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Institut für Zeitgeschichte Institut für Zeitgeschichte

Mag. Mukul Mangalik Mag. Mukul Mangalik

622012

Zeitgeschichte II: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in The Making of Modern India

VO 1

2,5

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keine Angabe

Englisch

The purpose of the lecture course is to provide Austrian students with a broad picture of the interplay of, and conflicts between the major economic, social, cultural and political forces that have gone into the making of Modern India/South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The course will focus on the period between 1857-1947 albeit not inflexibly. A brief exploration of rich new evidence and interpretations of wide ranging historical developments during the 18th and early 19th centuries will be taken up. The emphasis for the core period of study 1857-1947 will be on themes such as: the consolidation of colonial power, commercialization and agrarian change, deindustrialization and industrialization, resistance, rebellion and protest movements of peasants, tribals, forest peoples and industrial workers, movements for the reform of religion, caste and gender, nationalism and communalism. The course will introduce some, not all the above-mentioned themes.

The teaching of this course will be pegged on lectures, discussions and possibly the screening of two films. The lectures delivered by me in the lecture course will be accompanied by discussions around queries and comments made by participants, while the seminar will be focussed on discussions arising out of questions raised and observations made by me on student presentations on specific themes selected by them for study.

I will examine each student offering the lecture course orally, and grade those offering the seminar on the basis of intense discussions with each one separately and in groups, on the themes they happen to choose.

Bose, Sugata and Ayesha Jalal , Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (Oxford University Press, Delhi 1998) Rao, Anupama, The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India (Permanent Black, New Delhi 2009) Rangarajan, Mahesh and K Sivaramakrishnan, India’s Environmental History – A Reader, volume 2: Colonialism, Modernity and the Nation(Permanent Black, New Delhi

Online-Anmeldung ab 06.02.2012 erforderlich! Anmeldevoraussetzungen: MA (803) = positive Beurteilung Pflichtmodul 1; c312 u. c313 keine
Beginn: 12.06.2012