BA & MA History IGNOU STUDY MATERIAL
MA History IGNOU and BA links are given below.
IGNOU BA History
EHI-05 India from Mid-18th to Mid-19th Century
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| Indian Polity in the Mid – 18th Century | |
| Bengal and Awadh | |
| The Maratha State System | |
| Mysore and Hyderabad | |
| The Punjab |
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| Mercantile To Industrial Capitalism in Europe | |
| European Colonial Powers |
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| Mercantile Policies and Indian Trade | |
| The New Land Revenue Settlements | |
| The Commercialisation of Agriculture | |
| De – Industralization in India | |
| Economic Impact of Colonial Rule |
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| The Languages of Modern India | |
| Literature in the Indian languages | |
| The Spread of English Education | |
| Western Knowledge and the Indian Mind |
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| Constitutional Developments
(1757 – 1858) |
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| Administration and Law | |
| Social Policy and Indian Response |
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| Reform Movement – I | |
| Reform Movement – II | |
| Social Discrimination and Disprivileged Groups |
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| Peasant and Tribal Uprisings | |
| Revolt of 1857 – Causes and Nature | |
| Revolt of 1857 – Course and Aftermath |
MA History IGNOU
MHI-01 Ancient and Medieval Societies
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| Hunting and Gathering | |
| Pastoral Nomadism | |
| Transition to Agriculture | |
| The Neolithic Revolution | |
| Implications for the World |
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| Cultural and Natural Settings of the Early Civilizations | |
| Technological Foundations and Socio-Economic Parameters | |
| Writing and Artistic Expression | |
| The Social Structure Reconstructed |
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| Formation of States and Empires – A General Introduction | |
| The Persian Empire | |
| Ancient Greece | |
| The Roman Empire |
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| Latin America | |
| Africa | |
| Nomadic Empires |
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| The Late Roman World | |
| China |
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| Debates on Feudalism | |
| Feudalism: Forms and Structures | |
| Phases of Feudalism | |
| Trade and the Decline of Feudalism |
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| Oceanic Trade | |
| Business Communities | |
| Commercial Practices | |
| Craft Production |
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| Science and Technologies and Expansion of Knowledge | |
| Transition to Modern World | |
| Religious Establishment |
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| Trends and Transition in Population | |
| Urbanism | |
| Technologies of Warfare and Communication | |
| Kinship Pattern and Family Structure |
IGNOU World History
MHI-02 Modern World
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| Renaiassance and the Idea of the Individual | |
| The Enlightenment | |
| Critiques of Enlightenment |
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| Theories of the State | |
| Capitalist Economy and its Critique | |
| The social Structure |
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| Bureaucratization | |
| Democratic Politics | |
| Modern State and welfare | |
| Nationalism |
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| Commercial Capitalism | |
| Capitalist Industrialization | |
| Socialist Industrialization | |
| Underdevelopment |
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| Conquest and Appropriation | |
| Migrations and settlements | |
| Imperialism | |
| Colonialism | |
| Decolonization |
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| Nation – State System | |
| International Rivalries of Twentieth century | |
| Unipolar world and Counter Currents |
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| Political Revolution: France | |
| Political Revolution: Russia | |
| Knowledge Revolution: Printing and Informatics | |
| Technological Revolution: Communications and Medical |
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| Modern Warfare | |
| Total War | |
| Violence by Non – state Actors |
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| Demography | |
| Ecology | |
| Consumerism |
MHI-03 Historiography
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| Generalisation | |
| Causation | |
| Objectivity and Interpretation | |
| History, Ideology and society |
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| Greco – Roman Traditions | |
| Traditional Chinese Historiography | |
| Historiographical Traditions in Early India |
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| Medieval Historiography: Western | |
