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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND CULTURE

JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA, NEW DELHI

LIST OF COURSES OFFERED

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M.A. HISTORY SEMESTER II

(JANUARY 2013 – JULY 2013)

Note: Students should consult their advisor before opting for courses from the following list:

HMA CoC2: Medieval World.................................................................................................................................................... 2

HMA MeC2: State Formation and Political Structures in Peninsular India: A Historical Survey (1000-1700 AD) ............ 4

HMA MeC3: Political History of Mughal Empire 1526-1707 ................................................................................................. 6

HMA MeO14: Medieval Indian Historiography ....................................................................................................................... 8

HMA MoC2: Political History of India 1857-1947 ................................................................................................................... 9

HMA MoC3: Economic History of Modern India 1757-1964 ............................................................................................... 11

HMA MoO3: Communalism and Right Wing Movements ................................................................................................... 16

HMA MoO4: The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi ................................................................................... 17

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HMA CoC2: Medieval World

Credits - 04

Objectives: This course attempts to understand the various historical processes that characterized the different societies from fifth

to sixteenth century. It will focus upon three areas, viz., Europe, West Asia, especially the Arab world and China and study the

political, economic and cultural issues on a comparative basis. Though, India will not be a part of this course, connections and

parallels will be made to give the students a broader understanding of the medieval world.

UNIT – I

Political Geography and State Formations

1. Migration and movement of the Germanic tribes, interaction with the settled communities, evolution of states and changing

processes of state formations. Reference will be made to the regional kingdoms, like Frankish kingdom in France and

Germany, Lombards in North Italy, Anglo Saxons in England, Russia, empires like the Byzantine Empire, and monarchies in

West Europe. The discussion will also include issues of political legitimacy and networks of political control through religion,

with special focus on the Holy Roman Empire, Protestant Movement and rise of national identities.

2. West Asia: Movement of the Bedouins, camel nomadic pastoralism, interaction with the mercantile communities, rise of Islam,

rise of Mecca and the formation of an Islamic state, the Rashiuddin Caliphate and Islamic Conquests, rise of the Ummayad

Caliphate and spread of Arab institutions, the Abbasids, the rise of the Sultanates, the Fatimids, the Buyids, the Turks, the

Ghaznvids, the Seljuks, rise of Ottoman Turkey.

3. China: Nature of the state under the Tangs, Sungs, Mongol, and Mings, interaction with the nomadic tribes from Central Asia,

creation of political institutions.

UNIT – II

Economic Structures and Control

1. Europe: Growth of Feudalism, lords, knights, vassals, serfs, distribution of land and landed resources, manorial system of

production, technology and agricultural production, crisis in the production process role of ideology in consolidation of landed

control and conflicts , population and demographic patterns, growth of urban life, emergence of towns, and the kinds of

interpersonal and inter group relationships and tensions, solidarities and trading groups, merchant-capitalism, forms and nature

of the guilds and their organization, religious institutions, patronage and the mercantile community.

2. West Asia: land systems, the institution of the iqta, agrarian economies, trade, especially international trade, commercial

techniques, urbanization, types of cities, Islam and capitalism, slavery.

3. China: agrarian economy, method of taxation, census and census compilations, trade and trade routes, commercial

development and rise of cities, emergence of new forms of Urbanisation.

UNIT - III

(a) Social Processes, Cultures and Ideologies

Social functions of ideologies and culture, formation of identities, religion and changing religion forms in the context of the socio-

economic frameworks. This will be studied in reference to Christianity, Islam, Sufism, and influence of Buddhism on Chinese

society.

(b) Interconnected Histories

This unit will examine the interaction and relations between Europe, West Asia and China

Trade, exchange and diffusion of technology, interaction and influence through science, crafts, political interactions, Islam and

Christianity, the Crusades, Mongols and the sack of Baghdad, Nomads and state formations, Renaissance and study of history,

rise of the gunpowder Empires, the Ottomans

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Reading List:

1. A.Hourani, A History of the Arab People.

2. Carlo Cipolla ed., The Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vol.1.

3. George Duby, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West.

4. George Duby, The Three Orders: Feudal Society Imagined 1984.

5. George Duby, The Age of Cathedrals.

6. George Duby, The Chivalrous Society.

7. George Duby, The Knight, the Lady and the Priest.

8. George Duby, Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages.

9. George Duby, Warrior and Peasants: The Early Growth of European Economy

10. Harbans Mukhia ed., The Feudalism Debate.

11. Henry Pirenne, Medieval Cities.

12. Jacques Le Goff, Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages.

13. Jacques Le Goff, The Birth of the Purgatory.

14. Jacques Le Goff ed., Medieval Callings

15. Joseph Needham, Science and Civilization in China, Vol 1 and 2.

16. M.G.S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam.

17. Marc Bloch, Feudal Societies, 2 Vols, 1989.

18. Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past.

19. Maurice Aymard and Harbans Mukhia ed., French Studies in History, 2 Vols.

20. Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism

21. Maxime Rodinson, Mohammed.

22. P.K.Hitti, History of Arabs.

23. Patircia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam.

24. Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism,1996.

25. Perry Anderson, Lineages of the Absolutist State, 1979.

26. Richard Hodges, and David Whitehouse, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the origins of Europe.

27. Rodney Hilton, Bondmen made free

28. Rodney Hilton,ed., Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.

29. W.M. Watt, Mohammad at Mecca.

30. W.M.Watt, Islam and the Integration of Society.

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HMA MeC2: State Formation and Political Structures in Peninsular India: A

Historical Survey (1000-1700 AD)

Credits – 04

This paper will focus on the Colas, Vijayanagar, Bahamanis , the Deccani Sultanates and the Marathas. The focus will be on

the aspects of state formation, legitimacy and rise of regional and local forms of control.

