HIS 3750 - India and South Asia since 1500

3(3 + 0)

Prerequisite: HIS 1020 or HIS 1040; or permission of instructor

The course covers religious and linguistic diversity in India; the nature of the Indian state; comparative colonial regimes; the complexity of responses to colonialism; and ideas of gender in colonial and modem South Asia. Students gain a more developed understanding of the political, social and economic geography of South Asia, as well as some familiarity with several South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism.