MBD Guide for BA Semester 1 History
 
Syllabus for History 2020- 2021
 
UNIT I 
 
1.Major Sources of History: LiterarySources- Indigenous Literature and Foreign Accounts; Archaeological findings; inscriptions; coins and monuments. 
2.Harappan Civilization: Extent, town planning; social economic and religious life. 
3.Life in Vedic Age: Political and Economic; social and religious.
 
UNIT II 
 
4.Republics and Kingdom,600-321 B.C.: Mahajanpadas; the rise of Magadha. 
5.Jainism and Buddhism: Life and teachings of VardhmanMahavir; Life and teachings of Gautam  Buddha. 
6.The Mauryan Empire: Central and ProvincialAdministration; revenue, judicial and local administration; Ashoka’sDhamma. 
 
UNIT III 
 
7.Post Mauryan Period: Decline of Mauryas and Kanishka and his achievements. 
8.The Gupta Empire: The rise of Guptas and social, economic, cultural and scientific  Developments under Guptas. 
9. The Rise of Southern Kingdoms: Administration under Pallavas; Rashtrakutas;Chalukyas.
 
UNIT IV 
 
10.Regional Kingdoms in the North:Administration under Harsh Vardhana; origin ofRajputs. 11.South Indian States: Administration under Cholas; Taxation and trade under Pandayas,