| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2:30pm-3:45pm | TuTh | White Hall 111 | Gill, Navyug. | HSC. | 4 | 13053 | TBA. |
Content: This course is designed to open up critical issues of political, economic and social transformation occurring over a span of two centuries in what is today India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, from the beginnings of the colonial encounter to the aftermath of independence and partition. It seeks to introduce students to the complex and decisively modern interplay between forces of domination and subordination, capitalist exploitation and the production of individual and collective identities. The range of salient themes, not necessarily chronological, will include the emergence of the British empire, the questions of ‘the nation,’ gender relations, the politics of caste and class, and the idiom of violence, while the entire course will be underpinned a constant reappraisal of the discipline of history itself. We will be relying mainly on primary materials such as speeches, official documents, autobiographies and short stories, but will also loosely follow two textbooks and incorporate sections from seminal monographs.
Required Reading:
Bose, Sugata and Ayesha Jalal. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy. 2nd
Edition; Sarkar, Sumit. Modern India, 1885-1947.
Possible Reading:
Bitter Fruit: The very best of Saadat Hasan Manto. Ed. and Trans. Khalid Hasan.
Grading: Students will be evaluated in the following ways: class participation & attendance (16%), one to two page responses every two weeks (24%), five to six page take-home midterm (25%), and an eight to nine page take-home final (35%).
The schedule of courses on O.P.U.S. is the official listing of courses, including days and times they meet and the General Education Requirements they satisfy. Students should use course descriptions as general guidelines. Course requirements, grading details, book lists, and syllabi are subject to change.