My Brother has passed 12th and now wants to take admission in B.A. (History) Course at University of Kalyani so please give me details about admission in this course with required eligibility criteria? Also provide me course content and syllabus of B.A. (History) Course?

The revised Syllabus for B.A. (General) Course in History offered by University of Kalyani is as follows:

Part – I

Paper I
Indian History (Pre-historic times to Sixteenth Century A. D)

Unit 1
Literary and Archaeological sources of Ancient and Medieval Indian History – Archaeological methods – Archaeological knowledge and the historical understanding of the rise extent and decline of the Harappan Civilization

Unit 2 Political developments – I
Indian polity in later Vedic times – The Mahayanapadas – The rise and fall of the Maurya Empire – Regional powers and the struggle for power in North India – Political developments in South India.

Unit 3 Political developments – II
Impact of Islam and political change in India: Brief overview of the Delhi Sultanate – the administration of the Delhi Sultanate – the centralized monarchy – political ideologies in the Delhi Sultanate – Independent Sultans of Bengal – the Vijaynagar Empire.

Unit 4
1. Economic life in ancient and early medieval India – Land Systems in ancient India – Framework of agriculture; the state, taxation, irrigation and the agrarian economy – The urban social formations – Internal and overseas trade – Crafts and Guilds – the Indian Feudali9sm, issues and debates.
2. The Delhi Sultanate and a changin g framework of agriculture – Iqta system – emergence of new urban centres and a reorientation in commercial life.

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