History of India VII (c. 1857 - 1950)

Paper Code:

24CHIS 611

Credits:

Contact Hours:

90.00

Max. Marks:

100.00

Objective:

Course Objectives:

This paper deals with the broad socio-economic and political trends in colonial India from the latter half of the 19th century. The cultural changes that led to the socio-religious reform Movements will enable the students to understand the role of different societies and reformers in the period under consideration. It also critically analyses the various trends in the national liberation movement and other aspects of politics which were foundational for the modern Indian state. The aim is to develop interdisciplinary analytical skills at the undergraduate level.

Course Outcomes:

Course Outcomes (CO)

Course

Learning outcomes (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24CHIS 611

History of India VII (c. 1857 - 1950)

CO73- Critically evaluate the cultures, changes and socio-religious Reform Movements

CO74- Assess the various trends of anti-colonial struggles in colonial India

CO75- Analyse the emergence and social base of Gandhian Nationalism

CO76- Determine the ideologies and practices of Communalism

CO77- Examine the unique trajectories of Independence and the emergence of a new State

CO78-Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Power Point Presentation

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

18.00

Unit I:

Cultures, changes and Socio-religious Reform Movements

[a] The advent of printing and its implications

[b] Reform and Revival: Brahmo Samaj, Prarthna Samaj, Ramakrishna

and Vivekananda, Arya Samaj, Wahabi, Deoband, Aligarh and Singh

Sabha movements. Shree Narayan Guru Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Movement, Vokkaligara Sangha, Self-respect movement and Theosophical Society of India in South

[c] Debates around gender

[d] Making of religious and linguistic identities

18.00

Unit II:

Nationalism : Trends up to 1919

[a] Political ideology and organizations, formation of INC

[b] Moderates and Extremists

[c] Swadeshi Movement

[d] Revolutionaries

18.00

Unit III:

Emergence and social base of Gandhian Nationalism

[a] Intellectual foundations of Gandhian Nationalism

[b] Rowlatt, Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movements

[c] Civil Disobedience Movement

[d] Quit India Movement

18.00

Unit IV:

Communalism: ideologies and practices

[a] Trends in Communalism

[b]Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement

[c] Singh Sabha and the Akali Movement

[d] Jinnah and Muslims Separatism

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Unit V:

Independence and the emergence of a new State

[a] Negotiations for Independence

[b] The Making of the Constitution

[c] Integration of Princely States

[d] Land Reforms and the beginning of Planning

Essential Readings:

ESSENTIAL READINGS

Bandhopadhya, Shekhar. From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India. Delhi:Orient Blackswan, 2004.
Chandra, Bipan et. al. India’s Struggle for Independence. New Delhi:Penguin, 1988.
Chaudhary, Latika et. al., eds. A New Economic History of Colonial India. London and New York: Routledge, 2016.
Guha, Ranajit and Gayatri Chakaravarti Spivak, eds. Selected Subaltern Studies. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Sarkar, Sumit. Modern India 1885-1947. Delhi: Macmillan 1983.

References:

SUGGESTED READINGS

Amin, Shahid. Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922 – 1992. Delhi: Penguin,2006 reprint.
Amin, Shahid and Gyanendra Pandey, ed Vol. I & II, Delhi: Rajkamal Prakashan, 1995 and 2002.
Bandyopadhyay, Shekhar (ed). National Movement in India: A Reader. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Bipan, Chandra. Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India. Delhi: Orient Longman,1979.
Politics and Ethics of the Indian Constitution. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Brown, Judith. Gandhi’s Rise to Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
Chakravarti, Dipesh. Rethinking Working Class History: Bengal 1890-1940. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Chatterji, Joya. Bengal Divided. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Dalmia,Vasudha and Stuart Blackburn, eds. India's Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth Century. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004.
Devji, Faisal. The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence. Cambridge,Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Hasan, Mushirul. India’s Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilisation. New Delhi: OxfordUniversity Press, 1993.
Separately: Cultural India in History and Politics. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Jalal, Ayesha. Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Jalal, Ayesha. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Khan, Yasmin. India at War: The Subcontinent and the SHISnd World War. New York:Oxford University Press, 2015.
Oberoi, Harjot Singh. The Construction of Religious Boundaries: Culture, Identity,and Diversity in the Sikh Tradition. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press,1994.
Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1985.
Pandey, Gyanendra.The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India. New Delhi:Oxford University Press, 1992.
Pandian, M.S.S. Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present.New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007.
Parekh, Bhiku. Colonialism, Tradition and Reform. An Analysis of Gandhi’s Political Discourse. Delhi: Sage, 1999 reprint.
Ray, Rajat, K., ed. Entrepreneurship and Industry in India, 1800-1947. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Roy, Tirthankar. The Economic History of India 1857-1947. New Delhi: Oxford UniversityPress, 2000.
Sarkar, Sumit and Sarkar, Tanika. (eds) Caste in Modern India: A Reader, Volume I and II.Delhi: Sarkar, Sumit. The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2010 reprint.Permanent Black, 2014.
Symposium on Nineteenth Century Indian Economic History, IESHR, Delhi: Indian Economic and Social History Association, 1969.