Developing South Asia Module Timetable
Autumn Term
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LecturesThe meeting in the first week of term takes place Friday, October 8, 11.45PM in H303. All subsequent lectures take place Tuesdays, 3-4PM, H2.44 (Humanities Building) |
Seminar Reading & Discussion Topics
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Introduction: Colonialism as development project |
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The British in India, 1 |
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The British in India, 2 Film screening: The British Empire in Colour, parts 1-2 |
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Indian ladies and colonial 'improvement' |
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6 |
Reading Week : No Lecture |
Reading Week : No Seminar |
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The question of evidence in South Asian history-writing, or, |
Resource discovery session (Teaching Grid in the Library) |
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Competing nationalist visions of development, 2: Nehru |
Spring Term
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This week's seminar leaders: 11-12 Marianne Gaindher and Alice Bennington; 12-1 Abdul Afridi and Neha Khatwani: |
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Modernization and Cold War politics
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This week's seminar leaders:11-12 Chris Tassone and Callum Davis; 12-1 Natalie Mainland |
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Modernization projects: The Green Revolution |
This week's seminar leaders:11-12 Eva Steketee and Elizabeth Phua; 12-1 Eleanor Foreman and Joanna Ward |
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Postcolonial subjects in the field Film screening: Bharat Mata [Mother India], 1957 |
This week's seminar leaders: 11-12 Cameron Bentley and Callun Harries; 12-1 Javier Fernandez Galeano (and TBA) |
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Modernization projects: Dams |
This week's seminar leaders: 11-12 TBA; 12-1 Alice Wyatt and TBA |
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Reading Week : No Lecture.
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Reading Week : No Seminar |
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Modernization and Protest Film screening: Narmada: A Valley Rises (1994) http://www.socialdoc.net/kazimi/ali_html_pages2/1AK2Nar.html |
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Modernization projects: Population control |
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Film screening: Something like a war (1991) |
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Second short essay due 4PM Friday March 18. Third short essay due 4PM April 26. |
This week's seminar leaders 11-12: Ayse Torun and Andrew Walker |
Summer Term
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Revision session for second-year students |
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Final examination for second year students |
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