"India from 1857" introduces history students to the three main themes of modern India: the quest for self-determination, the debates about social inequality, and the recurrence of inter-religious conflict. Thus students read important texts about the Indian struggle against British rule, the caste system, and communal violence, taken from such leading nationalist figures as Gandhi, Ambedkar, Tagore, Nehru, Iqbal and others, who lived and wrote mainly in the first half of the 20th century.

The course will also incorporate films about modern South Asian history, to familiarize students with the subcontinent in all of its diversity and complexity. The time period covered by the course begins with the Great Mutiny of 1857, and ends with Independence and Partition in 1947, the assassination of Gandhi in 1948, and the adoption of the Indian Constitution in 1950.

As this is an introductory course, no prior knowledge of South Asia is required.

This guide was created to help students of History 364 use the Healey Library resources.

Ananya Vajpeyi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History

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McCormack Building, M-4-626
Phone: 617 287 6877
Email: ananya.vajpeyi@umb.edu

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