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.
| Course Status : | Completed |
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| Language for course content : | English |
| Duration : | 16 weeks |
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| 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 subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.
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
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