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LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE



Prof. David Campion



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SCHEDULE OF CLASSES

SPRING 2009

Week IJan 20-23The Origins of Modern India
Week IIJan 26-30Ideologies of Empire and their Consequences
Week IIIFeb 2-6Caste, Religion, and Power in Colonial Indian Society
Week IVFeb 9-13Collaboration and Resistance under the British Raj
Week VFeb 16-20Colonial Policies and the Rise of Indian Nationalism
Week VIFeb 23-27The Anglo-Indian Encounter
Week VIIMar 2-6War and Reform
Week VIIIMar 9-13Mahatma Gandhi: The Man and the Image
Week IXMar 16-20The End of Empire and the Transfer of Power
Week XMar 30-Apr 3Postwar South Asia and the World
Week XIApr 6-10The Dynamics of South Asian Politics
Week XIIApr 13-17The Lives of the Powerful and the Excluded
Week XIIIApr 20-24Contemporary South Asian Society
Week XIVApr 27-29South Asia: Present and Future



Also see Schedule of Classes for Summer Session 2008



Week I: The Origins of Modern India

Jan 21: Introduction: Indian society in the eighteenth century
Jan 23: The East India Company and the British conquest of Bengal

Reading:
Metcalf, 1-55
Hay, 1-15

Documents:
Robert Clive, Letter to William Pitt regarding British policy in Bengal (1759)
East India Company Act of 1767
Robert Clive, Speech in the House of Commons on India (1772)
Warren Hastings, Letter to Court of Directors of the East India Company (1773)
Edmund Burke, Speech in the House of Commons on India (1783)


Week II: Ideologies of Empire and their Consequences

Jan 26: "Orientalists," "Anglicists," and the Bengal Renaissance
Jan 28: The Revolt of 1857: causes and consequences
Jan 30: Discussion


Reading:
Metcalf, 56-91
Hay, 15-34
Bernard S. Cohn, "The Command of Language and the Language of Command" in Ranajit Guha (ed) Subaltern Studies IV [on reserve]

Documents:
William Bentinck, "On Ritual Murder in India" (1829)
T.B. Macauley, "Minute on Education" (1835) and Resolution of Lord Bentinck (1835)
Mountstuart Elphinstone, "Indian Customs and Manners" (1840)
Earl of Dalhousie, Report on the Administration of India (1856)
Eliza Greathed, An Account of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut (1857)

Suggested films: The Deceivers (1988), Shatranj ke Khilari (1977), The Rising (2005)


Week III: Caste, Religion, and Power in Colonial Indian Society

Feb 2: Inside village India: caste, kinship, and land
Feb 4: The politics of religious identity: Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs in colonial India
Feb 6: Discussion


Reading:
Metcalf, 92-122
Hay, 36-62, 72-82, 120-127, 180-195
Gyan Pandey, "The Colonial Construction of 'Communalism'," in Ranajit Guha, Subaltern Studies VI [on reserve]

Suggested films: Lagaan (2001), Pather Panchali (1955)

MAP EXERCISE DUE FEB 4



Week IV: Collaboration and Resistance under the British Raj

Feb 9: Indian society under the British Raj
Feb 11: The princely states and shape of British paramountcy
Feb 13: Discussion: The Home and the World


Reading:
Tagore, The Home and the World

Documents:
Queen Victoria, Proclamation to the Princes, Chiefs, and the People of India (1858)

Suggested films: The Home and the World (1984), A Passage to India (1984)

RESPONSE PAPER #1 DUE FEB 13



Week V: Colonial Policies and the Rise of Indian Nationalism

Feb 16: The Indian National Congress and the Swadeshi movement
Feb 18: Lord Curzon and Britain's "Great Game"
Feb 20: Discussion


Reading:
Metcalf, 123-166
Hay, 84-120, 128-159

Document:
Francis Younghusband, Convention between Great Britain and Tibet (1904)

Image: 360° panaromic view from the summit of Mount Everest


Week VI: The Anglo-Indian Encounter

Feb 23: The "Jewel in the Crown": India and the British imperial identity
Feb 25: Rabindranath Tagore and his world: the development of modern South Asian literature
Feb 27: Discussion


Reading:
Hay, 130-139, 277-288
Bernard S. Cohn, "Representing Authority in Victorian India" in Hobsbawm and Ranger (eds), The Invention of Tradition [on reserve]
R.J. Moore, "Imperial India, 1858-1914," Ch.19 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol III [on reserve]

Documents:
Rudyard Kipling, "Gunga Din" (1891) and "The White Man's Burden" (1898)
Rabindranath Tagore, "Once there was a king" (1916)

Suggested films: Devdas (1998), Kim (1950), The Man Who Would be King (1974)

RESPONSE PAPER #2 DUE FEB 25



Week VII: War and Reform

Mar 2: First steps toward reform: Morley-Minto and the "Indianization" of government
Mar 4: India in the Great War, 1914-1918
Mar 6: MIDTERM EXAMINATION


Documents:
Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Speech to the House of Commons (1909)
G.K. Gokhale, Political Testament (1915)
Lucknow Pact (1916)
Edwin S. Montagu, Speech to the House of Commons (1917)
Government of India, Notification granting military commissions to Indians (1918)
King George V, Proclamation on the Government of India Act (1919)


Week VIII: Mahatma Gandhi: The Man and the Image

Mar 9: The life, philosophy, and politics of Mohandas K. Gandhi
Mar 11: Gandhi, Nehru, and the rise of "civil disobedience"
Mar 13: Discussion


Reading:
Metcalf, 167-202
Hay, 243-275
Partha Chatterjee, "Gandhi and the Critique of Civil Society" in Ranajit Guha (ed.) Subaltern Studies III [on reserve]

