Spring 2027

Passage Through India: South Asia's Global Architectural Histories

Passage Through India examines the historical overview of India and South Asia's global architectural histories from ancient to modern periods, focusing on connected histories across the globe.

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What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe, appraise and analyze the connected histories of India with other parts of the globe through its art, and architecture.

  • Discuss texts from various critical perspectives, formulate ideas and make connections between visual/spatial/cultural concepts and themes.

  • Recognize and visually analyze architectural sites and buildings in India and across the globe that share connected histories with South Asia.

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ARTHIST/ASIAN 179

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Historical overview of India and South Asia's global architectural histories from the ancient to the modern periods. While focusing predominantly on architectural sites in India, examine architecture at multiple sites across the globe which share connected histories with South Asia. We live in a world of nation states and are shaped by national histories. However, in the arc of human history, nation states are of recent vintage. Examine India's global architectural histories not only through comparison but, in the words of historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "by seeking out the at times fragile threads that connected" India to "the globe." Capturing the mobility of populations, traders, conquerors, missionaries, pilgrims, tourists, colonists, architects, artists, scholars, religion, merchandise, art, architecture, and ideas, we show that South Asia's global architectural histories are themselves the complex products of varied histories of cultural encounters.

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Topics

  • Architectural sites in India and across the globe sharing connected histories with South Asia.
  • Mobility of populations, goods, and ideas as drivers of cultural encounters shaping architectural history.
  • The role of nation states and national histories in framing architectural narratives.

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  • Describe, appraise, and analyze connected histories of India with other parts of the globe through art and architecture.
  • Discuss texts from various critical perspectives and make connections between visual, spatial, and cultural concepts.
  • Recognize and visually analyze architectural sites and buildings in India and globally that share connected histories with South Asia.

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