The National Testing Agency(NTA) releases the syllabus for various subjects tested under
the CUET UG Examination. Any individual willing to access the CUET UG syllabus can visit the official
website and download the syllabus in pdf format. For History as a domain subject
specifically, the CUET syllabus constitutes the entire portion of class 12th board examination along
with the deleted part as well.
The CUET UG paper consists of 50 questions, out of which a candidate can attempt a maximum of 40
questions within 45 minutes. For every correct answer +5 marks are rewarded and for every
incorrect answer a candidate gets -1 marks, there are no marks for a question which is not
attempted.
Following is the syllabus for the History domain for CUET UG:
Topic | Subtopics |
1. The Story of the First Cities Harappan Archaeology | ● Early urban centres ● Harappan civilization ● Archaeological report on a major site ● How it has been utilised by archaeologists/historians? |
2. Political and Economic History: How Inscriptions tell a story | ● Political and economic history from the Mauryan to the Gupta period ● Inscriptions and the decipherment of the script ● Shifts in the understanding of political and economic history ● Asokan inscription and Gupta period land grant ● Interpretation of inscriptions by historians |
3. Social Histories using the Mahabharata | ● Issues in social history, including caste,class, kinship, and gender. ● Transmission and publications of the Mahabharata. ● From the Mahabharata, illustrating how it has been used by historians. |
4. A History of Buddhism: Sanchi Stupa | ● A brief review of religious histories of Vedic Religion, Jainism, Vaishnavism, and Saivism. ● Focus on Buddhism. ● Sanchi stupa. ● Reproduction of sculptures from Sanchi. ● Ways in which sculpture has been interpreted by historians, and other sources for reconstructing the history of Buddhism. |
5. Medieval Society Through Travellers’ Accounts | ● Outline of social and cultural life as they appear in travellers’ accounts. ● A discussion of where they travelled, why they travelled, what they wrote, and For whom they wrote. ● What these travel accounts can tell us and how they have been interpreted by historians?. |
6. Religious Histories: The Bhakti-Sufi Tradition | ● Outline of religious developments during this period. ● Ideas and practices of the Bhakti-Sufi saints. ● How Bhakti-Sufi compositions have been preserved. ● Extracts from selected Bhakti Sufi works. ● Ways in which these have been interpreted by historians. |
7. New Architecture: Hampi | ● Outline of new buildings during the Vijayanagar Period — temples, forts, irrigation facilities. ● Relationship between architecture and the political system. ● Account of how Hampi was found. ● Visuals of buildings at Hampi. ● Ways in which historians have analysed and interpreted these structures. |
8. Agrarian Relations: The Ain-i-Akbari | ● Structure of agrarian relations in the 16th and 17th centuries. ● Patterns of change over the period. ● Account of the compilation and translation of Ain-i-Akbari. ● Ways in which historians have used the text to reconstruct history. |
9. The Mughal Court: Reconstructing Histories through Chronicles | ● Outline of political history c. 15th-17th centuries. ● Discussion of the Mughal court and politics. ● Account of the production of court chronicles, and their subsequent translation and transmission. ● Akbarnama and Padshahnama ● Ways in which historians have used the texts to reconstruct political histories. |
10. Colonialism and Rural Society: Evidence from Official Reports | ● Life of zamindars, peasants, and artisans in the late 18th century. ● East India Company, revenue settlements, and surveys. ● Changes over the nineteenth century. ● An account of why official investigations into rural societies were undertaken and the types of records and reports produced. ● Firminger’s Fifth Report, Accounts of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, and Deccan Riots Report. ● What do the official records tell and do not tell, and how they have been used by historians? |
11. Representations of 1857 | ● The events of 1857-58. ● How these events were recorded and narrated. ● Pictures of 1857. ● Extracts From contemporary accounts. ● How the pictures of 1857 shaped British opinion of what had happened. |
12. Colonialism and Indian Towns: Town Plans and Municipal Reports | ● The growth of Mumbai, Chennai, hill stations, and cantonments in the 18th and 19th centuries. ● Photographs and paintings. ● Plans of cities. ● Extract from town plan reports. ● Focus on Kolkata town planning. ● How can the above sources be used to reconstruct the history of towns? ● What these sources do not reveal. |
13. Mahatma Gandhi Through Contemporary Eyes | ● The nationalist movement 1918-48 ● The nature of Gandhian politics and leadership. ● Mahatma Gandhi in 1931. ● Reports from English and Indian language newspapers and other contemporary writings. ● How newspapers can be a source of history. |
14. Partition through Oral Sources | ● The history of the 1940s ● Nationalism, Communalism, and Partition. ● Punjab and Bengal. ● Oral testimonies of those who experienced partition ● Ways in which these have been analysed to reconstruct the history of the event. |
15. The Making of the Constitution | ● Independence and the new nation-state. ● The making of the Constitution. ● The Constitutional Assembly debates. ● What do such debates reveal and how can they be analysed? |
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CUET UG Syllabus of Political Science Domain