JNVU Jodhpur History

When will Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur established & who is JNVU Faculty of Arts History department head, give Head of the Department email address & phone number for getting information about History courses from JNVU, will you please provide here details???

Can you provide me the syllabus of MA History Program offered by Department of History of Faculty of Arts, Education and Social Sciences in JNVU (Jai Narain Vyas University), Jodhpur?

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The syllabus of MA History Program offered by Department of History of Faculty of Arts, Education and Social Sciences in JNVU (Jai Narain Vyas University), Jodhpur is as follows:

M.A. (PREV) HISTORY

PAPER I
HISTORIOGRAPHY, HISTORICAL CONCEPTS, METHODS AND TOOLS

Unit 1 Collection and selection of data, evidence and its transmission
Nature and Scope of History
Use and Misuse of History
Historical objectivity and subject matter of History.
Bias in History, Moral Judgement in History
Historys relationship with Art and Science

Unit 2 Traditions of Historical Writings: A brief survey of Arab, Graeco-Roman and Chinese traditions. Recent trends in ancient, medieval and modern historiography of India, Integral
Approach to Indian History.
Ancient Indian tradition; Medieval Historiography and Modern Historiography
The Influence of Christianity on Historical writing.

Unit 3 Concept of History :
Approaches to History: Theological; Orientalist; Imperialist; Nationalist; Marxist;
Classical Marxist, Recent Marxist; Subaltern and Post-Modernist
Concept of Progress in History
Philosophy of History and Historicism

Unit 4 Historical Materialism
Theory of World System, Sociological, Comparative, Cyclical, Ecological
Historical Method
Oxford and Cambridge Schools of History and other Modern Historians

Unit 5 Major Themes in Indian History
Ancient, Medieval and Modern Period
Historiography of Economic; labour and peasant; environment; science and technology
Varna, Jati, Janajati and gender
Religion; Culture and Civilization
Representative study of major debates on the social and economic history of India

Suggested Readings:
Philips, C.H.(ed.) : Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon.
Ghoshal, U.N. : The Beginning of Indian Historiography and other Essays.
Devahuti, D.(ed.) : Problems of Indian Historiography.
Warder, A.K. : An Introduction to Indian Historiography, 1972.
Gardner, Patrick(ed) : Theories of History, New York, 1959.
Carr, E.H. : What is History, Penguin, 1965.
Stern, Fritz (ed.) : The Varieties of History, London, 1970.
Collingwood R.G. : The Idea of History, New York, 1957.
Sen, S.P. (ed.) : Historians and Historiography in Modern India.
Pathak, V.S. : Ancient Historians of India, 1966, Asia Publishing House.
Walsh : An Introduction to Philosophy of History, London, 1967.
Renier, G.I. : History, its Purpose and Methods, Boston, 1950.
Gooch, G.P. : History and Historians in the Nineteenth Century, Longmans, Green & Co.
Shotwell, J.T. : History of History.
Thomson, J.W. : History of Historical Writing, 1954.
Hardy, Peter : Historians of Medieval India, London, 1960.
Hasan, Mohibul : Historians of Medieval India, Meerut, 1978.



Syllabus MA History JNVU (Jai Narain Vyas University), Jodhpur
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