Textiles and Historical Change in Modern South Asia and Beyond

Three credits · Undergraduate

The Indian sub-continent has been a crossroads of people and cultures throughout human history. The resulting material production helped create a state out of a multi-ethnic region and transformed economies and design throughout the globe. Creative production also provided the language to speak back to colonial systems and to shape modern South Asian nation-states. This course examines cultural developments in South Asia beginning with the Mughals in the 16th century and ending in the 1970s. Cross-listed as HIST 235. Three credits. Not offered 2026-2027.