UNSW Handbook Course - Modern India

Modern India - HIST2055


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of History
	Contact: Maclean,Kama
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: 36 units of credit; Excluded: HIST2008
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)

Description

Examines the history of Modern India, and the controversies surrounding history in the subcontinent. Topics include the Mughal empire, the British Raj, the Indian Nationalist Movement, Mahatma Gandhi, Independence and the partition of India into the new nations of India and Pakistan, independent India and the effects of globalisation in South Asia. Themes include colonialism and its aftermath, resistance, gender and religious nationalism. Also engages with, and critiques, popular conceptions of India as it is represented in the West, and incorporates Indian popular culture, literature, film, sport and music to this end.

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