Modern South Asian
History
fall 1998 -- Winthrop University
MW 5:00-6:15, KINA 204
Prof. Ed Haynes
Bancroft 346, 323-4682
E-mail: haynese (please use
it!)
OFFICE HOURS: MWF 8-9, MWF 1-2,
MW 3:30-5, NEVER on TR,
and by appointment
This course will survey the history of the nations of modern South Asia --
that is, the history of the contemporary nations of Bharat (India), Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Druk Yul (Bhutan), and
Myanmar (Burma) -- in the years since about 1600. While much of the course
will focus on pre-1947 India, attention will also be given to the
post-independence period and to other nations. Our theoretical emphasis will
be on the collapse of the pre-European Mughal empire, the establishment of
British imperial rule in the Indian subcontinent, the growing opposition
to that rule which culminated in multi-national freedom and independence
in 1947, and the establishment and maintenance of the modern nations of the
subcontinent.
No background or prerequisites are required or assumed, none except curiosity
that is.
Readings:
The following books are available in the bookstore. While you need not purchase
everything, you’ll need to read as much as possible. Throughout the
syllabus that follows, I have given specific readings for each class. It
is my firm assumption that you will have read and understood
these selections before coming to class (or that, if you don’t
understand, you’ll ask questions before the class gets going!). THIS
IS IMPORTANT.
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Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political
Economy (London and New York: Routledge, [1997]; ISBN 0-415-16952-6)
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Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, K. N. Panikkar, and Sucheta
Mukherjee, India’s Struggle for Independence, 1857-1947 ([New
Delhi]: Viking, [1988]; ISBN 0-670-821515-9).
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Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (New York: Avon Books, [1980];
ISBN 0-380-58099-3, or another edition)
Other important readings are on reserve or in the reference section of the
library (or otherwise available). You should consult these frequently:
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Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakrovarty Spivak, eds., Selected Subaltern
Studies (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988); this is
available in the bookstore for RECOMMENDED purchase and is especially important
for graduate students (who should purchase and read the entire volume!).
When assigned readings from this volume are "recommended," they are just
that; when they do not say "recommended," do consider them to be "required"
(I shall).
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Joseph E. Schwartzberg, ed., A Historical Atlas of South Asia (Chicago
and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1978); our library does not
have this, but the instructor does -- check with him.
Requirements:
Winthrop University says I have to give you a grade. While grades may get
in the way of learning -- especially for a course such as this -- I have
no choice, so "I hear and I obey."
All exams and papers will be graded on a 100-point scale (with no curve)
and weighed into your final grade as is dictated by the percentages given
below. All letter grades are assigned on a strict "ten-point-cut" basis:
100-90=A, 89-80=B, etc. Papers will be assigned a letter grade, which will
then be converted to a percentage for averaging purposes (e.g., B+ = 88,
B = 85, and B- = 82).
Late papers will be accepted, but with a non-negotiable (FOR ANY REASON!)
penalty of 7% per calendar day that they are late. Early papers are welcomed
and tend to earn gratitude.
There are two "tracks" for grading in this course, the "undergraduate" and
"graduate;" these are detailed below. The specific course requirements are
as follows:
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A Map Quiz. On 3 September, there will be an in-class map quiz, based on
the study items handed out in the first class of the semester. This first
map quiz will be 7% of your grade. You are, moreover, expected to PASS this
map quiz; this will be defined as a grade of 75%. If you do not make a "75"
on your first effort, there will be future "opportunities," though none of
them will factor into your grade. If you have not passed the map quiz by
the end of the term, you will receive the grade of "IF" for the course. Trust
me on this and bear in mind that this can be intensely embarrassing for those
who may have thought they were going to be graduating seniors.
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Three Exams. My exams are essentially essay, tempered by a few "identify
and give the significance" items. There may be sample questions given out
for the exams. These exams, as shown below, are scheduled for 16 September,
7 October, and a PRESENTLY UNKNOWN time for the final exam. The second exam
will cover only the materials since the first exam. The final will focus
on the final part of the class, but will offer you an ample opportunity to
draw in material from the entire semester.
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Book Reaction Paper. For undergraduates, a reaction paper, typed (double-spaced,
normal margins), 8-10 pages based on your comparative reading of two books
chosen from the lists of "recommended" books given below. As library resources
are limited, only one student may read each book, so you’ll need to
coordinate this selection process with me. The intent is that you find a
topic that interests you, choose two related books on this topic, and prepare
a comparative reaction paper to these books (not a book review or book report!).
This paper is due on or before 30 November. Where I have been able to determine
that the books are in our library (HA!), I have added the call numbers; some
others may be there and other books there may be acceptable for the
paper. In any event, consult closely with the instructor on this.
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Research Paper. For graduate students (and for undergraduates adopting the
"graduate track"), a research paper. This will be a full, formal research
paper, done to normal professional standards. This paper is due on or before
1 December. Especially high-quality papers may be submitted for the prize
competition sponsored by the South-Eastern Regional Conference of the Association
for Asian Studies and published in their journal; consult with the instructor
on this.
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Novel Reaction Paper. On 18 November, you owe me a short (5 page?) reaction
paper to Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children. This
is a much better novel, by the way, than Rushdie’s better-known Satanic
Verses.
