Unit information: Social Change in Modern India (Level I Lecture Response) in 2017/18

Unit name	Social Change in Modern India (Level I Lecture Response)
Unit code	HIST20096
Credit points	20
Level of study	I/5
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director	Professor. Mukherjee
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
School/department	Department of History (Historical Studies)
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

India, the land of curries, cricket and sacred cows, is the world’s largest ‘democracy’. It is a country twenty times larger than Britain and as religiously and linguistically diverse as Continental Europe. In the nineteenth and twentieth century, Indians came together in a variety of social movements whether it be to improve the lives of women, reform religious practices, challenge ideas about social hierarchies, transform education, or increase the number of opportunities available for Indians within the economy. This unit takes a look at the development of Indian society, before and after independence from British rule, and engages with a variety of print and visual sources.

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of the module students should be able to demonstrate:

1. a critical understanding and systematic knowledge of the history of India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
2. an ability to assess the significance of religion, caste, race and gender in Indian history
3. an awareness of the relationships between social reform, nationalism and imperialism
4. the ability to select pertinent evidence/data in order to illustrate/demonstrate more general historical points
5. the ability to identify a particular academic interpretation, evaluate it critically and form an individual viewpoint
6. the acquisition of key writing, research, and presentation skills.

Teaching Information

1 x two-hour interactive lecture per week

Assessment Information

One 3000-word essay (50%) and one 2-hour exam (50%) [ILOs 1-6]

Reading and References

Crispin Bates, Subalterns and The Raj: South Asia Since 1600 (Routledge, 2007)

Judith Brown, Modern India (OUP, 1984)

Ayesha Jalal and Sugata Bose, Modern South Asia (Routledge, 1998)

Ian Talbot, A History of Modern South Asia: politics, states, diasporas (Yale, 2016)