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Declaration of Own Work statement (see below). This confirms that the work you have submitted is your own. Confirmation of Marks All coursework assessment is reviewed at a formal Examination Board held at the end of semester 2, in late May/early June 2015. All marks returned to you are provisional
confirmed; final marks are uploaded to EUCLID. Course Programme The references underneath are recommended readings for this unit. However, this is not an exhaustive list and further materials will be suggested in lectures. You are also encouraged to undertake topic specific searches in the library catalogue and e- jou rnals. . There is no one ‘textbook’ for the course, but you may find the following useful for general overviews and background: Anthony Heath and Roger Jeffery (eds) (2010) Change and Diversity: Economics, Politics and Society in Contemporary India, Proceedings of the British Academy No. 159, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Oxford This is a recent, comprehensive overview of the themes covered by the course, dealing with India, but relevant also to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Useful Websites On Indian political parties: http://www.indian-elections.com/partyprofiles/ For daily news, the most reliable sources are the following:
A major source for politics and development-related writing about India is the journal Economic and Political Weekly: Much of its content is available on the web at: http://www.epw.in A good site with links to a variety of other sources is http://www.sasnet.lu.se
Week 1: 24 September 2015 Introduction: (Re)shaping South Asia (Professor Roger Jeffery, Sociology) In this introductory session I will question the relevance of ‘South Asia’ as an ana lytical category, in terms of its coherence as a region, the significance of internal boundaries, and the (possible) growing relevance of its links to the rest of the world.
Appadurai, Arjun. (1996): Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.[Hub Reserve] Drèze, Jean, and Amartya Sen. (2011): “ Putting growth in its place. ” Outlook 14:50-59. Dyson, Tim, Robert Cassen & Leela Visaria. (eds). (2004): Twenty-first century India:
University Press. [Hub Reserve] Cohen, Stephen P. (2004): The Idea of Pakistan. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press [Hub Reserve and Standard Loan] Inden, Ronald. (1990): Imagining India. London: Blackwell. [Hub Reserve] Jeffery, Roger, & Anthony Heath. (2010). ‘Incongruities, Ironies and Achievements: India’s tryst with modernity.’ In Anthony Heath & Roger Jeffery (Ed s). Change and Diversity: Economics, Politics and Society in Contemporary India (pp. 1-18). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Hub Reserve and Short Loan] Kakar, Sudhir. (2010). ‘Real India: On the Couch with Sudhir Kakar’, with Chris Lydon, http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_Institute/Open_Source/RadioOpenS ource-Sudhir_Kakar.mp3 Sen, Amartya. (2007). ‘India: Past and future’,
http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/aug/14forbes1.htm or listen to him at http://www.radioopensource.org/amartya-sen-this-open-ended-year-of-india/ Sharma, Parvez. (2009). ‘India Shining? Not quite’ Huffington Post, May 19, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parvez-sharma/india-shining-not- quite_b_204928.html?view=print Singh, S. (2011). ‘From Delhi to Bandung: Nehru, ‘Indian - ness’ and ‘Pan -Asian- ness’.
South Asia, 34(1): 51-64. [Library e-journal] Wallerstein, Emmanuel. (1991). ‘Does India
Exist?’ In his Unthinking Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth Century Paradigms. Cambridge: Polity. [Hub reserve and Standard Loan] Zeitlyn, Benjamin, Manpreet K. Janeja and José Mapril (2014). ‘ Introduction. Imagining Bangladesh: Contested Narrative s’
SAMAJ, 14,
http://samaj.revues.org/3739. Week 2: 1 October 2015 The Management of Ethnic Conflict in South Asia (Dr Wilfried Swenden, Politics & IR) South Asia (and in particular India and Pakistan) are among the most diverse regions in the world. Ethnic, linguistic, caste, tribe and class differences co-exist. Yet the states of South Asia have developed divergent strategies for managing this diversity. The main purpose of this lecture is to illustrate where South Asia is situated within the wider literature and theories of ethnic conflict management and also to explain why these strategies have been diverging so much within and across various cases.
