UGC NET History Syllabus 2020 Exam comprises of two papers - Paper 1 and Paper 2. The syllabus has been revised in 2019 and no changes are expected to be made in UGC NET Syllabus 2020. UGC NET Paper 1 Syllabus tests teaching and reasoning ability, research aptitude, comprehension, out-of-the-box thinking , and general awareness of the candidate. UGC NET Paper 2 Syllabus is predicated on the topic chosen by the candidate. It tests the candidate’s in-depth knowledge and expertise within the respective subject. NTA UGC NET is conducted for a complete of 81 subjects.
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UGC will conduct UGC NET History Syllabus
2020 June session from June 15 – 20, 2020 in online mode. so as to organize
better and provides a correct idea of the syllabus and paper pattern, NTA has
also released Mock Tests for the examination on its official website. NTA has
revised UGC NET Syllabus 2020 of Paper 1 and every one 81 NET subjects for
Paper 2. to extend the accuracy of solving the questions, the aspirants should
thoroughly undergo the UGC NET Sociological Theory Syllabus 2020
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2020 Moreover, for better preparations, candidates also can download UGC NET
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UGC NET Paper 1 Syllabus 2020
UGC NET History Syllabus
2020 Paper 1 is common and compulsory for every candidate. Paper 1 will have 50
questions worth 100 marks. Paper 1 syllabus has 10 units and exactly 5
questions will be asked from each unit. Detailed syllabus for Paper 1 is
described below UGC NET Sociological Theory Syllabus 2020
Unit-I Teaching Aptitude
- Teaching: Concept, Objectives,
Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding, and Reflective),
Characteristics, and basic requirements.
- Learner’s characteristics:
Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social,
Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.
- Factors affecting teaching
related to Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities,
Learning environment, and Institution.
- Methods of teaching in
Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centered vs. Learner-centered
methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs, etc.).
- Teaching Support System:
Traditional, Modern, and ICT based.
- Evaluation Systems: Elements
and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in
Higher education, Computer-based testing, Innovations in evaluation
systems.
Unit-II Research Aptitude
- Research: Meaning, Types, and
Characteristics, Positivism, and Postpositivistic approach to research.
- Methods of Research:
Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative, and Quantitative
Methods, Steps of Research.
- Thesis and Article writing:
Format and styles of referencing, Application of ICT in
research, Research ethics.
Unit-III Comprehension
- A passage of text is given.
Questions are asked from the passage to be answered.
Unit-IV Communication
- Communication: Meaning, types,
and characteristics of communication.
- Effective communication: Verbal
and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom
communication, Barriers to effective communication, Mass-Media, and
Society.
Unit-V Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
- Types of reasoning: Number
series, Letter series, Codes, and Relationships.
- Mathematical Aptitude:
Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit
and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages, etc.
Unit-VI Logical Reasoning
- Understanding the structure of
arguments: argument forms, the structure of categorical propositions, Mood
and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations,
and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition, Evaluating and
distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning, Analogies.
- Venn diagram: Simple and
multiple uses for establishing the validity of arguments.
- Indian Logic: Means of
knowledge, Pramanas- Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana
(Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and
Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension). · Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti
(invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).
Unit-VII Data Interpretation
- Sources, acquisition, and
classification of Data.
- Quantitative and Qualitative
Data.
- Graphical representation
(Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart, and Line-chart)
- Mapping of Data, Data
Interpretation. Data and Governance.
Unit-VIII Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- ICT: General abbreviations and
terminology, Basics of the Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and
Video-conferencing, Digital initiatives in higher education. ICT and
Governance.
Unit-IX People, Development and Environment
- Development and Environment:
Millennium Development and Sustainable Development Goals.
- Human and environment
interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on the
environment.
- Environmental issues: Local,
Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise
pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic),
Climate change, and its Socio-Economic and Political
dimensions. Impacts of pollutants on human health.
- Natural and energy resources:
Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear, and Forests.
