B.A. Ancient Indian History, Archaeology/Culture/Asian Studies
1st Semester Syllabus
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MJC-1 : Political History of India (From Indus Valley Civilization to 319 A.D.)
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Unit 1: Sources and Indus Valley Civilization
◦Sources of the study of Ancient Indian History
◦Indus valley Civilization
◦Town planning
◦Social
◦Economic and religious conditions
◦Vedic Age (socio-Economic and religious conditions)
Unit 2: Political Condition in the sixth century B.C.
◦Mahājanapadas and Republics
◦Rise of Magadha Empire from the Haryamka to the end of Nanda dynasties
◦Foreign Invasions (Persian and Mecedonians)
◦Achaemenion Invasions of India (Cyrus, Darius I and Xeraxes)
◦Alexander's Invasion of India
Unit 3: Mauryan Dynasty
◦Origin
◦Chandragupta
◦Aśhoka
◦Ashoka-Dhamma and its propagation
◦Decline of Mauryan Dynasty
Unit 4: Post-Mauryan Dynasties
◦Shunga
◦Kanva
◦Satavahana
◦Cedi
◦Shaka-Satavahana Relations
Unit 5: Foreign Dynasties
◦Indo-Greeks
◦Saka (western Ksatrapas)
◦Pahlava
◦Kushāna
◦Date of Kanishka
Reference Books:
- Raychoudhury, H.C., Political History of Ancient India, Calcutta, 1931.
- Raychoudhury, H.C., Prācin Bhārata Kā Rājanitika Itihāsa (Hindi), Allahabad, 1980.
- Narain, A.K., The Indo-Greeks, New Delhi, 1996.
- Puri, B.N., India Under the Kusānas, Bombay, 1965.
- Shastri, K.A.N., The Age of Nandas and Mauryas, Varanasi, 1967.
- Tripathi, R.S., Ancient India, Delhi, 1960.
- Vijay Kumar Singh, Glimpses of Early History in India Radha Prakashan, Delhi 2016
- चौकरी, आर के, प्राचीन भारत का राजनीतिक पूर्व सार्वकृतिक इतिहासपर भारती भवन पटना, 1992
- मित्तल, ऐ.के., प्राचीन भारत का राजनीतिक पूर्व सार्वकृतिक इतिहास, नई दिल्ली, 1990
- उपाध्याय, भगवत शरण, प्राचीन भारत का इतिहास, इलाहाबाद, 1962