Beyond Bollywood: Politics of India & South Asia

Catalog description

India and its neighbors in South Asia - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and more - are critical to understand. In particular, Pakistan and Afghanistan’s complicated relationship with terrorist organizations hold important implications for global stability. This course explores India and the rest of South Asia’s domestic politics and their complex relations with each other and the rest of the world. As suggested in the title, some of the course material will include movies and documentaries of and about the region to understand the region through its own eyes.