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Introduction |
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Quest for Freedom, Partition and Memories (1857-2004), (A Historical Approach and Personal Memoirs) |
Film: Mehta, Deepa. Earth. 1998.
Reading:  Chandra, Bipan, Mridula Mukherjee, Aditya Mukherjee, K. N. Panikkar, and Sucheta Mahajan. India’s Struggle for Independence. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books, 1989. ISBN: 0670821519. (Selections from this text.)
Reading: Butalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0822324946. (Extracts from this text.) |
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Land Reforms (1950-85): Poverty Line and Peasantry |
Film: Benegal, Shyam. Ankur. 1974.
Reading: Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. New York, NY: Perennial Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1993. ISBN: 0060925000. (Selections from this text.)
Reading: Besley, Timothy, and Robin Burgess. "Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, And Growth: Evidence From India." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, no. 2 (2000): 389-430. |
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"The Emergency Rule" (1975-77): Democracy or Dictatorship? |
Reading: Sahgal, Nayantara. Rich Like Us. 1st ed. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1999. ISBN: 8172233752. |
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"The Emergency Rule" (1975-77): Democracy or Dictatorship? (cont.) |
Reading: Sahgal, Nayantara. Rich Like Us. 1st ed. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 1999. ISBN: 8172233752. |
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The Universal Civil Code Debate and the Shah Bano Case (1985 and its Aftermath): Women and Islam |
Reading: Chughtai, Ismat. "The Wedding Shroud" and "Choti Apa." In The Quilt and Other Stories. Translated by Tahira Nagvi and Syeda S. Hameed. 4th ed. Columbia, MO: South Asia Books, 1999. ISBN: 8185107106.
Reading: Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat. "Purdah Observed." In Sultana's Dream: And Selections from the Secluded Ones. New York, NY: Feminist Press, 1988. ISBN: 0935312838. |
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Mandal Commission (1990): Caste and Affirmative Action |
Film: Mundhra, Jag. Bawandar. 2000.
Reading: Devi, Mahasweta. Imaginary Maps: Three Stories. Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 0415904633.
Reading: Omvedt, Gail. "Introduction to Dalit Poems." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars X, no. 3 (1978): 2-10. (Selections from this text.) |
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Documentary Cinema and Academic debate: Ayodhya (1992): Religious Conflict, Within and Beyond Borders |
Film: Bose, Sugata. Mandir, Masjid, Mandal, and Marx: Democracy in India. 1991.
Reading: Varshney, Ashutosh. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0300085303. (Selections from this text.) |
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Parallel Cinema and Fiction: Seventy-Third Amendment, Panchayati Raj and the Empowerment of Women (1992-2004)
Guest Speaker: Professor Esther Duflo, MIT |
Film: Kapur, Shekhar. Bandit Queen. 1994.
Reading: Sen, Amartya. "More than 100 million women are missing." New York Review of Books, December 1990.
Reading: Antherjanam, Lalithambika, Gita Krishnakutty. Cast Me Out If You Will: Stories and Memoirs from Kerala. 1st ed. New York, NY: Feminist Press, 1998. ISBN: 1558611886. (Selections from this text.) |
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Popular Culture and its Critique: The World Cup and Bollywood Goes West (1983-2001): Cricket mania, Post-Colonialism and National Pride |
Film: Gowariker, Ashutosh. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. 2001.
Reading: Majumdar, Boria. "The Empire Drives Back." outlookindia.com, July 16, 2001. (Web publication.)
Reading: Nandy, Ashis. The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and the Destiny of Games. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0195653211. (Selections from this text.) |
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Ethnography and Pulp Magazines: Star TV arrives in India: Global or Local? (1990's - the present)
Health Care in India: guest lecture by expert from MIT-Health, followed by Q and A |
Reading: Mankekar, Purnima. Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postclolonial India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0822323907. (Selections from this text.)
Reading: Stardust and Filmfare, North Indian cine magazines. (Excerpts from these texts.) |
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Press and Other Media: IT Revolutions (1990-the present): BPOs, Call Centers, Outsourcing and all that |
Reading: Narayanamurthy, N. R. "Making India a significant IT player in this millennium." In India: Another Millennium? Edited by Romila Thapar. New Delhi, India: Viking and Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN: 0140298835.
(Articles by Narayanmurthy.)
Reading: Times of India, The Hindu, India Today, and Frontline, Indian newspapers and magazines. (Clips and excerpts from these texts.) |
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History and Religion in Modern Times: The Romila Thapar Controversy (2001 and Ancient History): Myth, Legends, History and National Identity |
Reading: Thapar, Romila. "In Defence of History." Lecture delivered at Tiruvananthapuram, March 2, 2002.
Reading: Sen, Kshitimohan. Hinduism. New York, NY: Viking Press, 1995. ISBN: 0140136509. (Selections from this text.) |
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Politics, Documenting and Civil Society: Elections 2003-2004: Consensus and Controversies
Guest Speaker: Professor Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
Wrap up Discussion |
Film: Banerjee and Banerjee. The Name of the Disease. (In-class screening.)
Readings: Probe Report, Indian Express and Outlook. (Excerpts from these texts.) |