CUET 2027 Knowledge Tradition syllabus

I.

Agriculture: A Survey

Agriculture in Prehistory and Protohistory/ Textual Sources/ Types of Lands/ Rain-Fed and Irrigated

Crops/ Implements/ Seed and Sowing/ Manures/ Pests and Their Management/ Cattle Management/

Horticulture and Arboriculture/ Fishing/ Agriculture and Society.

II.

Architecture: A Survey

Early and Classical Architecture:

• Temple-Architecture/ Rock-Cut Structures/ Monolithic Temples/ Constructed Temples/ Public and Private Architecture Architecture: A Survey.

Medieval & Colonial Architecture:

• Fort and Palace Architecture/ Mosques/ Mausoleums/ Colonial Architecture.

III.

Dance: A Survey

Classical Dance Forms:

• Classical Period/ Middle Period/ Modern Period/ Classical Dance Forms/ Bharatanatyam/ Kathakali/ Kathak/ Kucipudi/ Manipuri/ Odissi/ Sattriya.

Folk Dance Forms:

• Chau/ Bihu/ Rauf/ Padayani/ DolluKunitha/ Dandiya/ Ghumar/ Kalbelia/ Chaufla/ Bhangra/ Giddha/ Garba/ Lava)/ Bamboo Dance.

IV.

Education Systems and Practices: A Survey

• Goals of Indian Education/ Teaching and Learning/ the Teacher and the Student/ Centres of Education/ Temples as First Schools/ Gurukulas/ Viharas and Universities/ Community- Supported Education/ The Continuing System.

• Two Types of Knowledge and the Right Pupil/ Mere Intellectual Knowledge Is Not Enough/The Link between Teacher and Pupil/ Teachers Invite Students to Come to Them/Controlling the Mind and the Senses: the Goal of Indian Education/ Teacher’s Directives to students on their Completion of Study/ what Is a Useful Life?/Hsüan-Tsang's (Xuanzang) Impressions of Indian Education/ Hsüan-Tsang's (Xuan Zang) Description of Nalanda University.

• An Italian Explorer’s Record of Indian Education in the 17th Century/ A Description of Indian Education in the 18th Century/ The Teacher’s Subsistence/ Respect for the Teacher/Physical Education and Sports/ Description of the University at Navadveep (Nuddeah) in Bengal in 1791/ Love of Learning and Support for Education among Indians/ A widespread Colonial Network of Indigenous Schools.

V.

Ethics: Individual and Social

• The Cosmic Order/ Buddhist Ethics/ Jain Ethics/ Sikh Ethics/ The Bhakti.
• Movement Primary Texts on Ethics: Individual and Social: A Selection.
• From Jain Granthas/ From Buddhist Granthas/ From Asoka’s Edicts/ From the Kural (tr. P.S. Sundaram).

VI.

Martial Arts Traditions: A Survey

Texts/ Practice of Martial Arts/ Stick Combat/ Kaarippayau Martial Arts Traditions: A Selection from Primary Texts Wrestling in the Mahabharata/

Mallapuraa/ Marma Sastram.

VII.

Language and Grammar

Languages of India/ Study of Language in India/ Disciplines of Language Studies in India/ Classification of Speech-Sounds/ Theory of Grammar.

VIII.

Other Technologies: A Survey

• Harappan Technologies/ Later pottery/ Glass/ Water Management/ Textile Technology/

Wing Technology/ Pyrotechnics/ Cosmetics and perfumes.

• Other Technologies: A Selection from PrimaryTexts.
• Gemmology/ Water Management/ Textiles and Garments/ Perfumes and Cosmetics.