PROSEMINAR: EMPIRE AND COLONIALISM IN SOUTH ASIA

HISTORY 790

Course Description

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.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

No change from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

No change from Historical

A Rate

100%

No change from Historical

Class Size

No change from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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