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(1) Introduction: Gender as a category in Historical analysis, its contribution towards
understanding social relations in ancient societies.
(2) Prehistoric Ancient world: Technology, Social organization and Religious beliefs --
Female Principle.
(3) Ancient Egypt: Different Dynastic periods, Hellenistic Egypt.
(4) Ancient Mesopotamia: Sumer and Akkad.
(5) Ancient Greece: From Archaic to Classical up to Hellenistic periods.
(6) Ancient Rome: Pre- Roman Etruscan. From Republic to Empire. Early Byzantium.

This foundation course aims to introduce students to important issues related to historical method by
giving them a broad overview of significant, including recent, historiographical trends. The aim is to
acquaint students with important historiographical interventions and issues related to the historian’s craft.
The themes selected for discussion may include the ones given below, and may vary from year to year;
more themes may be added to the list. Select readings have been given here; detailed readings will be
provided in the course of instruction.
1. Pre-modern historical traditions
1. Modern historiography: documents and the archives
2. Cultural history
3. Marxism
4. Annales
5. Gender
6. Archaeology
7. Art and history
8. The environment
9. Oral history
10. Intellectual history
11. History of emotions
12. Connected histories: peoples regions, commodities
Select Readings
Alier, Joan Martinez, Padua, Jose Augusto and Rangarajan, Mahesh eds. Environmental History as if
Nature Existed (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2010)
Aymard, Maurice and Mukhia, Harbans eds., French Studies in History, vol. I (Orient Longmans,
New Delhi, 1989).
Bloch, Marc, The Historian’s Craft, with an Introduction by Peter Burke (Manchester University
Press, 2004).
Burke, Peter, Varieties of Cultural History, Cornell University Press, 1997.
Carr, E.H., What is History (also available in Hindi) (Penguin [1961], 2008).
Davis, Natalie Zemon The Return of Martin Guerre (Harvard University Press, 1983)
Haskell, Francis, History and its images: art and the interpretation of the past (New Haven and
London, Yale University Press, [1993] 3rd reprint edn. 1995).
Portelli, Alessandro, The Death off Luigo Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in
Oral History (CUNY Press, 1990, paperback).
Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice (5th edition,
Thames and Hudson, 2008).
Roberts Alice, The Incredible Human Journey: The story of how we colonized our planet
(London, Bloomsbury, 2009)
Sarkar, Sumit, Writing Social History (USA, Oxford University Press, 1995).
Stern, Fritz ed., Varieties of History: from Voltaire to the Present (2nd edn., New York, Vintage,
1973)
Thompson, E.P. Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture (The Free Press,
New York, 1991); ‘Folklore, Anthropology and History’, Indian Historical Review, iii, no. 2, Jan
1977
Walach Scott, Joan, Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia, New York, 1988). Parts I-II
Elective Courses
1. Historical Archaeology in Comparative Perspective
Topics:
1 The relationship between History and Archaeology. Issues and scales of analysis in world
historical archaeology
2. Chronology and methodology; distinctions between and among Old World approaches and
new World Traditions
3. Objects and texts; Possibilities and problems of the dialogue between material culture and
writing
4. Historical Archaeology of the Ancient World with case studies relating to the Biblical and
Classical Traditions
5. Historical Archaeology in India with case studies relating to historical geography and religion
6. Historical Archaeology of the medieval and early modern worlds with case studies relating to
conquest and colonialism
Select Readings:
Anders Andren. 1998. Between Artifacts and Texts Historical Archaeology in Global
Perspective. New York and London: Plenum Press.
Dilip K. Chakrabarti. Theoretical Issues in Indian Archaeology. New Delhi: Munshiram
Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
James Deetz. 1977. In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. New
York: Doubleday.
P.P.A. Funari, M. Hall and S. Jones (ed.). 1999. Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge.
One World Archaeology Series. London: Routledge.
Roberta Gilchrist (ed.). 2005. Historical Archaeology. Special Issue of World Archaeology
Volume 37 (3).
John Moreland. 2001. Archaeology and Text. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd.
2. Philosophy and Methods of History
Topics:
1.
Subject matter of history – the Knowability of the past – the epistemological and
Ontological debates – the post-modern skepticism.
2.
Historical facts – sources of information – aids – auxiliaries – criticism – internal and
external.
3.
Quantitative methods – Oral history – Text criticism, old and new – Deconstruction.
4.
Philosophy of History – Critical and speculative – explanation in history –causation –
generalization – historical imagination.
5.
The Problem of historical objectivity – value judgements in history – the commitment of
a historian – the abuses of history.
Select Readings:
E.H. Carr, What is History?Penguin,2008
Marc Bloch, The Historian’s Craft, Manchester University Press,2004
G.J. Renier, History: Its Purpose and Method, Allen and Unwin,1961
R.J. Shafer, A Guide to Historical Method Dorsey Press,1983
W.H. Walsh, Philosophy of History: An Introduction, Harper and Row,1968
R.F. Atkinson, Knowledge and Explanation in History, Macmillan, 1978
W.H. Dray, (Ed), Philosophical Analysis and History, Harper and Row,1966
Patrick Gardiner, The Nature of Historical Explanation,OUP,1968
R.G. Collingwood, The Idea of History, Hespereides Press,2008
Christopher Lloyd, The Structures of History, Blackwell Press,1996
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3. The Archive and History
Course Description:
This course examines the ways in which the past is narrated, recorded and remembered. Using
examples from South Asia and elsewhere, we will think about how societies produce
authoritative historical narratives about their pasts. How does power operative in the making and
recording of history? Whose stories are told, whose are silenced? In recent years scholars have,
in different ways, questioned the privileging of the documentary archive as providing authentic
access to the past. They have considered the issues of how historical evidence is produced, and
the often fraught relationship of the history that emerges from written documents with other
forms of social memory.
Topics:
1.
The archive as an institution of social memory
2.
Memory, history and experience
3.
Narrative and history
4.
The colonial archive
5.
Writing and documentation
6.
Law, evidence and the archive
7.
Collecting, Taxonomy, Objectification
Select Readings:
Ann Stoler, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense, 2009.
Bernard Cohn, An Anthropologist among Historians and other Essays Oxford University Press, 2010
Ranajit Guha, The Small Voice of History Permanent Black, 2010
Caroline Steedman, Dust: The Archive and Cultural History Manchester University Press, Jan
2002
John Seyller, “The Inspection and Valuation of Manuscripts in the Imperial Mughal Library”,
Artibus Asiae, Vol. 57, No. 3/4 (1997), pp. 243-349
B.N. Goswami, “The Records kept by Priests at Centres of Pilgrimage as a Source of Social and
Economic History”. IESHR Vol. III No. 2, pp. 174-84
Carlo Ginzburg, Clues, Myths and the Historical Method, , John Hopkins University Press,1992.
1986.
Jacques Le Goff, History and Memory, Columbia University Press, 1986.
Michel Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past, Power and Production of History, Beacon Press
1995.
Natalie Zemon Davis, Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and their Tellers in Sixteenth
Century France, ,Stanford University Press, 1987




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