HIS 460: Readings in World History

Film and History: Colonialism and Nationalism in India

Syllabus (Fall 2019)  .pdf file

OUTLINES /STUDY GUIDES (copied from other India-related courses I teach)

India: a chronological overview

Powerpoint: Indian Geography and History

Powerpoint: Indian History Outline

 

 Mughals to Europeans: An Outline With Links to Maps and Images

Powerpoint: Mughals to EIC 

Coming of British Rule

Video:  Story of India “Freedom”

 Revolt of 1857 and Responses to EIC Colonialism

Powerpoint: Early Responses to EIC Rule 

 Themes in Indian Nationalism

Powerpoint:  Early Nationalism in India

Gandhi and Indian Nationalism, 1915-32

Powerpoint:  Gandhi

Toward Independence and Partition 1928-47

                        Powerpoint: Partition 

Indian Politics Since Independence: An Overview

Powerpoint: Nehru’ India

Powerpoint: Challenges to Nehru

Powerpoint: Nehru to Indira

Powerpoint: Indira Gandhi and the Emergency

Powerpoint: Janata Party and After

Powerpoint: Two Themes in Recent Indian Politics

PowerpointCaste: A Historical Approach

 

 

Powerpoint: Kashmir

 

 

 

Useful  Links

Philip's Fil-ums: Notes on Indian Popular Cinema  (probably the most extensive and reliable set of notes on Indian popular cinema you can find online)

List of Films on the British Empire

Hindi Cinema: A Research Guide (2006)

Internet Movie Database  (one of the most extensive source for information about movies available on the internet)

Upperstall.Com an interesting site on Indian Cinema

 

 Page will remain under construction through the course, and beyond.  Please offer feedback or suggestions to me at Sanjay.Joshi at NAU dot EDU