Jharkhand PGT History Syllabus JSSC

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Jharkhand PGT History Syllabus JSSC

  1. Sources and approaches to study of early Indian history
  2. Early pastoral and agricultural communities
    • The archaeological evidence
  3. The Indus Civilization
    • Its origins, nature, and decline
  4. Patterns of settlement, economy, social organization, and religion in India (c. 2000 to 500 B.C.)
    • Archaeological perspectives
  5. Evolution of north Indian society and culture
    • Evidence of Vedic texts (Samhitas to Sutras)
  6. Teachings of Mahavira and Buddha
    • Contemporary society, early phase of state formation, and urbanization
  7. Rise of Magadha; the Mauryan empire
    • Ashoka’s inscriptions; his dhamma nature of the Mauryan state
  8. Post-Mauryan period in northern and peninsular India
    • Political and administrative history, society, economy, culture, and religion
    • Tamilaham and its society; the Sangam texts
  9. India in the Gupta and post-Gupta period (to c.750)
    • Political history of northern and peninsular India, Samanta system and changes in political structure, economy, social structure, culture, religion
  10. Themes in early Indian cultural history
    • Languages and texts
    • Major stages in the evolution of art and architecture
    • Major philosophical thinkers and schools
    • Ideas in science and mathematics

Section-B

  1. India, 750-1200
    • Polity, society, and economy
    • Major dynasties and political structures in North India
    • Agrarian structures
      • Indian feudalism
      • Rise of Rajputs
    • The Imperial Cholas and their contemporaries in Peninsular India
    • Village communities in the South
    • Conditions for women
    • Commerce mercantile groups and guilds
    • Towns
    • Problem of coinage
    • Arab conquest of Sind; the Ghaznavide empire
  2. India, 750-1200: Culture
    • Literature
    • Kalhana, historian
    • Styles of temple architecture
    • Sculpture
    • Religious thought and institutions
      • Sankaracharya’s vedants
      • Ramanuja
    • Growth of Bhakti
    • Islam and its arrival in India
    • Sufism
    • Indian science
    • Alberuni and his study of Indian science and civilization
  3. The 13th Century
    • The Ghorian invasions
    • Factors behind Ghorian success
    • Economic, social, and cultural consequences
    • Foundation of Delhi Sultanate
    • The “Slave” Dynasty
    • Illtutmish; Balban
    • “The Khalji Revolution”
    • Early Sultanate architecture
  4. The 14th Century
    • Alauddin Khalji’s conquests
    • Agrarian and economic measures
    • Muhammad Tughluq’s concessions and public works
    • Decline of the Sultanate
    • Forcing contacts
    • Ibn Battuta
  5. Economy, society, and culture in the 13th and 14th centuries
    • Caste and slavery under sultanate
    • Technological changes
    • Sultanate architecture
    • Persian literature
      • Amir Khusrau
    • Historiography
      • Ziya Barani
    • Evolution of a composite culture
    • Sufism in North India
    • Lingayats
    • Bhakti schools in the south
  6. The 15th and early 16th Century (Political History)
    • Rise of Provincial Dynasties
      • Bengal, Kashmir (Zainul Abedin), Gujarat, Malwa, Bahmanids
    • The Vijayanagara Empire
    • Lodis, Mughal Empire
    • First phase: Babur, Humayun
    • The Sur Empire
    • Sher Shah’s administration
    • The Portuguese colonial enterprise
  7. The 15th and early 16th Century (society, economy, and culture)
    • Regional cultures and literatures
    • Provincial architectural styles
    • Society, culture, literature, and the arts in Vijayanagara Empire
    • Monotheistic movements
      • Kabir and Guru Nanak
    • Bhakti Movements
      • Chaitanya
    • Sufism in its pantheistic phase
  8. Akbar
    • His conquests and consolidation of empire
    • Establishment of jagir and mansab systems
    • His Rajput policy
    • Evolution of religious and social outlook
    • Theory of Sulh-i-kul and religious policy
    • Abul Fazl, thinker and historian
    • Court patronage of art and technology
  9. Mughal empire in the 17th Century
    • Major policies (administrative and religious) of Jahangir, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb
    • The Empire and the Zamindars
    • Nature of the Mughal state
    • Late 17th Century crisis: Revolts
    • The Ahom kingdom
    • Shivaji and the early Maratha kingdom
  10. Economy and society, 16th and 17th Centuries
    • Population
    • Agricultural and craft production
    • Towns
    • Commerce with Europe through Dutch, English, and French companies
      • A “trade revolution”
    • Indian mercantile classes
    • Banking, insurance, and credit systems
    • Conditions of peasants, famines
    • Condition of Women
  11. Culture during Mughal Empire
    • Persian literature (including historical works)
    • Hindi and religious literatures
    • Mughal architecture
    • Mughal painting
    • Provincial schools of architecture and painting
    • Classical music
    • Science and technology
    • Sawai Jai Singh, astronomer
    • Mystic eclecticism
      • Dara Shukoh
    • Vaishnav Bhakti
    • Maharashtra Dharma
    • Evolution of the Sikh community (Khalsa)
  12. First half of 18th Century
    • Factors behind decline of the Mughal Empire
    • The regional principalities (Nizam’s Deccan, Bengal, Awadh)
    • Rise of Maratha ascendancy under the Peshwas
    • The Maratha fiscal and financial system
    • Emergency of Afghan Power
    • Panipat, 1761
    • Internal weakness: political, cultural, and economic, on the eve of the British conquest

