DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN STUDIES - faculty of arts and board of studies in journalism

Head of Department:

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

Modern Indian 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 Modern Indian Literature. years Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature. will be

available Indian Art and Architecture. in 1970 and

alternate

Islam in India. Ј ^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 development of India's traditional culture till the beginning of the Christian era.

BOOKS

(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

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

Paper 1.—The Indian Renaissance. (S. N. Ray.)

*Sources of Indian Tradition-ed. W. T. de Bary et al. Part 6 only. (Columbia U.P.)

*Heimsath, C.

H. Indian

Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform. (Princeton.)

(ed.)—British

Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance. (Vol. 10,

Part 2 of The History and Culture of the Indian People, Bharatiya Vidy- abhavan, Bombay.)

*Collet, S. D.—The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy. (ed., D. K. Biswas and P. C. Ganguli, Sadharqn Brahmo Samaj, Calcutta.)

Ghosh, P. C.—The Development of the Indian National Congress. (Firma K. L.

Mukhopadhyay, Calcutta.)

Paper IL—Cultural Heritage. (J. T. F. Jordens. )

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

*Маеniсоl, N.—Hindu Scriptures. ( Everyman.)

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

*Нiriуапnа, 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

Majumdar B. B. Indian Social and Political Ideas from Rammohan to Day- ananda (Sookland, Calcutta.)

Datta, K. K.—Dawn of Renascent India. (Allied, Bombay.) Misra, B. B.—The Indian Middle Classes. ^{(O.U.P. )}

Natarajan, S.—A Century of Social Reform in India. (Asia, Bombay.)

Majumdar, B. B. Indian Political Associations and Reform. of Legislature.

(Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay. ) Piggot, S. Prehistoric India. (Pelican.)

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

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

Two 3-hour papers. Students will be required to write two essays during the second term.

48. INDIAN STUDIES B AND C

Students are reminded that although Indian Studies B and C 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.

SYLLАВUs

This will be an advanced study of somé 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. (Godley Head.)

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

*Narayan, J. P.—Socialism, Sarvodaya and Democracy. (Asia, Bombay.) Karunakaran, K. P. (ed.)—Modern Indian Political Tradition. (Allied, Bombay.) Ramgopal—Indian Muslims. (Asia, Bombay.)

*Masani, M. R.—The Communist Party of India. (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay.)

(b) Recommended for reference:

Majumder, R. C. History of the Freedom Movement in India. Vols. II & III.

(Firma K. L. Iukhopadhyaya, Calcutta.) 140

ØIAN° STUDIES

Varma, V. P.—Modern Indian Political Thought. (Agarwal, Agra.)

Loyal, 0. P.—Contemporary Indian Political Thought. (Kitabmahal, Allahabad.) Park, R. L.—India's Political System. (Prentice-Hall.)

Aiyar, S. P., and Sгinivasan, R.—Studies in Indian Democracy. (Allied, Bombay.) EXAMINATION

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

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48 2. CLASSICAL INDIAN THOUGHT (Half-Subject )

J. T. F. Jordens

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.)

*Hiriyanna, М.—Outlines of Indian Philosophy. (Allen & Unwin.) Zimmer, H.—Philosophłes of India. (Meridian.)

(b) Recommended for reference:

Eliade, M.—Yoga, Immortality and Freedom. (Routledge & Kegan Paul.) Tiepe, D.—The Naturalist Tradition In Indian Thought. (University of Wash-

ington.)

Varma, V. P.—Studies in Hindu . Political Thought. (Мбtilil 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.

48 3. MODERN INDIAN LITERATURE (Half

Subject)

S. N. Ray and 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 Modern Indian literatures with prescribed literary texts in English translation.

BOOKS

(a) Prescribed text books:

*Chatterjee, Bankim Chandra—Krishnakantas Will. Tr. by J. C. Chose.

( UNESCO, New Directions.)

*Tagore, Rabindranath—Cora. ( Macmillan. )

*Premchand—Godan. (Jaico, Bombay.)

*Pillai, T. Shivsankar—Chemeeп. ( UNESCO, New Directions. ) Naravan, R. K. The Financial Expert. ( Methuen, London.)

*Raeside, I. (Tr.)—The Rough and the Smooth. (Asia, Bombay.)

• *Ray, Lila (Tr.)—The Broken Bread. (I. C. Sarkar & Sons, Calcutta.) Kabir, H. (ed. )—Contemporary Indian Short Stories. (Sahitya Akademi, New

Delhi.)

*Tagore, Rabindranath—One Hundred and One. (Asia, Bombay.)

*Misra, Vidya Nivas (ed. )—Modern Hindi Poetry: An Anthology. (Indiana Uni- versity Press, Bloomington.)

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*Chitre, Dilip ( ed. )—An Anthology of Marathi Poetry. (Nirmala Sadаnand Pub- lishers, Bombay.)

Rau, A. V. Rajeswara (ed.)—Modern Indian Poetry. (Kavita, New Delhi.) (b) Recommended for reference:

*Chatterjee, S. K.—Languages and Literatures of India. (Bengal Publishers, Cal- cutta.)

Contemporary Indian Literature: A Symposium. ( 2nd ed.) (Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.)

Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa—Indian Writing in English. (Asia Publishing House, Bombay.)

EXAMINATION

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

48 4. SANSKRIT AND PRAKRIT LITERATURE ( Наlf

Subject) J.

T. F. Jordens and A. Majumder

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1970.

SYLLАВUs

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. В.—Classicаl 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 ś Kathasaritsagara. (Jako, Bombay.)

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

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

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

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

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

48 5. INDIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE (На )f

Subject)

S. N. Ray

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1970.

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, Bom- bay.)

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

Goetz, H. Five Thousand Years of Indian Art. (Taraporevala

,

^Bombay.) 142

INDIAN STUDIES

Bhattaeharya, T. P.—The Canons of Indian Art. (Firma K. L. Mukhopadyaya, Calcutta. )

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

Coomaraswamy, A. K.—History of Indian and Indonesian Art. (Dover.) Frédéric, L.—Indian Temples and Sculpture. (Thames & Hudson.) EXAMINATION

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

48 6. ISLAM IN INDIA ( Наlf

Subject )

A course of one lecture per week and one tutorial per fortnight throughout the year. Available in 1970.

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-British 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. )

Tarachaлd-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. 1.—The Muslim Community of the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent.

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

Brown, Percy-Indian Architecture: Islamic Period. (Taraporevala, Bombay.) Karim, Аbdul—Social History of the Muslims in Bengal. ( Asiatic Society, Dacca.) EXAMINATION

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

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