Unit – I

HISTORIOGRAPHY

1. Colonial perspectives, Nationalist perspectives, idea of a centralized state, local self-government, concept of a self sufficient

village, understanding of the region as reflected in the writings of K.A.N.Sastri, T.V.Mahalingam

2. Marxist understanding, the concept of feudalism, land grants, role of the temples, issues of land rights and relations.

3. Later perspectives, influence of anthropology, new models in the study of the state, segmentary state, peasant state and

society, integrative polity, patrimonial bureaucracy, concept of the ‘little kingdom’, lineage polities.

Unit – II

STRUCTURES OF POLITIES AND CHANGING POWER CONFIGURATIONS

1. Rise of states, Colas, Vijayanagar and Bahamani, new royalty, negotiations of power, court relations, hierarchies of power, and

integration through hierarchy, composition of ruling class and circulation of elites, changing social patterns,

2. Warfare and negotiations: The Vijayanagar- Bahamani conflicts, the Deccani Sultanates and the Mughals, the Marathas and

other powers in the peninsular region.

3. State, Economy and Networks of control: Administrative structures, sabha, ur, nadu, amara-nayakas, nayankara system,

iqtadari system in the Deccan kingdoms land grant and forms of agrarian control. Role of the states in trade and trading

networks, nagaram, temple urbanization and forms of control, capital cities and trading towns, Tanjavur and Kancipuram.

Unit – III

SYMBOLS AND FORMS OF ROYAL LEGITIMATION AND CONTROL

1. Court etiquette and court paraphernalia, rituals of kingship, festivals, like the Mahanavami, and coronation ceremonies, origin

myths and genealogies.

2. Forms of architecture- temples, temple building, rise of Tirupati, temple patronage and mosques, Mahmud Gawan

3. Political iconography in temples, for instance, the Varadarajaswami temple at Kancipuram, warfare and ‘looting’ and patterns of

architecture and sculptures.

Reading List:

1. Andre Wink. Land and Sovereignty in Eighteenth Century Maharashtra.

2. Appadurai, Arjun. 1974. “Right and Left Hand Castes in South India”, Indian Economic Social History Review 11,2-3: 216-59.

3. Appadurai, Arjun. 1981.Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

4. Champakalakshmi, R. Trade, Ideology and Urbanization in South India. 300 BC to 300 AD.1996.

5. Dallapiccola, A and S.Z. Lallemant, ed. 1985. Vijayanagara- City and Empire: New Currents of Research. Stuttgart: Steiner

Verlag Wiesbaden.

6. Dirks, Nicholas B. 1976. “Political Authority and Structural Changes in Early South Indian History.” Indian Economic and Social

History Review 13,2: 125-157.

7. Dirks, Nicholas B.. 1979. “The Structure and Meaning of Political Relations in a South Indian Little Kingdom.” Contributions to

Indian Sociology 13,2:169-204.

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8. Dirks, Nicholas B.. 1982. “The Pasts of a Palaiyakarar: The Ethnohistory of a South Indian Little King.” Journal of Asian Studies

41,4: 655-683.

9. Dirks, Nicholas B.. 1987. The Hollow Crown: Ethonohistory of an Indian Kingdom, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

10. Filliozat, Vasundhara, ed. 1996. Vijayanagar as Seen by Domingos Paes and Fernao Nuniz (Sixteenth Portuguese

Chroniclers) and Others. New Delhi: National Book Trust.

11. Frank Perlin. White Whale and Countrymen in the Eighteenth Century in Maratha Deccan. Journal of Peasant Studies. Vol5,

1978.

12. Fritz, John M, George Michell, and M.S. Nagaraja Rao. 1985. Where Kings and Gods Meet: The Royal Centre at Vijayanagara

India. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press.

13. Frykenberg Robert E., and Pauline Kolenda, eds. 1985. Studies of South India: An Anthology of Recent Research and

Scholarship. Madras: New Era Publications.

14. H.Fukuzawa. The Medieval Deccan.

15. H.K.Sherwani. The Bahamanis of Deccan

16. Heras, Rev, and V.K. Bhandarkar. 1936. “Vijayanagar Empire: A Synthesis of South.

17. Heras, Rev. Fr.1927. The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijaynagar. Madras: Paul.

18. Kulkarani, A.R. Maharashtra in the Age of Shivaji.

19. Mahalingam, T.V. South Indian Polity. 1955.

20. Nilkanta Sastri, K.A.N. A History of South India. From Earliest Times to Vijayanagar.1958.

21. Sewell, Robert. 1962. A Forgotten Empire – Vijayanagar. A Contribution to the History of India. New Delhi: National Book

Trust.(reprint).

22. Shulman, David Dean. 1980. Tamil Temple Myths: Sacrifice and Divine Marriage in South Indian Saiva Tradition. Princeton:

Princeton University Press.

23. Shulman, David Dean. 1985. King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

24. Stein, Burton. Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India. 1980.

25. Stein, Burton. Vijayanagar. 1999.

26. Talbot, Cynthi. 1991. “Temples, Donors and Gifts. Patterns of Patronage in Thirteenth Century South India.” Journal of Asian

Studies 50,2:308-40.

27. Talbot, Cynthia. 1987. “Golaki Matha Inscriptions from Andhra: A Study of a Saiva Monastic Lineage.” In Vajapeya: Essays on

the Evolution of Indian Art and Culture, ed. Ajay Mitra Shastri and R.K. Sharma. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 130-146.