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Discussion. All students are expected to participate, freely and wisely,
in both formal and informal class discussion. The best class is one with
little lecture and lots of discussion. This, of course, presumes you read
and come to class! As a motivational tool, this discussion is part of the
grade.
Things, timely and relevant things, will probably be happening in the region
this semester. You are expected to keep up with them. All students will be
encouraged to commence (and to read!) subscriptions to the Christian Science
Monitor (perhaps the second-best U.S. newspaper [after the New York
Times] covering the region) and to listen faithfully to National Public
Radio news on Morning Edition/Weekend Edition and All Things
Considered (WNSC 89.9 FM or WFAE 90.7 FM). There are also many e-mail
sources and I can detail these for you if you wish; I shall be forwarding
some important items from these sources. There is an on-line version
of this syllabus which contains many additional links to information, especially
contemporary materials:
http://haynese.winthrop.edu/syll/sasia.html.
You are encouraged -- in the strongest terms possible -- to have and
use an e-mail account. (If is free at Winthrop, unlike most things here!)
It is not a formal part of your discussion, but I urge you to use e-mail
to engage in out of class, ongoing discussions, and to acquire up to date
information. Check with me for more details.
A note on my attendance policy is in order. My attendance policy is that
all of you are grown-ups and, therefore, have the right and the responsibility
to make decisions about your lives. This includes the right to make phenomenally
stupid decisions. One such decision would be not to come to class. I am not
your Mother and shall not, therefore, waste valuable class time taking roll
or checking to make sure you wipe your noses. Act like a responsible student
and come to class. Enough said?
There is a POSSIBILITY that we may need to reschedule classes around the
mid-November, pre-Thanksgiving time period. I'll keep you up to date on this.
Last summer, I attempted -- responding to student interest -- to strucvture
a "Maymester" course on and in India. Due to scant numbers, this failed.
If there is enough interest, I shall try again this next summer. For more
information, a summary "syllabus" is on-line at:
http://haynese.winthrop.edu/mmindia.html.
Let me know ASAP if you have ANY interest in this.
As has been implied above, there are two "tracks" for grading: the
"undergraduate" and "graduate." Graduate students have no choice and must
follow the "graduate track;" students also taking HIST 650 this semester
may want to consult closely with me to coordinate their learning experiences
to maximum advantage. Undergraduates, however, have a choice and may elect
either the "undergraduate" or "graduate" track. But they must notify me before
the map quiz if they desire the "graduate track" and this will be a binding
choice. The percentage derivation of the final grade differs between the
two tracks:
| |
UG |
G |
| Map |
7% |
7% |
| Exam 1 |
18% |
13% |
| Exam 2 |
18% |
14% |
| Final Exam |
24% |
22% |
| Book Paper |
20% |
|
| Research Paper |
|
30% |
| Rushdie Paper |
10% |
9% |
| Discussion |
3% |
5% |
Schedule of Classes and Readings:
Wednesday, 26 August -- Introduction to the Course and to the Region
Monday, 31 August -- South Asia Before Islam
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Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, chs. 1 and 2
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Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 13-30
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The syllabus for this course (no joke!)
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Ancient
India (Vinay Lal)
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Ancient India (Itihaas)
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Medieval India (Itihaas)
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Delhi
before the Mughal Empire
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Additional Readings:
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Richard Lannoy, The Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and
Society (London, 1971). DS423.L27.1971
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Romila Thapar, From Lineage to State: Social Formations in the
Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley (Bombay, 1984)
Wednesday, 3 September -- The Political and Cultural Synthesis of the
Mughals
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Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, chs. 3 and 4
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The
Mughal Empire (Vinay Lal)
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Overview
of the Mughal Dynasty
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Babur
- NOT "Babar," that's an elephant! (Vinay Lal)
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Jehangir
(Vinay Lal)
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Shah
Jehan (Vinay Lal)
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Aurangzeb
[Alamgir] (Vinay Lal)
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Mughal carpets
and another site
and another and
another and
yet another
(enough rugs already? OK,
one more.)
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MAP QUIZ
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Additional Readings:
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K. N. Chaudhuri, Asia Before Europe: Economy and Civilisation in
the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1990).
DS.339.C48.1990
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Irfan Habib, The Agrarian System of the Mughal Empire (1556-1707)
(Bombay, 1963).
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S. M. Ikram, Muslim Civilization in India, ed. A. T. Embree
(New York, 1964). DS.427.I42
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Dirk H. A. Kolff, Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of
the Military Labour Market in Hindustan (Cambridge, 1990)
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Shireen Moonsvi,
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John Richards, The Mughal Empire, vol. 1.5 in The New Cambridge
History of India (Cambridge, 1993). DS436.N47.1987,pt. 1,vol. 5
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André Wink, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World,
vol. 1, Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam, 7th-11th Centuries
(Leiden, 1990). DS.452.W56.1990b
Monday, 7 September -- The Mughal "System" and Its "Collapse"
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Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 5
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"Islamic
Era: The Dark Ages" - a very self-consciously "Hindu" version of history;
somewhat dubious but of GREAT contemporary importance
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Siraj
ud-Daulah (Vinay Lal)
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Additional Readings:
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Richard B. Barnett, North India Between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals,
and the British, 1720-1801 (Berkeley, 1980).
