HIS 314 Spring 2024: Revised Schedule of Readings and Assignments 3/21/24 to 5/2/24
SECTION IV. INDIA AFTER NEHRU: POPULISM AND ITS DANGERS
March 21 Recourse to Populism: Indira is India
Required Readings
Guha, Chapters Eighteen and Nineteen.
March 26 No Class
March 28 DISCUSSION # 2: Nehru and the making of contemporary India
April 2 Consequence of Populism
Required Readings
Guha, Chapters Nineteen and Twenty
April 4 Dynasty and Democracy
Required Readings
Guha, SKIM Chapter Twenty-One, and READ Twenty-Two
April 9 Indian Democracy
Required Readings
Guha, Chapters Twenty-Three, Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five.
Questions
for Discussion Three assigned April 9th
April 11-16 Two Themes in Recent
Politics
Required Readings
Guha, Chapters Twenty-Six, Twenty-Seven, and Twenty-Eight.
Powerpoint on Caste: A historical approach
Paper
Assignment handed out April 11th
April 18 Discussion # 3
April 23 The Rise of the BJP
1. Pankaj Mishra, “Ayodhya: The Modernity of Hinduism.” Kamala Visweswaran ed. Perspectives on Modern South Asia: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2011), pp. 187-198.
2. Pankaj Mishra, “How Narendra Modi Seduced India With Envy and Hate” op-ed New York Times (May 23, 2019) or try this link
3. Ajaz Ashraf, “Babri Masjid: Now a Metaphor of Hindus Harming Themselves.” NewsClick (December 6, 2021)
4. Gita Sahgal, “Hindutva Past and Present: From Secular Democracy to Hindu Rashtra.” Feminist Dissent. Number 5 (2020) Click on PDF button or try this link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/opinion/modi-india.html
April 25 Winding
Up: Hindutva in the News REVISED READINGS
Required Readings
1. Hannah
Ellis-Peterson, “‘Messianic spell’: how Narendra Modi created a cult of
personality.” The Guardian (UK)
(April 19, 2024).
2. Jawaharlal Nehru, “We Want No Caesars: Nehru’s Warning to Himself.” Reprinted from
1937) The Caravan (November 16, 2016).
3. Christophe Jaffrelot,
“Is India Still a Democracy?” The Nation (April 12, 2024).
4. Mujib Mashal and Hari Kumar, “Modi’s Party Doesn’t Control All of India. But He’s Working
on It.” The New York Times (March 23,
2024).
5. Nachiket Joshi, “‘H-Pop’: A cut-throat digital economy and deep-rooted hatred
have fundamentally changed India.” Scroll.in (February 25, 2024).
6. Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Aakash
Hassan and Shah Meer Baloch, “Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence
officials claim.” The Guardian (UK)
(April 04, 2024).
Recommended
1. Chietigj
Bajpaee, “India’s geopolitical heft will trump concerns over the state
of democracy as it goes to the polls.”
Chatham House (geostrategic thinktank) (April 11, 2024).
2. Samanth Subramanian, “The Long Read: How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart.” The Guardian (February 20, 2020).
3. Ashutosh Varshney “Jim Crow Hindutva” The Indian Express (October 20, 2021).
4. Atish Taseer, (FILM) “In Search of India's Soul: From Mughals to Modi.” Al Jazeera, (February 13, 2020).
5. Nicholas Kristof, “He’s the World’s Most Popular Leader. Beware.” New York Times (March 18, 2023) or try this archived link (if you can, do read some of the comments too!)
6. Mujib Mashal, Suhasini Raj and
Karan Deep Singh, “Modi’s Power to Sideline Challengers Is Only Growing” New York Times (March 29, 2023) or try this archived
link
PAPER EVALUATING Hindutva due by May 2nd, on Canvas by the end of the day. Late submissions cannot be accepted unless there is a documented excuse covered by NAU policies. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM FOR THIS COURSE.