28. Talbot, Cynthia. 1995. “Inscribing the Other, Inscribing the Self: Hindu-Muslim Identities in Precolonial India.” Comparative

Studies in Society and History 37,4: 692-722.

29. Talbot, Cynthia. 2001. Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra. New Delhi: Oxford

University Press.

30. Talbot, Cynthia. 2002. “The Story of Pratap Rudra: Hindu Historiography on the Deccan Frontier.” In Beyond Turk and Hindu:

Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia, eds. David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence. New Delhi: India

Research Press, 282-299.

31. Veluthat, Kesavn. Early Medieval South India. 2009.

32. Veluthat, Kesavn. The Political Structure of Early Medieval South India. 1993.

33. Wagnor, Philip B.2000. “Harihara, Bukka and the Sultan: The Delhi Sultanate in the Political Imagination of Vijayanagara.” In

Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia, eds. David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence.

New Delhi: India Research Press, 300-326.

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HMA MeC3: Political History of Mughal Empire 1526-1707

Credits – 04

UNIT – I

1. Sources for the study of the Mughal Empire: Persian histories, official documents and European accounts.

2. Babur’s conquest of northern India and its significance.

3. The reign of Humayun and the Mughal- Afghan conflict; the Second Afghan Empire and Sher Shah’s administrative measures;

the restoration of Mughal rule.

UNIT – II

1. Territorial expansion and consolidation under Akbar, the role of military and strategy and technology in Mughal expansion;

rebellious and resistance.

2. The formation of Mughal state under Akbar-revenue, mansab and jagir systems; organization and composition of Mughal

nobility; relations with Rajputs and Zamindars.

3. Theory of state and Mughal imperial ideology under Akbar- Abul Fazl’s theory of state; Akbar’s religious measures and Sulh –i

Kul; Akbar’s relations with various religious groups; Mughal court culture and rituals.

UNIT – III

1. The reigns of Jahagir and Sahajahan, 1605-1658 - Territorial expansion in Deccan; composition of nobility and relations with

Rajputs and Afghans; Mughal domestic sphere and its impact on Mughal politics; the political role of Nurjahan and her family;

Mughal states and religious groups; Mughal relations with Persia and Central Asia; The ‘war of succession’, 1658-59.

2. Mughal Empire under Aurangzeb – the issue of legitimacy; expansion and resistance in the north-west and north-east; the

Deccan problem and the rise of the Marathas; changing composition of nobility and relations with Rajputs; state and religion

under Aurangzeb.

3. Crisis and Decline of the Mughal Empire; the agrarian crisis and the revolts of the Jats, Satnamis and Sikhs; the Jgirdari crisis;

the crisis of the Mughal polity in the Deccan; the Rathor rebellion.

Reading list:

Books

1. Ain-i- Akbari, Eng. Tr. Blochmann, Books I, II and III, 1965.

2. Akbar Nama, tr. Beveridge, vols. II and III. 1972.

3. Alam, Muzaffar & Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400- 1800, Delhi: Cambridge

University Press, 2007.

4. Andre Wink, Land and Sovereignty in India:Agrain Society and Politics under the Eighteenth Century Maratha Swarajya

(Cambridge, 1986).

5. Aquil, Raziuddin, Sufism Culture and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India, Delhi: Oxford University Press,2007.

6. Athar Ali, M., Mughal India: Studies in Polity, Ideas, Society, and Culture, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.

7. Athar Ali, M., Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb, revised second edition (New Delhi, 1997).

8. Azizuddin Hussain, S. M., Structure of Politics Under Aurangzeb, Delhi, 2002.

9. Babur Nama, tr. Beveridge

10. Badshah Nama, Extracts tr. in Elliot &Dowson, vol. VI, PP. 3-72.

11. Bernier F., Travels in the Mughal Empire, tr. (Indian Reprint).

12. Chandra, Satish, Essays On Medieval Indian History, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003.

13. Digby Simon, Sufis and Soldiers in Awarangzeb’s Deccan, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001

14. Farooqi, N. R., Medieval India: Essays on Sufism, Diplomacy and History, Allahabad: Laburnum Press, 2006.

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15. Gommans, Jos J. L. and Dirk H. A. Kolff,(eds.) Warfare and Weaponry in South Asia, 1000- 1800, Delhi: Oxford Univeristy

Press.

16. Habib, Irfan (ed.), Akabar and his India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.

17. Habib, Irfan (ed.), Medieval India 1, Delhi: Oxford University Press,1992.

18. Habib, Irfan, Atlas of the Mughal Empire (New Delhi, 1982).

19. Habib, Irfan, Essays in India History: Towards a Marxist Perception, Delhi: Tulika, 1995.

20. Habib, Irfan, The Agrarian System of Mughal India, 1556-1707, second revised edition, Delhi: Oxford University Press,1999.

21. Hasan , Mohibbul, Babur : The founder of the Mughal Empire, (1986).

22. Hasan, Farhat, State and Locality in Mughal India: Power Relations in Western India, c. 1572-1730, Delhi: Cambridge, 2006.

23. Hasan, Nurul, Religion, State and Society in Medieval India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.

24. Khan, Iqtidar Alam, Gunpowder and Firearms: Warfare in Medieval India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.

25. Mayaram, Shail, Against History, Against State, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004.

26. Moosvi, Shireen, People, Taxation, and Trade in Mughal India, Delhi: Oxford University Press,2008.

27. Mukhia, Harbans, The Mughals of India, Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

28. Muzaffar Alam, The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab, 1707-1748. Delhi: Oxford University Press,

1986.

