DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC CORE COURSE ~ 2 (DSC-2): History of India - VI: c. 1750-1857 Credit distribution, Eligibility and Prerequisites of the Course History of India — 12 th Pass 1750 - 1857 Learning Objectives The paper introduces students to key features of the 18th century in the Indian subcontinent. It analyses the interface between the 18th century kingdoms and the early colonial state. The pa-per also discusses the processes by which the British East India Company transformed itself into a state and gradually consolidated its position over a vast expanse. Apart from the evolution of colonial institutions of governance and developing forms of colonial exploitation, the paper also highlights the interface between Company Raj and indigenous elite on various social issues. The paper concludes with a critical survey of peasant resistance to colonial agrarian policies, and the 1857 revolt against the Company Raj Learning outcomes Upon completion of this course the student shall be able to: © Outline key developments of the 18th century in the Indian subcontinent. © Explain the establishment of Company rule and important features of theearly colonial regime. © Explain the peculiarities of evolving colonial institutions and their impact. Elucidate the impact of colonial rule on the economy. ‘© Discuss the social churning on questions of tradition, reform, etc. during thefirst century of British colonial rule. ‘© Assess the issues of landed elites, and those of struggling peasants, tribals and artisans during the Company Raj SYLLABUS OF DSC Unit I: India in the mid-18th Century: society, economy, polity and culture1. Issues and Debates 2. Continuity and change Unit Il: Colonial expansion: policies and methods with reference to any two of the following Bengal, Mysore, Marathas, Awadh, Punjab and the North- East Unit I: Colonial state and ideology 1. Imperial ideologies: Orientalism, Utilitarianism, and Evangelicalism 2. Indigenous and colonial education Unit IV: Economy and Society 1. Land revenue systems and its impact 2. Commercialization of agriculture 3. De-industrialization Unit V: 19th Century: Reforms and Revival 1. Young Bengal, Brahmo Samaj, Prathana Samaj, Faraizis and Wahabis, AryaSamaj 2. Discourse on Gender and Caste in Reform and revival movement Unit VI: Popular resistance 1. The Uprising of 1857 2. Peasant resistance to colonial rule: Santhal Upr' Kol Uprising (1830-32) ing (1856); Indigo Rebellion(1860). Practical component (if any) - NIL Essential/recommended readings Unit-t: This Unit enables the students to outline key developments of the 18th century in the Indian subcontinent. These developments are discussed through key debates ‘on the varied historical evidence used by historians when examining the weakening Mughal state, growth of regional kingdoms, changing dynamics of the economy, evolving social structures, cultural patterns, etc. (Teaching Time: 9 hrs. approx.) * Alavi, Seema(ed.). (2002). The Eighteenth Century in India. New Del (introduction). © Bayly, C.A. 1988. Indian Society and the making of the British Empire. Cambridge: CUP (Chapter1, pp. 7-44). © Parthasarathi, Prasannan. 2011. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600- 1850. Cambridge: CUP (Introduction and Part |, pp. 1-88; Part Ill, pp. 185- 269). © Faruqui, Munis D. 2013. “At Empire's End: The Nizam, Hyderabad and Eighteenth Century India,” in Richard M. Eaton, Munis . Faruqui, David Gilmartin and Sunil Kumar (Eds.), Expanding Frontiers in South Asian andWorld History: Essays in Honour of John i: OUP 87F. Richards (pp. 1- 38). Unit- II: This Unit introduces the students to the political process by which Company rules was established in the Indian subcontinent. The unit shall also acquaint students with the important features of the 18th century states and how they came to be positioned vis-a-vis an expanding Company state. (Teaching Time: 6 hrs. approx.) Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar. (2004). From Plassey to Partition: New Delhi: Orient Blackswan (Chapter 1, ‘Transition to the 37-62). Bayly, C. A. (2008). indian Society and the making of the British Empire. Cambridge: CuP (Chapter 2, ‘indian Capital and the Emergence of Colonial Society’ pp. 45- 78; Chapter 3, ‘The Crisis of the Indian State’, pp. 79- 105). Fisher, Michael H. (1996).The Politics of British Annexation of India 1757-1857. Oxford: OUP (Introduction). Marshall, P.J. (1990). Bengal: The British Bridgehead. Cambridge: CUP. Cederlof, Gunnel. (2014). Founding an Empire on India’s North- Eastern Frontiers 1790- 1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity. OUP. Farooqui, Amar, (2013), Zafar and The Raj: Anglo- Mughal Delhi c. 1800-1850, Primus Books, Delhi. History of Modern India. hteenth Century’, pp. Unit-ilt: The unit shall discuss in detail and familiarise students with the evolving ideological underpinnings of the Company state, the idea of difference which developed within the imperial discourse and the manner in which colonial education policy and system evolved. (Teaching Time: 6 hrs. approx.) Metcalf, Thomas R. (2007 reprint). ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge: CUP(Chapters 1,2 &3). ‘Wagoner, Phillip 8. (October 2003). “Pre- colonial Intellectuals and the Production of Colonial Knowledge”. