The Making of Modern South Asia

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• Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy . New York, NY: Routledge, 1998. ISBN: 9780415169523.
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• Narayan, R. K. The Ramayana . New York, NY: Penguin, 2006. ISBN: 9780143039679.
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• Mahomet, Dean. The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth Century Journey through India . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780520207172.
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• Gandhi, Mohandas K. Hind Swaraj and Other Writings . Edited by Anthony J. Parel. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780521574310.
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• Gopal, Sarvepalli, ed. Anatomy of a Confrontation: The Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhumi Issue . New York, NY: Penguin, 1991. ISBN: 9780140169805.
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• Selections from Doniger, Wendy, ed., and tr. The Rig Veda . Reprint ed. New York, NY: Penguin, 2005. ISBN: 9780140449891. Also available online: Griffith, Ralph T. H., tr. The Rig Veda . ↗
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• Selections from Trautmann, Thomas R. The Aryan Debate . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780195669084.
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• Mines, Diane P., and Sarah Lamb. “Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India’s Caste System.” In Everyday Life is South Asia . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780253215215. Also in Ghanta 3 (Spring 1992): 7.
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• Gadgill, Madhav, and Ramachandra Guha. “Forest and Fire.” In This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780195633412.
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• Thapar, Romila. “Early India, an Overview.” In History and Beyond . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 114-136. ISBN: 9780195647082.
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• Film: Wedding of the Goddess . 1976. ↗
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• Begin reading R. K. Narayan. The Ramayana .
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• Selections from Arthashastra and Kamasutra . ↗
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• Chattopadhyaya, B. D. “Indian Archeology and the Epic Traditions.” In Studying Early India, Archeology, Texts and History Issues . New York, NY: Anthem Press, 2005, pp. 29-38. ISBN: 9781843311324.
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• Excerpts from the Quran . ↗
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• Selections from Alberuni’s India . Volume 1 and Volume 2. Edited by Edward C. Sachau. Chestnut Hill, MA: Adamant Media Corporation, 2004. ISBNs: 9781421263601 and 9781421263595, respectively.
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• Eaton, Richard. “Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States.” Essays on Islam and Indian History . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 94-132. ISBN: 9780195651140.
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• Sharma, Ram Sharan. “Changes in Social Structure.” In Early Medieval Indian Society . Andhra Pradesh, India: Orient Longman, 2001, pp. 186-213. ISBN: 9788125020271.
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• Modern South Asia . Chapters 3 and 4.
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• Begin Reading The Travels of Dean Mahomet .
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• Modern South Asia . Chapter 5.
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• Dasgupta, Ashin. “Indian Merchants and Trade in the Indian Ocean, c. 1500-1750.” In The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant, 1500-1800: Collected Essays of Ashin Dasgupta . Compiled by Uma Das Gupta. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 59-87. ISBN: 9780195650198.
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• Modern South Asia . Chapters 6-8.
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• Primary Sources
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• Metcalf, Thomas R. “Introduction.” In Ideologies of the Raj . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 1-27. ISBN: 9780521395472.
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• Bayly, C. A. “The Qasbah Under Pressure.” In Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars: Northern Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion 1770-1870 . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780195663457.
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• Film: Ray, Satyajit. Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) , 1977. ↗
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• Modern South Asia . Chapters 9-11.
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• Naoroji, Dadabhai, and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2. Edited by Stephen Hay. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780231064156.
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• Cohn, Bernard. “The Census, Social Structure and Objectification in South Asia.” In An Anthropologist Among Historians and Other Essays . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780195626162.
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• Sarkar, Tanika. “Rhetoric against the Age of Consent.” Economic and Political Weekly (September 4, 1993): 1869-1878.
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• Modern South Asia . Chapters 12-14.
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• Selections from Gandhi, M. K. Hind Swaraj .
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• Selections from Nehru, Jawaharlal. The Discovery of India . New York, NY: Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 9780143031031.
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• Select speeches by Muhammad A. Jinnah. In Sources of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2. Edited by Stephen Hay. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780231064156.
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• Selections from Ambedkar, B. R. What the Congress has done for the Untouchables . Bombay, India: Thacker, 1946.
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• Amin, Shahid. “Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur District, Eastern UP, 1921.” In Selected Subaltern Studies . Edited by Ranajit Guha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780195052893.
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• Kamtekar, Indivar. “A Different War Dance: State and Class in India, 1939-1945.” Past & Present 171, no. 1 (August 2002): 187-221.
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• Bose, Sugata. “Nation, Reason and Religion.” Economic and Political Weekly (August 1, 1999).
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• Modern South Asia . Chapters 15-17.
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• Excerpt from Nehru, Jawaharlal. The Discovery of India . New York, NY: Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 9780143031031.
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• Manto, Sadat Hasan. “Toba Tek Singh.” In Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1974-1997 . Edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West. New York, NY: Owl Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780805057102.
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• Bhaduri, Satinath. “The Champion of the People.” In Stories About the Partition of India . Vol. 1. Edited and translated by Alok Bhalla. New Delhi, India: Harper Collins India, 1999. ISBN: 9788172233570.
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• Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam. India Wins Freedom . London, UK: Sangam Books, Ltd., 1998, pp. 145-207. ISBN: 9788125005148.
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• Jalal, Ayesha. The Sole Spokesman . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 241-293. ISBN: 9780521458504.
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• Film: Sathyu, M. S. Garam Hawa , 1973. ↗
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• Modern South Asia . Chapter 18.
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• Jalal, Ayesha. “Exploding Communalism: The Politics of Identity in South Asia.” In Nationalism, Democracy, and Development: State and Politics in India . Edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 76-103. ISBN: 9780195639445.
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• Modern South Asia . Chapter 19.
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• Dreze, Jean, and Amartya Sen. India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 87-108, 179-204. ISBN: 9780198290124.
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• Selections from Mehta, Suketu. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found . Reprint ed. New York, NY: Vintage, 2005. ISBN: 9780375703409.
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• Hasan, Zoya. “Uniform Civil Code and Gender Justice in India.” In Contemporary India - Transitions . Edited by Peter Ronald deSouza. London, UK: Sage Publications, 2000, pp. 282-30. ISBN: 9780761994800.
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• Basu, Amrita. “Mass Movement or Elite Conspiracy? The Puzzle of Hindu Nationalism.” In Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India . Edited by David Ludden. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996, pp. 143-166. ISBN: 9780812215854.
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• Ali, Agha Shahid. The Country Without a Post Office: Poems . New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1998. ISBN: 9780393317619.
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• Bose, Sumantra. The Challenge in Kashmir: Democracy, Self-Determination, and a Just Peace . London, UK: Sage Publications, 1997, pp. 30-104. ISBN: 9780803993501.
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• Film: Patwardhan, Anand. In the Name of God , 1992. ↗
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