HIS 312 Gandhi's India
Syllabus Fall 2011 .htm file
Syllabus Fall 2011 .pdf file
Electronic Readings for HIS 312
Until you can get your copy of the
textbook use this
link to read it
THREE Sample Discussion Notes from students
in the current class
Extra Reading for NOV
30- DEC 2 class
OUTLINES /STUDY GUIDES
Indian History: A Chronological Overview
Mughals to Europeans: An Outline With Links to Maps and Images
Outline # 1: Coming of British Rule
Outline # 2: Revolt of 1857 and Responses to EIC Colonialism
Video Link to PBS “Story of India” 1857
Outline # 3: Themes in Indian Nationalism
Outline # 4: Gandhi and Indian Nationalism, 1915-32
Outline # 5: Toward Independence and Partition 1928-47
MAPS
Joseph Schwartzberg's Historical Atlas of South Asia (probably the single best source for the historical geography of the region)
Link to a nice collection of South Asian history related maps
European Settlements in South Asia
Discovery, Exploration, Trade and Colonization, 1486-1700
India 1767 -- includes Plassey location
India 1857 (includes
Meerut location)
Related Interesting Links
GENERAL COLONIAL INDIA
Colonial
India Links from UC Berkeley Library
EMPIRE
"Head of the District" a short story by Rudyard Kipling
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
Empire Comes Home: South Asian Migration to Britain From movinghere.org (a site on 200 years of migration to England)
GENDER
"Sultana's Dream" by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Brief Biography of Begum Rokeya
THE ARMY
Emergence of the Indian Army in British India
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
Links to other Gandhi Sites from Gandhiserve
Links to Gandhi Sites from mkgandhi.org
http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/
http://www.mkgandhi.org/swarajya/coverpage.htm (Hind Swaraj)
http://www.mkgandhi.org/ (most comprehensive site on Gandhi)
Mahatma
Gandhi, He Doesn't Live Here Any More: An Essay by Kuldip
Nayar
JINNAH
Father of the Nation : Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah [1876-1948]
AMBEDKAR
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)
PARTITION
"Toba Tek Singh" a short story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Frances Pritchett's translation)
Other Links to Toba Tek Singh from Frances Pritchett's page
The Legacy Project on India-Pakistan Partition
"Those Fateful Days" Three Essays by CM Naim on local Muslim politics in Barabanki
BBC's The Hidden Story of Partition and its Legacies
BBC's "Partitioning India Over Lunch"
VIDEO
TAMAS (Darkness) A television mini-series directed by Govind Nihalani based on a novel by Bhishma Sahni. One of the outstanding, and earliest, representations of the traumas of partition on the screen, this was produced for Doordarshan, the state television channel in India. Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate any subtitled versions of this mini series, so the dialogs will not make sense without some knowledge of Hindi, Urdu, Hindustani.
Tamas Part I Tamas Part II Tamas Part III Tamas Part IV Tamas Part V
IN ENGLISH An Interview with Bhishma Sahni (IGNOU series on Partition Through the Eyes of Indian Authors)
MISC
Bapsi Sidhwa's Web Page with links to Reviews
Cricket, Lagaan, and Caste
The site NOT to go to for buying essays and term papers
on Gandhi!!
Arvind Gupta's Online films on India
Page always under construction!! Last Updated August 25, 2011
