HIST 252 - Imagining India: Colonial Experience and the Pathways to Independence

1 unit(s)

(Same as ASIA 252) This course introduces major events and figures of colonial South Asia by exploring how everyday Indian identities were constituted under British imperialism from 1757 through 1947. Topics include nationalism, gender, caste, and Hindu-Muslim relations. Alongside influential scholarship on colonialism, nationalism, and identity, we read government reports and political speeches, poetry and petitions, autobiographies and travelogues. Ms. Hughes.

Not offered in 2014/15.

Two 75-minute periods.