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Modern Southeast Asia: 17th to the 20th Century
Course Objectives :-
This paper offers an overview of modern Southeast Asian history to students who could be familiar or unfamiliar with the region. A study of the social, economic, and political transformations in Southeast Asia during the colonial period will enable students to develop a critical and comparative approach, given their in-depth study of South Asian history. The paper offers analysis of impact of colonialism and the process of de-colonisation on the region. The student shall analyse the establishment and changing character of the European presence from a commercial enterprise to a colonial state; the transformation of local society and the emergence of anti-colonial movements; and the transformations in the region since the Second World War
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Modern Southeast Asia: 17th to the 20th Century |
CO91 Critically assess the historiography of Modern South East Asia CO92 Examine Colonialism its structures and processes in 19th Century. CO93 Analyse the cultural changes and continuity under the colonial period in South Asia. CO94 Explain the National resistance, political Trandformation in post-colonial period. CO95 Make an estimate of the major events in World War II and the struggle against American imperialism CO96-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 |
Issues in History and Historiography
Colonialism: structures and processes: Dutch Indonesia, French Indo-China, Burma; 19th
century transformations – cultivation system, plantation economy
[a] Popular culture and religious traditions (Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and animism)
[b] Race and colonialism
[c] Colonialism and its forms of knowledge
[a] The Vietnamese Revolution
[b] The Indonesian Revolution
[c] The nationalist movements in Burma
World War II and the struggle against American imperialism
ESSENTIAL READINGS
- Adas, Michael. State, Market and Peasants in Colonial South and South East Asia, 1998, Ashgate.
- Anderson, Benedict. Imagined and Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, London and New York, 1991.
- Anderson, Benedict. The Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and world, Verso, London and New York, 2002.
- Benda, Harry J. Continuity and Change in Southeast Asia, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972.
- Breman, Jan. Taming the Coolie Beast: Plantation Society and the Colonial Order in South East Asia, Oxford University Press, Delhi 1989.
- Christie, Clive J., ed. Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century: A Reader, Publisher: I. B.Tauris & Co Ltd, London, 1998.84
- Day, Tony. Fluid Iron:State formation in Southeast Asia, University of Hawaii Press Honolulu, 2002.
- Geertz, Clifford. Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia, University of California Press, 1969.
- Owen, Norman G. The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2005.
- Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in early Modern era: Trade, Power and Belief, CornellUniversity Press, Ithaca and London, 1993.
- Sardesai, D.R. Southeast Asia: Past and Present, Harper Collins Publishers, New Delhi,1997.
- Adas, Michael. Burma Delta: EconomicDevelopment and Social Change on the Rice Frontier, 1852-1941, Wisconsin, 1974.
- Dirks, Nicholas. Colonialism and Culture, University of Michigan Press, Michigan, 1992.
- Ghosh, Suchita. Thailand: Tryst with Modernity, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 1997.
- Keyes, Charles F., E. Jane Keyes and Nancy Donnelly, Reshaping local worlds: Formal Education and Cultural change in rural Southeast Asia, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1991.
- Phongpaichit, Chris Baker Pasuk. A History of Thailand, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005.
- Scott, James. Moral Economyof the Peasant, Yale University Press, 1976.
- Scott, James. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia', Yale University Press, 2009.
- Stoler, Ann Laura. Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra’s Plantation Belt, 1870– 1979, New Haven, 1985.
- Ricklefs, M.C. Polarising Javavese Society: Islamic and other vision C1830-1930, Nus Press, Singapore, 2007.
- Tarling, Nicholas. Cambridge History of South East Asia, Volume II, CUP, Cambridge, 1993.
- Tucker, Shelby. Burma: The Curse of Independence, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2002.
- van Niel, Robert. The Emergence of the Modern Indonesian Elite, Foris Publications, Dordrecht- Holland/ Cinnaminsor, U.S.A., 1984.
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