History of South Asia Punjab PMS Paper II Syllabus
HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA Total Marks: 100
Part – I From Prehistoric to 18th Century AD
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Approaches to Ancient & Medieval India
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Indus Valley Civilization
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3 The Vedas & The Vedic Age
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Foreign Invasions and Dynasties: The Aryans, Conquests of Alexander, The Mauryans, 321-185 BC, The Age of the Guptas and After, Indo-European interaction
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Buddhism
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Ashoka, Kanishka and the Gandhara Art
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Emergence and Development of Caste System
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Economy (Trade, Commerce, Industry)
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LAW AND ADMINISTRATION: Code of law, values and tradition. Sharia, Akhlaq as law system of governance.
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Sources of the Mughal Rule in India
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BHAKTI MOVEMENT:Salient features of Bhakti movement, main proponents/saints, Bhakti literature and revolt against religious orthodoxy and central government/power.
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DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN THE SUBCONTINENT: Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, and Prakrit (local languages) literature with particular reference to humanist, political, regional and religious aspects. Relationship of power and language in medieval India.
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Development of the Fine Arts under the Mughals.
Part-II HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA (From 18-21 Centuries)
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Concepts of Colonialism & Imperialism
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Extracting land Revenue, Empire and Colonial Economy.
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1857 War of Independence or Mutiny, Social and Religious Reforms.
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British Social life in India, Changing British attitudes to Indian religion and society, Architecture of the Raj. Dynamics of Anglo-Indian Society.
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Sir Syed’s efforts for re-interpreting religion and modernizing the Muslim Society and resistance of Ulema. Use of modem technologies by various religious revivalist/orthodox movements (e.g., Deobandi Movement) and displacement of Sufi tradition.
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Colonial project of assigning identities and Emergence of Nationalism in India: Dividing India in religious, communal/sectarian, regional, gender and racial/tribal lines.
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Legacies of British Raj. Military and Bureaucracy, Political and Constitutional Development (1947-2006), Dynamics of Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism in Pakistan with reference to M Ayub Khan, M Yahya, Zia Ul Haq, and Pervez Musharraf’s regimes.
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Nature of democracy in Pakistan: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Liaquat Ali Khan, ZA Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Shaukat Aziz.
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Religion and Polity contraction in the Society/State building in Pakistan.
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Problems of federal politics, Ethnic and sub-national ideologies, use of language as culture and ideology.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
- Aziz Ahmad, An Intellectual History of Islam in India
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Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment
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SM Ikram, Muslim Rule in India
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Daniel W Browne, Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought
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Muzaffar Alam, The Languages of Political Islam in India (c. 1200-1800)
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Jamal Malik and Helmut Reifeld (ed), Religious Pluralism in South Asia and Europe
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Richard M Eaton, Essays on Islam and Indian History (Delhi: OUP, 2001)
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Richard M Eaton (ed), India’s Islamic Traditions (Delhi: OUP, 2003)
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Bernard Lewis, The Political Language of Islam (Chicago, University of Chicago Press,1988)
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SAA Rizvi, A History of Sufism in India, 02 Volts (Delhi, 1978)
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Francis Robinson, Islam and Muslim History in South Asia (Delhi, 2000)
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Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1975)
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Eugenia Vanina, Ideas and Society in India
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Romila Thapar, Early History of India
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Irfan Habib, Agrarian System of Mughal India
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Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, From Plassey to Partition
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Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, The Emergence of Pakistan
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Khalid bin Saeed, Pakistan: The Formative Phase
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Mushtaq Ahmed, Government and Politics in Pakistan
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Pandev Nayak, Pakistan Society and Politics
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Ayesha Jalal, Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
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Ayesha Jalal, The State of Martial Rule: the Origins of Pakistan’s Political Economy of Defence
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Ayesha Jalal, Self and Sovereignty
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Farhat Mahmud, Pak-US Relations
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Stephen Cohen, The Pakistan Army
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Ralph Braibanti, Research on the Bureaucracy of Pakistan: A Critique of Sources, Conditions, and Issues
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Omar Noman, The Political Economy of Pakistan, 1947-1985
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Lawrence Ziring, Pakistan in the 20th Century
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