History of India-IV (c. 1526-1750)

Paper Code: 
24CHIS 411
Credits: 
06
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives: The course is intended to engage students into a critical discussion of political, institutional and cultural processes that led to the establishment and consolidation of the Mughal state in India. It also provides a basic understanding of major developments in other areas of the Indian subcontinent that were not ruled by the Mughals in the sixteenth century. The students would familiarise themselves with the nature and variety of sources as well as the diverse and uneven ways in which historians have treated and interpreted them.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course Outcomes (CO)

Course

Learning outcomes (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24CHIS 411

History of India-IV (c. 1526-1750)

CO37- Critically assess the Sources and historiography of the Mughal period.

CO38- Examine the foundation of Mughal rule in India

CO39- Analyze the course of Consolidation, Expansion and Integration of Mughal rule 

CO40-Evaluate the process of Political alliances and state formation

CO41- Develop a broad overview about Rural Society and Economy  during the Mughal rule

CO42-Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

 

Approach in teaching

 

Lecture, PowerPoint presentations ,Classroom discussions

 

Interactive sessions,

various online resources, PowerPoint presentations and case studies

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects.

 

Online Quiz
 

 

18.00
Unit I: 
Sources and historiography

[a] Persian literary traditions: Tawarikh; Insha and translations;

[b] Indigenous literature: Charit Granth, Jain Historical literature

[c] Persian histories, memoirs: Jahangirnama; Maasir-i Alamgiri

[d] Travelogues: Bernier, Manucci

 

18.00
Unit II: 
Establishment of Mughal rule

[a] India on the eve of Babur’s invasion

[c] Humayun’s struggle for empire

[d] Sher Shah and his administrative and revenue reforms

 

18.00
Unit III: 
Consolidation, Expansion and Integration of Mughal rule

[a] Campaigns and conquests: tactics and technology

[b] Evolution of administrative institutions: zabt, mansab, jagir, madad-i-ma‘ash

[c] Incorporation of Rajputs and other indigenous groups in Mughal nobility

[d] North-West frontier, Gujarat and Deccan

 

18.00
Unit IV: 
Political alliances and state formation

[a] Mughal Conquest and limits of expansion: Deccan

[b] Issues in the wars of succession

[c] Rajput political culture and state formation: Eastern Rajasthan

[d] Marathas: Shivaji and expansion

18.00
Unit V: 
Political and religious ideals

[a] Religious tolerance and sulh-i-kul; Sufi mystical and intellectual interventions

[b]Religious and intellectual ferment: Sikh, Vallabhi and Dara Shukoh

[c] Reassessing Aurangzeb: Jaziya, temple grant, music and relations with the Sikh

Gurus

 

Essential Readings: 

ESSENTIAL READINGS

  • Alam M. and S. Subrahmanyam. The Mughal State1526-1750s. New Delhi: OUP, 1998.
  • Ali, Athar. Mughal India, Studies in Polity, Ideas, Society & Culture. New Delhi, Oxford
  • University Press, 2006.32
  • Ali, Athar. The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb. Aligarh: Asia Publishing House,     1970.
  • Bhargava, M., ed. Exploring Medieval India, vol. I and II. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2010.
  • Bhargava, V.S. Marwar and the Mughal Emperors. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal,1966.
  • Busch, Allison.“Literary Responses to the Mughal Imperium: The Historical Poems ofKesavadas.” South Asia Research, 25, 1 (2005): 31-54.
  • Eaton, R., M.D Faruqui, D. Gilmartin and S. Kumar, eds. Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History: Essays in honour of J.F. Richard. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Eaton, Richard, ed. India’s Islamic Traditions. New Delhi: OUP, 2003.
  • Habib, I. The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707. 2nd
  • Hasan, N. Religion, State and Society: Collected works of Nurul Hasan. New Delhi:Oxford University Press, 2005.revised edn., New Delhi:Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Kapur, N.S. State Formation in Rajasthan: Mewar During the Seventh – Fifteenth Centuries. New Delh: Manohar, 2002. (This should be read in context of Marwar).
  • Karashima, N., ed. A Concise History of South India: Issues and Interpretations. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  • Khan, I.A. Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Koch, Ebba. Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology: Collected Essays. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • Michell, G. and M. Zebrowski. Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates. Part 1,vol. 7, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1999.
  • Nizami, K.A. On History and Historians of Medieval India. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1968.
  • Rao, V.N., D. Shulman and S. Subrahmanyam, eds. Symbols of substance: court and state in Nāyaka Period Tamilnadu. Indian edition, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Rao, V.N., D. Shulman and S. Subrahmanyam.Textures of Time: Writing History in South India 1600–1800. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001.
  • Raychaudhuri, T. and I. Habib, eds. Cambridge Economic History of India. volI,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  • Richards, J.F. The Mughal Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Rizvi, S.A.A. Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, reprintedn., 2014.
  • Rizvi, S.A.A. Religious and Intellectual History of the Muslims During the Reign of Akbar(1556-16050. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1975.
  • Rizvi, S.A.A. Fatehpur Sikri. New Delhi: ASI and Eicher Goodearth Ltd., 2002.
  • Saxena, R.K. “Mughals and Rajputs.” In Historical Perspectives of Warfare in India:History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, vol. 10, edited by S.N.Prasad and D.P. Chattopadhyaya. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2003.
  • Sharma, S. Literature, Culture and History in Mughal North India, 1550-1800. New Delhi: Primus, 2011.
  • Tillotson, G. Rajput Palaces: The Development of an Architectural Style, 1450-1750.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