dispute between India and Pakistan or the Sinhala-Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka? References Adeney, Katherine. (2002). ‘Constitutional Centering: Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan.’ In
Adeney, Katharine (2015), ‘A move to majoritarian nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia, Representation, [on-line journal; printed on-line ahead of print] Baipai, Rochana. (2011). ‘Nationalist Discourse and Group R ights. A Conceptual Approach.’ In Bajpai, R. ed.,
Bose, S. ‘Kashmir’ in Bose, S. (2007). Contested Lands. Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus and Sri Lanka. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp.154-203. [Not available] Bose, S. (2007). ‘Sri Lanka.’ In Bose, S.
54. [Not available] Brass, Paul R. (1974). ‘Language, Religion and Group Identities.’ In Brass, P aul R.,
Press, pp. 3-50. [Standard Loan] Brass, Paul R. (1974). ‘The p rocess of nationality- formation in North India’ in Brass, Paul R., Language, Religion and Politics in North India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 403-34. [Standard Loan] Goodhand, Jonathan, Benedikt Korf, and Jonathan Spencer (eds). (2011). Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: Caught in the Peace Trap? London: Routledge. [Library online access] Gupta, Dipankar. (1990). ‘The Indispensible Nation. Ethnicity and Politics in the Indian Nation State.’ Journal of Contemporary Asia, 20, (4), pp. 521-39. [Library e- journal] Jaffrelot, Christoph . (2015), ‘Five Ethnic Groups for One Nation: Between Support and Alienation’ in Jaffrelot, C hristoph. (2015), The Pakistan Paradox. Instability and Resilience. London: Hurst, pp. 127-198 [Not available] Lerner
, Hannah. (2010). ‘Constitution - Making in Deeply Divided Societies’, Nations and Nationalism, 16, (1), 68-88. [Library e-journal] Lodhi, Maleeha. (2011). ‘Beyond the Crisis State.’ In Lodhi, M., (ed.), Pakistan:
Annamalai, E. (2010): “Politics of Language in India” in Paul R. Brass (ed.), Routledge
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Rahman, Tariq. (2010): “Language Problems and Politics in Pakistan” in Paul R. Brass (ed.), Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics. London: Routledge, pp. 232- 46. [Standard Loan] Brass, Paul R. (ed.) (2010): Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics (London: Routledge, ‘Crisis of National Unity’ , chs. 17-20, pp. 247-302 (with contributions on the Punjab, Kashmir and NE in India, militancy in Pakistan and the civil war in Sri Lanka).[Standard Loan]
Spencer, Jonathan (2008). ‘A Nationalism without Politics? The Illiberal Consequences of Liberal Institutions in Sri Lanka.' Third World Quarterly, 29(3): 611-629. [Library e-journal] Stepan, Alfred, Juan J. Linz, and Yogendra Yadav (2011): ‘Tamils in Sri Lanka. How State- Nation Policies helped construct Polar and Conflictual Identities.’ In Stepan, Alfred, Juan J. Linz, and Yogendra Yadav. Crafting state-nations: India and other multinational democracies. Baltimore: JHU Press, pp. 144-172 [Hub and Standard Loan] Swenden, Wilfried. (2012), 'Review Article - The territorial and Non-territorial Management of Ethnic Diversity in South Asia', Regional & Federal Studies, 22, 5, 613-632 [Library e-journal] Talbot, Ian (2000). ‘Nation building in Pakistan: ideas and institutions.’ In Talbot, Ian ,
Loan] Talbot, Ian (2000).‘Ethno -nationalism, Insurgency and secessionism in India and Pakistan.’ In Talbot, I an, India and Pakistan. Inventing the Nation. London: Arnold, pp. 252-282. [Standard Loan] Tillin, Louise (2013), ‘Remapping India. New States and their Political Origins’, (London: Hurst) [Library Online Access] Tudor, M. (2013). The Promise of Power. The Origins of Democracy in India and
