The Best Recommended History books for MA course in Gauhati University

        Top History Books Reading List: Recommended by Gauhati University for various Exams

Best Book 

1. Bloch. Marc. 1953. The Historians Craft. London : Manchester University Press 
2. Braudel.F.1992.On History. London: Chicago University Press
3. Bury. J.B. 1920.The Idea of Progress. London: The Macmillan and Co. 
4. Butterfield. H. 1931. The Whig Interpretation of History. London: WW Norton& Company 
5. Carr. E.H. 1987.What is History. London: Cambridge University Press 
6. Collingwood. R.G. 1946.The Idea of History. London: Oxford University Press 
7. Fritz. Stern.(ed.) 1973. The Varieties of History. New York: Random House 

MA History Complete Syllabus of Gauhati University

 MA History CBCS Complete Syllabus of Gauhati University

The Post-Graduate Course in History requires students to opt for 16 (Sixteen) courses over four

semesters. The Department also offers one Value Added Course (VAC) per semester, i.e. a total of 4 (four) VAC over 4

(four) semesters. While the sixteen courses in History are assigned 6 (six) credits each, the VACs are assigned four credits

each. Thus each semester has 28 (24+4) credits and the Post-Graduate Course in History requires a total of 112 (96+16)

credits.