Syllabus

Readings on ELECTRONIC RESERVE for this course
 

 Glossary of Terms: D.C. Ahir, Gandhi and Ambedkar, chapters One and Two

OUTLINES /STUDY GUIDES

 Outline # 1: Coming of British Rule

Outline # 2: Revolt of 1857 and Responses to EIC Colonialism

Outline # 3: Themes in Indian Nationalism

Outline # 4: Gandhi and Indian Nationalism, 1915-32

Outline # 5: Toward Independence and Partition 1928-47

MAPS

Link to a nice collection of South Asian history related maps

India 1797-1805

India 1767 -- includes Plassey location

India 1857 (includes Meerut location)
 

Related Interesting Links

EMPIRE

The British Empire

The East India Company (Just for fun!  This one is a modern company)

British Empire Related Links From the Victorian Web

British Voices From South Asia, An Exhibition
 

THE ARMY

Emergence of the Indian Army in British India

Indian Army

CASTE

India's Caste System: Myths and Realities

British transformations and the caste system

Contemporary Caste Politics: Secularisation of Caste and Making of New Middle Class by D.L. Sheth
 

GANDHI

Mahatma Gandhi Album

http://www.gandhiserve.org/

Links to other Gandhi Sites from Gandhiserve

Links to Gandhi Sites from mkgandhi.org

http://www.mahatma.org.in/

http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/

http://www.mkgandhi.org/swarajya/coverpage.htm (Hind Swaraj)

http://www.mkgandhi.org/  (most comprehensive site on Gandhi)

Gandhi on Palestine

Mahatma Gandhi, He Doesn't Live Here Any More: An Essay by Kuldip Nayar
 

AMBEDKAR

http://www.ambedkar.org/

Ambedkar: A Biographical Sketch

Some writings by and about Ambedkar Note the link to Gail Omvedt's essay Ambedkar's New Buddhism

I also recommend   gandhi's ambedkar: an essay by Ramachandra Guha (from Ambedkar.Org)

Dalits "Writing Back"

Dalit Literature Review
 

MISC

Bapsi Sidhwa's Web Page with links to Reviews
 
 

Cricket, Lagaan, and Caste
 

Page always under construction!!  Last Updated  November 12, 2002