Courses
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Ancient World (10,000 BCE-500 CE)
Introduces students to important historical and archaeological questions in human prehistory and history from a global perspective.
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Archaeology and History of Early South Asia
Beyond Kings, Palaces and Temples – An introduction to the history and archaeology of Early South Asia.
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Colonial India
Explores the political, economic, and cultural changes in British colonial India from 1750 to 1920, emphasising the impact on various aspects of South Asian life.
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Colonial India: Polity, Economy and Culture
How was the course of Indian history shaped by colonial governance? How did the East India Company slowly become the colonial state?
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Colonialism and Religion
How did European colonialism engage, interrogate, administer, and transform religious traditions across the colonised world?
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Doing History
Introduces students to methods and tools used by historians and also encourages them to start thinking historically.
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Early South Asia upto 4th CE
Covers the earliest period of South Asian history, spanning the earliest peopling of the Indian subcontinent all the way till the emergence of complex political structures like city-states and empires.
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Empires and Imperialism
Explores the historical forces that led, in the 18th-19th centuries, to the creation of European imperial colonies all around the globe.
Environmental History: Concepts and Concerns
Understanding the key issues of environmental history
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History and the Idea of India
Orients students to the development of History as an academic discipline, specifically in the context of India, reflecting critically on History’s methods, as well as its philosophical underpinnings and political commitment.
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History and the Idea of India
Does history matter? A look at this question through histories of India.
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History from the Margins
Looking at the margins of historical writing, to find marginalised and subaltern pasts.
History of the Present
Key ideas that have shaped Independent India.
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India in Transition: 1930-1970
Covers key decades in modern India’s history – from 1920 to 1970 focussing on mass movements, political economy of development and imaginaries of nation building.
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Indian Ocean Worlds
Ideas, culture and trade across continents.
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Indian Ocean Worlds, c. 700-1700
Offers a transnational perspective on the history of the Indian subcontinent, exploring its maritime connections with the rest of the world using a long term perspective.
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Into the Medieval: 4th to 14th century CE
Deals with medieval Indian history emphasising major state systems like the Guptas, Cholas, and the Delhi Sultanate and examines developments in lesser-studied regions of the Indian subcontinent.
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Islam in a Global Perspective
Understanding Islam as religious thought, practice and a global phenomena.
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Late Medieval India, c. 1400-1800
Explores structures and processes at work in the late medieval period, covering Mughal influence in the North, etc., and concludes with an examination of the 18th-century ‘transition’ to colonial rule.
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Medieval India
Millennial Transformations: State and Society in Medieval and Early Modern India, c.800‑1800.
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Rethinking the Border: Understanding the Western Himalayas
The long history of frontiers and borderlands of the Western Himalayas.
Science, Technology, and Society: Past and Present
Debates on science and technology in the contemporary world.
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South Asian Feminisms in Historical Perspective
Looking at feminisms across South Asia, and the discrete historical experiences of caste patriarchy, religious nationalism, and social reform.
State and Society in Pre-Colonial India (c.800-1800)
What was pre-colonial India like?
State and Society in Pre-Colonial India (c.800-1800)
What was pre-colonial India like?
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The Intellectual and Cultural Aspects of Modernity
How did modernity come to be in India and what shaped it as it is?
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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 Nonviolence
How can nonviolent thoughts and actions survive in times of violence?
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UI II: Who is an Indian?
The second course of Understanding India