Paper I
How did Gender and Ethnicity operate in Pre-British India?
Due 2 October 2:10 PM

Use the materials in the Reader (Odin) and materials assigned for class reading to write this first paper. For your definition of what is "orientalist" you will depend upon your reading of Said, Orientalism. The paper should be double-spaced and 5 pages long with a font no smaller than 10. You do not need to use footnotes but instead you can indicate citations within parentheses in the text itself.

The materials that you will use to write your paper are:
Burton Stein, A History of India, pp. 160-228 and further on for Modern India
Edward Said, Orientalism, pp. 1-110, 201-225.
Richard Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, Chapters 3-8.
Cynthia Talbot, "Inscribing the Other," in Reader (Odin)
Philip B. Wagoner, "'Sultan among Kings'", in Reader
Rosalind O'Hanlon, "Issues of Masculinity in North Indian History -- The Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad,", in Reader
Rosalind O'Hanlon, ""Kingdom, household and body: history and the construction of a North Indian 'patriotism" under Akbar," in Reader
D.A. Washbrook, " Progress and Problems South Asian Economic and Social History c 1720-1860," in Reader I
Paul Golan, From Mughal Empire to British Raj, Selections, in Reader
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies, Chapter 11 in Reader
Barbara D. and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of India, Cambridge, paper

Please answer all the questions in writing your paper.

1.What was the perspective of the Mughal and other rulers gender and ethnicity in local society?

2. To what degree were these pre-British polities a product of a pre-figured colonialist economy, as Washbrook suggests? In the 17th century, was Europe the center of the economic network and "India" on the periphery or was it actually the reverse?

3. Was "India" a "poor" country even before the British got there? How were subjects treated in pre-British kingdoms in India? How did things change with the British?

4. Were these ideas about "India" before the British came part of a set of world knowledges?