DC-6
History Honours Syllabus
CBCS 3rd Semester
Gour Banga University
1526 AD to 1707 AD (Political
History of India)
Unit 1: Sources & Historiography:
The Mughal Period
§ Historiography & Sources
§ Historiography; different approaches.
§ Sources: Abul Fazal, Badauni, Abdul Hamid
Lahori, Bernier, Tuzuk-i-Babari, Humayun Nama.
Unit 2: Polity:
§ Evolution of the administrative system: Mansab
& Jaigir.
§ The Mughal ruling classes: nobility and
Zamindars.
§ Evolution of Mughal policy towards North west
frontier and central Asia.
§ The Rajput policy and Deccan Policy of the
Mughals.
§ State & Religion: Akbar’s Religious ideas:
Sul-i-Kul; relations with religious elites; Aurangzeb’s relations with
religious groups & institutions.
Unit 3: Decline of the Mughal Empire
and Emergence of Successor States.
§ Crisis in the Mughal Empire-agrarian crisis
and peasant revolts-parties and Politics at the court-dynastic, administrative and
economic causes of the Mughal decline.
Unit 4: Patterns of Regional Polity:
§ Bengal
§ Maharashtra
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