27090		3:30-5:30	T				DODSON
A portion of the above section reserved for majors

This colloquium is intended to provide those interested in British
imperialism and the ‘making of modern South Asia’ with a graduate-
level introduction to many of the themes and issues which dominate
the historiography of this widely contested field of study.

We will read representative works from some of the dominant
historiographical trends in this field of the last generation,
including the Subaltern Studies movement, the so-called Cambridge and
Chicago schools, and a variety of others.  Major themes addressed
will include:  continuity and discontinuity in the early colonial
era; social and cultural change under the East India Company’s rule;
characterising the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857; forms of Indian nationalism; the
resurgence of religious identities; religious chauvinism; the
postcolonial condition; and others.  Ultimately, students’ interests
will play a large part in determining weekly readings and the topics
discussed.

Graduate students will be evaluated according to the quality of their
participation in this colloquium, as well as by reference to short
weekly response papers and a final essay.  Previous knowledge of
South Asia is not required.