Course Contents

1ST WEEK South Asia history: an introduction Sugata Bose and Ayesha jalal, Modern South Asia, History, Culture, political Economy, (third edition)(Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010). Pp 1-34 2nd – 3rd week Resistances and Independence in South Asia Dr. Javed Iqbal, Mutiny or War of Independence? Determining the True Nature of the Uprising of 1857, Pakistan Journal of History and Culture, Vol.XXXI, No.1, 2010, 55-77 Sugata Bose and Ayesha jalal, Modern South Asia, History, Culture, political Economy, (third edition)(Delhi) Oxford University Press, 2010). 46 56, 89-103 4th -5th week Aspects of Nationalism and Independence in South ASIA NIEMEIJER, A. C. "SAME GENERAL ASPECTS OF NATIONALISM IN INDIA." In The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924, 1-21. Brill, 1972. B. C. Upreti, NATIONALISM IN SOUTH ASIA : TRENDS AND INTERPRETATIONS, The Indian Journal of Political Science , JULY - SEPT., 2006, Vol. 67, No. 3 (JULY - SEPT., 2006), pp. 535-544 Ayesha Jalal, ,130-137, 107-125 and 135-145, 6th 7th week Movements against Colonialism and imperialism in south Asia Dr Tripathi - The Developing Economies, 1996, ch.2 NIEMEIJER, A. C. "NATIONALISM AND PAN-ISLAMISM IN 19TH CENTURY INDIA." In The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924, 22-48. Brill, 1972. 8th 10th week Struggle for Decolonization Basu, Subho, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, and Robert Keys. "The Second World War and South Asia: An Introduction." Social Scientist 27, no. 7/8 (1999): 1-10. Accessed July 14, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/3518011 Greenough, Paul R. "Political Mobilization and the Underground Literature of the Quit India Movement, 1942-44." Social Scientist 27, no. 7/8 (1999): 11-47. NIEMEIJER, A. C. "CRISIS." In The Khilafat Movement in India 1919-1924, 126-43. Brill, 1972. 10th -11TH week Rise and growth of militant Nationalism Gondhalekar, Nandini, and Sanjoy Bhattacharya. "The All India Hindu Mahasabha and the End of British Rule in India, 1939-1947." Social Scientist 27, no. 7/8 (1999): 48-74. 12th week, Colonialism and development in British India Bipan Chandra, Colonial India: British versus Indian Views of Development, Research Foundation of State University of New York for and on behalf of the Fernand Braudel Center, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter, 1991), pp. 81-167 13th -14 week The transfer of power: An historiographical survey of South Asian sources R.J. Moore. (1986) ,The transfer of power:An historiographical survey. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 9:1, pages 83-95. 15th -16th week Religious Movements, Militancy, and Conflict in South Asia Joy Aoun Liora Danan Sadika Hameed Robert D. Lamb Kathryn Mixon Denise St. Peter,Religious Movements, Militancy, and Conflict in South AsiaCenter for Strategic and International StudiesWashington, DC,2012,

Course Synopsis

The purpose of the course is to discuss political, constitutional, economic and religious struggle of the Muslims of South Asia under the British Raj.

Course Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to understand: 1- Identity politics of south Asia paved the way for struggle against the British power and creation of separate states. 2- The struggle movements in south Asia have become contested power games around the issues of class, caste/ethnicity, gender, region and development. 3- socio-religious elite created awareness and consciousness among the masses of south Asia 4- Independence movements initiated by freedom fighters and gradually handed over to political leaders.