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Online Refresher Course in History

By PROF. HEERAMAN TIWARI   |   JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
Learners enrolled: 1837

Welcome to ARPIT in History.


The MHRD (now Ministry of Education), Government of India has launched the online Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT) – a major and unique initiative of online professional development of faculty in higher education using the MOOCs platform SWAYAM.

ARPIT in History has been designed to provide broad historical information on a variety of themes so that faculty in higher education who would sign up for the course could get maximum benefit from it. The variety of modules offered in this course have been categorized on the basis of India’s historical chronology. 

During the next 40 episodes, we shall together take a trip to our past, India’s past, and will try to map the contours of India’s cultural landscapes from the very early days, when the dawn of human civilization began to make its impressions on this earth. We shall together dive into a very rich pool of India’s cultural geography, its intellectual milieu, and study the interwoven threads of India’s social fabric.

What is history, is a question all of us are often tempted to ask, but none of us are either confident to answer it satisfactorily or are satisfied with the answers proffered by the experts in the field. However, there are many ways through which we can study our past, learn from it, rejoice it, even get repelled by it. Through the material remains, like the inscriptions, temples and other architectures, coins, fabrics, and, indeed, through the rich literatures produced over several millennia, and official records, also known as archives, we try to trace our past, and live it, too. This is one possible answer to the question which was raised above, only a moment ago.

We have decided in this programme to focus on Cultural and Social history of India. We shall endeavour to travel through a large expanse of time and incorporate ancient, medieval and modern history of India. The periodisation of Indian history has never been a very comforting process, nor indeed has it been fully worked out to meet the movement of history in time. So, we will make an attempt to discuss the nuances of cultural and social aspects of Indian history.

During the course of this programme, we shall make available to the participants, apart from our audio-visual material, enough literature from which to read and augment the knowledge of Cultural and Social history of India. There will be references, images, and archival records that will supplement and support the literature and the videos. Our endeavour will be to make this programme as interactive as possible. And I invite to join us on this exciting journey of interpreting India’s past, and leaning from it.

The course consists of recorded modules, and each module has a video, text, references, and online quizzes. We hope you will enjoy it and benefit from it.  Thank you.

Summary
Course Status : Completed
Course Type :
Duration : 16 weeks
Category :
  • Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT)
Level : None
Start Date : 01 Dec 2020
End Date : 31 Mar 2021
Enrollment Ends : 31 Dec 2020
Exam Date : 10 Apr 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.


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Course layout

Course Layout

Unit 01 Ancient

1.     Origin and Development of Basic Sciences and Technologies: An Ancient Archeological Perspectives, Prof. Vasant Shinde, Director, Rakhigarhi Archeological Research Project

2.     Bharatavarsha: An Introduction by Dr. Ashish Kumar, Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

3.     Religion and Trade in Early Tamil Nadu: An Archeological Perspective by Dr. Vikas Kumar Verma, Dept. of History, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

4.     Early India and it’s Foreign Travellers by Dr. Ashish Kumar, Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

5.     Understanding Tantra-I by Dr. Pranshu Samdarshi, Amrita Darshanam – International Centre for Spiritual Studies, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Clappana, Kollam, Kerla.

6.     Understanding Tantra-II by Dr. Pranshu Samdarshi, Amrita Darshanam – International Centre for Spiritual Studies, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, Clappana, Kollam, Kerla.

7.     Early India and Ancient World by Dr. Ashish Kumar, Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

8.     Ashoka in the 20th Century: History, Memory and Representations, by Dr. Ashish Kumar, Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

9.     Overseas Archaeological Sources for Early India, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Shivaji College, University, Delhi.

10.  Revisiting the Overseas Sources for Early Indian History, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Shivaji College, University, Delhi.

11.  Puranas in the Historical Context, Monica Saxena, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Ramjas College, University, Delhi.

12. Viewing Early India in the Light of Prashastis by Dr. Vikas Kumar Verma, Dept. of History, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

13.  Ancient Indian Economic Organizations and their Role in Strengthening Human Life (From Beginning to Gupta Period) by Dr. Ankit Aggrawal, Assistant Profeesor, Dept. of History, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

14.  Kṛṣṇa or Many Kṛṣṇas? : The Question of Identity by Dr. Pratik Kumar, Assistant Profeesor, Dept. of History, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

15.  Reading Indian Visual Histories:  Some Methodological Issues, Professor and Head, Department of History, University of Delhi.

 

Unit 02- Medieval

16.  Bhakti Movement in Medieval India by Dr. Priyatosh Sharma, Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

17.  Understanding Vijayanagara Historical Studies by Prof. T.K. Venkatasubramanian, Retired Professor, Dept. of History, University of Delhi, Delhi.

18.  Understanding Chola Historical Studies, by Prof. T.K. Venkatasubramanian, Retired Professor, Dept. of History, University of Delhi, Delhi.

19.  Jalandhar Mahatmya: The Text and the Context, by Dr. Priyatosh Sharma, Department of History, Panjab University, Chandigarh.

20.  Mughal Architecture, Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of History, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

21.  The French Presence and Military Modernization of Awadh in Post Buxar Phase (1764-1775) by Dr. Uma Shankar Pandey, Dept. of History, Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

Unit 03- Modern

22. Swami Vivekanand (1863-1902) in Indian History: A Re-Evaluation by Dr. Arpita Mitra, Research Fellow, Vivekanand International Foundation, Delhi.

 

23. Madan Mohan Malaviya: Ideas on Dharma and Hindu Sangathan, by Dr. Bhuwan Kumar Jha, Department of History, Satyawati College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

 

24. Madan Mohan Malaviya: Role in the Indian national movement  by Dr. Bhuwan Kumar Jha, Department of History, Satyawati College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

25.  An Overview of the British Education Policy in India 1757-1947, Assistant Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, SSS, JNU, Delhi.

26.  Educational Development in Madras Presidency Part-1, Assistant Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, SSS, JNU, Delhi.

27. Indigenous Education in India, Assistant Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, SSS, JNU, Delhi.

 

28.  Scottish Contribution to Indian Education in the Nineteenth Century, Assistant Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, SSS, JNU, Delhi.

 

29.  Gandhi and the Round Table Conference: A Reappraisal by Dr. Archana Verma, Associate Professor, Department of History, Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

30.  The Poetic Journey of Allama Iqbal from Indian Nationalism to Pan-Islamism by Dr. Ravi K. Mishra, Deputy Director, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, Teen Murti Bhavan, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi, Delhi 110011


Instructor bio

PROF. HEERAMAN TIWARI

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
Heeraman Tiwari was educated at Lucknow University, Delhi University and Oxford University, England. He is a Professor at the Centre For Historical Studies; former Dean of Atal Bihari Vajpayee School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is Coordinator, UGC-CAS, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Concurrent Professor at School of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU; Concurrent Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 

Tiwari was Heinrich Zimmer Chair Professor of Indian Philosophy and Intellectual
History, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011-2012; Visiting Professor of Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History, Cluster of Excellence: Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany, 2011-2012 and Senior (Professorial) Fellow, The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,  and EURIAS Senior Fellow, 2014-2015. He was a Commonwealth Scholar for his D.Phil. degree at Balliol College, the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, and has several publications on Indian history, philosophy and literature. He is a Member of Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of Culture, Government of India. For the ARPIT in History Prof. Tiwari is being assisted by Dr Pratik Kumar, Assistant Professor, Delhi University, Delhi.






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