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Academic Year 2001/2002

Orientalism
HIST 366 SP
Clusters:

Southern Asia and Indian Ocean

This upper-level seminar is designed to introduce students to post-modernism and deconstruction as they are applied in South Asian historiography. We will begin with the work of Edward Said and others who have built on the "post-Orientalist" critique, then we will consider the Subaltern Studies collective and allied scholarship, and then conclude with responses.

MAJOR READINGS

Edward Said, ORIENTALISM
Edward Said, CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM
Ranajit Guha et al, SELECTED SUBALTERN STUDIES
Ranajit Guha, DOMINANCE WITHOUT HEGEMONY: HISTORY & POWER IN COLONIAL INDIA
Ron Inden, IMAGINING INDIA
Tapan Raychaudhuri, EUROPE RECONSIDERED
Dipesh Chakrabarty, PROVINCIALIZING EUROPE
Partha Chatterjee, A NATION AND ITS FRAGMENTS
Bernard Cohn, COLONIALISM AND ITS FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE
Chris Bayly, EMPIRE AND INFORMATION
And articles by Gyan Prakash, Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook, Sumit Sarkar, K. Sivaramakrishnan, William Pinch, David Kopf, Richard Eaton, S.N. Mukherjee

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002

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