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Course Master of Arts (Archaeology)
Bachelor in Arts
Ancient Indian Culture (Syllabus
for SYBA)
2 Eligibility for Admission
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6 Level U.G.
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The Syllabus ( SYBA Ancient Indian Culture) prepared by the
Committee ,comprising following members, and submitted to the
Chairperson , BOS in AICABS -
1. Dr. Suraj Pandit -Convenor
2. Dr. Bhavana Patole
3. Dr. Vijay Sathe
4. Dr. Radha Sabnis
5. Dr. Tejas Garge
6. Mr. Anupam Saha
Date: 17/04/2018
Signature:
Name of BOS Chairperson / Dr Meenal Katarnikar
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SYBA (Ancient Indian Culture) Semester III
Paper III India through Ages -A
Aims and Objectives:
1. Study of Cultural History of India.
2. Understanding various phases in and the process of the evolution of Indian Culture.
3. Review of the Theoretical framework in which the Indian Culture has been understood by the
scholars.
Unit 1 : Neolithic Cultures of Indian Subcontinent
a. Kashmir Neolithic: Burzahome
b. North West Indian Neolithic (Baluchstan): Mehergarh
c. Vindhyan neolit hic – middle Ganga plains (Lahuradewa)
d. Eastern and NE Indian Neolithic: Assam
e. South Indian Neolithic: Ash Mound Problem (Budhial, Tadakanhalli, Sangankallur and
other sites in Northern Karnataka)
Unit 2 : 1st Urbanization
a. Early, Mature and Late Harappan period.
b. City Planning, Houses, Subsistence, economy, trade, pottery, seals and sealing, beads
and bangles, sculptures (Stone, Terracotta, metal), Water Management, socio -politico -
religious scenario,
c. Decline, Aryan Problem, Post Harappan Chalcol ithic Cultures .
Unit 3: Vedic Age
a. Vedic Literature.
b. Copper Hoard Culture.
c. Ochre Colour Pottery, Painted Grey Ware Pottery Cultures.
d. Site Study: Hulas, Hastinapur, Atranjikhera, Rakhigadhi
Unit 4: Mahajanapadas Development under the Magadhan Empire from 600 BC to 200 BC.
a. Republic and Monarchies.
b. Rise and expansion of Magadhan Empire.
c. Northern Black Polished Ware Culture.
d. Material Remains found from following sites: Rajgriha, Patana, Kaushambi and Ujjain,
Taxila, Mathura, Tamralipti.
Unit 5: Age of Long Distance Trade
a. Indo-Bactrians / Greeks, Shakas and Kushana .
b. Shunga, Satavahana.
c. Urbanization of Deccan and Far South.
d. Indo Roman Trade and Trade Routes: Uttarapatha and Dakshinapatha, Maritime t rade.
e. Sangama Literature.
f. Archaeological sites to be studied: Mathura, Arikamedu, Taxila, Shishupalgarh,
Bhokardan.
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SYBA (Ancient Indian Culture) Semester IV
Paper V India through Ages -B
Aims and Objectives:
1. Study of Cultural History of India.
2. Understanding various phases in and the process of the evolution of Indian Culture.
3. Review of the Theoretical framework in which the Indian Culture has been understood by the scholars.
Unit 1 ‘Golden Age’:
a. Economy: Trade, Agriculture, Taxation and Currency.
b. Society: Society as reflected in Dharmashastra Literature and Inscriptions.
c. Political Institutions: Central Administration and Provincial Administration; Concept of
Kingship.
d. Religion: Vedic and Agamic religion, Buddhism and Jainism.
Unit 2 ‘Urban Decay’: India in the post Gupta period upto the rise of Islamic Dynasties (based on
theoretical framework proposed by Dr. D. D. Kosambi and Dr. R. S. Sharma):
a. Material culture in early medieval India: Currency, Land Gants and Monuments.
b. Literature in Ealrly medieval India: Prakrut and Sanskrit.
c. Polity in Early Medieval India: Decentralization of administration and raise of feudalism.
d. Archaeological sites to b e studied: Ramtek, Kandhar, Korkai, Udayagiri.
Unit 3 ‘Urban Decay’ a critique: Critical analysis of the theory of Urban Decay proposed by the
reinterpretation of the data in Chapter 2.
a. Critical Analysis by Dr. B. D. Chattopadhyay,
b. Dr. Champaka Lakshi
c. Dr. A. P. Jamkhedkar.
