DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN STUDIES

Head of Department:

Mr. S. N. Ray, M.A. ( Calcutta )

ORDINARY DEGREE

(Details for the honours courses are set out at the end of this section)

Group 5

Indian Studies A may be taken as one subject in the Arts degree course or as the first part of a major which is completed with parts B and C. After the first year the following courses will be offered:

Modern Indian Political Thought (half-subject).

Classical Indian Thought (half-subject).

Bengali Literature (half-subject).

Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature (half-subject).

Indian Art and Architecture (half-subject).

Islam in India (half-subject).

Each of these courses constitutes only one half of a degree subject. Indian Studies B shall consist of any two of these courses, and Indian Studies C shall consist of any two not yet taken as part of Indian Studies B.

These courses will be available to students of Indian Studies B and C on the following basis:

Modern Indian Political Thought. will be available Classical Indian Thought. in 1969 and

alternate

Bengali Literature. years

Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature. will be available Indian Art and Architecture. in 1968 and

alternate

Islam in India. Ј years

N.B.—

Students

who have passed Indian Studies B in 1965 or 1966 will not be able to do Indian Studies C in the year 1968 and alternate years, but they will be able to do it in 1969 and alternate years.

47. INDIAN STUDIES A S.

N.

Ray and J. T. F. Jordens

A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the year.

SYLLABUS

The course will consist of two series of lectures, one on the social and intellectual movements in India during the British period; the other on the origins and develop- ment of India's traditional culture till the beginning of the Christian era.

BOOKS

(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

Panikkar, K. M.—A Survey of Indian History. (Asia, Bombay.) (b) Prescribed textbooks:

Paper ^I.—The Indian Renaissance. (S.

N.

Ray.)

•Sources of Indian Tradition—compiled by W. T. de Baxy and

only. (Columbia U.P.) others. Part 6

INDIAN STUDIES

*Heimsath, C. H.—Indfan Nationalism and Hindu Sоcial Reform. (Princeton.) Majumder, R. C. History of the Freedom Movement in India. Vol. I. (Firma

K. L. Mukhopadhyaya, Calcutta.)

CoUet, S. D.—The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy. (еd., D. K. Biswas and P. C. Ganguli, Sadharan Brаhmo Samej, Calcutta.)

*Wolpert, S. A.—Titak and Gokhale. ( California U.P.)

Goyal, O. P.—The Moderates and the Extremists. (Kitabmahцl, Alahabad.) Paper II.—Cultt'ral Heritage. (J. T. F. Jordens.)

*Dutt, R. C. The Mahabharata and the Ramayaпa. (Everyman.)

*Macnico1,' N.—Hindu Scriptures. ( Everyman.)

*Burtt, E. A.—The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha. (Mentor.)

*Hiriyanna, M.—Outlines of Indian Philosophy. (Allen & Unwin.)

*Basham, A. L.—The Wonder that was India. (Sidgwick & Jackson. ) (c) Recommended for Reference:

Papers I and II

Varma, V. P.-Modern Indian Political Thought. (Agarwal, Agra.) Datte, K. K.-Dawn of Renascent India. (Allied, Bombay.) Мisra, B. B.—The Indian Middle Classes. (O.U.P.)

Natarajan, S.—A Century of Social Reform in India. (Asia, Bombay.) Desai, A. R.-Social Background of Indian Nationalism. (Popular, Bombay.) Piggot, S.-Prehfstoric India. (Pelican.)

Keith, A. B.-Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads. (Cambridge, Mass.)

Radhakrishnan, S.-Indian Philosophy. Vol. I. (Allen & Unwin) EXAMINATION

Two 3-hour papers. Students

wil

be required to write two essays during the second term.

48. INDIAN STUDIES В AND C

Students are reminded that although Indian Studies II and III consist of two half-subjects, credit will not be given for one half-subject only. The final assessment of the examination will be based on the two papers together, and the students will pass or fail in both together.

48-1. MODERN INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (Half-Subject) S. N. Ray

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1969.

SYLLABUS

This will be an advanced study of some of the major Indian political thinkers and schools of thought of the last one hundred years. Their ideas and activities will be examined in the context of contemporary political developments.

Books

(a) Prescribed text books:

*Fischer, L. (ed.)—The Essential Gandhi. (Vintage.)

*Tagore, Rabindranath—Towards Universal Man. Asia, Bombay.)

Norman, Dorothy—Nehru the First Sixty years. Vols. I & II. (Bodley Head.)

*Roy, M. N. Memoirs. ( Allied, Bombay.)