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Wilkinson, Steven ‘In
dia, 2000. Consociational Theory and Ethnic Violence’, Asian Survey, 40(5): 767-91. [Library e-journal] Week 3: 8 October 2015 The Aesthetics of Hindi Cinema/Bollywood Piyush Roy (Centre for South Asian Studies) Indian cinema, in spite of having a narrative structure that in the main does not conform to Euro-American cinema, diverse popular and parallel styles of filmmaking, and the many constructions and contradictions around the working of its indigenous aesthetics, is acknowledged as an influential national cinema that functions as an important socio-cultural tool of entertainment, engagement and change for its audience. It also is the world’s most prolific, and most viewed film industry (since 2009, based on global ticket sale figures), which is now acknowledged as its second- most important film industry, after Hollywood, with a distribution reach spanning all continents and 100+ nations. This lecture discusses the cultural roots of Indian cinema and introduces perspectives and philosophies necessary for better appreciation of its signature aesthetics. Discussion Topic: Why it is unfair to review Indian cinema using the canons of Western film criticism only? References Ludendorff, Philip (2007). ‘Is There an Indian Way of Filmmaking?’, International Journal of Hindu Studies, December 2006, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 227-256 [Library e-journal]. Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar and Jigna Desai (2008). The Bollywood Reader, Maidenhead: Open University Press [*Read ‘Introduction’ and ‘Indian cinema - Pleasures & Popularity’ Library Standard Loan] Colm. Hogan, Patrick (2008). ‘Introduction’ and ‘Afterword’, Understanding Indian movies: culture, cognition, and cinematic imagination, Austin: University of Texas Press [Library Short Loan] Gerow, Edwin (2002). ‘Rasa and Katharsis: A Comparative Study, Aided by Several Films’,
Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 264-277 [Library e-journal]. Roy, Piyush (2013). ‘Celebrating a century of Indian cinema: passions, pleasures and perceptions’, The South Asianist, 2,
3 http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/702 . Joshi, Sam (2004). ‘How to watch a Hindi film’, Education about Asia, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 2004, pp. 22-25 [Available on Learn]. Rao, V.A.K. Ranga (1995). ‘Dance in India Cinema’,
Publications [Available on Learn]. Vijayakar, Rajiv (2013). ‘The role of a song in a Hindi film’,
http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/167 . Zankar, Anil (1996). ‘Good versus Evil’, So Many Cinemas – The Motion Picture in India, Mumbai: Eminence Designers Pvt. Ltd. [Available on Learn]. Roy, Piyush (2010). ‘Story of a Superstar’, How Shah Rukh Khan Redefined Bollywood, Stardust Icon, Issue 1, April, pp. 6-13, Mumbai: Magna Publishing Pvt. Ltd. [Available on Learn] Recommended Viewings: Garewal, Simi (Documentary, 2012). ‘Living Legend Raj Kapoor’, Siga Arts International https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYYfvgx93I . Chaudhary, Yash (Documentary, 2011). ‘I am 100 years Young’, Films Division https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qExrYqyhJ3U .
Luck by Chance (Film, 2009), Dir: Zoya Akhtar. Further Viewings & Readings: Mother India (Film, 1957). Dir: Mehboob Khan. Sholay (Embers, 1975). Dir:
Ramesh Sippy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LfJve0fpY .
