Paper I: Museums and Archives in India

Objective:
It is an introductory course and aims to familiarize students with various aspects of museums
and archives. The purpose of this course is to introduce, examine and understand the major
concepts, principles, functions and operations in the field of museums and archives. It will
enable students to understand its overall development as well as theoretical issues and
principles of their management, administration and practical application. The course will help
students to gain practical experience and will be project based.

Unit-1 1.01: Definitions of Museum and Archive- Meaning of
 Key Concepts.
1.02: Scope of Museology and Archival Studies.

Unit-2 2.01: Origin of Museums and Aarchives in Global and I
 ndian Context; Introduction to some major
 Museums and Archives of India
2.02: Development of Museums and Archives in Northeast
 India.

Unit-3 3.01: Different types of Museums and Archives and their
 Management and Administration and Staffing
3.02: Legislations and Conventions related to Museums
 and Archives

Unit-4 4.01: Storage- Presentation and Exhibition of Museum
 Objects and Archival Materials
4.02: Methods of Collection and Conservation: Scientific
 Examination and Documentation

Suggested References:

Agarwal O.P., Essentials of Conservation & Museology
Biswas T.K., Museum & Education, New Age International
Brooks, Philip C., Research in Archives
Burcaw G, Ellis, Introduction to Museum Work
Caulton, T., Hands –On Exhibitions : Managing Interactive Museums and Science Centres
Choudhary, R.D., Museums of India and Their Maladies
Edson, G. & Dean., The Handbook for Museum
Ghose, Sailen, Archives in India
Guha Thakurta, Tapati,Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institution of Art in Colonial and
Post-Colonial India
Hein, H.S., The Museum in Transition.
Kathpalia, Y.P., Conservation and Restoration of Archive Materials
Jeyaraj, V. Museology: Heritage Management, Government Museum
Knell, S., MacLoed, S.& Watson, S., Museum Revolutions: How museums change and are
changed
Nair,S.M. , Bio- Deterioration of Museum Materials
Sengupta, S., Experiencing History through Archives
Tripathi, Alok, Museum Studies

Software Engineering

Objective:
The course is designed with an objective to
 Demonstrate software process models such as the waterfall and evolutionary models.
 Discuss the role of project management including planning, scheduling, risk
management, etc.
 Define software engineering and explain its importance.

Learning Outcome:
On completion of the course, students will be able to
 Design software from the root level starting from requirement gathering to maintenance
with the appropriate SDLC.
 Define software engineering and explain its importance.
 Identify the processes to be followed in the software development life cycle.
 Explain testing approaches such as unit testing and integration testing.

Unit I: 8L
Software Process: Introduction ,S/W Engineering Paradigm , life cycle models (water fall,
incremental, spiral, evolutionary, prototyping, object oriented) , System engineering, computer based
system, verification, validation, life cycle process, development process, system engineering
hierarchy.

Unit II: 10L
Software requirements: Functional and non-functional , user, system, requirement engineering
process, feasibility studies, requirements, elicitation, validation and management, software
prototyping, prototyping in the software process, rapid prototyping techniques, user interface
prototyping, S/W document. Analysis and modeling, data, functional and behavioral models,
structured analysis and data dictionary.

Unit III: 12L
Design Concepts and Principles: Design process and concepts, modular design, design heuristic,
design model and document, Architectural design, software architecture, data design, architectural
design, transform and transaction mapping, user interface design, user interface design principles.
Real time systems, Real time software design, system design, real time executives, data acquisition
system, monitoring and control system.

Unit IV: 8L
Software Configuration Management: The SCM process, Version control, Change control,
Configuration audit, SCM standards.

Unit V: 8L
Software Project Management: Measures and measurements, S/W complexity and science
measure, size measure, data and logic structure measure, information flow measure. Estimations for
Software Projects, Empirical Estimation Models, Project Scheduling.

Unit VI: 8L
Testing: Taxonomy of software testing, levels, test activities, types of s/w test, black box testing,
testing boundary conditions, structural testing, test coverage criteria based on data flow,
mechanisms, regression testing, testing in the large. S/W testing strategies, strategic approach and
issues, unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, system testing and debugging.

Unit VII: 6L
Trends in Software Engineering: Reverse Engineering and Re-engineering – wrappers – Case
Study of CASE tools.

