Subsections
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- 18th Century India: characterization, general features and in particular the historiographical implications of the notion of dark age, the implication of the characterisation of the 18th century on the origins of colonialism in India.
- Brief introduction to colonialism, capitalism and imperialism: definitions.
British revenue policies: origins and consequences, types of revenue/tenurial systems; three stages of colonialism; deindustrialization, commercialisation of agriculture and their impact in the rural economy, and the mode of production debate on India.
- Formation of all India community of English educated intellectuals and the educational policies of the British; 19th century socio-religious reform movements: an assessment; Ideas on caste and the growth of caste reform movements in India.
- Civil rebellions in the early 19th century and the Revolt of 1857: historiographical perspectives.
- Emergence and Growth of Indian nationalism: origin and growth during the 19th Century; History of anti-colonial struggles: 1885-1905, 1905-11, 1920-22, 1930-34, and 1942.
- History of peasant and tribal movements; formation of working class in India, the history of trade union movements, anti-caste movements and the attitude of Indian National Congress towards these movements.
- Science and Industrialization: Private Investments in India, New Industrial Policy, Discourse on Science in late 19th and early 20th century India, National Planning Committee.
- Towards partition: ideology, history and players.
- Bipan Chandra, Aditya Mukherjee, K. N. Panikkar, Mridula Mukherjee & Suchetem Sumit Sarkar, Modern India, 1885-1947, Macmillan India, 2002.
- Sekhar Bandopadhyaya, From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India, Orient Blackswan, 2004.
- K. N. Panikkar, Culture, Ideology, Hegemony: Intellectuals and Social Consciousness In Colonial India, Tulika Books, Delhi, 1998.
- Perry Anderson,The Indian Ideology, Three Essays Collective, New Delhi, 2012.
- Bipan Chandra, Essays on Colonialism, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2009.
- Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy, Routledge, London, 1998.
- Thomas R. Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994.
