1. Turn in Map Exercises due 30 January. and 8 Feb.  Please do them carefully.  They will be graded.

2. Write papers (five pages, double-spaced, computer-written, no lower than a 10 point font) due 6 March, and 1 May, 2 PM.

3. Take Mid-term examination on 20 March, 2-3 PM. This will be an essay type exam; you will choose one question out of three to write on for 50 minutes. Class members will get Suggested Study Questions for the Exam ahead of time.

4. Attend Section meetings. There will be No section meetings during the first week of class. Sections will be on (1) Monday 4-6, in 214 Haviland and (2) Wednesday, 12-2 14 Haviland  Attendance is mandatory and performance there will be an essential part of the final grade.  I am sure that you will enjoy these periods when you can participate in discussions.

5. Last day of class is 8 May 2006, Monday. Dead week is 10-11 May (Wednesday and Thursday)

6. Take the Final Examination on 13 May, Saturday, 2003, 5-8 PM.  Members of the class will get Suggested Study Questions for the Exam ahead of time.

7. The Reader will be an Odin Reader production and will be available in Ned’s Bookstore.

Jan 18              Introduction; the map of India, languages, religion, weather, food.

                        Reading: Bernard Cohn, "India as a geographic unity" in Reader.

Jan 23              Pre-historic beginnings

                        Reading: Sources of Indian Tradition, pp. 1-34, in Reader;

                        Burton Stein A History of India, pp. 5-43 (including maps).

Jan 30             Map Exercise due 2 PM

Feb 1               Growth of cities in the Ganges plain; asceticism

Reading: Franklin Edgerton, trans., Bhagavad Gita

Burton Stein, A History of India, pp. 45-110 (including maps).

Feb 8               Map Exercise II due 2 PM Normative ideas of Indian society, invasions from the northwest

                        Reading:

Nicholas Dirks, “Castes of Mind,” and Romila Thapar, “Early India: an Overview,” in Reader.

Feb 15             Society in South India, penetration of Indo-Aryan ideas and institutions into peninsular India

                        Reading:

                        Sources of Indian Tradition, pp. 35-69 in Reader.

Feb 20             Presidents’ Day Holiday

Feb 27             Participating in Coercive Knowledges: What is Discourse?

                        Reading:                                  

Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, vol. I

March 1          Medieval Indian Social Structure and Political Networks

Reading:

Victor Turner,"Liminality and Communitas" in Reader; Sources of Indian Tradition, pp. 90-113, 124 in Reader; Cynthia Talbot, “The Society of Kakatiya Andhra.” and “The Kakatiya Political Network,” in Reader.

March 6          Paper on Bhagavad Gita due 2 PM

March 13        The desire for a more personal god; the function of rituals

Reading:

A.K. Ramanujam Speaking of Siva; Sherry Ortner, "Introduction" and "Nyungne" in Reader

March 20        Midterm – 50 Minutes 2 PM

Turkish invasions; peasants and masters in medieval

                        India

Reading: Richard Eaton, "Islam in Bengal," in Reader; Burton Stein, A History of India, pp. 108-159

March 27-31   Spring Recess

April 3             Islam in India; creation of Muslim regional kingdoms; Islam in Bengal and Peninsular India

Reading: Richard Eaton, “Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States,” in Reader

April 10           Modern Indian Social Structure and Interpretations of India

                        Reading:

U.A.R.  Anantha Murthy, Samskara

Edward Said, Orientalism pp.1-110, 201-225.

April 17           Juridical Power and Disciplinary Power

                        Reading:

Burton Stein, History of India, pp.160-238 (including particularly the maps);

Jonas Frykman, "Clean and Proper," and Bayly, “Knowing the Country, in Reader.

April 24           Normalizing “British” and “Indian” Bodies

                        Reading:

Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati, “The High Caste Hindu Woman,” in Reader; Ismat Chugtai, “The Quilt,” in Reader; Wiser and Wiser, “In Family Courtyards,” in Reader.

April 26           Elite and popular politics

                        Reading:

George Orwell, Burmese Days

May 1             Paper on Normalizing Bodies due 2 PM

Problematizing Colonialism

                        Reading:

D.A. Washbrook, “ Progress and Problems South Asian Economic and Social History c 1720-1860,” in Reader; and Partha Chatterjee, ”Whose imagined Community,” and “The Colonial State,” in Reader.

May 8             Last Day of Class, (Monday).

May 10-11       Dead Week (Wednesday and Thursday)

*Final Examination on Saturday, 13 May 2006, 5-8 PM