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SREENARAYANAGURU OPEN UNIVERSITY

B.A. SANSKRIT LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
ANCILLARY COURSE
B21HS21AN
History of Indian National Movement I

CREDITS: 6

Course Outcome:

This course is the first part of the course designed to be introduced to the students of other disciplines
as an Ancillary Course. This course covers the history of British Colonialism in India and the
anti-colonial national movement up to the Gandhian Era. The Course will help the students to
understand the inner dynamics that led to the making of India as a Nation.

Course Details

Block I: Foundation of Colonial Rule in India

Unit 1. Advent of European Trading Companies

Unit 2. English East India Company; Early Settlements

Unit- 3 . British in Bengal

Unit- 4. Battle of Plassey and Buxar

Block II: Consolidation of British Power

Unit 1. Lord Wellesly and Subsidiary Alliance

Unit 2. Land settlements: Permanent - Ryotwari

Unit 3. Dalhousie and Doctrine of Lapse

Unit 4. Macaulay and English Education

Block III: Resistance to British Rule

Unit 1. Economic Impact of British Rule

Unit 2. Revolt of 1857

Unit 3. Impact of the Revolt

Unit 4. Anti British Revolts after 1857 – Santhals- Bhils- Moplah uprisings

Block IV: Emergence of National Consciousness in India

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