Books Recommended:

1. Roger S.Pressman, Software engineering- A practitioner’s Approach, McGraw-Hill
2. Ian Sommerville, Software engineering, Pearson education Asia, 6th edition, 2000.
3. Pankaj Jalote- An Integrated Approach to Software Engineering, Springer Verlag, 1997.
4. James F Peters and Witold Pedryez, “Software Engineering – An Engineering Approach”,
John Wiley and Sons, New Delhi, 2000.
5. Ali Behforooz and Frederick J Hudson, “Software Engineering Fundamentals”, Oxfor
University Press, New Delhi, 1996.
6. Pfleeger, ”Software Engineering”, Pearson Education India, New Delhi, 1999.
7. Carlo Ghezzi, Mehdi Jazayari and Dino Mandrioli, “Fundamentals of Software
Engineering”, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 1991.

Electromagnetics

Unit-1 (15 Lectures, Marks 20)

Vector Analysis: Scalars and Vectors, Vector Algebra, Rectangular (Cartesian) Coordinate System, Vector
Components and Unit Vector, Vector Field, Products, Cylindrical Coordinates, Spherical Coordinates,
Differential Length, Area and Volume, Line Surface and Volume integrals, Del Operator, Gradient of a
Scalar, Divergence and Curl of a Vector, the Laplacian.
Electrostatic Fields: Coulomb’s Law and Electric Field, Field due to Discrete and Continuous Charge
Distributions, Electric Flux Density, Gauss’s Law and Applications, Divergence Theorem and Maxwell’s
First Equation. Electric Potential, Potential due to a Charge and Charge distribution, Electric dipole. Electric
Fields in Conductors, Current and Current Density, Continuity of Current, Metallic Conductor Properties and
Boundary Conditions, Method of Images. Dielectric materials, Polarization, Dielectric Constant, Isotropic and
Anisotropic dielectrics, Boundary conditions, Capacitance and Capacitors. Electrostatic Energy and Forces.

Unit- 2 (15 Lectures, Marks 20)

Poisson’s Equation and Laplace’s Equation: Derivation of Poisson’s and Laplace’s equation, Uniqueness
Theorem, Examples of Solution of Laplace’s Equation: Cartesian, Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates.
Magnetostatics: Biot Savert’s law and Applications, Magnetic dipole, Ampere’s Circuital Law, Curl and
Stoke’s Theorem, Maxwell’s Equation, Magnetic Flux and Magnetic Flux Density, Scalar and Vector
Magnetic Potentials. Magnetization in Materials and Permeability, Anisotropic materials, Magnetic Boundary
Conditions, Inductors and Inductances, Magnetic Energy, Magnetic Circuits. Inductances and Inductors,
Magnetic Energy, Forces and Torques.

Unit-3 (15 Lectures, Marks 20)

Time-Varying Fields and Maxwell’s Equations: Faraday’s Law of Electromagnetic Induction, Stationary
Circuit in Time-Varying Magnetic Field, Transformer and Motional EMF, Displacement Current, Maxwell’s
Equations in differential and integral form and Constitutive Relations. Potential Functions, Lorentz gauge and
the Wave Equation for Potentials, Concept of Retarded Potentials. Electromagnetic Boundary Conditions.
Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields and use of Phasors

Unit-4 (15 Lectures, Marks 20)

Electromagnetic Wave Propagation: Time- Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields and use of Phasors, the
Electromagnetic Spectrum, Wave Equation in a source free isotropic homogeneous media, Uniform Plane
Waves in Lossless and Lossy unbounded homogeneous media, Wave Polarization, Phase and Group velocity,
Flow of Electromagnetic Power and Poynting Vector. Uniform Plane wave incident on a Plane conductor
boundary, concept of reflection and standing wave.
Guided Electromagnetic Wave Propagation: Waves along Uniform Guiding Structures, TEM, TE and TM
waves, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Parallel Plate and Rectangular Metallic Waveguides.