29. Muzaffar Alam, The Languages of Political Islam In India, c. 1200-1800, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004.

30. Richards, John F. The Mughal Empire, Cambridge, 1993.

31. Siddiqui, I. H., History of Sher Shah Suri, (1971).

32. Smith. V. A., Akbar the Great Mughal, (1962).

33. Tripathi R. P., Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire, (1960).

Articles

1. Eaton, Richard, M. “Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States”, in David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence (eds.), Beyond

Turk and Hindu, Delhi, 2002.

2. Habib, Irfan, “The Political Role of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi and Shah Waliullah”, Enquiry 5, 1961.

3. Iqtidar Alam Khan “Akbar’s Personality Traits and World Outlook: A Critical Reappraisal”, Social Scientist, vol. xx, nos. 9-10

(232-3), 1992, pp. 16-30.

4. Iqtidar Alam Khan, “The Turko- Mongol theory of Kingship” in Medieval India- A miscellany, vol

5. Iqtidar Alam Khan,“The Nobility under Akbar and the Development of his religious policy, 1560-80”, Journal of Royal Asiatic

Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1968), pp. 29-36.

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HMA MeO14: Medieval Indian Historiography

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UNIT – I

EARLY TRENDS AND INDO-PERSIAN HISTORICAL WRITINGS DURING THE SULTANATE PERIOD

1. Traditions of history writing in early medieval India: Kalhan’s Rajatarangini

2. Arab and Persian traditions of history writing and their impact on medieval Indo-Persian histories; Fakhr-i Mudabbir’s Adabul

Harb wa’sh Shuj’at; Hasan Nizami’s Tajul Ma’asir.

3. Treatment of history and historical causation in the works of Minhajus Siraj, Amir Khusrau, Isami, Shams Siraj Afif and Yahya

bin Ahmad Sirhindi; Ziauddin Barni’s theory of history.

UNIT – II

INDO-PERSIAN HISTORICAL WRITINGS DURING THE MUGHAL PERIOD

1. Historians and historiography during the reign of Akbar with special reference to the works of Abul Fazl, Abdul Qadir Badauni

and Nizamuddin Ahmad

2. Indo-Persian historiography during the reigns of Jahangir and Shahjahan; Abdul Hamid Lahori’s Padshahnama

3. An overview of Indo-Persian historical writings on Aurangzeb’s reign

UNIT – III

MEMOIRS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND BARDIC NARRATIVES, AND REGIONAL TRADITIONS

1. Memoirs as a source of history: Baburnama, Tuzuk-i Jahangiri and Ardh-Kathanak

2. Bardic sources and biographical narratives (Charit Kavyas)

3. Regional histories: Persian and other traditions

Readings :

1. Mohibbul Hasan, ed., Historians of Medieval India, 1968

2. A.B.M. Habibullah, 'Re-evaluation of Literary sources of Pre- Mughal History', Islamic Culture, Vol. XV, 1951

3. Ali Mohammad Khan, MIrat-i- Ahmadi, English Transalation.

4. C.H. Philips, ed., Historians of lndia, Pakistan and Ceylon, 1961

5. Harbans Mukhia, Historians and Historiography during the region of Akbar, 1976

6. Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, Indo-Persian Historiography up to the Thirteenth Century, Delhi: Primus, 2010

7. Irfan Habib, ‘Barani’s Theory of History of the Delhi Sultanate’ IHR, Vol. VII, No. 1-2, 1980-81

8. K.A. Nizami, On History and Historians of Medieval India, 1983

9. M. Habib and Afsar Khan, eds. & trans., Political Theory of the Delhi Sultanate i(English translation of Ziauddin Barani’s

Fatawa-i Jahandari)

10. Mehdi Husain, 'A Critical study of the sources of Medieval India' (1320-1526), Islamic Culture, 1957.

11. Mukund Lat, ed. & trans., Half a Tale (English translation of Ardh-Kathanak)

12. Norman P. Ziegler, ‘Marvari Historical Chronicles: Sources for the Social and Cultural History of Rajasthan’, IESHR, Vol. 13

No. 2, 1976, pp. 219-50

13. Peter Hardy, Historians of Medieval India, 1960

14. Phillip B. Wagoner, Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethno-Historical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu, Honolulu, 1993

15. Shireen Moosvi, ‘Medieval Indo-Persian Historiography’ in Bharati Ray, ed., Different Types of History, Pearson Longman,

2009

16. Velcheru Narayan Rao, David Shulman and Sanjay Subrhamanyam, Textures of Time: Writing History in South India 1600-

1800, Permanat Black, 2001

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HMA MoC2: Political History of India 1857-1947

Credits – 04

UNIT I

1. Social groups in the Rebellion; Landlords, Peasants, Soldiers and Women

2. Changing nature of the colonial state; adjustment and accommodation

3. New political and cultural consciousness in the aftermath of the Rebellion

UNIT II

1. Emerging climate of formation of associations and their role in political awakening

2. Making of the Indian National Congress and politics of altruism

3. Paradoxes and changing character of anti-colonial nationalism

UNIT III

1. Emergence of Gandhi and strategies of political action

2. Growing social base of Indian nationalist movement 1920-42

3. Left movement and Indian nationalism; possibilities and limitations

4. Communal mobilization and its impact on society and politics.

5. Pakistan movement and the partition of India.

Reading List

1. Achin Vainaik ayak, The Painful Transition

2. Anita Inder Singh, The Origins of the Partition of India 1936¬1947, OUP, Delhi, 1987.

3. Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History, Polity, Cambridge

4. Anthony D. Smith, Theories of Nationalism, Duckworth, London, 1971

5. Ayesha Jalal, Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and Demand for Pakistan, Cambridge University Press, 1985.

