Contemporary India

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35 h
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  • 7 Sequences
  • Introductive Level

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Syllabus

Week 1 - Modern India's History
  • Introduction
  • British Empire
  • Partition
  • India in 1947
Week 2 - Politics in India
  • Democracy in multi-ethnic setting
  • The successes
  • The conflicts
Week 3 - The Long Transition of India's Economy
  • State-led development
  • The orientation towards the market
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment and jobless growth
Week 4 - India's Foreign Policy
  • The power of ideas and nonalignment
  • The reality of power
  • Multi-alignment and capacity building
Week 5 - Feminist Politics in Contemporary India
  • Diverse and vibrant women's movement
  • The possibilities and paradoxes
  • Women's rights and gender inequalities
Week 6 - The Ramayana: Life of an Ancient Text in Modern India
  • Narratives, themes, traditions
  • Moral dilemmas
  • Contemporary relevance
Week 7 - Myths, Metaphors and Art in Contemporary India
  • 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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