Fall 2002
Dwinelle 2121
Phone 2-7104
Office Hours M 3-4, T 4-5
email address -- irschick@socrates.berkeley.edu
Requirements for the Course:
1. Take the essay-type Mid-Term (16 Oct. 2:10-3 PM) Study Questions will be provided to you ahead of time.
2. Write two five-page typewritten papers. (due 2 Oct., 2:10 PM and 27 Nov., 2:10 PM)
3.Take the essay-type Final Exam on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 5-8 PM. Study Questions will be provided to you ahead of time.
26 August The Mughal state, ethnic and gender system
Reading: Burton Stein, A History of India, pp. 160-228
Barbara D. and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of India

2 September Labor Day Holiday

4 September Conversion to Islam in Bengal
Reading: Richard Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, Chapters 3-5. This book is available on the Web at http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/eaton.xml

9 September Conversion under the Mughals
Reading: Eaton, The Rise of Islam, Chapters 6-8

16 September Colonial Orientalism and the East India Company State
Reading: Edward Said, Orientalism, pp. 1-110, 201-225.

23 September The Bengal Renaissance or was it the rise of Conservatism and Prisons?
Reading: Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge, Chapters 5, 10, 11, 2.

30 September From Company State to the Indian Empire
Reading: Stein, History of India, pp. 230-283

2 October Paper on How did Gender and Ethnicity operate in Pre-British India? Due

7 October Could Women Speak for Themselves?
Kumkum Sangari, and Sudesh Vaid, Recasting Women, Introduction
Uma Chakravarti, "Whatever happened to the Vedic Dasi?". Lata Mani, "Contentious Traditions," and Partha Chatterjee, "The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question." In Reader

14 October Theories of Nationalism, The Function of the Colonial State
Reading: Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World Preface, Chapters 1-4.

16 October Mid-Term Exam

21 October Social Movements without the State
Reading: William R Pinch, Peasants and Monks in British India, Introduction, Chapters 1-2, This is available on the web at: http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/pinch.xml

28 October Becoming Kshatriya
Reading: Pinch, Peasants and Monks, Chapters 3-4, Conclusion

4 NovemberThe Construction of Indian Society
Reading: Nicholas Dirks, Castes of Mind, pp. 1-60

11 November Veterans' Day Holiday

13 November The Construction of Nationalism I
Dirks, Castes of Mind, pp. 127-197.
18 November The Construction of Nationalism II
Reading: Sumathi Ramaswami, Passions of the Tongue, Chapters 2-4. This is available on the Web at http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/ramaswamy.xml

25 November The Construction of Nationalism III
Dirks, Castes of Mind, pp. 197-254

27 November Paper on How Ethnographic was the Indo-British Colonial State? Due

28-29 November Thanksgiving Holiday

2 December The Construction of Nationalism, IV
Film: Lagaan

4 December Last day of instruction

18 December Final Examination 5-8 PM