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Stewart Gordon, The Marathas, 1600-1818, vol. II.4 in The
New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge, 1993).
DS485.M349.G67.1993
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M. N. Pearson, The Portuguese in India, vol. 1.1 in The
New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge, 1988). DS436.N47.1987, pt.
1,vol. 1
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Percival Spear, Twilight of the Mughals: Studies in Late Mughal
Delhi (New Delhi, 1969). DS461.S6.1980
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André Wink, Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society
and Politics under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha Svarajya (Cambridge,
1986). DS485.M349.W56.1986
Wednesday, 9 September -- The Rise of the Honourable East India Company:
From Commerce to "Raj"
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Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, chs. 6 and 7
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Recommended: Gyanendra Pandey, "‘Encounters and Calamities:’ The
History of a North Indian Qasba in the Nineteenth Century," in
Selected Subaltern Studies, eds. Guha and Spivak, pp. 89-128
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Vasco da Gama -
about the discoverer of the sea route to East Indies.
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Voyage
to India and Those Who Influenced It - Vasco da Gama, like Prince Henry
and King Manuel, had a taste for the sea early on. A paper written by Brian
Elliott.
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The
East India Company (Vinay Lal)
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The
Black Hole of Calcutta" (Vinay Lal)
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Robert
Clive (Vinay Lal)
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Warren
Hastings (Vinay Lal)
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The
Battle of Plassey (Vinay Lal)
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List of
Governors-General (Itihaas)
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Additional Readings:
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Arthur Aspinall, Cornwallis in Bengal: The Administrative and Judicial
Reforms of Lord Cornwallis in Bengal (Manchester, 1931). DS474.1.A8
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C. A. Bayly, Rulers, Townsmen, and Bazaars: North Indian Society
in the Age of British Expansion, 1770-1870 (Cambridge, 1983).
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Mark Bence-Jones, Clive of India (New York, 1975).
DS471.B46.1975
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Raymond Callaghan, The East India Company and Army Reform,
1783-1798 (Cambridge, 1972). UA842.C34
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Michael H. Fisher, A Clash of Cultures: Awadh, the British, and
the Mughals (Delhi, 1987). DS485.O94.F57.1987
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P. J. Marshall, Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India,
1740-1828, vol. II.2 in The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge,
1988). DS436.N47.1987,pt. 2,vol. 2
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B. B. Misra, The Central Administration of the East India Company,
1773-1834 (Manchester, 1959). DS465.M5x
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Ramakrishna Mukherjee, The Rise and Fall of the East India
Company (Berlin, 1955; also New York, 1974).
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Asiya Siddiqi, Agrarian Change in a Northern Indian State: Uttar
Pradesh, 1819-1833 (Oxford, 1973)
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Philip Woodruff [Philip Mason], The Men Who Ruled India, vol.
1, The Founders (London, 1953). DS463.M262
Monday, 14 September -- "Reforms:" A Dangerous Business?
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Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 8
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Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 41-49
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Additional Readings:
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Teresa Albuquerque, Urbus Primus in Indis: An Epoch in the History
of Bombay, 1840-1865 (New Delhi, 1985)
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C. A. Bayly, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire,
vol. II.1 in The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge, 1988).
DS436.N47.1987,pt. 2,vol. 1
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H. V. Bowen, Revenue and Reform: The Indian Problem in British
Politics, 1757-1773 (Cambridge, 1991). DS471.B68.1991
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Robert H. Fryckenberg, Guntur District, 1788-1848: A History of
Local Influence and Central Authority in South Asia (Oxford, 1965).
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David Kopf, British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The
Dynamics of Indian Modernization, 1773-1835 (Berkeley, 1969).
DS485.B44.K6
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Rosie Llewellen-Jones, A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the British,
and the City of Lucknow (Delhi, 1985). DS486.L9.L58.1985
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Ravinder Kumar, Western India in the Nineteenth Century: A Study
in the Social History of Maharashtra (London and Toronto, 1968).
HN690.M33.K8
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Sita Ram Pandey, From Sepoy to Subadar, being the Life and Adventures
of Subadar Sita Ram, a Native Officer of the Bengal Army, Written and Related
by Himself, ed. James Lunt (Delhi, 1970).
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Percival Spear, The Nabobs: A Study of the Social Life of the English
in Eighteenth Century India (London, 1963).
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Eric Stokes, The English Utilitarians and India (Oxford, 1959).
JQ211.S7
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Eric Stokes, The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in Agrarian History
and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India (Cambridge, 1978).
Wednesday, 16 September -- EXAM 1
Monday, 21 September -- 1857
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Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 9
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Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 31-40
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Gautam Bhadra, "Four Rebels of Eighteen Fifty-Seven," in Selected Subaltern
Studies, eds. Guha and Spivak, pp. 129-75
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"Itihaas [History] of
Sepoy Mutiny" (Kanwarjit Singh Sidhu)
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Delhi street scene, 1857
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Bahadur Shah "Zafar," the
last Mughal Emperor
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Post-"Mutiny" executions
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Additional Readings:
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Sashi Bhushan Chaudhuri, Civil Rebellion in the Indian Mutinies
(1857-1859) (Calcutta, 1957).
