SVKM’s NarseeMonjee Institute of Management Studies

Name of School – Kirit P. Mehta School of Law

Program: B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) 8101 Semester: III
Module: History III Module Code:
Teaching Scheme Evaluation Scheme
Lecture Practical Tutorial Term End
Internal Continuous
(Hours (Hours (Hours Examinations (TEE)
Credit Assessment (ICA)
per per per week) (Marks- 50
(Marks - 50)
week) week) in Question Paper)
4 0 0 4 Marks Scaled to50 Marks Scaled to 50
Pre-requisite: Social Studies.
Objectives
1) Have the knowledge of knowledge about changes that took place among the major cultures
of world.
2) To develop knowledge and understanding of a range of movements, events and
developments of the modern world in their historical context
3) To familiarize the students about the changes in the history of the modern world
4) Understand the History of Europe and the three principles like ‘Liberty, Equality and
Fraternity’ of French Revolution paved the way for independence of many nations.
5) It highlights the concepts, theories and contemporary state of development administration.
Outcomes:
1. To familiarize students of law with the history of Europe as many international laws/ human
rights/ humanitarian laws emanate from developments in Europe. (PLO 3a)
2. The History of Modern India and Europe is essential because many revolutionary changes
that took place in India and Europe not only deeply affected the people of India and Europe
but also the whole world. (PLO 3a)
3. To identify the factors World Wars. (PLO 3a)
4. To create an understanding among students about the liberal ideas and freedom struggles
(PLO 3a)
5. To familiarize the students with the concepts of Nationalism and the formation of nation
states in Europe. (PLO 3a)
6. To deploy certain crucial concepts as lenses to focus on contemporary normative debates in
a critical, historical perspective.(PLO 3a)
Detailed Syllabus: (per session plan)
Unit Description: History of Contemporary Modern India and Modern Europe Duration
The Making of Contemporary India (1950-2000) and Democracy at work 3 Hrs.
 Laying the foundation of independent India
1. BASIC READING
 Vinaik, Achin and Rajeev Bhargava. Understanding Contemporary
India, Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2010
The Making of Contemporary India (1950-2000) and Democracy at work 3 Hrs.
 The Constitution: nationality and citizenship
BASIC READING
2.
 Austin, Granville. Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian
Experience. New Delhi Bilgrami, A. Democratic Culture, New Delhi:
Routledge, 2011.
The Making of Contemporary India (1950-2000) and Democracy at work 3 Hrs.
 Linguistic re-organization
3.
BASIC READING
 India Since Independence By Bipan Chandra, Penguin Books Limited.
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2008.
 https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/India_Since_Independence
/Ipwpbhd6sQUC?hl=en&gbpv=1
The Making of Contemporary India (1950-2000) and Democracy at work 3 Hrs.
 Foreign policy and the making of Panchsheel& Non-alignment
BASIC READING
4.  India’s Foreign Policy Dilemma Over Non-Alignment 2.0
By Sudhanshu Tripathi, SAGE Publications 2020, pg. 46 -
99
 Panchsheel and the Future Perspectives on India-China Relations By
Editor: C. V. Ranganathan, Saṁ skṛiti, 2004
The Making of Contemporary India (1950-2000) and Democracy at work 3 Hrs.
 Congress and other political formations
 Women and politics – Hindu Code Bill
BASIC READING
5.
 India Since Independence By Bipan Chandra, Penguin Books Limited.
2008.
 https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/India_Since_Independence
/Ipwpbhd6sQUC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Crisis and after 3 Hrs.
 Railway Strike, J.P. Movement and Emergency
BASIC READING
 Austin, Granville. Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian
Experience. New Delhi Bilgrami, A. Democratic Culture, New
Delhi: Routledge, 2011. (p.293) Part III Democracy Rescued or
6. the Constitution Subverted? The Emergency and the Forty-second
Amendment, 1975–77
 India Since Independence by Bipan Chandra, Penguin Books Limited.
2008.
 https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/India_Since_Independence
/Ipwpbhd6sQUC?hl=en&gbpv=1
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJsaujUs3w
Crisis and after 3 Hrs.
 Developments in the 1980’s:
(i) Coalition politics;
BASIC READING
 India 1980: Political Developments, E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Social
7. Scientist, Vol. 9, No. 4, Special Number on India (Nov., 1980), pp. 11-21
(11 pages) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3520370
 Kumar, Manoj, Coalition Politics in India: History and Analysis of
Political Alliances (April 19, 2017). Available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2954925 or
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2954925
Crisis and after 3 Hrs.
 Developments in the 1980’s:
8. ii) Reservation and Mandal Commission and aftermath
BASIC READING
 Mandal Commission Revisited Reservation Bureaucracy in India By
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Shriram Maheshwari, Jawahar Publishers & Distributors, 1995

