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HISTORY 790

PROSEMINAR: EMPIRE AND COLONIALISM IN SOUTH ASIA

3 credits.

Designed to develop historiographic command of colonial and postcolonial South Asian history as a teaching and research field. Carefully explores the master narratives or "schools" of historiography of South Asia, and analyzes the erasures as well as the normative theoretical and archival axes around which the sub-field has developed. Topics include pre-colonial modes of representing the past; the social, cultural and economic turns in colonial and nationalist historiography; legal and environmental historiographical methods; South Asia in the world/global South Asia.

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Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Acquire a critical understanding of the major debates and scholarly trends in South Asian history. Audience: Graduate 2. Master several approaches to historiographic analysis. Audience: Graduate 3. Develop the scholarly apparatus for comparative and critical study of South Asia by writing historiographical essays. Audience: Graduate 4. Create an undergraduate survey course in South Asian history and develop the tools to guide undergraduate student research on colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Acquire a critical understanding of the major debates and scholarly trends in South Asian history. Audience: Graduate 2. Master several approaches to historiographic analysis. Audience: Graduate 3. Develop the scholarly apparatus for comparative and critical study of South Asia by writing historiographical essays. Audience: Graduate 4. Create an undergraduate survey course in South Asian history and develop the tools to guide undergraduate student research on colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Audience: Graduate

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