Courses
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The Legal Life of Partition
This course centers the Partition as an entry point into questions of legal, political and social belonging and exclusion in South Asia.
The Novel
The Practice of Development
Learn the ‘hows’ and ‘whats’ of programme planning and designing
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The Self
In using insights from both analytic philosophy and Indian philosophy to grapple with questions about the self, students will develop the capability to draw ideas from one tradition to solve problems that arise in another.
The State and Governance in India
How does the state exercise its legitimacy across different societal interests?
The State of Music Education, Pedagogy, and Research
Understanding the theoretical aspect
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The State, Democracy and Civil Society in India
The State, Market and Economy
This course introduces you to the lexicon, concepts, and arguments around economic ideas, covering microeconomics, macroeconomics, development economics and public economics.
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Themes in Labour History
A history of labour in India across different contexts and different times.
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Theories and Histories of Development
Histories and theories of development across contexts, tracing changes in the meaning of the practice of development.
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Theories and Histories of Nonviolence
How can nonviolent thoughts and actions survive in times of violence?
Thermal Physics
A study of processes that involve energy and entropy.
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Thermodynamics and Kinetics
Understanding of the kinetics and thermodynamics associated with reactions.
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Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
Exploring the secrets of Energy and Entropy.
Transformations in Citizenship in India: 2000-2020
Engages with the question of Citizenship as an issue of increasing importance in India.
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Transitional Justice
The course examines a set of extraordinary state responses that aim to restore rule of law in societies emerging from violent, usually undemocratic pasts.
Translation Theory and Practice: An Introduction
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UI I: The Many Pasts of India’s Present
An inquiry into the‘origin’ questions of India: Geological, ecological, cultural and political
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UI II: Who is an Indian?
The second course of Understanding India
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UI III: The Measure of India
The third course of Understanding India
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Understanding Agrarian India
Focuses on agrarian India and draws students into engaging with the aforementioned issues.
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Understanding Development
Introduction to development through case studies set in the Indian context
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Understanding Development Realities through Data
Understand the strengths and limitations of commonly used datasets that inform development practice.
Understanding Development: Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations
How do theories of development (such as modernisation, dependency and national development) imagine our futures?
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Understanding Earth System Science
Learn about the interactions of the various biogeochemical cycles that influence environmental change over temporal and spatial scales.
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Understanding Health Systems and Policy
This course examines the health policy landscape and applies health systems frameworks to understand real-world public health concerns.
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Understanding Livelihoods: Perspectives, Concepts and Theories
How do people make a living?
Understanding Plants
Do plants see, hear, feel and smell?
Understanding Pre-Service Teacher Education
Pre-service teacher education (PSTE) is critical for continuous teacher professional development.
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Understanding Reality
Analise some of our most fundamental assumptions about the nature of the world.