Lagaan (Land Tax, 2001). Dir: Ashutosh Gowariker. Kabir, Nasreen Munni (Documentary, 2015). ‘The Golden Years of Hindi Cinema’, Movie Mahal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQdmTgCdqU . D. Booth, Gregory (1995). ‘Traditional Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema’, Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2 (1995), pp. 169-190. Kesavan, Mukul (2012). ‘Attitude Bollytude - Celebrating the arc lit genius of a subcontinental art’, Outlook
June 04
Issue, http://www.outlookindia.com/article/attitude-bollytude/281015 . Ramnath, Nandini (2013). ‘100 years, 100 g reat movie memories – Part1- 10’, To Hindi cinema, with love and exasperated fondness, www.livemint.com, May 04 2013 http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/3EDlevc0nb9YlftfynVCRO/100-years-100-great- movie-memories--Part-1.html
Week 4: 15 October 2015 Who Speaks for ‘Women’? Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India Shruti Chaudhry (Sociology) This l
ecture discusses how ‘women’ is not a homogenous category and explores what differences and diversities (caste, class and religious) among women have meant for feminist politics in India. It traces the roots of the women’s movement in India historically and the emergence of multiple voices from the 1980s onwards –
Dalit feminists and those that brought minority (religious) identity to the forefront among others. It aims to address: What constitutes the women’s movement in India today?
rights: Feminism/s from the Margins? References Sen, Samita. (2002). ‘Towards a feminist politics? The Indian women’s movement in historical perspective’. In K. Kapadia (ed.).
Women, pp.
459-524. Also
available at:
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/apcity/unpan051009.pdf Kumar, Radha. (1999). ‘From Chipko to Sati: The contemporary Indian women’s movement’. In Nivedita Menon (ed.).
Oxford University Press, pp. 342-369. [Hub Reserve] Rege, Sharmila. (1998). ‘Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of Difference and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position’. Economic and Political Weekly, 33, 44: WS 39-WS 46 [Library e-journal]. Menon, Nivedita. (2012). Seeing Like a Feminist. New Delhi: Zubaan [Chapters: Feminists and ‘Women’; Victims or Agents?], pp. 149 -212. [Standard Loan] Gandhi, Nandita and Shah, Nandita. (1999). ‘Organisations and Autonomy’. In Nivedita Menon (ed.). Gender and Politics in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 299-341. [Hub Reserve] Agnihotri, Indu, and Vina Mazumdar (1995). ‘Changing terms of political discourse: Women's movement in India, 1970s- 1990s’.
29: 1869-1878 [Library e-journal]. Hasan, Zoya. (198 9). ‘Minority identity, Muslim Women Bill campaign and the political process’.
Bhasin, Kamla and Said Khan, Nighat. (2004). ‘Some Questions about Feminism and its Relevance in South Asia’. In Maitrayee Chaudhuri (ed.). Feminism in India. New York: Zed, pp. 3-7 [Standard Loan] Sarkar, Tanika. (1991). ‘The Woman as Communal Subject: Rastrasevika Samiti and Ram Janmabhoomi Movement’.
2062. [Library e-journal] Shakil, Albeena. (2013). ‘Protests, the Justice Verma Committee and the Government Ordinance’. Economic and Political Weekly, 48,
6. Available at: http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/protests-justice-verma-committee-and- government-ordinance.html Readings for Discussion: Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee. Sex Workers’ Manifesto. First National Conference of Sex Workers in India. 14-16 November 1997, Calcutta [Learn]. Women's Movements in India: Do they Include Female Sex Workers? Proceedings of a Live Debate among Women Activists. (2008) In Rohini Sahni, V. Kalyan Shankar and Hemant Apte (eds.). Prostitution and Beyond: An analysis of sex work in India. New Delhi; London: Sage [Library Online Access]. Lesbian Emergence: Campaign for Lesbian Rights. (2008). In Mary E. John (ed.). Women’s Studies in India: A Reader . New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 560-566 [Learn]. Forum against the Oppression of Women. (2010). ‘Feminist Contributions from the margins: Shifting Conceptions of Work and Performance of the Bar Dancers of Mumbai’.
This lecture provides an overview of the political economy of India. The 1990s have seen the progressive liberalization of India’s economy and the lecture will try to explain what enabled the transformation of the Indian economy from a command to a market economy (Rudolph and Rudolph) and what it has achieved in terms of generating economic growth. We will also reflect critically on the implications of liberalization for inter-personal and inter-state inequality, in particular the relative failure to generate more ‘inclusive growth’
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