| Medieval Historiography: Arabic and Persian | |
| Medieval Historiography: Indo – Persian | |
| Local History |
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| Positivist Tradition | |
| Classical Marxist Tradition | |
| The Annales School |
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| Recent Marxist Approaches | |
| Post Modernist Intervention | |
| Gender in History | |
| Race in History |
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| Colonial Historiography | |
| Nationalist Approach | |
| Communalist Trends | |
| Marxist Approach | |
| The Cambridge School |
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| History from Below | |
| Subaltern Studies | |
| Economic History | |
| Peasantry and Working Classes | |
| Caste, Tribe and Gender | |
| Religion and Culture | |
| Environment, Science and Technology |
MHI-04 Political Structure in India
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| Pre – State to State | |
| Territorial States to Empire | |
| Polities from 2nd Century B.C to 3rd Century A.D | |
| Polities from 3rd Century B.C to 6th Century A.D |
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| Early Medieval Polities in North India – 7th to 12th Centuries A.D | |
| Early Medieval Polities in Peninsular India – 6th to 8th Centuries A.D | |
| Early Medieval Polities in Peninsular India – 8th to 12th Centuries A.D |
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| State Under the Delhi Sultanate | |
| Vijayanagara, Bahmani and Other Kingdoms | |
| The Mughal State | |
| 18th Century Successor States |
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| The Eighteenth Century Polities | |
| Colonial Powers: Portuguese, Dutch and French | |
| The British Colonial State | |
| Princely States |
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| Administrative and Institutional Structures in Peninsular India | |
| Administrative and Institutional Systems in North India | |
| Law and Judicial Systems |
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| The Delhi Sultanate | |
| Vijayanagar, Bahmani and Other Kingdoms | |
| The Mughal State | |
| 18th Century Successor States |
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| Activities | |
| Resources | |
| Extent of Colonial Intervention: Education and Society | |
| End of the Colonial State – Establishment of Democratic Polity |
MHI-05 History of Indian Economy
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| Historiography of the Pre – Colonial Economy – Ancient | |
| Historiography of the Pre – Colonial Period – Medieval | |
| Historiography of the Colonial Economy | |
| Environmental Zones and Indian Economic History |
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| Origins of Agriculture, Animal Domestication, Craft production to Urbanisation (Case of the Harappan Civilization) | |
| Archaeology and Geography of Agricultural and Pastoral Communities of the Sub – Continent to the Middle of the First Millennium B.C | |
| Comparative Structures of Economies in Some Early States (Maurya, Kushana, Satavahana, Gupta) | |
| Pattern of Trade, Urbanisation and Linkages: North India (C.600 B.C – 300 A.D) | |
| Pattern of Trade, Urbanisation and Linkages: peninsular India (C.300 B.C – 300 A.D) |
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| Organisation of Agricultural and Craft production: North india – C.550 A.D – C.1300 A.D | |
| Organisation of Agricultural and Crafts Production, Regional Profiles of Agrarian Society, Nature of Stratification: South india | |
| Nature of Stratification and Regional Profiles of Agrarian Society in Early Medieval North India – C.550 A.D – C.1300 A.D | |
| Trade, Trading Networks and Urbanisation: North India – C.300 A.D – c. 1300 A.D | |
| Exchange Networks, Merchant Organisations and Urbanisation: South India |
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| Agricultural Production | |
| Agrarian Structure: Relations | |
| Non – Agricultural Production | |
| Taxation | |
| Urban Centres in Medieval India |
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| Inland and Maritime Trade | |
| Business Practices and Monetary History | |
| Technology and Economy | |
| Transport and Communication | |
| Eighteenth Century in Indian History |
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| Merchants and Markets: 1757 – 1857 | |
| Colonialism and Trade: 1857 – 1947 |
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| Agrarian Policy and Land Rights | |
| Pattern of Commercialisation | |
| Forest Economies in Colonial India | |
| Demographic Change and Agrarian society in Colonial India | |
| Tribal Society and Colonial Economy | |
| The Question of Agrarian Growth and Stagnation |
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| The De – Industrialization Debate | |
| Crafts Industries and Small Scale production | |
| Patterns of Industrialization | |
