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History 1 Course Manual
History 1 Course Manual
History 1 Course Manual
Semester II (2017-2018)
Modules
Part IV
2) Robert Darnton, “Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-
Severin”, in his The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History,
pp75-79, 92-101
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The course instructors reserve the right to change readings, and add or subtract
selections. Students will be given adequate notice if any changes are made to the reading
list.
3) Katherine Butler Brown, “Did Aurangzeb ban music?: Questions for the
historiography of his reign”, Modern Asian Studies, 41:1, January 2007, pp77-87,
91-95, 103-106, 112-116.
5) Ruby Lal, “Introduction”, Domesticty and Power in the Early Mughal World, pp TBA
Module 3: The Long Eighteenth Century and the Establishment of Company Raj:
Decline or Decentralization? Continuity or Change? Collaboration or Resistance?
The eighteenth century was a dramatic time in the history of the Indian subcontinent. As
the Mughal empire headed toward certain decline, a number of new regional powers
took over the reins of administration in different parts of the country. The Persian and
Afghan invasions toward the middle of the century put an end to pretensions of Mughal
power but the decisive military victories of the English East India Company seemed to
define the destiny of the subcontinent for the next two hundred years. Yet the
historiographical question remains, was the eighteenth century a ‘dark’ century or a time
of political, commercial and cultural ebullience? Was Company rule a continuation of
earlier traditions of sovereignty on the subcontinent or did it mark a break? Did natives
“collaborate” with the Company in furthering colonialism on the subcontinent or did
they “resist” at every turn?
6) Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia, Chapters 5 and 6 (page numbers
differ according to the edition)
8) Gautam Bhadra, “Four rebels of 1857”, Spivak and Guha (eds) Selected Subaltern
Studies, pp 128-145, 156-75.
11) N.B. Dirks, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India, ppTBA
13) Rosalind O’Hanlon, Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Lower
Caste Protest in Nineteenth Century India , pp 193-219.
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Module 7: Indian Nationalism: Many Hues
The standard history of Indian nationalism places the Indian National Congress at the
very heart of conceptions of the nation. And indeed, as one of the greatest political
parties of the modern world, the INC is credited with not only winning freedom for
India but also for launching a trenchant critique of colonialism as a moral and material
exercise, one which several successful anti-colonial movements around the world drew
from. Yet the ‘nation’ was conceived rather differently by various nationalists from both
within and outside the Congress fold. How do their writings reveal the many hues of
Indian nationalism and complicate the standard narrative?
14) Bipan Chandra et al (ed), India’s Struggle for Independence, chapter 4 and 5 “The
Foundations of the Congress: The Myth” and “The Foundations of the
Congress: The Reality”, pp34-56
19) Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates between
Gandhi and Tagore 1915-1941, pp. 54-59, 65-68.
20) BR Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste – The Annotated Critical Edition, pp. 321-328,
333-356
21) Shahid Amin, “Gandhi as Mahatma” in Guha and Spivak (eds) Selected Subaltern
Studies, pp. 288-301.
22) Asim Roy, “The high politics of India’s partition”, Modern Asian Studies, 24:2, May
1990, pp385-408.
23) G. Kudaisya and Tai Yong Tan (ed.) The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia,
Chapter 3.