Decolonization in Asia

Comparative historical study of the processes of decolonization in Asia with particular reference to the end of the British Raj in South Asia. The independence and partition of India will be compared to British withdrawal from Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Burma, and Malaya. Jalal HIST 0109 - Decolonization and Postcolonial Thought (cross-listed Eng. 192) Third World and postcolonial theorists, including Guha, Spivak, Said, Gramsci, Hall, Chatterjee, Mohanty. Study of structures of colonialism, modes of resistance, and the processes of creative response among the colonized. Analysis of large-scale developments in the rise of modern global empires. Study of local and transnational social and cultural forces that critique, resist or counteract imperialism. Close reading of works by Marx, Fanon and Foucault. Analysis of capital and power. Attention to gender and sexuality, ideas about selfhood and subjectivity, forms of subordination. Manjapra