HIS
498: Film and History: India's Partition
DIRECT
LINKS TO ALL ELECTRONIC READINGS (under construction)
PEER REVIEW GUIDELINES AND FORM (.rtf document for you to open and use on any text editor)
Sound
of Surviving: A film made Danielle
DeMarco, as her final project for the class, fall 2018.
Research Links
RESEARCH GUIDELINES
and Sources (PLEASE DO CHECK THIS)
RESEARCH
PAGE FROM CLINE LIBRARY (you MUST look over this before our research class
on September 19th)
A link to search Constituent
Assembly Debates
Joseph Schwartzberg's Historical Atlas of South Asia (probably
the single best source for the historical geography of the region)
OUTLINES /STUDY GUIDES (copied from HIS 312: Gandhi's India)
Indian History: A Chronological
Overview
Indian History Outline Powerpoint
Mughals
to Europeans: An Outline With Links to Maps and Images
Outline # 1: Coming of British Rule
Video: Story of India "Freedom"
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
Outline # 5: Toward Independence and Partition 1928-47
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
http://www.sacw.net/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"
Prof. C. M. Naim's review of the film Jinnah (information
regarding Prof. Naim Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago)
Illingworth's
Cartoons in the UK Daily Mail around theme of Partition
MISC
For a good (though by now dated) overview of fictional writing on
partition, see Jason Francisco "In the Heat of
Fratricide: The Literature of India's Partition Burning Freshly" Annual of Urdu Studies vol. 11 (1996). A review
article
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.
An Interview with Bhishma Sahni (IGNOU series on Partition Through
the Eyes of Indian Authors). Questions in English, author responds in Hindi
Useful Research Links
Benjamin,
A Student's Guide to Online History Resources
Internet
Movie Database (probably the most extensive source for information
about movies available on the internet)