How was the course of Indian history shaped by colonial governance? How did the East India Company slowly become the colonial state?

How did European colonialism engage, interrogate, administer, and transform religious traditions across the colonised world?

This is a foundational course that will teach students some of the basic learning blocks of History such as timelines and sources, Historical Methods, and Historiography.

What were the historical processes leading to the formation of colonies in the Americas, Africa and the Middle East?

What were the historical processes leading to the formation of colonies in the Americas, Africa and the Middle East?

Does history matter? A look at this question through histories of India.

Looking at the margins of historical writing, to find marginalised and subaltern pasts. 

Key ideas that have shaped Independent India. 

Ideas, culture and trade across continents.

Understanding Islam as religious thought, practice and a global phenomena. 

Millennial Transformations: State and Society in Medieval and Early Modern India, c.800‑1800.

The long history of frontiers and borderlands of the Western Himalayas. 

Debates on science and technology in the contemporary world. 

Looking at feminisms across South Asia, and the discrete historical experiences of caste patriarchy, religious nationalism, and social reform.

What was pre-colonial India like?

What was pre-colonial India like?

How did modernity come to be in India and what shaped it as it is?

A history of labour in India across different contexts and different times.