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George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman in the Great Game (New York,
1975).
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Joyce Lebra-Chapman, The Rani of Jhansi: A Study in Female Heroism
in India (Honolulu, 1986). DS475.2.L34.L43.1986
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R. C. Majumdar, The Sepoy Mutiny and the Revolt of 1857 (Calcutta,
1963). DS478.M235.1963
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K. Marx and F. Engels, The First Indian War of Independence,
1857-1859 (Moscow, 1959).
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J. A. B. Palmer, The Mutiny Outbreak at Meerut in 1857 (Cambridge,
1966). DS478.P3
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John Pemble, The Raj, the Indian Mutiny, and the Kingdom of Oudh,
1801-1859 (Delhi, 1970). DS485.O9.P45.1977b
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, The Indian War of Independence, 1857
(New Delhi, 1970).
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Surendra Nath Sen, Eighteen Fifty-Seven (Delhi, 1957).
DS478.S4
Wednesday, 23 September -- The Establishment of a New Political Order
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Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 10
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Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 50-60
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Additional Readings:
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Clive Dewey, Anglo-Indian Attitudes: The Mind of the Indian Civil
Service (London, 1993). JQ224.D48.1993
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S. Gopal, British Policy in India, 1858-1905 (Cambridge, 1965).
DS480.7.G6
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Narayanai Gupta, Delhi Between Two Empires, 1803-1931: Society,
Government, and Urban Growth (Delhi, 1981). DS486.D3.G85
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Francis G. Hutchins, The Illusion of Permanence: British Imperialism
in India (Princeton, 1967). DS463.H85
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Tom G. Kessinger, Vilayatpur, 1848-1968: Social and Economic Change
in a North Indian Village (Berkeley, 1974).
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Thomas R. Metcalf, The Aftermath of Revolt, 1857-1870 (Princeton,
1964). DS479.M46
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Thomas R. Metcalf, Land, Landlords, and the British Raj (Berkeley,
1979). HD875.M48
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Veena Talwar Oldenburg, The Making of Colonial Lucknow, 1856-1877
(Princeton, 1984). DS486.L9.O42.1984
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David C. Potter, India’s Political Administrators, 1919-1983
(Oxford, 1986). JQ246.P68.1986
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K. M. L. Saxena, The Military System of India, 1850-1900 (Delhi,
1974). UA842.S28
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Philip Woodruff [Philip Mason], The Men Who Ruled India, vol.
2, The Guardians (London, 1953). DS463.M262
Monday, 28 September -- The Economic Backbone to British Imperialism
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Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 91-101
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Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Conditions for Knowledge of Working-Class Conditions:
Employers, Government and the Jute Workers of Calcutta, 1890-1940," in
Selected Subaltern Studies, eds. Guha and Spivak, pp. 179-230
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Additional Readings:
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Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, Financial Foundations of the British
Raj: Men and Ideas in the Post-Mutiny Period of Reconstruction of Indian
Public Finance, 1858-1872 (Simla, 1971).
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Sugata Bose, Peasant, Labour and Colonial Capital: Rural Bengal
since 1770, vol. III.2 in The New Cambridge History of India
(Cambridge, 1993). DS436.N47.1987,pt. 3,vol. 2
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D. G. Gadgil, The Industrial Evolution of India in Recent Times,
1860-1939, 5th ed. (Delhi, 1971).
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Morris D. Morris, ed., Indian Economy in the Nineteenth Century:
A Symposium (Delhi, 1969).
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Jagdish Raj, The Mutiny and British Land Policy in North India,
1856-1868 (Bombay, 1965).
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B. R. Tomlinson, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970, vol.
III.3 in The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge, 1993).
DS436.N47.1987,pt. 3,vol. 3
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Elizabeth Whitcombe, Agrarian Conditions in Northern India,
vol. 1, The United Provinces Under British Rule (Los Angeles and London,
1970). HN683.W5
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Anand Yang, The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India,
Saran District, 1793-1920 (Berkeley, 1989). JS7025.S27.Y36.1989
Wednesday, 20 September -- The Cultural and Social Context for
Imperialism
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Recommended: David Arnold, "Touching the Body: Perspectives on the Indian
Plague, 1896-1900," in Selected Subaltern Studies, eds. Guha and Spivak,
pp. 391-426
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History of Bombay
[Mumbai] and
another
source
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British Ancestors in India
(genealogy)
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Photos of India, mostly
from the late 19th century
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Additional Readings:
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Charles Allen, ed., Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British
India in the Twentieth Century (New York, 1975).DS428.P55.1976
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Kenneth Ballhatchet, Race, Sex, and Class under the Raj: Imperial
Attitudes and Policies and their Critics, 1793-1905 (New Delhi,
1979).
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Pat Barr, The Memsahibs: The Women of Victorian India (New
Delhi, 1976).
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Allen J. Greenberger, The British Image of India: A Study in the
Literature of Imperialism, 1880-1960 (London, 1969).
