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Contemporary India
Course
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English
35 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 7 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1 - Modern India's History
- Introduction
- British Empire
- Partition
- India in 1947
- Democracy in multi-ethnic setting
- The successes
- The conflicts
- State-led development
- The orientation towards the market
- Poverty
- Unemployment and jobless growth
- The power of ideas and nonalignment
- The reality of power
- Multi-alignment and capacity building
- Diverse and vibrant women's movement
- The possibilities and paradoxes
- Women's rights and gender inequalities
- Narratives, themes, traditions
- Moral dilemmas
- Contemporary relevance
- Ethnography and artistic agency
- Salience of myths on the political-economic culture
- Existence of non-modern domains and its reflection in universalised capitalist ontology
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Anthony D'Costa
Professor
School of Social and Political Sciences
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