Suggested Books:

1. Murray. R. Spiegel, Vector Analysis, Schaum series, Tata McGraw Hill (2006)
2. M. N. O. Sadiku, Elements of Electromagnetics, Oxford University Press (2001)
3. W. H. Hayt and J. A. Buck, Engineering Electromagnetics, Tata McGraw Hill (2006)
4. D. C. Cheng, Field and Wave Electromagnetics, Pearson Education (2001)
5. J. A. Edminster, Electromagnetics, Schaum Series, Tata McGraw Hill (2006)
6. N. Narayan Rao, Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics, Pearson Education (2006)
7. Introduction to Electrodynamics, D.J. Griffiths, Pearson Education (2012)
8. Electromagnetic Wave and Radiating System, Jordan and Balmain, Prentice Hall (1979)

Electromagnetics Lab (using Scilab/ any other similar freeware)
60 Lectures, Marks 40

1. Understanding and Plotting Vectors.
2. Transformation of vectors into various coordinate systems.
3. 2D and 3D Graphical plotting with change of view and rotation.
4. Representation of the Gradient of a scalar field, Divergence and Curl of Vector Fields.
5. Plots of Electric field and Electric Potential due to charge distributions.
6. Plots of Magnetic Flux Density due to current carrying wire.
7. Programs and Contour Plots to illustrate Method of Images
8. Solutions of Poisson and Laplace Equations – contour plots of charge and potential distributions
9. Introduction to Computational Electromagnetics: Simple Boundary Value Problems by Finite
Difference/Finite Element Methods. 

HISTORY OF INDIA VI (c. 1750 - 1857)

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.

Electronics Circuits

Unit- 1
Theory Lectures 60

Diode Circuits: Ideal diode, piecewise linear equivalent circuit, dc load line analysis, Quiescent (Q) point.
Clipping and clamping circuits. Rectifiers: HWR, FWR (center tapped and bridge). Circuit diagrams, working
and waveforms, ripple factor & efficiency, comparison. Filters: types, circuit diagram and explanation of
shunt capacitor filter with waveforms.
Zener diode regulator circuit diagram and explanation for load and line regulation, disadvantages of Zener
diode regulator.

Unit- 2 (14 Lectures, Marks : 20)

Bipolar Junction Transistor: Review of CE, CB Characteristics and regions of operation. Hybrid
parameters. Transistor biasing, DC load line, operating point, thermal runaway, stability and stability factor,
Fixed bias without and with RE, collector to base bias, voltage divider bias and emitter bias (+VCC and –VEE
bias), circuit diagrams and their working.
Transistor as a switch, circuit and working, Darlington pair and its applications.
BJT amplifier (CE), dc and ac load line analysis, hybrid model of CE configuration, Quantitative study of the
frequency response of a CE amplifier, Effect on gain and bandwidth for Cascaded CE amplifiers (RC
coupled).

Unit- 3 (12 Lectures, Marks : 15)

Feedback Amplifiers: Concept of feedback, negative and positive feedback, advantages and disadvantages of
negative feedback, voltage (series and shunt), current (series and shunt) feedback amplifiers, gain, input and
output impedances . Barkhausen criteria for oscillations, Study of phase shift oscillator, Colpitts oscillator and
Hartley oscillator.

Unit- 4 (20 Lectures, Marks : 25)

MOSFET Circuits: Review of Depletion and Enhancement MOSFET, Biasing of MOSFETs, Small Signal
Parameters, Common Source amplifier circuit analysis, CMOS circuits.
Power Amplifiers: Difference between voltage and power amplifier, classification of power amplifiers, Class
A, Class B, Class C and their comparisons.
Operation of a Class A single ended power amplifier. Operation of Transformer coupled Class A power
amplifier, overall efficiency. Circuit operation of complementary symmetry Class B push pull power
amplifier, crossover distortion, heat sinks.
Single tuned amplifiers: Circuit diagram, Working and Frequency Response for each, Limitations of single
tuned amplifier, Applications of tuned amplifiers in communication circuits.

