The course is a beginner’s level course intended to initiate the student into the discipline of History. It will seek to make the student comprehend the objectives, scope and prospects of the discipline. While the course is intended to make the student aware of challenges and possibilities of learning the discipline, it will also engage with a brief overview of the growth and significance of the disciplines as well as its potential applications.

 

Course Objectives  

The course intends to inform students of the diverse factors and dialectical forces which worked to shape modern Kerala and of the process through which the region developed a unique socio- economic system acclaimed later as ‘Kerala Model’.

 

Course Outcome

 

Students get basic knowledge about the nature of Kerala’s response to the challenges of modernity. They recognize the uniqueness and progressive character – and its historical roots

– of Kerala’s social system and identify the various themes on which research in Kerala History could be undertaken. They can assess the greatness of Kerala model of development as well as its weaknesses.