6. B.B. Mishra, The Unification and Division of India, O. U.P., Delhi, 1990. ,

7. B.C .Parekh, Colonialism, Tradition and Reform, Sage Publications 1989.

8. B.R. Nanda, Gandhi: Pan-Islamism, Imperialism and Nationalism in India, OUP Bombay 1989.

9. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, London, 1983.

10. Bipan Chandra and others, India's Struggle for Independence, Viking, 1988 .

11. Bipan Chandra, Communalism in Modern India, Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, : New Delhi 1984 .

12. Bipan Chandra, Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1981.

13. David Gilmartin, The Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan, O. U.P., Delhi, 1989.

14. Donald E. Smith, India as a Secular State, Princeton University Press, 1963.

15. Ernest Gellener, Encounters with Nationalism, Blackwell 1999.

16. Ernest Gellener, Nations and Nationalism, Basil Blackwell, 1983.

17. F. G. Hutchins, The Spontaneous Revolution.

18. G. Aloysius, Nationalism without a Nation in India, O. U.P. 1998.

19. G.R. Thursby, Hindu-Muslim Relation in British India: A Study of Controversy, Conflict and Communal Movements in Northern

India 1923-28, Leiden 1975.

20. Gail Minault, The Khilafat Movement Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India, O. U.P., Delhi 1982.

21. Gyanendra Pandey (ed.), Indian Nation in 1942, Manohar Book Service, 1971.

22. Gyanendra Pandey, Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History, Cambridge University Press, 200 1.

23. Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, OUP, New Delhi 1990.

24. Ian Talbot , Provincial Politics and the Pakistan Movement: The Growth of Muslim League in North-West and North-East India

1937-47, OUP, Karachi, 1988.

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25. Ian Talbot and Harpal Singh (ed.), Region and Partition: Bengal and Punjab and Partition of the Sub-continent, OUP, 1999.

26. Ian Talbot, The Punjab and the Raj 1849-1947, Manohar 1988.

27. J.E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, Cambridge University Press 1992.

28. James Piscatori, Islam in a World of Nation States, Cambridge University Press 1986.

29. Jim Masselos, Nationalism in Indian Subcontinent.

30. John Eddy and Derryck Schreudder, The Rise of Colonial Nationalism: Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa-

1880-1914, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1988.

31. John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith, eds. Nationalism, Oxford Reader 1994

32. John R. Mclane, Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress, Princeton University Press, 1973.

33. Joya Chatterji, Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition 1932-1947, Cambridge University Press ,1995.

34. Judith Brown, Gandhi and the Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics 1928-34, Cambridge University Press, 1977.

35. Judith Brown, Gandhi, the Prisoner of Hope, O.UP. Delhi 1990.

36. Judith Brown, Modern India: The Origin of an Asian Democracy, OUP, Delhi 1984.

37. Moin Shakir, Khilafat to Partition, Kalamkar Prakashan, 1970.

38. Mushirul Hasan (ed), Pan-Islamic and Communal trends in: Colonial India, Manohar 1982.

39. Mushirul Hasan, (ed.), India's Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilisation, OUP, 1993.

40. Mushirul Hasan, Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, Manohar 1991 .

41. Pantham, Thomas & Deutsch K.L. (ed), Political Thought in Modern India, Sage Publications, New Delhi 1986.

42. Partha Chatterji, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse, G.D.P., 1986 .

43. Partha Chatterji, The Nation and its' Fragments: Colonial and Post Colonial Histories, O. U.P. 1994.

44. Penderel Moon, Divide and Quit.

45. R. J. Moore, Crisis of Indian Unity 1917-1940, O. UP., Delhi, 1974.

46. R. J. Moore, The Endgames of Empire: Studies of Britain's India Problem, OUP, Delhi, 1988 .

47. Rajeev Bhargava (ed), Secularism and its Critics, O. U .P. Delhi, 1998.

48. Ranajit Guha (ed.), Subaltern Studies Volumes, G.U.P., New Delhi. ':

49. Salil Misra, A Narrative of Communal Politics: Uttar Pradesh 1937-39, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2001.

50. Sandria Freitag, Collective Action and Community: Public Arenas and tbe Emergence of Communalism in North India, O. U.P.,

Delhi 1990.

51. Sucheta Mahajan, Independence and Partition, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2000.

52. Sugata Bose and Ayesha lalal (ed.), Nationalism, Democracy and Development.

53. Sumit Sarkar, Modern India 1885-1947, Macmillan, 1983.

54. Sumit Sarkar, Swadeshi Movement.,

55. Tapan Raychaudhuri, Europe Reconsidered: Perceptions of the West in Nineteenth Century Bengal, OUP, New Delhi, 1988.

56. Uma Kaura, Muslims and Indian Nationalism: the Emergence of the Demand for Partition of India, Manohar, 1977.

57. V Sathyamurthy, State and Nation in the Context of Social Change.

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HMA MoC3: Economic History of Modern India 1757-1964

Credits – 04

This is a core survey course on modern Indian economic history. It aims to introduce the student to the main debates in Indian

economic historiography. Most of the recommended readings can be downloaded from JSTOR within the campus.

UNIT I

1. “Divergence Big Time”?