Suggested Books:

1. Electronic Devices and circuit theory, Robert Boylstead and Louis Nashelsky, 9th Edition, 2013, PHI
2. Electronic devices, David A Bell, Reston Publishing Company
3. D. L. Schilling and C. Belove, Electronic Circuits: Discrete and Integrated, Tata McGraw Hill (2002)
4. Donald A. Neamen, Electronic Circuit Analysis and Design, Tata McGraw Hill (2002)
5. J. Millman and C. C. Halkias, Integrated Electronics, Tata McGraw Hill (2001)
6. J. R. C. Jaegar and T. N. Blalock, Microelectronic Circuit Design, Tata McGraw Hill (2010)
7. J. J. Cathey, 2000 Solved Problems in Electronics, Schaum’s outline Series, Tata McGraw Hill (1991)
8. Allen Mottershed, Electronic Devices and Circuits, Goodyear Publishing Corporation

Electronics Circuits Lab (Hardware and Circuit Simulation Software)

1. Study of the half wave rectifier and Full wave rectifier.
2. Study of power supply using C filter and Zener diode.
3. Designing and testing of 5V/9 V DC regulated power supply and find its load-regulation
4. Study of clipping and clamping circuits .
5. Study of Fixed Bias, Voltage divider and Collector-to-Base bias Feedback configuration for
transistors.
6. Designing of a Single Stage CE amplifier.
7. Study of Class A, B and C Power Amplifier.
8. Study of the Colpitt’s Oscillator.
9. Study of the Hartley’s Oscillator.
10. Study of the Phase Shift Oscillator
11. Study of the frequency response of Common Source FET amplifier. 

SOCIAL FORMATIONS AND CULTURAL PATTERNS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Course Objective:
The students will be acquainted with the evolution of mankind, the beginning of food
production, the Bronze Age., advent of iron, the slave society in ancient Greece, the economy
and the Political culture of the ancient Greece .

Unit-1 Evolution of Humankind
Paleolithic and Mesolithic cultures. Food production: beginnings of agriculture and
animal husbandry.

Unit-2 Bronze Age Civilizations
with reference to any one of the following: i) Egypt (Old Kingdom); ii) Mesopotamia
(up to the Akkadian Empire); iii) China (Shang); IV) Eastern Mediterranean (Minoan)
economy, social stratification, state structure, religion.

Unit-3 Nomadic groups in Central and West Asia;
Debate on the advent of iron and its implications

Unit-4 Slave society in Ancient Greece
Agrarian economy, urbanization, trade.

Unit-5 Polis in ancient Greece:
Athens and Sparta; Greek Culture

Recommended Readings:

Burns and Ralph. World Civilizations. Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. I.
V. Gordon Childe, What Happened in History.
G. Clark, World Prehistory: A New Perspective.
B. Fagan, People of the Earth.
Amar Farooqui, Early Social Formations.
M. I. Finley, The Ancient Economy.
Jacquetta Hawkes, First Civilizations.
G. Roux, Ancient Iraq.
Bai Shaoyi, An Outline History of China.
H. W. F. Saggs, The Greatness that was Babylon.
B. Trigger, Ancient Egypt: A Social History.
UNESCO Series: History of Mankind, Vols. I - III./ or New ed. History of Humanity.
R. J. Wenke, Patterns in Prehistory.
G. E. M. Ste Croix, Class Struggles in the Ancient Greek World.
J. D. Bernal, Science in History, Vol. I.
V. Gordon Childe, Social Evolution.
Glyn Daniel, First Civilizations.
A. Hauser, A Social History of Art, Vol. I.

Fundamental of Computers

Objective:

The course is designed with an objective to
 Discuss about computers and their applications,
 Explain the concept of various number systems,
 Explain fundamental concepts of computer hardware and software.

Learning Outcome:

On completion of the course, students will be able to
 Identify computer hardware and peripheral devices,
 Differentiate various number systems.


Unit I: 10L

Introduction: Basics of computer, Characteristics of computers, Classification of computers,
Types of computers.
Unit II: 8L
I/O & Storage: Input, output and storage devices.

Unit III: 18L

Number System: Binary, Decimal, Hexadecimal, and Octal systems, Conversion from one
system to the other, representation of characters, integers and fractions, Binary arithmetic, BCD,
EBCDIC, ASCII, Unicode, XS-3, Grey Codes etc.

Unit IV: 14L

Computer languages & Software: Introduction to machine language, assembly language, high
level language, 4GL, Compiler, Interpreter, Assembler, System Software, Application Software.

Books Recommended:

1. Sinha P.K., “Computer Fundamentals”, 6th Edition, BPB Publication, 2012.
2. Rajaraman,V.,“Computer Fundamentals”, 6th Edition, PHI,2012.
3. Thareja R., “Fundamentals of Computers”, Oxford University Press, 2014.
4. Goel.A, “Computer Fundamentals”, Reprint, Pearson Education, 2011.