ASIA2061 India and 'Modernity': concepts and issues in South Asia from the 18th to the 21st centuries
Later Year Course
| Offered By | School of Culture, History and Language |
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| Academic Career | Undergraduate |
| Course Subject | Asian Studies |
| Offered in | ASIA2061 will not be offered in 2011 |
| Unit Value | 6 units |
| Course Description | This course introduces students to i) great issues and events in India from the British ascendancy in the mid-18th century until today and ii) the ways in which the 'modern' world has created knowledge and compartmentalized it into 'disciplines', such as 'history', 'anthropology' and 'religious studies'. The course looks at selected events and problems to see how British rulers wrote 'Indian history' and studied Indian religions, beginning in the 1780s and coming down to India's 'history wars' and religious conflicts of the 21st century. It also examines how administrative needs helped to shape 'the discipline of anthropology' and how this process became an important factor in colonial policy-making and in attempts to achieve economic development after independence. |
| Indicative Assessment | Tutorial quizzes, worth 25% of the total mark. A one-hour class test at the end of the course, worth 25% of the total mark. The option of an Essay Plan, worth 10% of the total mark and an Essay, worth 40% OR an Essay alone, worth 50% |
| Areas of Interest | Non Language Asian Studies |
| Requisite Statement |
36 units
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| Preliminary Reading |
William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2007
Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997; 2nd ed., New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2004
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| Majors/Specialisations | History, Cognitive Major (Asian History), Cognitive Major (Contemporary Asian Societies), and South Asian Studies |
| Academic Contact | Prof Robin Jeffrey |
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