Select 2 of the questions listed below. Write a 4-6 page response to each question.

Indicate which 2 questions you are answering. Indicate your name and UMB ID up top.

Double-space your text. Margins should be 1 inch all around. Insert page numbers. Use a 12 point font.

Style sheets such as the Chicago Manual or MLA may be consulted via:

http://umb.libguides.com/hist364

Write your answers in Word. That’s .doc or .docx. Alternatively, .pdf is fine as well.

Please hand the papers to me by 12:15 p.m. ON DECEMBER 10TH – i.e., during our last class meeting. Papers turned in after that deadline will NOT BE GRADED.

Students who plagiarize will be failed out of class.

Good luck!

                                                                                                                                                                                   

CHANGE IN EXAM SCHEDULE

Please note that I have decided to change our exam schedule slightly. 

Instead of giving you your final exam questions on Dec 10, per the syllabus, and asking that you submit the answers to me electronically a week from Dec 10 (i.e., by Dec 17), I am going to give you questions on Dec 01, Tuesday, and ask that you turn in your papers IN HARD COPY by Dec 10th, Thursday, on our last meeting. 

Departmental budget cuts no longer allow me to print over 120 papers (for all my 3 classes) from department printers, so it's best if each one of you brings me a printout of your own exam. This way you will also be done with my exam BEFORE you begin your other exams, for other classes, AND you will have 10 days instead of just a week to write your answers. All in all, a much better idea, I think.  

Our SECOND quiz, however, will still be on Dec 10, and we will grade it in class like we graded the first one.

Hope you understand what I am saying: we will also discuss more in class, and I will send you a reminder right before Thanksgiving Break. 

Good? 

Best,

AV. 

ananya.vajpeyi@umb.edu

"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

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

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