| Technology, Science and Empire | |
| From Planned Economy to Globalisation | |
| The Political Economy of Liberalisation |
MHI-06 Evolution of Social Structures in India through the Ages
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| Reconstructing Ancient Society with Special Reference to Sources | |
| Hunting – Gathering, Early Farming Society, Pastoralism | |
| Harappan Civilisation and Other Chalcolithic Cultures |
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| Societies Represented in Vedic Literature | |
| Iron Age Cultures | |
| Socio – Religious Ferment in north India: Buddhism and Jainism | |
| Emergence of Buddhist Central and Peninsula India |
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| Urban Classes: Traders and Artisans, Extension of Agricultural Settlements | |
| Chaityas, Viharas and their Interaction with Tribal Groups | |
| Early Tamil Society – Regions and their cultures and Cult of Hero Worship | |
| Marriage and Family Life, Notions of Untouchability, Changing Patterns in Varna and jati |
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| Transition to Early Medieval Societies | |
| The Problem of Urban Decline: Agrarian Expansion, Land Grants and Growth of Intermediaries | |
| Proliferation and Consolidation of Castes and Jatis | |
| Religion in Society |
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| Village Community | |
| Rural Society: North India | |
| Rural Society: Peninsular India |
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| Clans and Confederacies in Western India | |
| Urban Social Groups in North India | |
| Changing Social Structure in Peninsular India | |
| Socio Religious Movements | |
| The Eighteenth Century Society in Transition |
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| Perceptions of the Indian Social Structure y the Nationalists and Social Reformers | |
| Studying Castes in the New Historical Context | |
| Pattern of Rural – Urban Mobility: Overseas Migration | |
| Social Structure in the Urban and Rural Areas |
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| Colonial Forest Policies and Criminal Tribes | |
| Gender/Women Under Colonialism | |
| Social Discrimination | |
| Popular Protests and Social Structures | |
| Studying Tribes Under Colonialism |
MHI-07 Religious Thought and Belief in India
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| Philosophy of Religion | |
| Religion and Ideology | |
| Religion and Culture |
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| Harappan Religion | |
| Vedic Religion (Ritual) | |
| Vedic Religion (Thought) | |
| Jainism | |
| Buddhism |
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| The Epics: The MahaBharata and the Ramayana | |
| The Making of Puranic Religion | |
| Bhakti and Tantrism | |
| Forms and Features of Puranic Religion |
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| Islamic Religious Thought in India | |
| Sufism | |
| Sikhism | |
| Zoroastrianism |
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| Puranic Tradition | |
| Shaivism, Shaktism and Natha – Panthis | |
| Vaishnavite Movements | |
| Christianity in India |
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| The Brahmo Samaj and the Prarthana Samaj Movements | |
| The Arya Samaj Movement | |
| The RamaKrishna – Vivekananda Movement | |
| The Theosophical Movement |
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| Reform Movements in Islam | |
| Reform Movements in jainism | |
| Buddhism in Modern India | |
| Reform Movements in Sikhism |
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| Understanding of Tribal Religions | |
| Southern and Central India | |
| Eastern and Western India |
MHI-08 History of Ecology and Environment India
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| Nature – Human Interface | |
| Indian Landscape | |
| Sources of study |
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| Resources Use and Human Societies | |
| Hunting – Gathering | |
| Nomadic Pastoralism |
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| Origins of Agriculture | |
| River Valley Civilisation | |
| Agricultural Diffusion and Regional Specificities-I | |
| Agricultural Diffusion and Regional Specificities-II |
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| Energy Resources | |
| Water Resources | |
| Forest Resources | |
| Metal & Mineral Resources |
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| Man – Nature Relationship | |
| Conservation Through Ages |
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| Understanding of Environment | |
| Environmental Agenda | |
| Resource Management: Forests | |
| Resource Management: Water |
MA History IGNOU
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| Development and Environmental Concerns | |
| Bio – Diversity | |
| Environmental Resources and Patents | |
| Alternatives |
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