Hello sir I have completed my BA and joined Kalyani University Distance Education for pursuing my MA in History. Can you help me in providing the complete syllabus of MA history of all the semester so that I get to know about the subjects in the MA history?

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Paper I
History of India up to 650 A. D.
(100 Marks , 70 Lectures)
Unit 1:
Geographical Background
Physiography; major routes of communication; environment;
Peoples and languages
Unit 2:
Survey of sources and approaches to ancient
Indian history
Sources: literature; archeology; epigraphy; numismatics.
Unit 3:
Prehistory
a. Paleolithic cultures – sequence and geographical distribution;
topographic and climatic changes; evolution and uses of stone
industries and other technological developments.
b. Mesolithic cultures – regional and chronological distribution;
new developments in technology and economy; rock art.
c. Food production – concept of the Neolithic. Understanding the
complexities of its beginnings.
Unit 4:
Proto-history
a. Growth of Chalcolithic village societies from Baluchistan to
Gujarat.
b. The Harappan civilization – origin, distribution, morphology of
major sites (Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Kalibangan, Lothal,
Dholavira), agrarian base, craft production and trade, religious
beliefs and practices, art and architecture, and script. The
problem of urban decline and the late H arappan cultures.
c. Neolithic-Chalcolithic cultures in non-Harappan India.
Unit 5:
Background to the emergence of early
historic India
a. Society, economy, polity and religion as reflected in Vedic
literature.
b. Iron Age cultures with special reference to Painted Grey Ware
and Northern Back Polish Ware cultures. Megaliths.
Unit 6:
Material and ideological background.
a. Jainism, Buddhism, Ajivikas and other systems.
b. Expansion of settlements and urbanization.
c. Social structure.
Unit 7:
Janapadas and Mahajanapadas.
a. Early monarchial states and gana-sanghas.
b. Craft production and coinage

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