CC 1 : History of India From the earliest times to C 300 BCE

1. Archeological survey of India 

2.  The Wonder That Was India by Basham A.L, London, 1954 

3.  Indian Epigraphy by Sircar D.C New Delhi 

4.  The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization from Pre-historic times to the Present Day by Altekar A.S, New Delhi, 1962 

5. The City in Early Historic India by Ghosh Amalananda  Shimla, 1973 

CC-2 : Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of the ancient world other than India

1. People of the Earth. : an introduction to world prehistory by B.Fagan

2. An Outline History of China by   Bai Shaoyi Beijing : Foreign Languages Press, 1982.

3. Cambridge History of Africa, Vol.I. Cambridge University Press ,1982

4. World Prehistory: A New Perspective by G.Clark Cambridge University Press, 1977 

5. The Ancient Economy by M.I.Finley, University of California Press 

CC-3 : History of India C 300 BCE to C 750 CE

1.  The making of early Medieval India by Chattopadhyaya B.D, 1994 

2.  History of Science and Technology in Ancient India by Chattopadhyaya D.P, 1986 

3.  Bharatvarsha and other Essays by  Chattopadhyaya B.D, Permanent Black, Delhi, 2017 

4.  A History of South India by Sastri K.A.N 

5.  Indian Feudalism by Sharma R.S, 1980

CC-4 : Social Formations and Cultural patters of the Medieval World other than India

1. A Short History of the Saracens by Ali, Syed Ameer Macmillan, 1900 

2. A Secret History of the Mongols by  Barthold, V., Cheng & Tsui Co

3.  Medieval Civilizations (400-1500) by Goff, Le,  Blackwell Publishing, August 1991

4. The Ottoman Empire by Inalcik, Halil Phoenix, December 2000

5. The Jews of Islam by Lewis, Bernard, 1984

CC-5 : History of India (CE 750 – 1206)

1.  The Making of Early Medieval India by  Chattopadhyaya, B.D,1994

2. The State in India (AD 1000 – AD 1700) by Kulke, Hermann, ed.,

3. Comprehensive History of India, Vol. IV (A & B) by Sharma, R.S and Shrimali, K.M eds.,

4. A Cultural History of India by Basham, A.L., (ed.),

5. The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India by Habibullah, A.B.M

CC-5 : History of India (CE 750 – 1206) 

1. Chattopadhyaya, B.D, The Making of Early Medieval India, 1994 

2. Kulke, Hermann, ed., The State in India (AD 1000 – AD 1700) 

3. Sharma, R.S. Indian Feudalism (circa 300 – 1200)

4. Sharma, R.S and Shrimali, K.M eds., Comprehensive History of India, Vol. IV (A & B)

CC-6 : Rise of the Modern West - I 

1. Butterfield H., The Origins of Modern Science. The Macmillan 

2. Cipolla Carlo M., Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vols. II and III Collins/ Fontana Books;  1978 

3. Scammell V., The First Imperial Age: European Overseas expansion, 1400-1715. Routledge, 2003

4. Poliensky.V, war and Society in Europe, 1618-48 Cambridge University Press, 2008

5. Lee, Stephen J., Aspects of European History, 1494-1789 Routledge, 1982

CC-7 : HISTORY OF INDIA (c.1206-1526) 

1. Nizami K.A., Some Aspects of Religion and Politics in India During the 13th Century, Aligarh,  1961 

2. Chandra Satish, Medieval India I, Har Anand Publication, New Delhi, July 2007.

3. Hasan Mohibul, On History and Historians of Medieval India, Meenakshi Prakashan, 1968

4. The Cambridge Economic History Of India, Vol. 2, C. 1751 C. 1970 Kumar, Dharma And Desai, Meghnad, Eds. 

CC-8 : Rise of the Modern West - II

1. The Origins of Modern Science By Butterfield H., The Macmillan Company. 1959 

2.  Before the Industrial Revolution, European Society and Economy, 1000-1700 by Cipolla Carlo M.,W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition 1994 

3. The Rise of the Atlantic Economics. By Davis Ralph,  Cornell University Press 

4. Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600-1750 by Vries Jan de,  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976

5. The First Imperial Age: European Overseas expansion, 1400-1715. By Scammell V.,  Routledge, 2003

 CC-9 : History of India (c 1526 – 1605)  and  CC-10: History of India (c 1605 – 1750s) 

1. The Eighteenth Century in India by Alavi,Seema (ed.), 

2. Mughal Art and Imperial Ideology by Koch Ebba

3. Dara Shikoh by Qanungo, K.R, 

4. Muslim Revivalist Movements in Northern India by Rizvi, S.A.A,

5. History of Medieval India by Satish Chandra

CC-11: History of Modern Europe (c.1780 – 1939) 

1. Brennan Gerald, The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War   

2. Cipolla C.M, Fontana Economic History of Europe, Volume III: The Industrial Revolution Davies Norman, Europe  

3. The Modern State   by Christopher Pierson 

4. Hunt Lynn, Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution    

5. Landes David; Prometheus Unbound  

CC-12: History of India (c 1750s – 1857) 

1. Bayly C.A, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire, New Cambridge History of India  

2. Chakravarty Suhash, The Raj Syndrome: A study in Imperial Perceptions, 1989    

3. Chandra Bipan, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India   

4. Guha Ranajit, ed., A Subaltern Studies Reader   

5. Grewal, J.S, The Sikhs of the Punjab, New Cambridge History of India    

CC-13 : History of India (c. 1857 – 1964)

1. From Plassey to Partition and After by  Bandyopadhyay Sekhar

2. Gandhi’s rise to power, 1915-22 by Brown Judith

3. Indian politics and society since independence by B. Chakrabarty

4. India Today by Dutta, R.P 

5. Peasant Struggles in India by Desai, A.R

CC-14 : History of World Politics: 1945-1994

1. Modern Europe 1789 – Present by Asa Briggs and Patricia Clavin, Delhi, 2009

2. World Politics 1945 – 2000, by Peter Calvocoressi,  New Delhi, 2006

3. The New Cold War : Moscow vs. Peking by Edward Crankshaw,  Penguin Books, 1963

4. The Age of Extremes : The Short Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm,  London, 1994

5.Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism, by Eric Hobsbawm,  London, 2007