-post independent developments- women in
contemporary India
Module V Women in Kerala through the ages
Sandesha Kavyas- Devadosis- matrilineal system Heroines in Northern Ballads- Sambandham-Smartha
Vicharam- Breast cloth movement- Malayali woman in freedom movement. Role of women in Kerala
society and politics in the post independence period- Gender issues in contemporary scenario-problems
and prospects
Assential readings
Kamla Bhosin
Understanding Gender
Varalakshmi Jampathi
Indian women through the ages
M.G Chilkara
Women and social Transformation
Pilcher and Whedeham
Key concepts Gender studies
Nisa Desai
Women in modern India
Beremice A Carrol (ed)
Liberty Womens History
Theoritical and crotical Essays
John Kelley
Women History and Theory
Robin Jefrey
Politics women and well being
Janaki Nail
Women and law in Colorual India
A.S Attekar
Conceptualising Bhramanial Patriarchy in Early India
U. Chakravarti
Gender,Caste, class and state.
QUESTION PATTERN
Duration 3 hours Total Weight age 25
Objective type (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
Match the following (A bunch of four questions) Weight age 1
Short questions Answer any seven out of Nine questions Weight age 1x7=7
Shot essay Answer any six out of eight questions Weight age 2x6=12
Essay type Answer any one out two questions Weight age 1x4=4

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

B.A .Degree Examination under SDE
Open Course
Max Weight:25 Time 3 hours
SDE 3D03 HIS : THE HISTORY OF GENDER IN INDIA
I This part consist of two bunches of question carrying equal weightage of one. Each bunch
consist of four objective type questions. Answer all questions.
1 Grihya sutra deals with
a)Domestic life
b) Yagas and Homas
c) Crime and punishment
d) Forigin affairs
2 The author of the book Position of Women in Hindu Civilization
a). Chipko Movement
b) Sarada Matt
c) Robin Jafrey
d) C.Chakravarti
3 Madam Blavatsky was associate with
a)Chipko Movement
b) Sarada Matt c) Home Rule League d)Theocophical Society
4.
The first woman president of India National Congress
a) Sarojini Naidu
b)Vijayalakshmi Pandit
c) Annie Basant
d) Sujata Kripalani
(Weightage 1)
II.
Match the following
A
B
C
5.
Anniine Basant
- Plachimada agitation
Palakkad
6.
Joan Kelley
Widow Remarriage
Theosophical Society
7.
Eswara Chandra Vidyasagar
Home Rule League
Womens studies
8.
Mayilamma
Women, history and Theory Bengal (Weightage 1)
III.
Answer any seven of the following. Question carries a weightage of one
9.
Manusmriti
10.
Polygamy
11.
Feminism
12.
Gender segregation
13.
Female infanticide
14.
National Womens Commission
15 .
Smarthavicharam
16.
Breast cloth Agitation
17.
Kudumasree
18
Medha Padkar
(Weightage7x1=7)
IV.
Answer any six questions. Each carries a weightage of two
19.
Write a note on women and Budhism
20.
Examine the status of women in the Vedic Age
21.
Evaluate the Role of Rajaram Mohan Roy for the upliftment of India woman
22. Examine the Marxian concept of Woman equality.
23. Briefly discuss the emergence of womens movements in pre-independent India..
24.
Discuss the role of women in the new social movements on enviroiment.
25.
Discuss the role of women in the new social movements on environment.
26.
Write a note on the womens reservation bill.
(Weghtage 6x2=12)
V.
Answer any one.
27
History is his story Comment
28.
Examine the role of women in the Nationalist Movement in India.
Evaluate the role of women in the functioning of local self government institutions in Kerala.
29.
Weightage 1x4=4

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