PR830.I6.G7.1969
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Kenneth W. Jones, Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British
India, vol. III.1 in The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge,
1989). DS436.N47.1987,pt. 3,vol. 1
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George MacMunn, The Martial Races of India (Quetta, 1977).
DS442.M3x
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Thomas R. Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj, vol. III.4 in The
New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge, 1994). DS436.N47.1987,pt.
3,vol. 4
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B. B. Misra, The Indian Middle Classes: Their Growth in Modern
Times (London, 1961). HT690.I4.N5
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Sara Suleri, The Rhetoric of English India (Chicago, 1992).
PR9484.3.S85.1992
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Lewis D. Wurgaft, The Imperial Imagination: Magic and Myth in
Kipling’s India (Middleton, 1983). DS475.W87.1983
Monday, 5 October -- Foreign Relations: Internal and External
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Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 356-74
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Additional Readings:
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Nicholas B. Dirks, The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistoary of an Indian
Kingdom (Cambridge, 1987).
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Michael H. Fisher, Indirect Rule in India: Residents and the Residency
System, 1764-1857 (Delhi, 1991).
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Robin Jeffrey, ed., People, Princes, and Paramount Power: Society
and Politics in the Indian Princely States (Delhi, 1978).
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K. N. Panikkar, British Diplomacy in North India: A Study of the
Delhi Residency, 1803-1857 (Delhi, 1968).
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Barbara N. Ramusack, The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empire:
Dissolution of a Patronm-Client System, 1914-1939 (Columbua, 1978).
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Edward Thompson, The Making of the Indian Princes (London,
1943). DS475.1.T47
Wednesday, 7 October -- EXAM 2
FALL BREAK
Wednesday, 14 October -- The First Organized Stirrings of Nationalism
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Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 11
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Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 61-81, 101-123
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History of the Indian
National Congress - the official version, and
some of the presidents
of the INC
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Photo of B. G. Tilak
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Additional Readings:
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Frank F. Conlon, A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitarpur Saraswat
Brahmans, 1700-1935 (Berkeley, 1977).
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Bipan Chandra, The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India
(Delhi, 1966). HC435.C488
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Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and
Postcolonial Histories (Princeton, 1993). DS468.C47.1993
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Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial
India (Delhi, 1983). DS463.G84.1983
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Charles H. Heimsath, Indian Nationalism and Hindu Social Reform
(Princeton, 1964). HN683.H4
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John R. McLane, Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress
(Princeton, 1977). DS479.M32
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J. C. Masselos, Towards Nationalism: Group Affiliations anbd the
Politics of Public Associations in Nineteenth Century Western India (Bombay,
1974).
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David Kopf, The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian
Mind (Princeton, 1979).
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Bruce Tiebout McCully, English Education and the Origins of Indian
Nationalism (Gloucester, 1966). H31.C7.no. 473
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Briton Martin, New India 1885: British Official Policy and the
Emergence of the Indian National Congress (Berkeley, 1969).
DS479.7.M3.1969
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B. R. Nanda, The Nehrus: Motilal and Jawaharlal (Chicago, 1962).
DS481.N4.N3.1963
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Anil Seal, The Emergence of Indian Nationalism: Competition and
Collaboration in the Later Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 1968).
DS475.S4
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R. Suntharalingam, Politics and Nationalist Awakening in South
India, 1852-1891 (Tucson, 1974).
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D. A. Washbrook, The Emergence of Provincial Politics: The Madras
Presidency, 1870-1920 (Cambridge, 1976).
Monday, 19 October -- The Transition to Extremism
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Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 124-45
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"The
Struggle to Political Independence" - a self-consciously "Hindu" telling
of history; quite problematic in places, but of great compemporary importance
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"Vande Materam" -
India's "national song" - and hear
it (requires
Real Audio)
-
Swami
Vikekananda (Itihaas)
-
Additional Readings:
-
B. R. Nanda, Gokale, Gandhi, and the Nehrus: Studies in Indian
Nationalism (New York, 1973). DS481.A1.N27
-
Theodore L. Shay, The Legacy of the Lokamanya: The Political Philosophy
of Bal Gangadhar Tilak (London, 1956).
-
Stanley A. Wolpert, Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in
the Making of Modern India (Berkeley, 1962). DS479.1.T54.W6
Wednesday, 21 October -- The Origins of South Asian Communalisms
-
Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 82-90
-
Additional Readings:
-
Syed Nesar Ahmad, Origins of Muslim Consciousness in India: A
World-Systems Approach (New York, 1991). DS432.M84.A34.1991
-
C. A. Bayly, The Local Roots of Indian Politics: Allahabad,
1880-1920 (Oxford, 1975).
-
J. S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab, vol. II-3 in The
New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge, 1990). DS436.N47.1987,pt.
2,vol. 3
-
Peter Hardy, The Muslims of British India (Cambridge, 1972).
DS463.H37.1972
-
Kenneth W. Jones, Arya Dharm: Hindu Consciousness in 19th-Century
Punjab (Berkeley, 1976).
