JNVU MA Previous History Syllabus

Can you provide me the syllabus of M.A. (Prev) History program offered by JNVU or Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur?

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The syllabus of M.A. (Prev) History program offered by JNVU or Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur is as follows:

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.