- Natural hazards and disasters:
Mitigation strategies, Environmental Protection Act (1986), National
Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal
Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris
Agreement, International Solar Alliance.
Unit-X Higher Education System
- Institutions of higher learning
and education in ancient India.
- Evolution of higher learning
and research in Post Independence India.
- Oriental, Conventional, and
Non-conventional learning programs in India.
- Professional, Technical, and
Skill-Based education.
- Value education and
environmental education.
- Policies, Governance, and
Administration.
UGC NET Paper 1 Books
UGC NET History Syllabus
2020 There are some of the important books that will help you to prepare better
for UGC NET Sociological Theory Syllabus 2020. Candidates must be well
versed in their respective subjects for Paper 2. They should rigorously go
through books of their bachelor's and master's curriculum. For Paper
1 they can follow the given books.
UGC NET History Syllabus 2020
- The History paper consists of all the aspects of Indian History, Pre-history, Ancient period, Medieval Indian history and Modern India including National Movement and post independent phase. It also consists of Historical Method, Research Methodology and Historiography. Since, the subject and the boundaries of Indian history are vast and comprehensive, it has been systematically analysed and synthesized into Ten Units. However, the concepts, the ideas and the terms given here would specify the extent the subject included though it is not mentioned in the units. It is to make the student realize the comprehension of the syllabus prepared.
- Concepts, Ideas and Terms
- Bharatvarsha
- Khilafat
- Sabha and Samiti
- Sulah-i-kul
- Varnasrama
- Turkan-i-Chahlghani
- Vedanta
- Watan
- Purusharthas
- Baluta
- Rina
- Taquavi
- Samskaras
- Iqta
- Yajna
- Jaziya
- Ganarajya
- Zakat
- Janapada
- Madad-i-maash
- Doctrine of Karma
- Amaram
- Dandaniti / Arthasastra /
Saptanga
- Raya-Rekho
- Dharmavijaya
- Jangama / Dasa
- Stupa / Chaitya/ Vihara
- Madarasa / Maqtab
- Nagara / Dravida / Vesara
- Chauth / Sardeshmukhi
- Bodhisattva / Tirthankara
- Sarai
- Alvars / Nayanars
- Polygars
- Sreni
- Jagir / Shariyat
- Bhumi-chidra-vidhana-nyaya
- Dastur
- Kara-bhoga-bhaga
- Mansab (Rank)
- Vishti
- Deshmukh
- Stridhana
- Nadu / Ur
- Memorial Stones
- Ulema
- Agraharas
- Firman
- Ain-i-Dashsalah
- Satyagraha
- Pargana
- Swadeshi
- Shahna-i-Mandi
- Revivalism
- Mahalwari
- Communalism
- Hind Swaraj
- Orientalism
- Mercantilism
- Oriental Despotism
- Economic Nationalism
- De-Industrialisation
- Indian Renaissance
- Subsidiary Alliance
- Economic Drain
- Evangelicalism
- Colonialism
- Bhudan
- Paramountcy
- Panchsheel
- Dyarchy
- Mixed Economy
- Federalism
- Socialism
- Utilitarianism
- Hindu Code Bill
- Filtration Theory
- Historical Methods
- Forward Policy
- Plagiarism
- Doctrine of Lapse
- Ethics and Morality in History
Writing
- Unit – I
- Negotiating the Sources:
Archaeological sources: Exploration, Excavation, Epigraphy and
Numismatics. Dating of Archaeological Sites. Literary Sources: Indigenous
Literature: Primary and Secondary: problem of dating Religious and Secular
Literature, Myths, Legends, etc. Foreign Accounts: Greek, Chinese and
Arabic.
- Pastoralism and Food
production: Neolithic and Chalcolithic Phase: Settlement, distribution,
tools and patterns of exchange.
- Indus/Harappa Civilization:
Origin, extent, major sites, settlement pattern, craft specialization,
religion, society and polity, Decline of Indus Civilization, Internal and
external trade, First urbanization in India.