Documents:
Mohandas K. Gandhi, "Indian Home Rule" (1909) and "Quit India" Resolution [original draft] (1942)

Suggested film: Bhowani Junction (1956), Gandhi (1982), Rang de Basanti (2006)
The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE MAR 13

SPECIAL EVENT: 46th Annual Throckmorton Lecture
Prof. Mae Ngai, Columbia University
"The True Story of Ah Jake: Translation and Justice in Late-nineteenth-century Sierra County California"
Monday, Mar 9, 3:30 PM - Council Chamber




Week IX: The End of Empire and the Transfer of Power

Mar 16: India's war at home and abroad, 1939-1945
Mar 18: A bloody birth: Independence and Partition
-------- Film: Earth, 7-10PM, Miller 102
Mar 20: NO CLASS


Reading:
Metcalf, 203-230
Jalal, 1-28
Hay, 195-242, 304-314
Ian Talbot, "Literature and the Human Drama of the 1947 Partition" in Talbot and Singh (eds.) Region and Partition [on reserve]

Documents:
Subhas Chandra Bose, Plan for cooperation between the Axis powers and India (1941)
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Brief for the Führer on "British India" (1941)
US State Department, Orders to American Forces in India (1942)
Clement Attlee, "The end of British rule in India" (1947)
Winston Churchill, "Britain's shameful flight from India" (1947)
Jawaharlal Nehru, "A tryst with destiny" (1947) [Audio: BBC Radio Archive]

Images:
BBC Photo Archive, Photographs of the partition of India and Pakistan (1947)

Video and Audio:
BBC Film Archive, Lord Mountbatten reads address by King George VI on Indian independence (1947)
BBC Radio Archive, Muhammad Ali Jinnah's address on Pakistan's independence (1947)

Suggested films: 1942, A Love Story (1994), Jinnah (1998), Hey Ram (2000)
Mountbatten: Last Viceroy (1986), Jewel in the Crown (1984), Staying On (1979)

RESPONSE PAPER #3 DUE MAR 19



Week X: Postwar South Asia and the World

Mar 30: The Indian Republic comes of age: The Nehruvian state and the planned economy
Apr 1: On the world stage: Indian and Pakistani foreign policy in the Cold War
Apr 3: Discussion


Reading:
Metcalf, 231-264
Jalal, 29-65
Hay, 315-352
Robert J. McMahon, "United States Cold War strategy in South Asia," Journal of American History, 75 (1988) [on reserve]

Documents:
Maharaja Hari Singh, Instrument of Accession, Jammu and Kashmir State (1947)
Jawaharlal Nehru, "Marxism, Capitalism and India's Future" (1941), Speech to the Bandung Conference Political Committee (1955), and "Economic Development and Nonalignment" (1956)

RESPONSE PAPER #4 DUE APR 3



Week XI: The Dynamics of South Asian Politics

Apr 6: The Congress Party, separatist movements, Indira Gandhi, and the "Emergency"
Apr 8: Pakistan and Bangladesh: Islam and the nation state
Apr 10: Discussion


Reading:
Jalal, 66-156
Hay, 379-411
Owen Bennett Jones, Pakistan: Eye of the Storm, 109-186 [on reserve]

Suggested films: Such a Long Journey (1998), Bhopal Express (2001), The Terrorist (1999)



Week XII: The Lives of the Powerful and the Excluded

Apr 13: The ties that divide: caste, religion, and language in Modern India and Sri Lanka
Apr 15: From purdah to prime minister: women in contemporary South Asian society
Apr 17: Discussion


Reading:
Bumiller, May you be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, 3-147, 230-289

Suggested films: Mr. & Mrs. Iyer (2002), Bandit Queen (1995), Mirch Masala (1985)
Water (2006), Salaam Bombay (1988), Fire (1997), White Rainbow (2005)

RESPONSE PAPER #5 DUE APR 17



Week XIII: Contemporary South Asian Society

Apr 20: Cultures and identities in the South Asian Diaspora
Apr 22: Secularism, religious fundamentalism, and the battle for power in India and Pakistan
Apr 24: Discussion


Reading:
Metcalf, 265-304
Jalal, 157-247
Hay, 289-296, 359-365
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, "Clothes," "The Ultrasound," in Arranged Marriage [on reserve]
Ashutosh Varshney, "Contested Meanings: India's National Identity, Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Anxiety," in Daedalus (122:3) 1993 [on reserve]

Suggested films: Monsoon Wedding (2002), East is East (1998), Bombay (1995)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), My Son the Fanatic (1997), Silent Waters (2003)

RESEARCH ESSAY DUE APR 24



Week XIV: South Asia: Present and Future

Apr 27: South Asia's short fuse: Kashmir, nuclear proliferation, and implications for the world
Apr 29: Conclusion: The Future of South Asia


Reading:
Jalal, 247-257
Owen Bennett Jones, Pakistan: Eye of the Storm, 56-108 [on reserve]
Gurcharan Das, "The India Model," Foreign Affairs, (85:4) Jul/Aug 2006 [on reserve]
C. Raja Mohan, "India and the Balance of Power," Foreign Affairs, (85:4) Jul/Aug 2006 [on reserve]
Sumit Ganguly, "Will Kashmir Stop India's Rise?" Foreign Affairs, (85:4) Jul/Aug 2006 [on reserve]

Documents:
Declaration of India and Pakistan on Jammu and Kashmir (1966)
Simla Agreement on Kashmir (1972)

Suggested films: Mission Kashmir (2000), Kandahar (2001), In This World (2002)
Born into Brothels (2004)

FINAL EXAMINATION: THURSDAY 7 MAY, 8:30-11:30 AM



Also see Schedule of Classes for Summer Session 2008



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