Looking into Indian Heritage through Art and Architecture


Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Define Indian heritage and identify major categories of India's cultural and built heritage.
  2. Describe pre-colonial Indian art traditions, including manuscript illustration, mural and miniature painting.
  3. Identify and classify architectural forms such as stupas, cave and temple architecture and Indo-Persian monuments.
  4. Analyze the influence of Western art and architecture on Indian heritage during the colonial period.
  5. Evaluate changes and continuities in Indian art and architecture in the post-colonial period.

History of Early India from the Remote Past to the Late Vedic Period


Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Recall the major phases of prehistoric and protohistoric cultures in India, from the Paleolithic to the Late Vedic period.
  2. Explain the salient features of the Harappan Civilization and the debates surrounding the Indus script and its decline.
  3. Compare imperialist, nationalist, leftist, liberal, secular and religious schools of historiography on early India.
  4. Analyze the emergence of caste society, organized religion and state territoriality in Vedic and post-Vedic India.
  5. Evaluate the socio-political and religious factors behind the rise of Magadha as an imperial power and the spread of Ajivikism, Jainism and Buddhism.