Monday, 26 October -- The European War, 1914-18, and the New Internationalist
Nationalism
-
Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 12
-
Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 146-169
-
Rabindranath
Tagore (Itihaas)
-
Khilafat
Movement
-
Additional Readings:
-
J. H. Broomfield, Elite Conflict in a Plural Society: Twentieth-Century
Bengal (Bombay, 1968). DS485.B49.B76
-
Sukbir Choudhary, Peasants’ and Workers’ Movement in
India, 1905-1929 (New Delhi, 1971).
-
R. Palme Dutt, Problem of India (New York, 1943).
DS480.45.D82.1943
-
DeWitt C. Ellinwood and S. N. Pradhan, eds., India and World War
I (Columbia, 1978).
Wednesday, 28 October -- Mahatma - 1
-
Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 170-234
-
Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 13
-
Gyan Pandey, "Peasant Revolt and Indian Nationalism: The Peasant Movement
in Awadh, 1919-22" in Selected Subaltern Studies, eds. Guha and Spivak,
pp. 233-87
-
I am also doing an honors course this semester on Gandhi; the
syllabus for that
may of of some use here?
-
Gandhi
- an especially good historical source (Vinay Lal)
-
Khilafat
Movement
-
There are MANY general Internet sources on Gandhi, of widely variable quality:
-
Additional Readings:
-
Joan V. Bondurant, Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy
of Conflict (Berkeley, 1971). HM278.B6.1965
-
Judith M. Brown, Gandhi: Prisoner of Hope (New Haven, 1989).
DS481.G3.B735.1989
-
Judith M. Brown, Gandhi’s Rise to Power: Indian Politics,
1915-1922 (Cambridge, 1972).
-
Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments
with Truth (Boston, 1957). DS481.G3.A352
-
Robert A. Huttenback, Gandhi in South Africa: British Imperialism
and the Indian Question, 1860-1914 (Ithaca, 1971). DT764.E3.H84
-
G. Pandey, The Ascendancy of Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1926-34:
A Study in Imperfect Mobilization (Delhi, 1978).
-
M. Siddiqi, Agrarian Unrest in North India: The United Provinces
(1918-22) (New Delhi, 1978).
Monday, 2 November -- Mahatma - 2
-
Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 235-322
-
Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 14
-
Shahid Amin, "Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur District, Eastern UP, 1921-2,"
in Selected Subaltern Studies, eds. Guha and Spivak, pp. 288-348
-
Simon
Commission (1927)
-
"I shall
be arrested," Letter from Gandhi to Nehru, 11 March 1930
-
"Thousands Acclaim Gandhi
on eve of Independence Tour," newsreel on Gandhi's Salt
Satyagraha, 1930 (can be VERY slow to load, required
Quick Time)
-
Nehru
to his jailers, a letter written 8 July 1932
-
Additional Readings:
-
Judith M. Brown, Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in
Indian Politics, 1928-34 (Cambridge, 1977).
-
Eirk H. Erikson, Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant
Nonviolence (New York, 1969). DS481.G3.E7
-
Richard G. Fox, Gandhian Utopia: Experiments with Culture (Boston,
1989). HN683.F69.1989
-
Ramachandra Guha, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant
Resistance in the Himalaya (Delhi, 1989). SD414.I5.G84.1990
-
Attia Hussein, Sunlight on a Broken Column (New Delhi,
1979).
-
Ved Mehta, Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles (New York, 1977).
DS481.G3.M43
-
Geoffrey Ostergaard, The Gentle Anarchists: A Study of the Leaders
of the Sarvodaya Movement for Non-Violent Revolution in India (Oxford,
1971). HN687.O86
-
Gene Sharp, Gandhi as a Political Strategist: With Essays on Ethics
and Politics (Boston, 1979). DS481.G3.S4769
-
Premchand [Dhanpat Rai Srivastava], The Gift of a Cow [Godaan],
tr. Gordon C. Roadarmel (Bloomington, 1968). PK2098.S7.G613.1968t
Wednesday, 4 November -- The Second World War
-
Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 323-55, 443-72
-
Quit India Movement
(Darais)
-
Netaji Subhas Chandra
Bose and
another
site (Itihaas)
-
The Commonwealth Graves
Commission
-
Additional Readings:
-
Satinath Bhaduri, The Vigil, tr. Lila Ray (New York,
1965).
-
Subhas Chandra Bose, The Indian Struggle, 1920-1942 (New York,
1964). DS480.45.B6.1967
-
K. K. Ghosh, The Indian National Army: Second Front of the Indian
Independence Movement (Meerut, 1969).
-
Francis G. Hutchins, Spontaneous Revolution: The Quit India
Movement (Delhi, 1971). DS488.82.H87.1973
-
Hugh Toye, Subhas Chandra Bose (The Springing Tiger): A Study in
Revolution (Bombay, 1959).
Monday, 9 November -- Renewed Communalisms and Other Divisions
-
Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 15
-
Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 375-442
-
Recommended: Partha Chatterjee, " More on Modes of Power and the Peasantry,"
in Selected Subaltern Studies, eds. Guha and Spivak, pp. 351-90
-
Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad
Ali Jinnah
-
Pakistan
Movement
-
V. D. Savarkar, founder
of the Hindu Mahasabha, October 1941, newsreel footage (can be VERY slow
to load at times, requires Quick
Time)
-
Sikhs in 1930 and at the
time or Partition, newsreel footage (can be VERY slow to load at times,
requires Quick Time)
-
Additional Readings:
-
H. Bolihto, Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan (London, 1954).
DS481.J5.B6.1954
-
Bipan Chandra, Nationalism and Communalism in Modern India
(New Delhi, 1979).