*Narayan, J. Р.—Socialism, Sarvodaya and Democracy. (Asia, Bombay.) Goyal, O. P.—Contemporary Indian Political Thought. (Kitabmahal, Allahabad.) Aiyar, S. P., and Srinivasan, R.—Studies in Indian Democracy. (Allied, Bombay.) (b) Recommended for reference:

Majumder, R. C. History of the Freedom Movement in India. Vols. II & IIL (Firma K. L. МіјІdіoрadьуaуа, Calcutta.)

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FACULTY OF AATs HANDBOOK

Chosh,

P.

C. Indian National Congress.

(Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyaya,

Cal-

cutta. )

Overstreet, G. D., and Windmiller, M.—Communism

in India.

(Perennial Press, Bombay.)

Weiner,

M. Party Politics in India. (Princeton.)

EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper. Students will be required to write one essay.

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2. CLASSICAL INDIAN THOUGHT (Half

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Subject)

J. T. F. Jordens

(Previously Indian Philosophy in Part II and Indian Philosophy and Religion in Part III.)

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1969.

SYLLABUS

An introduction to the efforts and achievements of classical Indian thinking in different fields: philosophy and theology, mysticism, ethics and politics. The most important thinkers or schools will be studied and their mutual relationship and influence will be considered.

BOOKS

(a) Prescribed text books:

*Radhakrishnan,

S.—Indian Philosophy.

2 Vols. (Allen & Unwin.)

*Нiriуаnnа, I.—Outlines

of Indian Philosophy.

(Allen & Unwin.) Zimmer,

H.—Philosophies of India.

(Meridian.)

(b) Recommended for reference:

Eliade,

M.-Yoga, Immortality and Freedom. (Routledge &

Kegan Paul.) Riepe,

D.—The Naturalist Tradition in Indian Thought.

(University of Wash-

ington.)

Varma, V.

P.—Studies in Hindu Political Thought.

(Motilil Banarasidas, Benares. )

Zaehner, R.

C.—Mysticism, Sacred and Profane. (O.U.P. )

EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper. Students will be required to write one essay.

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3. BENGALI LITERATURE (Half

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Subject)

A. Mojumder

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1969.

SYLLABUS

This will be a study of the historical development of Bengali literature with prescribed literary texts in English translation. The larger socio-cultural context of this literature

will be

also taken into consideration.

BOOKS

(a) Prescribed text books:

*Mojumder,

A.—Caryã-songs.

( selected pieces.) available from

the Department.

*Dimmock, E.

C.—The Thief of Love. ( Chicago,

U.P. )

Thompson, E. J., and Spencer, A.

/A—Bengali Religious Lyrics. (Y.M.C.A.,

Calcutta.)

*Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra—Krishnakanta's

Will.

Tr. by J. C. Ghose.

(UNESCO, New Directions.)

*Tagore, Rabindranath—Poems. (Viswabharati, Calcutta.)

*Tagore, Rabindranath-Dora. (Macmillan.)

Tagore, Rabindranath—Binodinł. Tr. by K. Kripalani. (Sahitya Academy, New Delhi.)

INDIAN STUDIES

Tagore, Rabindranath—The Housewarming and other Stories. (New American Library, New York.)

Banпerjee, Manik—The Boatman of Padma. Tr. by H. Mukherjee. (Kutub, Bombay. )

*Rаy, Lila (E . & Tr.)—The Broken Bread. (M. C. Sarkar & Son, Calcutta.) (b) Recommended for reference:

Sen, D. C.—Нistory of Bengali Language and Literature. ( Calcutta University.)

*chose, J. C. Bengali Literature. ( O.U.P. )

De, S. K.—Bengali Literature in the 19th Century. ( Firma K. L. Mukhopad- hyaya, Calcutta. )

EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper. Students will be required to write one essay.

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4.

SANSKRIT

AND PRAKRIT LITERATURE (Half

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Subject) J.

T. F. Jordens and A. Mojumder

(FORMERLY CLASSICAL INDIAN LITERATURE)

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1968.

SYLLABUS

Some major works of Classical Sanskrit and Prakrit literature (lyrical, didactic, narrative and dramatic) will be studied in translation. The course also includes the study of Indian poetics.

BOOKS

(a) Prescribed textbooks:

Keith, A. B.—Classical Sanskrit Literature. (Y.M.C.A., Calcutta.) Wells, H. W.-Six Sanskrit Plays. ( Asia, London. )

Edgerton, F. E. (Ed.)—Kalidasa, The Cloud Messenger. (Ann Arbor Paper- back.)