- Vedic and later Vedic periods;
Aryan debates, Political and Social Institutions, State Structure and
Theories of State; Emergence of Varnas and Social Stratification,
Religious and Philosophical Ideas. Introduction of Iron Technology,
Megaliths of South India.
- Expansion of State system:
Mahajanapadas, Monarchical and Republican States, Economic and Social
Developments and Emergence of Second Urbanization in 6th century BCE;
Emergence of heterodox sects-Jainism, Buddhism and Ajivikas.
- Unit – II
- From State to Empire: Rise of
Magadha, Greek invasion under Alexander and its effects, Mauryan
expansion, Mauryan polity, society, economy, Asoka’s Dhamma and its
Nature, Decline and Disintegration of the Mauryan Empire, Mauyan art and
architecture, Asokan edicts: language and script.
- Dissolution of Empire and
Emergence of Regional Powers: Indo-Greeks, Sungas, Satavahanas, Kushanas
and Saka-Ksatrapas, Sangam literature, polity and society in South India
as reflected in Sangam literature. Trade and commerce from 2nd century BCE
to 3rd century CE, Trade with the Roman World, Emergence of Mahayana
Buddhism, Kharavela and Jainism, Post-Mauryan art and Architecture.
Gandhara, Mathura and Amaravati schools.
- Gupta Vakataka age: Polity and
Society, Agrarian Economy, Land Grants, Land Revenue and Land Rights,
Gupta Coins, Beginning of Temple Architecture, Emergence of Puranic
Hinduism, Development of Sanskrit Language and Literature. Developments in
Science Technology, Astronomy, Mathematics and Medicine.
- Harsha and his Times:
Administration and Religion.
- Salankayanas and Visnukundins
in Andhradesa.
- Unit – III
- Emergence of Regional Kingdoms:
Kingdoms in Deccan: Gangas, Kadmabas, Western and Eastern Chalukyas,
Rashtrakutas, Kalyani Chalukyas, Kakatiyas, Hoysalas and Yadavas.
- Kingdoms in South India:
Pallavas, Ceras, Colas and Pandyas,
- Kingdoms in Eastern India:
Palas and Senas of Bengal, Varmans of Kamarupa, Bhaumakaras and Somavamsis
of Odisha.
- Kingdoms in Western India:
Maitrakas of Vallabhi and Chalukyas of Gujarat.
- Kingdoms in North India:
Gurjara-Pratiharas, Kalacuri-Chedis, Gahadavalas and Paramaras.
- Characteristics of Early Medieval
India: Administration and Political Structure Legitimation of Kingship.
- Agrarian economy; land grants,
changing production relations; graded land rights and peasantry, water
resources, taxation system, coins and currency system;
- Trade and urbanization:
patterns of trade, and urban settlements, ports and trade routes,
merchandise and exchange, trade guilds; trade and colonization in
south-east Asia.
- Growth of Brahminical
religions: Vaisnavism and Saivism; Temples; Patronage and Regional
Ramification; Temple Architecture and Regional Styles. Dana, Tirtha and
Bhakti, Tamil Bhakti movement – Shankara, Madhava and Ramanujacharya.
- Society: Varna, Jati and
Proliferation of Castes, Position of women; Gender, marriage and property
relations; Women in public life. Tribes as peasants and their place in
Varna order. Untouchability.
- Education and Educational
Institutions: Agraharas, Mathas and Mahaviharas as Centres of Education.
Growth of Regional Languages.Debates of state formation in early medieval
India: A) Feudal model; B) Segmentary model; C) Integrative model
- Arab contracts: Suleiman
Ghaznavid conquests. Alberuni’s Accounts.
- Unit – IV
- Source of Medieval Indian
History: Archaeological, Epigraphic and Numismatic sources, Material
evidences and Monuments; Chronicles; Literary sources – Persian, Sanskrit
and Regional languages; Daftar Khannas: Firmans, Bahis / Pothis /
Akhbarat; Foreign Travellers’ Accounts – Persian and Arabic.
