HIS 312 Gandhi's India
Syllabus Fall 2023 .htm file
Syllabus Fall 2023
.pdf file
Electronic Readings for HIS 312
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POWERPOINTS and OUTLINES /STUDY GUIDES
Indian History: A Chronological Overview
Indian Geography and History: Powerpoint
Indian History from 1500 BCE to ca 1500 CE: An Outline -- Powerpoint
Video: Story of India "Freedom"
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
Early Responses to EIC Rule Powerpoint
Video Link to PBS “Story of India” 1857
Outline # 3: Themes
in Indian Nationalism
Powerpoint: Nationalism and the Middle Class
Powerpoint: Early Nationalism in India
Story of India link Amritsar Massacre
Outline # 4: Gandhi and Indian Nationalism, 1915-32
Powerpoint: Gandhi and Hind
Swaraj
Powerpoint: Caste, a
historical approach
Powerpoint: Gandhi: Class, Caste and Gender
Outline # 5: Toward Independence and Partition 1928-47
Gandhi Marginalized Powerpoint
MAPS
Joseph Schwartzberg's Historical Atlas of South Asia (probably the single best source for the historical geography of the region)
Comparing India and the US on a Map
European Settlements in South Asia
Discovery, Exploration, Trade and Colonization, 1486-1700
India 1767 -- includes Plassey location
India 1857 (includes Meerut location)
British Princely States. India Maps
Related Interesting Links
GENERAL COLONIAL INDIA
Colonial
India Links from UC Berkeley Library
AMERICANS WRITING ABOUT INDIA
https://scroll.in/topic/56486/the-wanderers
EMPIRE
"Head of the District" a short story by Rudyard Kipling
The East India Company (The Modern Avatar: Do note the way they gloss their past)
Empire Comes Home: South Asian Migration to Britain From movinghere.org (a site on 200 years of migration to England)
GENDER
An Online Photo Exhibition "Re-Presenting Indian Women 1875-1947"
"Sultana's Dream" by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Brief Biography of Begum Rokeya
THE ARMY
CASTE
India's Caste System: Myths and Realities
British transformations and the caste system
An older, but very interesting comparison of race in the US and caste in India: Gerald D. Berreman, “Caste in India and the United States” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Sep., 1960), pp. 120-127 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2773155
Contemporary Caste Politics: Secularisation
of Caste and Making of New Middle Class by D.L. Sheth
GANDHI
The best site for online version of the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (most comprehensive site on Gandhi)
Dilip Simeon (http://dilipsimeon.blogspot.in ) tells us why this is the best site to use for Gandhi’s works. He says:
“Here is the report of the first NDA government's (1998) brazen attempt to 'revise' Gandhi's Collected Works. Hundreds of whimsical deletions and changes were noticed by well-known scholars and Gandhians in India and around the world, who viewed them as an insult to scholarship, and demanded an end to such attempts to play with historical documents. Read the history of the controversy. Tridip Suhrud, now director of Sabarmati Ashram, wrote a detailed analysis of this shameless behaviour in EPW in November 2004. It was only after the defeat of the NDA government that the fraudulently 'revised' edition of the CWMG was withdrawn, in 2005”
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)
Mahatma
Gandhi, He Doesn't Live Here Any More: An Essay by
Kuldip Nayar
Ajay Skaria, “What
Gandhi's Racism Tells Us About Anti-Racist Politics
Today” The Wire (India) (July 14, 2020) accessed July 14, 2020
JINNAH
Father of the Nation : Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Muhammad Ali Jinnah [1876-1948]
AMBEDKAR
A Homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar
More to come!
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 (Includes an English Interview with Govind Nihalani, the director
An Introduction to the series by Bhishma Sahni
MISC
Cricket, Lagaan,
and Caste
The
site NOT to go to for buying essays and term papers on Gandhi!!
Page always under construction!! Last Updated August, 2022
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