India after Indira, 1975-2000: Seminars
THIS MODULE MEETS THURSDAYS 10-12, ROOM H347
TERM 1
Week 1 October 6: Introductory meeting
Week 2 October 13: The Emergency
Week 3 October 20. Postcolonial Democracy: Crises of Political Legitimacy?
Week 4 October 27: The Interregnum? 1977-1980
Week 5 November 3: 1984
Week 6 Reading week - no seminar
Week 7 November 17: Caste as Statecraft
Week 8 November 24. Caste as Economics
Week 9 December 1. Caste as Violence
Week 10 December 8. Caste as Electoral Politics
TERM 2
Week 1 January 9. NOTE DIFFERENT MEETING DAY,TIME AND PLACE! Individual meetings with module tutor
Week 2 January 19. Hindutva as Opposition
Week 3 January 26. Hindutva as Nation
Week 4 February 2. Hindutva as Violence
Week 5 February 10. NOTE DIFFERENT MEETINGDAY, TIME AND PLACE! Long essay / dissertation student presentations. Friday 1-4.30PM (Room S2.73)
Week 6 Reading week: No seminar
Week 7 February 23. Hindutva as Globalisation
Week 8 March 2 Liberalisation as Crisis
Week 9 March 9. Liberalisation as Culture
Week 10 March 16 Liberalisation, Legitimacy and the Question of Structural Violence NOTE CHANGE OF MEETING TIME AND PLACE- 2-4PM ROOTES GROUP STUDY I (ROOTES LEARNING GRID)
Summer Term
Revision sessions and exam (as per university examination timetable)
Session 1 Wednesday 3 May, 10-12noon. Location S028. Partha Chatterjee and Sudipta Kaviraj. Prep: re-read the Chatterjee and Kaviraj with attention to the seminar questions from weeks 3 & 4.
Session 2 Wednesday 10 May, 12noon-2PM. Location H356. Sources and their specialness; discussion of mock exam essay answers.
Exam 9.10 AM Wednesday 24 May, Oculus Building, Room OC0.02