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3.00 Credits
Staff. Despite increasing popular interest in them, the Indian religious traditions (Shaiva, Vaishnava, and Buddhist) that are commonly called Tantra or Tantric, and that are often associated with antinomian transgressive practices such as the ritual consumption of alcohol and ritual sexual intercourse, have until recently received relatively little attention from Indologists and historians of religion. This course will examine the rise of these traditions, their development, and their interactions with each other. Reactions to and criticism of Tantra from the side of non-tantric Indian religious will also be considered.
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Staff. Buddhism may well be termed India's most successful export. Arising in India inabout the 4th century B.C.E., this religion of world-transcendence quickly spread both towards the West and the East. From its earliest period, and in all its diverse incarnations, the figure of the founder of the religion, Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, has been a central one to all Buddhists. We will be reading a number of the most famous retellings of the Buddha's life, spanning well over a millennium, and considering how they reflect changing concerns and needs both of popular devotion and of learned theories (often competing ones) about the nature of enlightenment. We will look also at images from India, Nepal and Tibet that bring to life the Buddha's biography in stunning art.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. An overview of the shared and conflicting legacy of history between the two countries; their role in shaping the contours of global politics in that region. Social, ethnic, religious, and sectarian discourses with power politics, the rise of religious militancy, Taliban, their predecessors and potential successors will also be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Ghosh. This course will operate concurrently at three levels. First we will critically consider theories of social change, drawing on anthropology, history and sociology. Second we will examine the complex interrelationships between nationstates/nationalism on the one hand and migration/population flows on the other. The third and final level will be an intensive investigation of the 1947 Partition of British India, which led to the creationof the Republics of India and Pakistan (and later Bangladesh).The goal, here, will be to situate the partition within the literatures on social change, nationalism and migration. Requirements include multiple class presentations and two major papers - the second of which will entail original research.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. The purpose of this introductory course is to familiarize the students with the historical and conceptual framework in which the problems of development of South Asia are to be situated to develop a proper sense of perspective.The courseshould also enable them to understand the theoretical underpinnings of the experiences of the development processes and critically appreciate the problems and policy issues facing the regional economies.We will discuss the basic concepts and indicators of the development process and look at post-colonial India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as case studies.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course examines the twin phenomena of liberalization and globalization in the context of developing economies and the complex economic issues thrown up by them. The course will explore the resulting interlinkages and their implications regarding the interrelationship between the North and the South and policies for the economies of the South Asia Region. The study of the course will involve understanding and analysis of both the empirical evidence and the underlying theoretical principles concering the issues outlined. We will address issues such as the role of the state and market, globalization and regional trading blocks, foreign direct investment and the problems of multinationals, growth, poverty and sustainable development etc.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Penn-in-India course. This course introduces students to Indian society through the history, theory, and practice of community development. The course will examine local and other initiatives in the fields of social and economic development, health care, and environment in rural and urban India with special emphasis on the role of non-government organizations, the third sector. The readings will focus on a spectrum of theoretical perspectives and practices. Students will read about and discuss development models in the classroom and participate through the assistance of local non-governmental organizations in the community programs devised for disadvantaged sectors of Indian society. Grading will be based on classroom participation, field work, journal writing, a classroom presentation, and a final paper.
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3.00 Credits
Frankel. This course is one of the first arising out of scholarship on cold war international history. It draws on declassified government documents and other archival records to provide a window into the world-view of decision-makers who need to make national security policy based on incomplete information about ambiguous threats. The materials reveal a great deal about the importance of divergent historical perspectives and strategic cultures in the foreign policy-making process. The main focus of the course is on the intersection of the cold war and the rise of Asian nationalism. At the core of the analysis is the clash between America's global strategy of military containment against the Soviet Union and the assertion of Indian, and Chinese nationalism, concerned with preventing the United States from succeeding to Great Britain's imperial rule. The course examines new patterns of US-India and US-China relations in the post-cold war period. This is primarily a lecture course, but the course web is a critical element of class work.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Sheehan. The countries of South Asia have large and diverse populations in need of public, preventative, and curative health services relevant to the health and disease problems of the region. This course will consider the historic origins of health services in South Asia, beginning with a focus on health needs and health services' development in the 19th century through the mid-20th century. In a context influenced by politics, economics, and socio-cultural factors, biomedical health services and education emerged as the dominant health system. Yet this system remains tied to foreign health models and contends with the socio-cultural competition of traditional medical systems. Through lectures, discussion, and assignments, this course will explore the historic and contemporary complexity of the health care systems in South Asian countries as they attempt to deliver health care to populations with wide disparities in income, education, health problems and needs. Selected comparative experiences of Asian health care systems, such as Chinese, will be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Sheehan. Drawing upon theoretical and empirical evidence, the course uses a socio-medical approach for understanding the health status and health behaviors of women in South Asia. Gender is a crucial explanatory variable of women's survival experience; burden of disease; nutritional status; and access to and utilization of health services. Girls and women face health and disease problems over their life course related to nutrition needs, reproductive health, work conditions, as well as to infectionous disease. This course places the experience of women's health in South Asia in contemporary, historic, and comparative frameworks. Lectures, discussion, and assignments provide entry to greater understanding of both the specialized nature of South Asian women's health problems, as well as those common to women worldwide.
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