2. The economic history of late pre-colonial India and China

3. Early modern economic growth in Britain

UNIT II

4. Colonial Commercialization in Agriculture and the attenuation of agricultural development

5. Population change and the “Climacteric of Death”

6. Industry and Empire

7. The proletariat

8. Policies of the colonial state

UNIT III

9. Independence and Planned Development

10. Debates and trends in Indian economic history

Reading list

Basic Textbooks

1. B.R. Tomlinson The Economy of Modern India, 1860–1970 Series: The New Cambridge History of India, CUP, 1993

2. Habib, Irfan, and Aligarh Historians Society. Indian Economy, 1858-1914, People's History of India. New Delhi: Tulika

Books, 2006.

3. Kumar Dharma and Meghnad Desai. The Cambridge Economic History of India. 2 vol. Hyderabad: Orient Longman in

association with Cambridge University Press, 2004.

4. Rothermund, Dietmar. An Economic History of India : From Pre-Colonial Times to 1991. 2nd ed. London New York:

Routledge, 1993.

Topic 1-3

1. Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. Perilous Passage : Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital, World Social Change. Lanham,

Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

2. Broadberry, Stephen, and Bishnupriya Gupta. "The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices, and Economic

Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800." Economic History Review 59 (February 2006): 2-31

3. Chaudhuri, K. N. Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilization of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750

(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)

4. Cuenca-Esteban, Javier, 2007. "India's contribution to the British balance of payments, 1757-1812," Explorations in

Economic History, vol. 44(1), pages 154-176, January

5. E. L. Jones., Growth Recurring: Economic Change in World History (Ann Arbor:

6. Frank, Andre Gunder ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age (Berkeley:

7. Landes, David S. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (New York: Norton, 1997): 1-524.

8. Landes, David, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich and Some are so Poor

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9. Maddison, Angus "Explaining the Economic Performance of Nations, 1820-1989," in Angus Maddison, Explaining the

Economic Performance of Nations (Hants, England: Edward Elgar Press, 1995), 91-32.

10. Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence : China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, The

Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Topic 2

1. Agarwala, Shriman Narayan. Age at Marriage in India. Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, 1962.

2. Davis, Kingsley. The Population of India and Pakistan. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1951

3. Dyson, Tim and Mick Moore. "On Kinship Structure, Female Autonomy, and Demographic Behavior in India." Population

and Development Review 9, no. 1 (1983): 35-60.

4. Dyson, Tim. India's Historical Demography : Studies in Famine, Disease and Society, Collected Papers on South Asia,

No.8. London: Curzon, 1988.

5. Guha, Sumit. Health and Population in South Asia. London: Hurst and Company, 2001.

6. McKeown, Thomas. The Modern Rise of Population. London: Arnold, 1977.

7. Mukherjee, Sudhansu Bhusan. The Age Distribution of the Indian Population: A Reconstruction for the States and

Territories, 1881-1961. Honolulu: East-West Center East-West Population Institute, 1976.

8. Visaria, Leela and Pravin. "Population." In Cambridge Economic History of India, Volume 2, edited by Dharma Kumar,

463-532. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

9. Visaria, P.M. "The Sex Ratio of the Population of India and Pakistan and Regional Variations During 1901-1961." In

Patterns of Population Change in India, 1951-61, edited by A. Bose. Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1967.

Topic 3

1. Amin, Shahid. Sugarcane and Sugar in Gorakhpur : An Inquiry into Peasant Production for Capitalist Enterprise in Colonial

India, Oxford University South Asian Studies Series. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1984.

2. Baker, Christopher John. An Indian Rural Economy 1880-1955 : The Tamilnad Countryside. Oxford: Clarendon Press,

1984.

3. Banaji, Jairus. "Metamorphoses of Agrarian Capitalism." Economic and Political Weekly (1999).

4. Blyn, George. Agricultural Trends in India, 1891-1947. Philadelphia,: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966.

5. Bose, Sugata. Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital : Rural Bengal since 1770, The New Cambridge History of India Iii.2.

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

6. Charlesworth, Neil. Peasants and Imperial Rule : Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency, 1850-1935,

Cambridge South Asian Studies 32. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

7. Charlesworth, Neil. Peasants and Imperial Rule : Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency, 1850-1935.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

8. Chaudhuri, B. B., Project of History of Indian Science Philosophy and Culture., and Centre for Studies in Civilizations

(Delhi India). Peasant History of Late Pre-Colonial and Colonial India, History of Science, Philosophy, and Culture in

Indian Civilization. Volume viii. Economic History of India. New Delhi: Pearson Longman Project of History of Indian

Science, Philosophy, and Culture, 2008.

9. Chaudhuri, B. B., Project of History of Indian Science Philosophy and Culture., and Centre for Studies in Civilizations

(Delhi India). Economic History of India from Eighteenth to Twentieth Century, History of Science, Philosophy, and Culture

in Indian Civilization. Volume Viii, Economic History of India Pt. 3. New Delhi

10. Dharma, Kumar. Land and Caste in South India : Agricultural Labour in the Madras Presidency During the Nineteenth

Century. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 1992.

11. Dharma, Kumar. Colonialism, Property, and the State. Delhi New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

12. Dharma, Kumar. Land and Caste in South India : Agricultural Labour in the Madras Presidency During the Nineteenth

Century. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 1992.

13. Dutt, Romesh Chunder. India in the Victorian Age : An Economic History of the People. Delhi, India: Daya Pub. House,

1985.

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14. Guha, Sumit. Growth, Stagnation or Decline? : Agricultural Productivity in British India. Delhi ; Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 1992.

15. Guha, Sumit. The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, 1818-1941. Delhi ; New York: Oxford Universtiy Press,

1985.

16. Islam, M. Mufakharul. Bengal Agriculture, 1920-1946 : A Quantitative Study, Cambridge South Asian Studies 22.

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

17. Kumar Dharma, and Meghnad Desai. The Cambridge Economic History of India. 2 vols. Hyderabad: Orient Longman in

association with Cambridge University Press, 2004.

