History of Modern India
Fall 2013
A survey course, major topics include conflict and accommodation in the Indo-Islamic world; change and continuity under colonial rule; competing ideas on the shape and substance of a new India; and the Partition of the subcontinent in 1947. This course is the first of a two-semester sequence: in the spring we will focus on Twentieth century South Asia.
The following textbooks will be available in the bookstore: Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (3rd edition) and Joseph Lelyveld, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India.
Other required readings consisting of primary and secondary sources will be placed on collab. Films will also be used.
Course requirements include attendance and active participation in class (15%); a book review (20%); a midterm exam (25%); and a final exam (40%).
