HI 6565 - Topics in the History of India

Institution:

SUNY College at Old Westbury

Subject:

History and Philosophy

Description:

This course asks students to explore the history of India and question how that history came to be constructed. Students will survey what modern scholarship has determined to be the "facts" of Indian history and civilization-the chronology,the people the institutions,religiions,cultures, and ideas of the subcontinent's 5,000-year history. At the same time, students will explore the different sets of hist- orical assumptions, values, and contexs that have shaped the works of historians writing india's history over the past two hundred years: the classic works of "Orientalist" histo- ry, the nationalist historians of the early 20th century, the secularists, the Marxists, the post modernists,and ,most recently, the Hindu nationalists.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.oldwestbury.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 876-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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