2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIS 3540 - Modern South Asia


Credit(s): 3

[LGCC4] This course features lectures, readings, and discussions on modern India. Emphasis will be placed on the social and political evolution of India from the British Empire to India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh today. Special attention will be given to Gandhi’s leadership toward independence in 1947, reforms of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, the rise of Bharatiya Janata Party, relations of India with its neighbors and its geopolitical role in the contemporary world. The use of memoirs and films will complement historical analysis.

Prerequisites: The prerequisite is sophomore standing or permission. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.



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