Course Objective:
(i) The objective of this course is to acquaint the students with agrarian economy,
the growth of urban centres in northern and central India and the Deccan as well
as craft production, trade routes and coinage
(ii) Varna, jati, gender, marriage and property relations Process of State Formation and
the Mauryan and post-Mauryan plities with special reference to the Kushnas,
Satavahanas and Gana-Sanghas.Land grants, land rights and peasantry, urban
decline and
(iii)Gupta empire and post Gupta polities and the religion philosophy and society circa
300 BCE-CE 750
Unit-1 Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
[a] Expansion of agrarian economy: production relations.
[b] Urban growth: north India, central India and the Deccan; craft Production: trade and
trade routes; coinage.
[c] Social stratification: class, Varna, jati, untouchability; gender; marriage and property
relations
Unit-2 Changing political formations (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
a] The Mauryan Empire
[b] Post-Mauryan Polities with special reference to the Kushanas and the Satavahanas;
Gana-Sanghas.
Unit-3 Towards early medieval India [circa CE fourth century to CE 750]:
[a] Agrarian expansion: land grants, changing production relations; graded Land rights
and peasantry.
[b] The problem of urban decline: patterns of trade, currency, and urban Settlements.
[c] Varna, proliferation of jatis: changing norms of marriage and property.
[d] The nature of polities: the Gupta empire and its contemporaries: post- Gupta polities -
Pallavas, Chalukyas,and Vardhanas
Unit-4 Religion, philosophy and society (circa 300 BCE- CE 750):
a) Consolidation of the brahmanical tradition: dharma,Varnashram, Purusharthas,
samskaras.
(b) Theistic cults (from circa second century BC): Mahayana; the Puranic tradition.
(c) The beginnings of Tantricism
Unit-5 Cultural developments (circa 300 BCE รป CE 750):
[a] A brief survey of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil literature. Scientific and technical
treatises
[b] Art and architecture & forms and patronage; Mauryan, post-Mauryan, Gupta, postGupta
Recommended Readings:
B.D. Chattopadhyaya, The Making of Early Medieval India, 1994.
D. P. Chattopadhyaya, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India
D. D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History,
S. K. Maity, Economic Life in Northern India in the Gupta Period,
B. P. Sahu (ed), Land System and Rural Society in Early India,
K. A. N. Sastri, A History of South India.
R. S. Sharma, Indian Feudalism, 1980.
R.S.Sharma,UrbanDecay in India,c.300-1000
Romila Thapar, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 1997.
Susan Huntington, The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain
N. N. Bhattacharya, Ancient Indian Rituals and Their Social Contents
J. C. Harle, The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent
P. L. Gupta, Coins.
Kesavan Veluthat, The Early Medieval in South India.
Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to 1300.
(i) The objective of this course is to acquaint the students with agrarian economy,
the growth of urban centres in northern and central India and the Deccan as well
as craft production, trade routes and coinage
(ii) Varna, jati, gender, marriage and property relations Process of State Formation and
the Mauryan and post-Mauryan plities with special reference to the Kushnas,
Satavahanas and Gana-Sanghas.Land grants, land rights and peasantry, urban
decline and
(iii)Gupta empire and post Gupta polities and the religion philosophy and society circa
300 BCE-CE 750
Unit-1 Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
[a] Expansion of agrarian economy: production relations.
[b] Urban growth: north India, central India and the Deccan; craft Production: trade and
trade routes; coinage.
[c] Social stratification: class, Varna, jati, untouchability; gender; marriage and property
relations
Unit-2 Changing political formations (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
a] The Mauryan Empire
[b] Post-Mauryan Polities with special reference to the Kushanas and the Satavahanas;
Gana-Sanghas.
Unit-3 Towards early medieval India [circa CE fourth century to CE 750]:
[a] Agrarian expansion: land grants, changing production relations; graded Land rights
and peasantry.
[b] The problem of urban decline: patterns of trade, currency, and urban Settlements.
[c] Varna, proliferation of jatis: changing norms of marriage and property.
[d] The nature of polities: the Gupta empire and its contemporaries: post- Gupta polities -
Pallavas, Chalukyas,and Vardhanas
Unit-4 Religion, philosophy and society (circa 300 BCE- CE 750):
a) Consolidation of the brahmanical tradition: dharma,Varnashram, Purusharthas,
samskaras.
(b) Theistic cults (from circa second century BC): Mahayana; the Puranic tradition.
(c) The beginnings of Tantricism
Unit-5 Cultural developments (circa 300 BCE รป CE 750):
[a] A brief survey of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil literature. Scientific and technical
treatises
[b] Art and architecture & forms and patronage; Mauryan, post-Mauryan, Gupta, postGupta
Recommended Readings:
B.D. Chattopadhyaya, The Making of Early Medieval India, 1994.
D. P. Chattopadhyaya, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India
D. D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History,
S. K. Maity, Economic Life in Northern India in the Gupta Period,
B. P. Sahu (ed), Land System and Rural Society in Early India,
K. A. N. Sastri, A History of South India.
R. S. Sharma, Indian Feudalism, 1980.
R.S.Sharma,UrbanDecay in India,c.300-1000
Romila Thapar, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 1997.
Susan Huntington, The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain
N. N. Bhattacharya, Ancient Indian Rituals and Their Social Contents
J. C. Harle, The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent
P. L. Gupta, Coins.
Kesavan Veluthat, The Early Medieval in South India.
Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to 1300.
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