18. Narain, Dharm. Distribution of the Marketed Surplus of Agricultural Produce by Size-Level of Holding in India, 1950-51,

Occasional Papers. London: Asia Publishing House, 1961.

19. Raj, K. N. Essays on the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture. Trivandrum

20. Ray, Ratnalekha. Change in Bengal Agrarian Society C1760-1850. New Delhi: Manohar, 1979.

21. Raychaudhuri, Tapan, and Irfan Habib. The Cambridge Economic History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press., 1982.

22. Siddiqi, Asiya. Agrarian Change in a Northern Indian State : Uttar Pradesh, 1819-1833. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.

23. Stokes, Eric. The English Utilitarians and India. Delhi ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

24. Stokes, Eric. The Peasant and the Raj : Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India, Cambridge

South Asian Studies 23. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

Topic 4

1. Anstey, Vera. The Economic Development of India. 4th ed. London, New York,: Longmans, Green, 1952.

2. Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, Abhik Ray, Suman Das, and State Bank of India. The Evolution of the State Bank of India. Bombay:

Oxford University Press, 1987.

3. Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. Private Investment in India, 1900-1939, Cambridge South Asian Studies, 10. Cambridge [Eng.]:

University Press, 1972.

4. Balachandran, G. “Towards A "Hindoo Marriage": Anglo- Indian Monetary Relations In Interwar India, 1917-35”. Modern

Asian Studies, 1994 28(3): 615-647.

5. Buchanan, Daniel Houston. The Development of Capitalistic Enterprise in India. 1st ed. London,: Cass, 1966.

6. Chatterji, Basudev “The political economy of “Discriminating Protection": The case of textiles in the 1920's”. Indian

Economic and Social History Review 1983 20(3): 239-276.

7. Chatterji, Basudev, Trade, tariffs, and empire: Lancashire and British policy in India, 1919-1939. Delhi/New York, Oxford

University Press, 1992. **

8. Gadgil, D. R. The Industrial Evolution of India in Recent Times, 1860-1939. 5th ed. Bombay,: Indian Branch, Oxford

University Press, 1971.

9. Mukherjee, Aditya, “The Rupee Question, 1926-28: Rupee-Sterling Ratio And The Gold Standard”. Studies in

History [India] 1989 5(1): 99-124

10. Mukherjee, Aditya, Imperialism, Nationalism and the Making of the Indian Capitalist Class, 1920-1947. New Delhi, Sage

Publications, 2002, ISBN 81-7829-059-6.**

11. Ray, Rajat Kanta, Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800-1947, Oxford in India Readings. Themes in Indian History.

Delhi ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

12. Ray, Rajat Kanta, Industrialization in India : Growth and Conflict in the Private Corporate Sector, 1914-47. Delhi: Oxford

University Press, 1979.

Topic 5

1. Bahl, Vinay. The making of the Indian working class : a case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946 (New Delhi ;

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1995).

2. Behal, Rana Partap, and Marcel van der Linden. Coolies, Capital, and Colonialism : Studies in Indian Labour History,

International Review of Social History. Supplement 14. Cambridge; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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3. Heller, Patrick. The labor of development : workers and the transformation of capitalism in Kerala, India (Ithaca, N.Y. :

Cornell University Press, 1999).

4. Holmstrom, Mark. South Indian factory workers : their life and their world (Cambridge, [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge

University Press, 1976).

5. Morris, Morris David. The emergence of an industrial labor force in India; a study of the Bombay cotton mills, 1854-

1947 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965).

6. Newman, Richard K. Workers and unions in Bombay, 1918-1929 : a study of organisation in the cotton mills (Canberra :

South Asian History Section, Australian National University, 1981).

7. Ramanujam, G. Indian labour movement, 2nd rev. and enl. ed. (New Delhi : Sterling Publishers, 1990).

8. Revri, Chamanlal. The Indian trade union movement; an outline history, 1880-1947 ([NewDelhi] Orient longman [c1972]).

9. Roy, Tirthankar. Outline of a history of labour in traditional industry in India (Noida : V.V. Giri National Labour Institute,

[2001]).

10. Saradamoni, K., (Kunjulekshmi). Filling the rice bowl : women in paddy cultivation.

(Hyderabad : Sangam Books (India) : Distributed by Orient Longman,

1991).

11. Sen, Samita. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India : The Bengal Jute Industry, Cambridge Studies in Indian History

and Society 3. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

12. Sen, Sukomal. Working class of India : history of emergence and movement, 1830-1990,

with an overview upto 1995, 2nd rev. ed. (Calcutta : K.P. Bagchi & Co., 1997).UCB Main HD8686 .S43 1997

13. Tinker, Hugh. A new system of slavery; the export of Indian labour overseas, 1830-1920 (London, New York, published for

the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford University Press, 1974).

Topic 6

1. Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. Private Investment in India, 1900-1939, Cambridge South Asian Studies, 10. Cambridge [Eng.]:

University Press, 1972.

2. Goldsmith, Raymond William. The Financial Development of India, 1860-1977. New Haven ; London: Yale University

Press, 1983.

3. Kumar Dharma, and Meghnad Desai. The Cambridge Economic History of India. 2 vol. Hyderabad: Orient Longman in

association with Cambridge University Press, 2004.

4. Siddiqi, Asiya (ed.), Trade and Finance in Colonial India, 1750-1860, 1995

Topic 7

1. Frankel, Francine R. India's Political Economy, 1947-2004 : The Gradual Revolution. 2nd ed. New Delhi ; New York:

Oxford University Press, 2005.