-
Ainslie T. Embree, Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism
in Modern India (Berkeley, 1990). BL2015.N26.E52.1990
-
Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North
India (Delhi, 1990). HN690.Z9.C6693.1990
-
F. C. R. Robinson, Separation Among Indian Muslims: The Politics
of the United Province’s Muslims, 1860-1923 (Cambridge, 1974).
-
Khalid B. Sayeed, Pakistan: The Formative Phase, 1857-1948,
2nd ed. (London, 1968). DS382.S39.1968
-
Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Modern Islam in India: A Social Analysis
(New York, 1972). DS427.S55.1972
-
Peter van der Veer, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in
India (Berkeley, 1994). BL2105.N26.V44.1994
-
Stanley Wolpert, Jinnah of Pakistan (New York, 1984).
DS385.J5.W64.1984
Wednesday, 11 November -- Toward a Subcontinental Independence, Partition,
and Integration
-
Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 473-504
-
Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, chs. 16 and 17
-
Gandhi speaks on "The
Real India," 4 February 1947 and newsreel footage (can be VERY slow
to load, requires Quick Time)
-
"A New India," Universal
Newsreel, August 1947 (can be VERY slow to load, requires
Quick Time)
-
14 August
1947 (Itihaas)
-
Nehru proclaims India's
independence before the Constituent Assembly, midnight, 14/15 August 1947,
newsreel (can be VERY slow to load, requires
Quick Time)
-
"Jana Gana Mana"
- India's national anthem - and hear
it (you'll need to pick it out from the scrolling options yourself, requires
Real Audio)
-
History of Kashmir
-
Kashmir
Information Page
-
Additional Readings:
-
Michael Brecher, Nehru: A Political Biography (London, 1959).
DS481.N35.B67
-
Sarvepalli Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, vol. 1,
1889-1947 (New Delhi, 1976). DS481.N35.G66.1976
-
Robert Grant Irving, Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial
Delhi (New Haven, 1981).
-
V. P. Menon, The Story of the Integration of the Indian States
(Bombay, 1961). JQ299.A2.M44.1956x
-
V. P. Menon, The Transfer of Power in India (Bombay, 1968).
JQ211.M4
-
Jawaharlal Nehru, Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawarharlal
Nehru (Boston, 1958). DS481.N35.A3.1958
-
B. R. Robinson, The Political Economy of the Raj, 1914-1947: The
Economics of Recolinization in India (London, 1979).
-
A. Martin Wainwright, Inheritance of Empire: Britain, India, and
the Balance of Power in Asia, 1938-55 (Westport, 1994).
DS480.45.W32.1994
Monday, 16 November -- India, 1947-64: The Nehru Years
-
Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 18
-
Chandra et al., India’s Struggle, pp. 505-528
-
Independent India
(Itihaas) - a very useful chronology
-
26 January 1950
(Itihaas)
-
The
Constitution of India (Vinay Lal)
-
List of Prime Ministers
and Presidents of India
-
Nehru speaks on Gandhi's
assassination, January 1948, newsreel (can be VERY slow to load, requires
Quick Time)
-
Official Indian sites:
-
While not as prolific as the sites on Gandhi, there are many sites on Nehru:
-
Paper on Rushdie, Midnight’s Children,
due
-
Additional Readings:
-
Paul R. Brass, The Politics of India Since Independence, vol.
IV-1 in The New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge, 1990).
DS436.N47.1987,pt. 4,vol. 1
-
Sarvepalli Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, vol. 2,
1947-1956 (New Delhi, 1976). DS481.N35.G66.1976
-
Sarvepalli Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, vol. 3,
1956-1964 (New Delhi, 1976). DS481.N35.G66.1976
-
S. A. Kochanek, The Congress Party of India: The Dynamics of One-Party
Democracy (Princeton, 1968). JQ298.I5.K6
-
Myron Weiner, The Politics of Scarcity: Public Pressure and Political
Response in India (Chicago, 1962). DS480.84.W4
Wednesday, 18 November -- Nehru's Dream
-
Social
and Political Legislation - post-Independence India (Vinay Lal)
-
Additional Readings:
-
Ashley J. Coale, Population Growth and Economic Development in
Low-Income Countries: A Case Study of India’s Prospects (Princeton,
1958). HB3639.C6
-
Francine R. Frankel, India’s Green Revolution: Economic Gains
and Political Costs (Princeton, 1971). HD2072.F7
-
Francine R. Frankel, India’s Political Economy, 1947-1977:
The Gradual Revolution (Princeton, 1978).
-
J. M. Freeman, Untouchable: An Indian Life History (London,
1979). DS422.C3.F7x
-
Lorne J. Kavic, India’s Quest for Security: Defence Policies,
1947-1965 (Berkeley, 1967).