 

References: 

SUGGESTED READINGS

  • Alam, M. The Languages of Political Islam in India, c.1200-1800. New Delhi:Permanent Black, 2004
  • Ahmad, A. Studies in Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment. Indian edition, Oxford University Press, 1999.
  • Alam, M. and S. Subrahmanyam.Writing the Mughal World. Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2011.
  • Alam, M. Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press,1986.
  • Alam, M., F.N. Delvoye andM. Gaborieau.The Making of Indo-Persian Culture: Indian and French Studies.Delhi: Manohar,
  • Aquil, R. ed. Sufism and Society in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010.2000.
  • Bhadani, B.L. andDwijendra Tripathi, eds. Facets of Marwar Historians. Jaipur:Publication Scheme, 1996.
  • Brand, M. and G.D. Lowry, eds. Fatehpur Sikri: A Sourcebook. With contributions by Ziauddin Desai and Attilio Petruccioli, MIT, 1985..
  • Chandra, S.Medieval India, Society, the Jagirdari Crisis and the Village.Delhi,Macmillan, 1982. •
  • Faruqui, M. D. The Princes of the Mughal Empire 1504-1719, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Friedmann, Y. Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi; an outline of his thought and a study of his Image in the Eyes of Posterity. Indian Edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2001.
  • Gommans, J. L. Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire, 1500-1700. London & New York: Routledge, 2002.
  • Habib, Irfan. Political role of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi and Shah Waliullah. PIHC,1960.
  • Mohiuddin, M. The Chancellery and Persian Epistolography under the Mughals (Babur to Shahjahan). Calcutta: Iran Society, 1971.
  • Mukhia, H. Historians and Historiography during the Reign of Akbar. Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1976.
  • Nizami, K.A. 'Naqshbandi influence on Mughal rulers and politics', Islamic Culture, 39,1 (1965): 41-52.
  • Sharma, G.D. Rajput Polity: A Study of Politics and Administration of the State of Marwar, 1638-1749. New Delhi: Manohar, 1997.
  • Rezavi, S.A N. Fatehpur Sikri Revisited. New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2013.
  • Robb, P., ed. Society and Ideology, Essays in South Asian History. Delhi: OxfordUniversity Press reprint 1994.34
  • Streusand, D.E. The Formation of the Mughal Empire. Delhi: Oxford University Press,1989.
  • Truschke, A. “The Mughal Book of War: A Persian Translation of the Sanskrit Mahabharata.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 31(2011).

 

E-Resources:

Establishment of Mughal rule:

Consolidation, Expansion and Integration of Mughal rule

Political alliances and state formation

Political and religious ideals

https://rajdhanicollege.ac.in/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/SU...

https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/84185/3/Unit-14.pdf

https://www.hansrajcollege.ac.in/hCPanel/uploads/elearning/elearning_document/Aurangzebs_Religious_Policy.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2024-25
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