Section-C

  1. Establishment of British rule in India
    • Factors behind British success against Indian powers
      • Mysore, Maratha Confederacy, and the Punjab as major powers in resistance
    • Policy of subsidiary Alliance and Doctrine of Lapse
  2. Colonial Economy
    • Tribute system
    • Drain of wealth and “de-industrialisation”
    • Fiscal pressures and revenue settlements (Zamindari, Ryotwari, and Mahalwari settlements)
    • Structure of the British Raj up to 1857 (including the Acts of 1773 and 1784 and administrative organization)
  3. Resistance to colonial rule
    • Early uprisings
    • Causes, nature, and impact of the Revolt of 1857
    • Re-organisation of the Raj, 1858 and after
  4. Socio-cultural impact of colonial rule
    • Official social reform measures (1828-57)
    • Orientalist-Anglicist controversy
    • Coming of English education and the press
    • Christian missionary activities
    • Bengal Renaissance
    • Social and religious reform movements in Bengal and other areas
    • Women as focus of social reform
  5. Economy 1858-1914
    • Railway
    • Commercialisation of Indian agriculture
    • Growth of landless labourers and rural indebtedness
    • Famines
    • India as market for British industry
    • Customs removal, exchange and countervailing excise
    • Limited growth of modern industry
  6. Early Indian Nationalism
    • Social background
    • Formation of national associations
    • Peasant and tribal uprising during the early nationalist era
    • Foundation of the Indian National Congress
    • The Moderate phase of the Congress
    • Growth of Extremism
    • The Indian Council Act of 1909
    • Home Rule Movement
    • The Government of India Act of 1919
  7. Inter-War economy of India
    • Industries and problem of Protection
    • Agricultural distress
    • The Great Depression
    • Ottawa agreements and Discriminatory Protection
    • The growth of trade unions
    • The Kisan Movement
    • The economic programme of the Congress ‘Karachi resolution, 1931’
  8. Nationalism under Gandhi’s leadership
    • Gandhi’s career, thought, and methods of mass mobilization
    • Rowlatt Satyagraha
    • Khilafat-Non Co-operation Movement
    • Civil Disobedience Movement
    • 1940 Satyagraha and Quit India Movement
    • State People’s Movement
  9. Other strands of the National Movement
    • Revolutionary movements since 1905
    • Constitutional politics
      • Swarajists, Liberals, Responsive Co-operation
    • Ideas of Jawahar Lal Nehru
    • The Left (Socialists and Communists)
    • Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army
    • Communal strands: Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha
    • Women in the national movement
  10. Literary and cultural movements
    • Tagore, Premchand, Subramanya; Bharati, Iqbal as examples only
    • New trends in art
    • Film industry
    • Writers Organisations and Theatre Associations
  11. Towards Freedom
    • The Act of 1935
    • Congress Ministries, 1937-1939
    • The Pakistan Movement
    • Post-1945 upsurge (RIN Mutiny, Telangana uprising etc.)
    • Constitutional negotiations and the Transfer of Power, 15 September 1947
  12. First phase of Independence (1947-64)
    • Facing the consequences of Partition
    • Gandhiji’s murder
    • Economic dislocation
    • Integration of States
    • The democratic constitution, 1950
    • Agrarian reforms
    • Building an industrial welfare state
    • Planning and industrialization
    • Foreign policy of Non-alignment
    • Relations with neighbours

Section-D

  1. Enlightenment and Modern ideas
    • Renaissance Background
    • Major Ideas of Enlightenment: Kant, Rousseau
    • Spread of Enlightenment outside Europe
    • Rise of socialist ideas (to Marx)
  2. Origins of Modern Politics
    • European States System
    • American Revolution and the Constitution
    • French revolution and after math. 1789-1815
    • British Democratic Politics, 1815-1850
      • Parliamentary Reformers, Free Traders, Chartists
  3. Industrialization
    • English Industrial Revolution: Causes and impact on Society
    • Industrialization in other countries: USA, Germany, Russia, Japan
    • Socialist Industrialization: Soviet and Chinese
  4. Nation-State System
    • Rise of Nationalism in 19th century
    • Nationalism: state-building in Germany and Italy
    • Disintegration of Empires through the emergence of nationalities
  5. Imperialism and Colonialism
    • Colonial System: Exploitation of New World, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Tribute from Asian Conquests
    • Types of Empire: of settlement and non-settlement: Latin America, South Africa, Indonesia, Australia
    • Imperialism and Free Trade; The New Imperialism
  6. Revolution and Counter-Revolution
    • 19th Century European revolutions
    • The Russian Revolution of 1917-1921
    • Fascist Counter-Revolution: Italy and Germany
    • The Chinese Revolution of 1949
  7. World Wars
    • 1st and 2nd World Wars as Total Wars: Societal Implications
    • World War I: Causes and Consequences
    • World War II: Political Consequence
  8. Cold War
    • Emergence of two Blocks
    • Integration of West Europe and US Strategy
    • Communist East Europe
    • Emergence of Third World and Non-Alignment
    • UN and Dispute Resolution
  9. Colonial Liberation
    • Latin America-Bolivar
    • Arab World-Egypt
    • Africa-Apartheid to Democracy
    • South-East Asia-Vietnam
  10. Decolonization and Underdevelopment
    • Decolonization: Break up of colonial Empires: British, French, Dutch
    • Factors constraining Development: Latin America, Africa
  11. Unification of Europe
    • Post War Foundations: NATO and European Community
    • Consolidation and Expansion of European Community/European Union
  12. Soviet Disintegration and the Unipolar World
    • Factors in the collapse of Soviet communism and the Soviet Union, 1985-1991
    • Political Changes in East Europe 1989-1992
    • End of the Cold War and US ascendance in the World
    • Globalization

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