-
Vangal Thiruvenkatachari Krishnamachari, Fundamentals of Planning
in India (New York, 1964). HC.K7.1964x
-
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Suzanne H. Rudolph, In Pursuit of Lakshmi:
The Political Economy of the Indian State (Chicago, 1987).
Monday, 23 November -- India, 1964-95: The New India after Nehru
-
Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 19
-
Lal
Bahadur Shastri (Vinay Lal)
-
Indira
Gandhi (Vinay Lal) and
a speech by her
(in Hindi, but it is her speaking anyway, 2:54, requires
Real Audio)
-
The 1971
India-Pakistan War
-
Rajiv
Gandhi (Vinay Lal)
-
Indian Armed Forces (Bharat
Rakshak)
-
Additional Readings:
-
Robert S. Anderson and Walter Huber, The Hour of the Fox: Tropical
Forests, the World Bank, and Indigenous People in Central India (Seattle,
1988).
-
Michael Brecher, Nehru’s Mantle: The Politics of Succession
in India (New York, 1966). DS480.84.B68.1966a
-
Mary C. Carras, Indira Gandhi in the Crucible of Leadership: A
Political Biography (Boston, 1979).
-
Indira Gandhi, My Truth, ed. Emmanuel Pouchpadass (New York,
1980).
-
Joan M. Jensen, Passage from India: Asian Indian Immigrants in
North America (New Haven, 1988). E184.E2.J46.1988
-
Ashok Kapur, India’s Nuclear Option: Atomic Diplomacy and
Decision Making (New York, 1976). DS448.K33
-
Surjit Mansingh, India’s Search for Power: Indira Gandhi’s
Foreign Policy, 1966-1982 (New Delhi, 1984). DS480.84.M3247.1984
-
K. V. Murti, Rajiv Gandhi: Challenges and Choices (New Delhi,
1986). DS481.G41.M87.1986
-
Nayantara Sahgal, Indira Gandhi: Her Road to Power (New York,
1982). DS481.G23.S188.1982
-
Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development
(London, 1989). HQ1240.5.I4.S54.1989
-
Mark Tully and Satish Jacob, Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi’s Last
Battle (London, 1985).
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Monday, 30 November -- Other Nations in the Region, 1947-95
-
Pakistan:
-
Bangladesh:
-
Sri Lanka (Ceylon):
-
Nepal:
-
Druk Yul (Bhutan):
-
Afghanistan:
-
Myanmar (Burma):
-
Reading papers due
-
Additional Readings:
-
Benazir Bhutto, Daughter of Destiny (New York, 1989).
-
Henry Bradsher, Afghanistan and the Soviet Union (Durham, 1983).
DS357.6.S65.B7.1983
-
Shahid Javed Burki, Pakistan: A Nation in the Making (Boulder,
1986). DS384.B877.1986
-
K. M. DeSilva, ed., Sri Lanka: A Survey (Honolulu, 1977).
-
Vartan Gregorian, The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics
of Reform and Modernization, 1880-1946 (Stanford, 1969). DS361.G68
-
Louis D. Hayes, Politics in Pakistan: The Struggle for Legitimacy
(Boulder, 1984).
-
Charles Joseph Jeffries, Ceylon: The Path to Independence (New
York, 1963). DS489.5.J4
-
Mohammed Ayub Khan, Friends Not Masters: A Political
Autobiography (London, 1967). DS385.A9.A3.1967b
-
Rishikesh Sharma, Essays in the Practice of Government in Nepal
(New Delhi, 1982). DS494.7.S54.1982
-
Nancy Peabody Newell and Richard S. Newell, The Struggle for
Afghanistan (Boulder, 1980). DS371.2.N48
-
Marta R. Nicholas, Bangladesh: The Birth of a Nation (Madras,
1972). DS393.4.N52
-
Leo E. Rose, The Politics of Bhutan (Ithaca, 1977).
DS485.B503.R6
-
Leo E. Rose and Margaret W. Fisher, The Politics of Nepal: Persistence
and Change in an Asian Monarchy (Ithaca, 1970). JQ825.N4.R6
-
Olivier Roy, Islam and Resurgence in Afghanistan, 2nd ed.
(Cambridge, 1990). BP63.A54.R6813.1981
-
Salman Rushdie, Shame (New York, 1989).
PR9499.3.R8.S5.1983
Wednesday, 2 December -- Is there any Hope for the Gandhi-Nehru-Gandhi-Gandhi
Ideals?
-
Bose and Jalal, Modern South Asia, ch. 20
-
Gandhi
(Mahatma) Today
-
Media:
-
Washington Post and Associated Press (U.S.) news on South Asia:
-
India:
-
Pakistan:
-
Bangladesh:
-
Nepal:
-
Sri Lanka:
-
Druk Yul:
-
Afghanistan:
-
Myamnar:
-
Political Parties:
-
Research papers due
Tuesday, 5 December -- Summation and Some Projections on the
Future
Final Exam -- Kept secret by the
Registrar!!!
http://haynese.winthrop.edu/syll/indsyl.html
Edward S. Haynes, Department
of History, Winthrop University
haynese@winthrop.edu
last revised 14 May 1998