- Political Developments – The
Delhi Sultanate – the Ghorids, the Turks, the Khaljis, the Tughlaqs,
theSayyids and the Lodis. Decline of Delhi Sultanate.
- Foundation of the Mughal Empire
– Babur, Humayun and the Suris ; Expansion and Consolidation from Akbar to
Aurangzeb. Decline of the Mughal Empire.
- Later Mughals and
Disintegration of the Mughal Empire.
- The Vijayanagara and the
Bahmanis – Deccan Sultanate; Bijapur, Golkonda, Bidar, Berar and
Ahmadnagar – Rise, Expansion and Disintegration; Eastern Gangas and
Suryavamshi Gajapatis.
- Rise of the Marathas & the
foundation of Swaraj by Shivaji ; its expansion under the Peshwas ; Mughal
– Maratha relations, Maratha Confederacy, Causes of Decline.
- Unit – V
- Administration & Economy:
Administration under the Sultanate, Nature of State – Theocratic and
Theocentric, Central, Provincial and Local Administration, Law of
succession.
- Sher Shah’s Administrative
Reforms ; Mughal Administration – Central, Provincial and Local : Mansabdari
and Jagirdari Systems.
- Administrative System in the
Deccan – The Vijayanagara State & Polity, Bahamani Administrative
System; Maratha Administration – Asta Pradhan.
- Frontier Policies under Delhi
Sultanate and Mughals.
- Inter-State Relations during
the Sultanate and the Mughals.
- Agricultural Production and
Irrigation System, Village Economy, Peasantry, Grants and Agricultural
Loans, Urbanization and Demographic Structure.
- Industries – Cotton Textiles,
Handicrafts, Agro-Based industries, Organisation, Factories &
Technology.
- Trade and Commerce – State
Policies, Internal and External Trade: European Trade, Trade Centres and
Ports, Transport and Communication.
- Hundi (Bills of Exchange) and
Insurance, State Income and Expenditure, Currency, Mint System; Famines
and Peasant Revolts.
- Unit – VI
- Society and Culture: Social
Organisation and Social Structure.
- The Sufis – Their Orders,
Beliefs and Practices, the leading Sufi Saints, Social Synchronization.
- Bhakti Movement – Shaivism;
Vaishnavism, Shaktism.
- The Saints of the Medieval
Period – North and South – their impact on Socio-Political and Religious
Life – Women Saints of Medieval India.
- The Sikh Movement – Guru Nanak
Dev: his teachings and practices, Adi Granth; the Khalsa.
- Social Classification: Ruling
Class, Major Religious Groups, the Ulemas, the Mercantile and Professional
Classes – Rajput Society.
- Rural society – Petty
Chieftains, Village Officials, Cultivators and Non-Cultivating Classes,
Artisans.
- Position of Women – Zanana
System – Devadasi System.
- Development of Education,
Centres of Education and Curriculum, Madarasa Education.
- Fine Arts – Major Schools of
Painting – Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari, Garhwali; Development of Music.
- Art and Architecture,
Indo-Islamic Architecture, Mughal Architecture, Regional Styles.
- Indo-Arabic Architecture,
Mughal Gardens, Maratha Forts, Shrines and Temples.
- Unit –VII
- Sources of Modern Indian
History: Archieval Materials, Biographies and Memoirs, Newspapers, Oral
Evidence, Creative Literature and Painting, Monuments, Coins.
- Rise of British Power: European
Traders in India in the 16th to 18th Centuries – Portuguese, Dutch, French
and the British.
- Establishment and Expansion of
British Dominion in India.
- British Relations with
Principal Indian States – Bengal, Oudh, Hyderabad, Mysore, Carnatic and
Punjab.
- Revolt of 1857, Causes, Nature
and Impact.
- Administration of the Company
and the Crown; Evolution of Central and Provincial Structure under East
India Company.
- Paramountcy, Civil Service,
Judiciary, Police and the Army under the Company; British Policy and
Paramountcy in the Princely States under the Crown.
- Local Self-Government.
- Constitutional Changes, 1909 –
1935.