Unit 4 ‘Third Urbanisation’: Understanding development of material culture under the Hindu and Islamic
dynasties.
a. Currency, Monuments, Trade and Li terature under Sultans of Delhi
b. Currency, Monuments, Trade and Literature under Mug hals
c. Currency, Monuments, Trade and Literature under Vijayanagara
d. Currency, Monuments, Trade and Literature under Deccan Sultanates
e. Archaeological sites to be studied with the help of Archaeological a nd Literary Sources:
Daulatabad, Fatehpur Sikri, Hamp i, Bijapur.
Unit 5 Tradition and Continuity Understanding Indian Culture in the light of Modernity:
a. Mara tha Architecture: Nagpur, Pune.
b. Nature of minor Puranic Literature and Mahatmyas (Ganesh Purana, Mumbadevi Mahatmya.)
c. Indian Society: Past and present: Sanskritization.
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Ansar Hussain Khan, Ansar , Hussain Rediscovery Of India, A New Subcontinent, Orient Longman Ltd,
Hyderabad, 1995.
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Romila Thapar, Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, Orient Longman Ltd, Hyderaba,
2004 (Reprint).
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Reference Books: Marathi and HIndi
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Bhalerao M., K. Rayarikar, Maharashtrachya Itihasache Sakshidar - Shilalekh ani Tamrapat, Diamond
Publications, 2010
Dhavalikar M. K ., Prachin Bharatiya Nanakashastra, Continental Prakashan, Pune, 2007.
Dhavalikar M.K., Kone Eke Kali Sindhu Samskriti, Rajahamsa Prakashan, Pune. 2008
Deo. S. B., Maharashtratil Utkhanane, Maharashtra Rajya Sahitya Ani Sansruti Mandal, Mumbai.
Gokhale S., Purabhilekhavidya, Continental Prakashan, Pune, 2007.
Gokhale S., Bharatiya, Abhilekhvidya (Tr. of Indian Epigraphy by D.C. Sircar) - Continental Prakashan,
Pune, 2010
Jha Amiteshvar, Bharatiya Sikke, IIRNS, Anjaneri, 2004.
Pathak A. S. (Ed.), Sthapatya Ani Kala, Maharashtra Covt. 2002.
Pathak A. S. (Ed.), Itihas: Prachin Kal, Vol I, Maharashtra Covt. 2003.
Sharma R. S., Prachin Bharatach Parichay, Orient Longman Ltd, Hyderaba, 2009.
Vajpeyi K. D., Aitihasik Bharatiya Abhilekha, Pub lication Scheme, jaipur, 1992.
SYBA IV Semester III
Paper IV Social Organization in Ancient India -A
Aims and Objectives:
1. Study of Bas ic Structure of Indian Society.
2. Study of principals guiding the Indian Social Institution.
3. Study of important feature of Indian Society.
Unit 1 Six types of societies:
a. Hunting and gathering societies.
b. Pastoral societies.
c. Horticultural societies.
d. Agricultural societies.
e. Industrial societies.
f. Post-industrial societies.
Unit 2 Society in the Proto -historic Phase:
a. Social Structure under the first urbanization and changes in the social set up seen from Neolithic
to Chalcolithic Phase.
b. Harappan Society (Subsistence, Settlement pattern and Hierarchy.) Archaeological sites to be
studied: Dholavira
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c. Social Set up in the Deccan Chalcolithic Culture: (Subsistence, Settlement pattern and
Hierarchy.) Archaeological sites to be studied: Inamgaon
Unit 3 Social Hierarchy as seen in Indian Society through Ages in India and South East Asi a:
a. Varna and Jati System
b. Ashrama System (Smarta and Agama Tradition)
Unit 4 Marriage in Indian Culture:
a. Concept of Samskara (Birth, Marriage and Death)
b. Marriage as a Sacrament
c. Forms of Marriage
d. Age of Marriage
Unit 5 Position of Woman in Ancient India:
a. Economic Rights (Property Rights, Women as Donors)
b. Social Rights (Education, Bija -Kshetra Nyaya, Niyoga, Sati, Role in the Rituals)
c. Active life and renunciation: Elite and the common women: (Amrapali, Naganika,
Prabha vatigupta, Sarasvati sister of Kalakacharya, Rajashri, Kannagi, Rani Chenamma, Ahilyabai
Holkar).
SYBA Semester IV
Paper VI- Economic History of India -B
Aims and Objectives:
1. Study of Basic Structure of Ancient Indian Economic Institution.
2. Study of principals guiding the set up.
3. Study of important feature of Ancient Indian Economic Institutions.
Unit 1 1st and 2nd Urbanization:
a. Definition of Urbanization,
b. Unique features of the Urban Economy.
c. 1st and 2nd Urbanization in India
Unit 2 Age of Agrarian and commercial wealth
Economy of the Magadhan Empire as reflected in the Literary sources like Arthashastra and
Indica.
