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3.00 Credits
Gambhir, S. This course is about the history of Indian immigration into different parts of the world. The course will consist of readings, discussions, observations, data collection and analysis. The topics will include cultural preservation and cultural change through generations of East Indian immigrats, especially in North America, the Caribbean area, the United Kingdom, the African continent, and some other countries in the Pacific Ocean. The course will encourage organized thinking, observations and analysis of components of the culture that immigrantcommunities are able to preserve and cultural components that either change or get reinterpreted. In this context, we will look at entities such as religion, food, language, and family. The course will discuss immigrants' success stories, sad stories, their contributions, their relationship with other groups in the host society and the nature and extent of their links with their homeland. The course will include discussion about victimization of and discrimination against immigrants in their new homelands. Other issues will include social and cultural needs of immigrants giving rise to new community organizations such astemples, NGOs and other cultural centers. The course will benefit from the study of other immigrant communities for a comparative view.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kaul. This course will examine the way in which imaginative literature and film have addressed the difficult socio-political issues leading up to, and following from, the independence and partition of British India. Pakistan and India came into being as nation-states in moments of great national trauma: historians have long argued over the process that led up to Partition, and we will study some of these debates, but for the most part we will examine novels, short stories, poetry, and some films to think about the impact of Partition and Independence on communities and individuals in South Asia. In doing so, we will recognize the continuing role played by these events and experiences in shaping the cultural, social, and political realities of contemporary South Asia. We will also learn about the crucial role played by literary and creative texts in making available to us the full dimensions of human tragedy, especially those precipitated when the imperatives of nation-formation redefine the lives of individuals or of sub-national communities.
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3.00 Credits
Gangulee. India has been described as a palimpsest of cultures as well as a land of million mutinies. Material bases of any culture rest on its ideas of itself, its innovations, what it produces and consumes, its ideas of social org. and political governance. In this course we shall examine the material bases of South Asian culture, its mode of production, consumption and distribution of surplus product and how over the last five thousand years, the ideas behind these modes have been put forward, contested and negotiated for acceptance. Some of these ideas have come from emigration and immigration, some from invasion and some have simply sprung up. We will begin by looking at the Indian materiality in language, rituals, spatial analyses of towns, weights and measures. We will go on to the rituals and materiality of the Indo-Aryans, the political thought that evolved, to the scientific thinking andtechnological innovations, the Grand Mughals, the European colonial period, Nehru's independent India, the liberalized economy of India in 1991 and end with the present.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ghosh. There has been a great deal of discussion, of late, about civilization and and attacks upon it. This course examines the meaning of "civilization" and "progress" by way of 1) classical sources in social thought, 2) pivotal issues contemporary cultural anthropology and 3) materials related to India. The course demands close readings of (at times) dense texts, class presentationand papers. The class format combines discussion with lectures.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in History & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is intended to be an introduction to the anthropological study of South Asia. It will cover archaeology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology and linguistics, along with excursions into geography, the Indian Census and gazetteers. A second focus of the class will be an investigation of the origins of the caste system. Each student will be expected to complete a significant research paper related to the class, along with one class presentation. This is a WATU course and one of the class meetings each week will be devoted to writing. The grade for the course will be based upon the instructor's evaluation of each of these exercises.
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3.00 Credits
Gangulee. In this course we will trace the economic development of India from 1947 to the present. Independent India started out as a centrally planned economy in 1949 but in 1991 decided to reduce its public sector and allow, indeed encourage, foreign investors to come in. The Planning Commission of India still exists but has lost much of its power. Many in the U.S. complain of American jobs draining off to India, call centers in India India taking care of American customer complaints, American patient histories being documented in India, etc. At the same time, the u.s. government encouragehighly trained Indians to be in the u.s. We will try to find out how 1991 essentially follows 1949. Students are expected to write four one-page response papers and one final paper. Twenty percent of the final grade will be based on class participation, 20 percent on the four response papers and 60 percent on the final paper.
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3.00 Credits
Bhatti. An introduction to the tabla, the premier drum of north Indian and Pakistani classical music traditions.
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3.00 Credits
Bhatti. A continuation of Tabla I, also open to beginning students. Speak to the instructor for permission to enroll.
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3.00 Credits
Miner. This course is an introduction to the repertoire and performance practices of the North Indian sitar. Fundamentals of sitar technique, composition, and improvisation are presented and practiced in class. Class lectures and discussions, audio and video material, and reading and listening assignments on selected topics supplement practice, to provide an overview of the social and historical context and the formal structures of North Indian music in general. There are no prerequisites for the course, but some experience with instrumental or vocal music is suggested. Each student is expected to put in two hours of individual practice per week, and complete reading, audio, and written assignments. The class gives a group performance at the end of the semester.
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3.00 Credits
Miner. This is the second semester of a performance course in the North Indian sitar Students who have not taken the first semester but play any musical instrument are permitted to join. Principles of composition and improvisation will be explored in practice and supplemented by readings and listening. The class gives a group performance at the end of the semester.
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