Unit name | Social Change in Modern India (Level I Lecture Response) |
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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 |
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.
By the end of the module students should be able to demonstrate:
1 x two-hour interactive lecture per week
One 3000-word essay (50%) and one 2-hour exam (50%) [ILOs 1-6]
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)