MHI-105 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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Assignment
MHI-105: History of Indian Economy-1
From Earliest Times to c. 1700
Course Code: MHI-105
Assignment Code: MHI-105/AST/TMA/
July 2025-January26

SECTION-A

1 Discuss the recent historiographical approaches to understand the economic history of ancient period in India

2 Examine the factors which determined the agrarian environment of the Indian Subcontinent.

3 Discuss the major main features of Harappan economy.

4 Examine the significance of coins to study the economy of Gupta and Satavahana Empires.

5 Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each

i Long distance Trade 200 BCE to 300 CE.

ii Irrigation: Early Medieval India

iii State’s claim on Agrarian Society 500-1300 CE North India

iv Land Rights- Tamil Region 300 to 1300 CE.

v Weavers, Textile production and Trade

SECTION-B

6 Discuss various categories of peasant in Medieval North India.

7 Examine the salient features of agrarian structure under Maratha rule.

8 Write a note on non-agricultural production between 1300-1700 CE.

9 Examine the role and significance of transport and communication in the growth of economy during 1300 to 1700 CE.

10 Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each

i Forest Clearance 1300-1700 CE

ii Pastoral Economy 1300-1700 CE

iii Forms of peasant resistance 1300-1700 CE

iv Women and craft production 1300-1700 CE

v Building construction