2. Gadgil, D. R. "The Economic Prospect for India” Government of India, Planning Commission. "The First Five Year Plan- a

Draft Outline." Delhi: Government of India, 1951.

3. Maddison, Angus. Class Structure and Economic Growth; India and Pakistan since the Moghuls. New York,: Norton, 1972.

4. Patnaik, Prabhat. "Industrial Development in India since Independence." Social Scientist 7, no. 11 (1979): 3-19.

5. Rao, V.K.R.V. "India's First Five Year Plan-a Descriptive Analysis." Pacific Affairs 25, no. 1 (1952): 3-23.

6. Thorner, Daniel. "Problems of Economic Development in India." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Science 268, no. Aiding Underdeveloped Areas Abroad (1950): 96-103.

Topic 8

1. Fogel, Robert William. 1974. Time on the cross; the economics of American Negro slavery. 1st ed.Boston,: Little Brown

2. Habib, Irfan. Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception ; with the Economic History of Medieval India: A

Survey, Anthem South Asian Studies. London: Anthem Press, 2002.

3. Hayek, F. A., (ed.), Capitalism and the Historians

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4. Hicks, John Richard. A Theory of Economic History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.

5. Mokyr, Joel, The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

6. North, Douglass and Robert Paul Thomas, The Rise of the Western World

7. North, Douglass, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

8. North, Douglass, Structure and Change in Economic History

9. Roy, Tirthankar, “Economic History and Modern India: Redefining the Link”, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16, 3,

(Summer 2002) pp. 109-130

10. Tomlinson B.R. “Writing History Sideways: Lessons For Indian Economic Historians From Meiji Japan”. Modern Asian

Studies, 1985 19(3): 669-698.

11. Washbrook, D. A. “Progress and Problems: South Asian Economic and Social History”. Modern Asian Studies, 22, 1,

1988, pp.57-96

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HMA MoO3: Communalism and Right Wing Movements

Credits – 04

UNIT – I

REFORM AND REVIVAL

1. British Rule and the intellectual ferment

2. Growth of revivalist movements (Wahabi, Farazi and Akali movements, Arya Samaj, Santan Dharma)

3. Western education and early political developments

UNIT – II

COMMUNITARIAN AND COMMUNAL POLITICS

1. The Aligarh Movement

2. Policies pursued by the colonial state

3. Hindi-Urdu controversy

4. Religious symbolism and search for political space

UNIT – III

POLITICAL PROCESSES AND THE COMMUNAL ISSUE

1. Impact of constitutional developments

2. The Khilafat Question and Hindu-Muslim unity

3. Muslim League and the making of provincial politics

4. Hindu Right wing organizations with special reference to Hindu Mahasabha and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh

Reading list:

1. Aparna Basu, The Growth of Education and Political Developments in India, New Delhi 1974.

2. E. Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge 1992.

3. Ian Talbott and G. Singh (eds), Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition, Karachi, OUP, 1999.

4. Ian Talbott, Provincial Politics and the Pakistan Movement, Karachi, OUP, 1988

5. Joya Chatterji, Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, Cambridge, CUP, 1995

6. K. Panikkar (ed), Communalism in India, New Delhi, Manohar 1999

7. Paul Brass, Language, Religion and Politics in North India, Cambridge 1974.

8. Pradip Kumar Datta, Carving Blocks: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth Century Bengal, Delhi, OUP, 1999

9. R. Ahmed, The Bengal Muslims, 1871-1906: A Quest for Identity, New Delhi, OUP, 1996.

10. Suranjan Das, Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905-1947, Delhi, OUP 1991

11. V. Dalmia and H. von Stietencron, Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious Tradition and National Identity,

Delhi, Sage 1995

12. W.K. Anderson and S.D. Damle, The Brotherhood in Saffron: The Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and Hindu Revivalism,

New Delhi, Vistaar 1987

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HMA MoO4: The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

Credits – 04

Unit – I

1. Situating Gandhi in modern Indian thought- continuities and change

2. Hind Swaraj: the indictment of Modern Civilization

Unit – II

3. Human Nature and the Moral force in history

4. Gandhi and the concepts of Satya and Ahimsa

5. Gandhi and Religion

Unit – III

6. Gandhian political ideas and techniques

7. The State and Civil Society

8. The meaning and application of Satyagraha

9. Swaraj and Swadeshi

Reading List:

1. A.L.Basham: 'Traditional Influences in the thought of Mahatma Gandhi' in R.Kumar Ed. Essays in Gandhian Politics

2. Allen Ed. The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the 21st Century

3. B.R.Nanda: Mahatma Gandhi

4. Bhikhu Parekh: Colonialism, Tradition and Reform. An Analysis of Gandhi's Political Discourse

5. D.Dalton: Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Power in Action.

6. D.M.Diltta: The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi

7. David Hardiman: Gandhi in His times and in Ours

8. Joan Bondurant: Conquest of Violence

9. Louis Fischer: The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

10. M.K.Gandhi, From Yervada Mandir Translated by G.V.Desai

11. M.K.Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and other Writings ed. Anthony Parel

12. M.K.Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth

13. Margaret Chatterjee: The Religious Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

14. Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi-The last Phase- 2 vols.

15. Pyarelal: Mahatma Gandhi: The Early Phase

16. R.R.Diwakar: Satyagraha-its technique and theory

17. Raghavan Iyer: The Moral and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

18. S.Radhakrishnan Ed. Mahatma Gandhi: Essays and Reflections on his life and work

19. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi- Relevant Volumes.

20. The Gita according to Gandhi Ed. Mahadev Desai