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 45 (4), pp. 783-814. Stokes, Eric. (1982 reprint). The English Utilitarians and India. Oxford: OUP (Chapter “Doctrine and its Setting’) Rocher, Rosanne. (1993). “British Orientalism in the Eighteenth Century: The Dialectics of Knowledge and Government”, in Peter van der Veer and Carol Breckenridge eds. Oriental- ism and the Post- colonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 215-250. ‘Viswanathan, Gauri. (2014 reprint). Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. New York: Columbia University Press (Introduction and Chapters 1 to 4). Copland, lan. (2007). “The Limits of Hegemony: Elite Responses to Nineteenth- Century Imperial and Missionary Acculturation Strategies in India’. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 49. No. 3. (637- 665). Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi (ed.). (1998). The Contested Terrain: Perspectives on Education in India. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan (“Introduction”). Dharampal. The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century. Vol Ill, Goa, Other India PressUnit-1V: This Unit shall familiarise students with the key debates on the economic impact of Company Raj. Students shall assess this impact by looking at changing agrarian relations, crop cultivation, and handicraft production. (Teaching Time: 9 hrs.approx.) Unit-V: This Unit shall acquaint students with the social churning on ques Stein, Burton. (ed.). (1992).The Making of Agrarian Policy in British India 1770-1900. Ox- ford: OUP (Introduction (pp.1-32)8 Chapter 4(pp.113-149)). Tomlinson, B.R. (2005).The Economy of Modern India 1860-1970. Cambridge: CUP (Chapter 2, pp.47-67) Bose, Sugata. (Ed.). (1994).Credit, Markets and the Agrarian Economy of Colonial India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (Introduction (pp. 1-28) & Chapter 2 (pp. 57- 79)). Chandra, Bipan. (1999). “Colonialism, Stages of Colonialism and the Colonial State”, in- Bipan Chandra, Essays on Colonialism, New Delhi: Orient Longman, pp. 58-78. Ray, Indrajit. (2016). “The Myth and Reality of Deindustrialization in Early Modern India”, in LatikaChaudhary et al. (Eds.) A New Economic History of Colonial India. New York: Routledge. (S2- 66). ‘Sumit Sarkar (2014) Modern Times, India 1880s ~ 1950s, Permanent Black, New Delhi. Chapters 3 & 4 Shrivastava, Sharmila, Slopes of struggle: Coffee on Baba Budan hills, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Volume LVI, Number 2, (April - June 2020) pp. 199 - 228 ns of tradition, modernity, reform, etc. that unfolded during first century of British colonialrule. Through special focus on gender concerns, gender roles in the household and ideas of ‘ideal womanhood’, the unit shall enable students to contextualize theendeavours of nineteenth century social reformers and nationalists. (Teaching Time: 9 hrs. approx.) Jones, Kenneth. (2003). Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India(pp. 15- 47; pp. 122- 131). Joshi, V.C. (ed.). (1975).Rammohun Roy and the Process of Modernization in India. Vikas Publishing House (essays by A.K. Majumdar and Sumit Sarkar). Singh, Hulas. (2015). Rise of Reason: Intellectual History of 19th-century Maharashtra. Taylor and Francis (pp. 1-197). Sarkar, Sumit and Tanika Sarkar (eds.).(2008). Women and Social Reform in India: A Reader. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (Chapters 1, 2 and 4). Loomba, Ania. (Autumn 1993). “Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post- Colonial Writings on Widow Immola- tion in India” History Workshop, 36, pp.209-227. Kopf, David, (1969). British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Dynamics of Modernization. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press (Introduction). 89Panikkar, K.N. (1995). Culture, Ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social Consciousness in Colonial India. New Delhi: Tulika(pp. 1-26 & pp. 47-53). Chakravarti, Uma. (1998). Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai. New Delhi: Kali for Women (Chapter, ‘Caste, Gender and the State in€ighteenth Century Maha- rashtra’, pp. 3-42). Unit-Vi: This Unit shall enable students to identify and discuss the issues reflected in the major uprisings of the nineteenth century. In the context of heavy revenueassessment, changing land rights, deepening stratification within the rural society, emergence of new social forces in agrarian economy, etc., students shall discuss the discontent of the landed elite, and those of struggling peasants and tribals during theCompany Raj. (Teaching Time: 6 hrs. approx.) Stokes, Eric and C.A. Bayly. (1986). The Peasant Armed: the Indian Revolt of1857. Claren- don Press (Introduction). Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. (1993). “The Sepoy Mutinies Revisited”, in MushirulHasan and Narayani Gupta (Eds.), India’s Colonial Encounter, New Delhi: Manohar David, Saul. (2010). “Greased Cartridges and the Great Mutiny of 1857: A Pretext to Rebel or the Final Straw”, In Kaushik Roy (ed.)War and Society in Colonial india(82- 113). Hardiman, David. (1993). Peasant Resistance in India, 1858- 1914. New Delhi: OUP. Introduction & pp. 1-125. Desai, A.R, (ed.) (1979). Peasant Struggles in India. Bombay: UP.(136- 158) Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. (1984) Awadh in Revolt 1857-1858. