India & Pak: Colony to Nation

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This course will examine the emergence of anti-colonial leaders in the Indian subcontinent and the evolution and interaction of their thinking; the politics of Indian nationalism; the history of the 1947 partition and its reverberations; the challenges of state building after independence from Britain and the movement for the independence of East Pakistan, that became Bangladesh in 1971. This course includes the Reacting to the Past role-playing game "Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence."