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(POC3105) Negotiating Postcoloniality: History and Politics of Independent India
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(POC3105) Negotiating Postcoloniality: History and Politics of Independent India
(POC3105) Negotiating Postcoloniality: History and Politics of Independent India
Lead Tutor:
Shubranshu Mishra
(POC3105) Negotiating Postcoloniality: History and Politics of Independent India
Negotiating Postcoloniality: History and Politics of Independent India
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Teaching Schedule
Week One: Introduction to the course
Week Two: ‘The Imaginary Institution of India’: Whose history and by whom?
Week Three: ‘Tryst with destiny’: Independence and Partition
Week Four: ‘The Unnatural Nation’: Constructing postcolonial India
Week Five: The Indian Model: Contextualising democracy and secularism
Week Six: ‘Gandhiji, I have no homeland’: Understanding caste and inequality
Week Seven: ‘The Violence of Normal Times’: Gender and Minorities
Week Eight: Contesting the State: Terror and counter-terror
Week Nine: ‘Everybody Loves a Good Drought’: Development and endangered livelihoods
Week Ten: ‘Self-fashioning and worlding’: India and the World
Week Eleven: Cinema and Cricket
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