Modern South Asia

Catalog description

The nation-states of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives Islands (and sometimes Afghanistan)-comprise incredible diversity of language, culture, religion, art, dress, architecture, and cuisine. This course places the region into historical, political and socioeconomic context. It offers a thematic and chronological study of modern South Asia with thorough examinations of the transition from the late Mughal to the British colonial period, the movements for independence and the social activism that grew out of them. Includes: gender, caste/casteism, minorities, territorial/sovereignty conflicts, pop culture and film, development economies, and the South Asian diaspora.