Global South Asia

Catalog description

This graduate reading course on Global South Asia introduces students to the scope of historical research on South Asia's global connections between 1600 and 1960. The course covers sources, methods, and literature from South Asia in connection with works on Eastern and Southern Africa, the Indian Ocean World, the Middle East, East and South East Asia, and Western Europe. Using themes like capital, empire and the body, this course examines South Asia's relevance in transnational history. This course trains graduate students to see scale as a fundamental problem in global methods, understand how it has been experienced and historicized, and the role of comparison and connectivity in analyzing South Asia and the wider world.