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Suggestive readings (if any) Alavi, Seema ed, (2002).The Eighteenth Century in India. New Delhi: OUP. Bara, Joseph (2002) “Tribal Education, the Colonial State and Christian Missionaries: Chotanagpur 1839-1870." In Education and the Disprivileged : Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India, edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. New Delhi: Orient Longman, pp. 123-152. Bayly, Susan. (1999). "Chapter 2: Kings and Service People 1700-1830.” Caste, Society andPolitics in India from the 18th Century to the Modern Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The New Cambridge History of India Series, pp. 64-79. Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi ed. (2007).Rethinking 1857. Delhi: Orient Longman. Chaudhury, Sushil. (2000). The Prelude to Empire: Plassey Revolution of 1757. Delhi: Man- ohar. Constable, Philip. (2001). “The Marginalization of a Dalit Martial Race in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Western India” Journal of Asian Studies, 60 (2), pp. 439-78. Dirks, Nicholas B. (2001).Castes of Mind.Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 90Green, William A. et al.(Spring 1985). “Unifying Themes in the History ofBritish India, 1757-1857: An Historiographical Analysis” Albion: A Quarterlylournal Concerned with British Studies, 17 (1), pp. 15-45. [pp. 20-24 is a surveyof British strategy/calculations during its territorial expansion] Guha, Ranajit.(1983) Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (Introduction & Chapter ‘Territoriality’). Hutchins, Francis. (1967). The Illusion of Permanence. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Jones, Kenneth. (2003)Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India. New Cambridge History of India, Vol.3.1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kapila, Shruti ed. (2010). An intellectual History for India.Delhi: Cambridge University Press. Ludden, David ed. (2005). Agricultural Production and South Asian History. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Metcalf, Thomas. (1995). Ideologies of the Raj. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Chapter 4, Ordering Difference, pp. 92-.128). Mukherjee, Mithi. (2010) India in the Shadows of Empire: A Legal and Political History 1774- 1950. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (Introduction andChapter 1, ‘The Colonial and the Imperial’, pp. 1- 44). Mukherjee, Rudrangshu. (2018). “The Azimgarh Proclamation and Some Questions on the Revolt of 1857 in the North western Provinces”. The Year of Blood: Essays on the Revolt of 1857. New Delhi: Social Science Press and Routledge. Pollock, Sheldon ed. (2011). Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia. Delhi Manohar. introduction (1- 16) Parthasarathi, Prasannan. (2001). The Transition to a Colonial Economy: Weavers, Mer- chants and Kings in South India, 1720-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Raj, KN. et al ed. (1985). Essays on the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Robb, Peter, ed. (1993). Dalit movements and the meanings of labour in india. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Roy, Tirthankar. (2010). Company of Kinsmen: Enterprise and Community in South Asian History 1700-1940. New Delhi: OUP (Chapter 6, pp. 190- 219) Skuy, David, (July 1998). “Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to India's Legal System in the Nineteenth Century”, Modern Asian Studies, 32 (3), pp. 513-557. Stein, Burton (ed.) (1992). The Making of Agrarian Policy in British India, 1770-1900. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Stern, Phillip. (2011). The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India. New York: Oxford University Press.* Stokes, Eric. (1986). The Peasant Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 InC.A. Bayly {ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. © Tilak, Lakshmibai. (2017, 1973). Smritichitre: The Memoirs of a Spirited Wife. New Delhi: Speaking Tiger. (Translated by Shanta Gokhale). © Rosanne Rocher, “British Orientalism in the Eighteenth century: The Dialectics of Know- * ledge and Government”, in Peter van der Veer and Carol Breckenridge eds. Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, © Books in Hindi: © Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar, (2007), Plassey se vibhajan tak aur uske baad, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi © Shukla, R. L. (ed). Adhunik Bharat Ka Itihas, Hindi Madhyam KaryanvayanNideshalay, Delhi University © Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, K. N. Panikkar, Sucheta Mahajan, Bharat ka Swatantrata Sangharsh Hindi Madhyam Karyanvayan Nideshalay, Delhi University ‘Sumit Sarkar, Adhunik Bharat (1885 — 1947) Rajkamal Prakashan ‘Sumit Sarkar, Adhunik Kaal (1880 - 1950), Rajkamal Prakashan Bipan Chandra, Adhunik Bharat Ka Itihas, Orient Blackswan Bipan Chandra, Adhunik Bharat Mein Upniveshvad aur Rashtravad, Medha Publishing House 8. L. Grover, Alka Mehta, Yashpal, Adhunik Bharat Ka Itihas, S. Chand © Lakshami Subramanian, Bharat Ka Itihas: 1707 - 1857, Orient Blackswan . Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the Examination Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.