Requirements 1. Turn in Map Exercises due 30 Jan. and 11 Feb . Please do them carefully. They will be graded. 2. Write papers (five pages, double-spaced, typewritten, no lower than a 10 point font) due 6 March, and 6 May, 1:00 PM. 3. Take Mid-term examination on 18 March, 1-2 PM. This will be an essay type exam; you will choose one question out of three to write on for 50 minutes. Suggested questions for the exam will be handed out ahead of time. 4. Attend Section meetings. There will be no Section meetings during the first week of class. Sections will be (1) Monday and Wednesday 2-3, in 30 Wheeler and (2) ; Tuesday and Thursday 8-9 in 88 Dwinelle. Attendance is mandatory and performance there will be an essential part of the final grade. 5. Last day of class is 13 May 2002. 6. Take the Final Examination on 25 May, Saturday, 2002, 12:30-3:30 PM. Jan 23 Introduction; the map of India, languages, religion, weather, food. Reading: Bernard Cohn, "India as a geographic unity" in Reader. Jan 28 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 1 PM Feb 4 Growth of cities in the Ganges plain; asceticism Reading: Wendy Doniger and Smith, Trans, The Laws of Manu, pp.3-116; Burton Stein, A History of India, pp. 45-110 (including maps). Feb 11 Map Exercise II due 1 PM Normative ideas of Indian society, invasions from the northwest Reading: Nicholas Dirks, "Castes of Mind," and Cynthia Talbot, "A Revised view of 'Traditional' India: Caste, Status, and Social Mobility in Medieval Andhra," and Romila Thapar, "Early India: an Overview," in Reader. Feb 18 Presidents' Day Holiday Feb 20 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 25Creating and Participating in Knowledges: What is Discourse? Reading:Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, vol. I March 4 Political structure of segmentary kingdoms; were there empires in India? Reading: Victor Turner,"Liminality and Communitas" in Reader; Sources of Indian Tradition, pp. 90-113, 124 in Reader; Burton Stein, "The Segmentary State in South Indian History," in Reader; and Hermann Kulke, "Fragmentation versus Integration? " in Reader. March 6 Paper on Laws of Manu due 1 PM March 11 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 18 Midterm - 50 Minutes 1 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 25-29 Spring Recess April 1 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 8 Indian" social structure Reading: U.A.R. Anantha Murthy, Samskara Edward Said, Orientalism pp.1-110, 201-225. April 15 Normalizing "British" and "Indian" Bodies Reading: Burton Stein, History of India, pp.160-238 (including maps). Jonas Frykman, "Clean and Proper," and Bayly, "Knowing the Country, in Reader. April 22 British" and "Indian" ideas of morality 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 29 Elite and popular politics Reading: George Orwell, Burmese Days May 6 Paper on Normalizing Bodies due 1 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 13 Last Day of Class, (Monday). *Final Examination on Saturday, 25 May 2002, 12:30-3:30 Photographs: Courtesy, Shishir Thadani http://members.tripod.com/~IMAGE_INDIA/images.html