- Unit – VIII
- Colonial Economy: Changing
Composition, Volume and Direction of Trade.
- Expansion and Commercialization
of Agriculture, Land Rights, Land Settlements, Rural Indebtedness,
Landless Labour, Irrigation and Canal System.
- Decline of Industries –
Changing Socio-Economic Conditions of Artisans; De-urbanisation; Economic
Drain; World Wars and Economy.
- British Industrial Policy;
Major Modern Industries; Nature of Factory Legislation; Labour and Trade
Union Movements.
- Monetary Policy, Banking,
Currency and Exchange, Railways and Road Transport, Communications – Post
& Telegraph.
- Growth of New Urban Centres;
New Features of Town Planning and Architecture, Urban Society and Urban
Problems.
- Famines, Epidemics and the
Government Policy.
- Tribal and Peasant Movements.
- Indian Society in Transition:
Contact with Christianity – the Missions and Missionaries; Critique of
Indian Social and Economic Practices and Religious Beliefs; Educational
and Other Activities.
- The New Education – Government
Policy; Levels and Contents; English Language; Development of Science,
Technology, Public Health & Medicine – Towads Modernism.
- Indian Renaissance – Socio-Religious Reforms; Emergence of Middle Class; Caste Associations and Caste Mobility.
- Women’s Question – Nationalist
Discourse; Women’s Organisations; British Legislation concerning Women,
Gender Identity & Constitutional Position.
- The Printing Press –
Journalistic Activity and the Public opinion.
- Modernisation of Indian
Languages and Literary Forms – Reorientation in Painting, Music and
Performing Arts.
- Unit – IX
- Rise of Indian Nationalism:
Social and Economic basis of Nationalism.
- Birth of Indian National
Congress; Ideologies and Programmes of the Indian
- National Congress, 1885-1920:
Early Nationalists, Assertive Nationalists and Revolutionaries.
- Swadeshi and Swaraj.
- Gandhian Mass Movements; Subas
Chandra Bose and INA; Role of Middle Class in National Movement; Women
Participation in National Movement.
- Left Wing Politics.
- Depressed Class Movement.
- Communal Politics; Muslim
League and Genesis of Pakistan.
- Towards Independence and
Partition.
- India after Independence:
Challenges of Partition; Integration of the Indian Princely States;
Kashmir, Hyderabad & Junagarh.
- B.R. Ambedkar – The making of
the Indian Constitution, its Features.
- The Structure of Bureaucracy.
- New Education Policy.
- Economic Policies and the
Planning process; Development, Displacement and Tribal Issues.
- Linguistic Reorganisation of
States; Centre-State Relations.
- Foreign Policy Initiatives –
Panchsheel; Dynamics of Indian Politics-Emergency; Liberalisation,
Privatisation & Globalisation of Indian Economy
- Unit – X
- Historical Method, Research,
Methodology and Historiography:
- Scope and Importance of History
- Objectivity and Bias in History
- Heuristics Operation, Criticism
in History, Synthesis and Presentation
- History and its Auxiliary
Sciences
- History a Science, Arts or a
Social Science
- Causation and Imagination in
History
- Significance of Regional
History
- Recent Trends of Indian History
- Research Methodology
- Hypothesis in History
- Area of Proposed Research
- Sources – Data Collection,
Primary / Secondary, Original and Transit Sources
- Trends in Historical Research
- Recent Indian Historiography
- Selection of Topic in History
- Notes Taking, References,
Footnotes and Bibliography
- Thesis and Assignment Writing
- Plagiarism, Intellectual
Dishonesty and History Writing
- Beginnings of Historical
Writings – Greek, Roman and Church Historiography
- Renaissance and its Impact on
History Writing
- Negative and Positive Schools
of Historical Writing
- Berlin Revolution in History
Writing – Von Ranke
- Marxist Philosophy of History –
Scientific Materialism
- Cyclical Theory of History –
Oswald Spengler
- Challenge and Response Theory –
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
- Post – Modernism in History
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