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGZPyqOenAc
Crisis and after 3 Hrs.
 Responding to new global alignments: Neo-liberalism
BASIC READING
 Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order Cooperation,
9.
Competition and Transformation by Sonia E. Rolland, David M.
Trubek Cambridge University Press, 2019
 Perspectives on Neoliberalism, Labour and Globalization in India
Essays In Honour of Lalit K. Deshpande, Springer Singapore, 2019
History of Europe 3 Hrs.
 Early history of Industrialization in Europe
 Europe the states of rising power of Parliament
10. BASIC READING
 Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New
Delhi, 2013, pg.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYln_S2PVYA
History of Europe 3 Hrs.
 Britain development of early science and industrialization
11. BASIC READING
 Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New
Delhi, 2013, pg. 119-135
History of Europe 3 Hrs.
 History of French Revolution
 Fall of monarchy and rise of dictatorship
12.
BASIC READING
 Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New
Delhi, 2013, pg.32-82
Europe from 1850-1871 3 Hrs.
 Crimean War (1853-56)
 Russia
BASIC READING
13.
 The Crimean War 1853-1856, by Winfried Baumgart, Bloomsbury
Publishing, 9 January 2020
 Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New
Delhi, 2013, pg. 237-266
Europe from 1850-1871 3 Hrs.
 The Unification of Italy
14. BASIC READING
 The Risorgimento and the Unification of Italy by Derek Beales, Eugenio
F. Biagini, Taylor & Francis, 2014
Europe from 1850-1871 3 Hrs.
 The Unification of Germany
15. BASIC READING
 Austria, Prussia and The Making of Germany 1806-1871 By John
Breuilly, Taylor & Francis, 2014
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History of World Wars 3 Hrs.

International Relations and event leading to First World War: League
of Nations
BASIC READING
 Carr, E.H., International Relations between the two World Wars, 1919-
16.
1939, Macmillan, London, 1989.
 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311395383_The_Twenty_
Years'_Crisis_1919-1939
 Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New
Delhi, 2013, pg.196-220
History of World Wars 3 Hrs.
League of Nations
BASIC READING
 The League of Nations and the Organization of Peace by Martyn
17.
Housden, Taylor & Francis, 2014
 The League of Nations Enduring Legacies of the First Experiment at
World Organization By M. Patrick Cottrell, Taylor & Francis, 2017
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywMlFMEMSLw
History of World Wars 3 Hrs.
 Interwar years and the Second World War
BASIC READING
18.  Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New
Delhi, 2013, pg.329-343
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G4ZY66BG38
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMBwSH3e58
History of World Wars 3 Hrs.
 Cold war
19. BASIC READING
 Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New
Delhi, 2013, pg.344-355
United Nations 3 Hrs.
 Humanitarian Concerns and United Nations
BASIC READING
20.
 Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New
Delhi, 2013, pg. 356-364
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnQESSTouNU
Total 60 Hrs.
Text Books:
1. Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New Delhi, 2013. (classic)
2. Rao B.V. History of Modern World, Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2012. (classic)
3. Sudhanshu Tripathi, India’s Foreign Policy Dilemma Over Non-Alignment 2.0. SAGE
Publications, 2020
Reference Books:

1. Austin, Granville. Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience.

New Delhi Bilgrami, A. Democratic Culture, New Delhi: Routledge, 2011.
2. Barraclough, Geoffrey, Turning Points in World History, Thames and Hudson, USA,
1977.
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3. Carr, E.H., International Relations between the two World Wars, 1919-1939, Macmillan,
London, 1989.
4. Chakrabarty Ranjan, History of Modern World, Primus Books, New Delhi, 2013.
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23. Lowe Norman, Mastering Modern World History, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, New
Delhi, 2016.
24. Mahajan, V.D: Modern Europe Since A.D.1789., S. Chand and Company Ltd, New Delhi,
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25. Rao B.V. History of Modern World, Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2012.
26. Taylor A.J.P., The Struggle for Mastery in Europe (1848 – 1918), University Press, Oxford,
1971.
27. Vincent Smith, History of India
Any other information:
Details of Internal Continuous Assessment (ICA): 50 Marks
Research Paper: 20 Marks
Seminar: 10 Marks
Viva: 10 Marks
Class Participation: 10 Marks
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