Unit 3 Age of International Trade and Commerce
a. Indo Roman trade (Ter, Arikamedu)
b. Arab Trade (Hampi, Sanjan)
c. Trad e with South and South East Asian Countries (Shri Lanka, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia)
Unit 4 In-land trade:
a. Dakshinapatha and Uttarapatha. (Sopara, Bharuch, Ujjain, Tamralipti, Bhokardan, Pushkalavati
(Charsadda), Balkh, Khotan)
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Reference Books: English
Aiyar Pazhamaneri Sundaram Sivaswami , Evolution of Hindu Moral ideas, Nag Publishers, 1976 .
Altekar A.S., Position of Women in hindu civilisation, Motilal Banarasidas, Delhi, 1987 (Reprint)
Altekar A.S., Education in Ancien t India, Isha Books, Delhi, 2009 (Reprint)
Bandopaadhyaya N.C., Economic life & organisation in Ancient India - Vol I
Bhargava P.L., Banking in Ancient & Medieval India, D. B. Taraporevala sons, Mumbai, 1934
Bose A.N, Social & rural economy of Norther n India -Vol I & II, Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1970
Das S.K., Economic history of Ancient India, Cosmo Publication, Delhi, 2006.
Datta N.K., Origin & Growth of Caste System in India, Hesperides Press, 2008
Ghoshal U.N., History of Indian Public life - Vol I and II, Oxford university press, 1966
Jain P.C., Labour in Ancient India, Sterling Publishers, 1971
Kane P.V., History of Dharmashastra Vol I to V, BORI, Pune.1968 -75.
Majumdar R.C., Economic history of India, New Delhi Publications Divisions 1972 Vol II.
Majumdar R.C, Corporate life in Ancient India, General Books LLC, 2010 (Reprint)
Prabhu P.H., Hindu Social Organisation, Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, 2010 (Reprint)
S. Radhakrishnan, Hindu view of life, Macmillan, 1967.
Sharma R. S., Indian Feudalism, Macmillan, 1981
Sharma Ram Sharan , Perspectives in social and economic history of early India, Munshiram Manoharlal
Publishers, 1995
Sharma R. S., India's Ancien t Past, Oxford University Press, 2008
Talim Meena, Women in Early Buddhist literature, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, 1972.
Thapar Romila, A history of India, Penguin Books, 1990
Thapar Romila, Recent perspectives of early Indian history, Popular Prak ashan, Mumbai, 1995.
Thapar Romila, Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, University of California Press, California
2002.
Thapar Romila, Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretations, Orient Longman Ltd, Hyderaba,
2004 (Reprint).
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Reference Books: Marathi and Hindi
Bhalerao M., K. Rayarikar, Maharashtrachya Itihasache Sakshidar - Shilalekh ani Tamrapat, Diamond
Publications, 2010
Dhavalikar M. K., Prachin Bharatiya Nanakashastra, Continental Prakashan, Pune, 2007.
Dhavalikar M.K., Kone Eke Kali Sindhu Samskriti, Rajahamsa Prakashan, Pune. 2008
Deo. S. B., Maharashtratil Utkhanane, Maharashtra Rajya Sahitya Ani Sansruti Mandal, Mumbai.
Gokhale S., Purabhilekhavidya, Continental Prakashan, Pune, 2007.
Gokhale S. , Bharatiya, Abhilekhvidya (Tr. of Indian Epigraphy by D.C. Sircar) - Continental Prakashan,
Pune, 2010
Jha Amiteshvar, Bharatiya Sikke, IIRNS, Anjaneri, 2004.
Oza G. H., Prachin Bharatiya Lipimala (Marathi Tr.), Sahitya Academy, Delhi, 1977.
Pathak A. S. (Ed.), Sthapatya Ani Kala, Maharashtra Covt. 2002.
Pathak A. S. (Ed.), Itihas: Prachin Kal, Vol I, Maharashtra Covt. 2003.
Prabhune P., Maharashtratil Chalanacha Itihas, Diamond Publications, Pune 2007.
Sharma R. S., Prachin Bharatach Parichay, Orient Longman Ltd, Hyderaba, 2009.
Vajpeyi K. D., Aitihasik Bharatiya Abhilekha, Publication Scheme, jaipur, 1992.