Course Objective:
(i) The Paper tries to examine the transition of India into a Colonial domain of the
British and also show that
(ii) This transition was not unilinear as the Colonial state had to face resistance
from the natives
Unit-1 India in the Mid-18th Century;
Society, Economy, Polity, Debates Expansion and Consolidation of
Colonial Power:
[a] Mercantilism, Foreign Trade and Early Forms of Exactions from
Bengal.
[b] Dynamics of Expansion, with special reference to Bengal, Mysore,
Western India, Awadh, Punjab, and Sindh.
Unit-2 . Colonial State and Ideology:
[a] Arms of the Colonial State: Army, Police, Law.
[b] Ideologies of the Raj and Racial Attitudes.
[c] Education: Indigenous and Modern.
Unit-3 Rural Economy and Society:
[a] Land Revenue Systems and Forest Policy.
[b] Commercialization and Indebtedness.
[c] Rural society: Change and Continuity.
[d] Famines.
[e] Pastoral Economy and Shifting cultivation.
Unit-4 Trade and Industry
[a] Deindustrialization
[b] Trade and Fiscal policy
[c] Drain of Wealth
[d] Growth of Modern Industry
Unit-5 Popular Resistance:
[a] Santhal Uprising (1857); Indigo Rebellion (1860); Pabna Agrarian
Leagues (1873); Deccan Riots (1875).
[b] Uprising of 1857
Recommended Readings:
C. A. Bayly, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire,
Bipan Chandra, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India.
Suhash Chakravarty, The Raj Syndrome: A Study in Imperial Perceptions, 1989.
J.S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab, New Cambridge History of India
Ranajit Guha, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader.
Dharma Kumar and Tapan Raychaudhuri, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of India.
P.J. Marshall, Bengal: The British Bridgehead, New Cambridge History of India.
R.C. Majumdar, ed., History and Culture of Indian People.
R.C. Majumdar, British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance.
Rajat K. Ray, ed., Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800-1947,
Eric Stokes, English Utilitarians and India.
Ram Lakhan Shukla, ed., Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas.
David Arnold and Ramchandra Guha, eds, Nature, Culture and Imperialism.
Amiya Bagchi, Private Investment in India.
Bipan Chandra et. al, India’s Struggles for Independence.
A.R. Desai, Peasant Struggles in India.
Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983).
P.C. Joshi, Rebellion 1857: A Symposium.
Dadabhai Naroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India.
(i) The Paper tries to examine the transition of India into a Colonial domain of the
British and also show that
(ii) This transition was not unilinear as the Colonial state had to face resistance
from the natives
Unit-1 India in the Mid-18th Century;
Society, Economy, Polity, Debates Expansion and Consolidation of
Colonial Power:
[a] Mercantilism, Foreign Trade and Early Forms of Exactions from
Bengal.
[b] Dynamics of Expansion, with special reference to Bengal, Mysore,
Western India, Awadh, Punjab, and Sindh.
Unit-2 . Colonial State and Ideology:
[a] Arms of the Colonial State: Army, Police, Law.
[b] Ideologies of the Raj and Racial Attitudes.
[c] Education: Indigenous and Modern.
Unit-3 Rural Economy and Society:
[a] Land Revenue Systems and Forest Policy.
[b] Commercialization and Indebtedness.
[c] Rural society: Change and Continuity.
[d] Famines.
[e] Pastoral Economy and Shifting cultivation.
Unit-4 Trade and Industry
[a] Deindustrialization
[b] Trade and Fiscal policy
[c] Drain of Wealth
[d] Growth of Modern Industry
Unit-5 Popular Resistance:
[a] Santhal Uprising (1857); Indigo Rebellion (1860); Pabna Agrarian
Leagues (1873); Deccan Riots (1875).
[b] Uprising of 1857
Recommended Readings:
C. A. Bayly, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire,
Bipan Chandra, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India.
Suhash Chakravarty, The Raj Syndrome: A Study in Imperial Perceptions, 1989.
J.S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab, New Cambridge History of India
Ranajit Guha, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader.
Dharma Kumar and Tapan Raychaudhuri, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of India.
P.J. Marshall, Bengal: The British Bridgehead, New Cambridge History of India.
R.C. Majumdar, ed., History and Culture of Indian People.
R.C. Majumdar, British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance.
Rajat K. Ray, ed., Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800-1947,
Eric Stokes, English Utilitarians and India.
Ram Lakhan Shukla, ed., Adhunik Bharat ka Itihas.
David Arnold and Ramchandra Guha, eds, Nature, Culture and Imperialism.
Amiya Bagchi, Private Investment in India.
Bipan Chandra et. al, India’s Struggles for Independence.
A.R. Desai, Peasant Struggles in India.
Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983).
P.C. Joshi, Rebellion 1857: A Symposium.
Dadabhai Naroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India.
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