Paper II
How Ethnographic was the Indo-British Colonial State?
Due Nov. 27, 2:10 PM

For the Second paper, you will use the materials in the IInd Reader (Odin) and materials assigned for class reading. As in the previous paper, the paper should be double-spaced and 5 pages long. Again, you do not need to use footnotes but your are to cite the work you are referring to in the body of the text within parentheses.

The materials that you will use to write your paper are:
Burton Stein, A History of India, pp. 229-408, and more at the beginning
Barbara D. and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of India, Cambridge, paper ..
Kumkum Sangari, and Sudesh Vaid, eds. 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."
Partha Chatterjee, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World,
William R Pinch, Peasants and Monks in British India on the web -- http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/pinch.xml
Sumathi Ramaswami, Passions of the Tongue, chapters 2-4, This is on the Web at
http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/ramaswamy.xml
Gene Irschick, Dialogue and History, Introduction, Chapters 1-2, and Conclusion.This is available on the Web at
http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/irschick.xml
Nicholas Dirks, Castes of Mind, parts 1,3,and 4.

Please answer all the questions
In your paper you will want to think about the arguments put forward by Michel Foucault on the question of production of knowledges and particularly subjugated knowledges in Power/Knowledge. Chapter 5. All political movements, states and reform activities use subjugated knowledges. Your job will be to see how they operated in the Indian environment.

1. How did politics and the colonial state participate in the construction of nationalism ?

2. How was ethnicity, gender and race changed by nationalism and colonialism in India?

3. According to Pinch, did religion degrade people or did it help them enhance their position in life?

4. How can people be passionate about language, Tamil for instance?

5. Was nationalism in India derivative of nationalisms in the West?

6. Did women play any role in reforming the way in which women were treated in India? How were women incorporated into the nationalist movement in India?

7. Does Orientalism help produce nationalism?