Yohannan, J. D.—A Treasury of Asian Literature. ( Mentor.) Ryder, A. W. ( tr. )—Pancatantra. (Jaico, Bombay. )

Tawney, C. H. (tr. )—Stories from Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara. (jaico, Bombay. )

Francis, H. T., and Thomas, E. J.—Jataka Tales. (jaico, Bombay;) (b) Recommended for reference:

Dasgupta, S. N., and De, S. К: А History of Sanskrit Literature. Vol. L (Cal- cutta, University. )

Keith, A. B.—The Sanskrit Drama. ( O.U.P. )

De, S. К. History of Sanskrit Poetics. (Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyaya, Calcutta.) EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper. Students will be required to write one essay.

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5. INDIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE

(Наlf-Subject) S. N. Ray

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1988.

SYLLABUS

An historical survey of Indian painting, sculpture and architecture to the end of the Hindu period, with some discussion of the canons of Hindu-Buddhist art.

BOOKS

(a) Preliminary reading:

Iyer, K. B.—Indian Art. (Asia, Bombay.) (b) Prescribed textbooks:

*Brown, P. Indian Architecture: Buddhist and Hindu. (Taraporevala, Boni- bay.)

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FACULTY OF ARTS HANDBOOK

*Saraswati, S. К.—А Survey of Indian Sculpture. (Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyaya, Calcutta.)

Goetz, H. Five Thousand Years of Indian Art. (Taraporevala, Bombay.) Bhattacharya, T. P.—The Canons of Indian Art. (Firma K. L. Mukhорadуаyа,

Calcutta.)

Rowland, B.—Art in East and West. (Beacon.) (c) Recommended for reference:

Zimmer, H.—The Art of Indian Asia. 2 vols. (Pantheon.) Rowland, B.—The Art and Architecture of India. (Penguin.)

Coomaraswamy, A. К. Нistотy of Indian and Indonesian Art. (Dover.).

EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper. Studenťs will be required to write one essay.

48-6. ISLAM IN INDIA (Нalf-Subject)

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1968.

SYLLABUS

An introduction to Islam's contribution to religion, culture, and social and political developments in India. Its scope will be limited mainly to the pre-Brxtish period.

BOOKS

(a) Preliminary reading:

Titus, M. T. Islam in India and Pakistan. (Y.M.C.A., Calcutta.) (b) Prescribed textbooks:

Sources of Indian Tradition. Compiled by W. T. de Bary and others. Part 4 only. (Columbia U.P.)

Tarachand—Influence of Islam on Indian Culture. (Indian Press, Allahabad.) Husain, Yusuf—Glimpses of Medieval Indian Culture. (Asia, Bombay.) Ahmad, Aziz—Islamic Culture in the Indian Environment. (O.U.P.)

Qureshi, I. H.—The Muslim Community of the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent.

(Mouton, The Hague.) (c) Recommended for reference:

Brown, Percy—Indian Architecture: Islamic Period. (Taraporevala, Bombay.

Karim, Abdul—Social History of the Muslims in Bengal. (Asiatic Society, Dacca.) EXAMINATION

One 3-hour paper. Students will be required to write one essay.

INDIAN LANGUAGE : ORDINARY DEGREE Group 1

This is a new course which has been available since 1967. The language offered is Bengali which may be taken as a sub-major (parts I and ii >, or as a major (parts I, II and III), or as part of the course for the degree with Honours in the School of Indian Studies. The first two years will be devoted mainly to language study; the finаl year will include critical study of major literary texts in the original. An intensive Summer School will be provided for the duration of two weeks, immediately before the commencement of the first term, and students seeking admission to Bengali Part I are required to attend it. They must contact the Department not later than February 15th.

50-1. BENGALI PART I A. Mojumder

A course of two lectures per week plus two tutorials throughout the year. Avail- able in 1968.

SYLLABUS

(i) General historical outline of the origin and development of the Bengali language.

INDIAN STUDIES

(ii) Basic elements of Bengali grammar, phonetics, phonology and orthography.

(iii) Spoken Bengali.

(iv) Reading from set texts, translation from Bengali into English and from English into Bengali.

BOOКS

• (а) Prescribed text books:

*Dimmoek, E. C.—An Introduction to Bengali, Part L (East West Center Press, Hawaii University, Honolulu.)

*Sengu pta, Subodh (Ed. m Anglo-Bengali Dictionary. (Sahïtya Samsad, Calcutta. )

*Sengupta, Subodh (Ed.)—Samsod Bengali-English Dictionary. (Sahitya Samsad, Calcutta.)

The Department will supply transcript material on Bengali grammar, pronuncia- tion, vocabulary and prescribed texts.

EXAMINATION

Two 3-hour papers, together with an oral test.