HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA TO THE PRESENT

ASIAN/HISTORY 857

Emphasis upon handling of research problems. Focus upon methods, resources, intellectual approaches, and changing interpretations.

ASIAN/HISTORY 463

Topics vary related to the History of South Asia, Eurasia, and the Indian Ocean.

HISTORY 450

Everything you ever hear about South Asia is true. But the exact opposite is also true. Tradition and modernity, development and stagnation, the past and the future all exist simultaneously, at times in harmony and at other times in conflict with one another. Through an exploration of the political, social and economic history of this region from the 18th century to the present day, learn about the making of modern South Asia and attempt to understand this paradox.

ASIAN 252

An interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary Indian society, politics, and culture. Consider the diverse, complex, and often contradictory fabric of modern India through the lens of several conceptual themes which consider emergent discourses and dynamics of change as the joint product of India's classical heritage and its transformation into a post-colonial nation-state since 1947. Explores tensions and continuities between the pre-modern and modern.

HISTORY 790

Designed to develop historiographic command of colonial and postcolonial South Asian history as a teaching and research field. Carefully explores the master narratives or "schools" of historiography of South Asia, and analyzes the erasures as well as the normative theoretical and archival axes around which the sub-field has developed. Topics include pre-colonial modes of representing the past; the social, cultural and economic turns in colonial and nationalist historiography; legal and environmental historiographical methods; South Asia in the world/global South Asia.