Course Objective: Given the growing recognition worldwide of the importance of the
political economy approach to the study of global order, this course has the
following objectives:
1. To familiarize the students with the different
theoretical approaches;
2. To give a brief overview of the history of the
evolution of the modern capitalist world;
3. To highlight the important contemporary problems, issues and debates on how these should be addressed.
Course objective: The purpose of this course is to help students understand the struggle of Indian people against colonialism .It seeks to achieve this understanding by looking at this struggle from different theoretical perspectives that highlight its different dimensions. The course begin with the nineteenth century Indian responses to colonial dominance in the form of reformism and its criticism and continues through various phases up to the events leading to the partition and independence. In the process, the course tries to highlight its various conflicts and contradictions by focusing on its different dimensions: communalism, class struggle, caste and gender questions.
Suggested /Essential Reading
1. S. Bandopadhyay: From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India, New Delhi, Orient Longman
2. P.Desouza (ed): Contemporary India: Transitions New Delhi, Sage Publications
3. S Bhattacharya (ed): Development of Modern Indian Thought and the Social Sciences, Vol X, New Delhi, Oxford University Press
4. S.Sarkar: Modern India, New Delhi, Macmillan
5. P. Chatterjee: The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Post Cololonial Histories, New Delhi, Oxford University Press
6. G.Shah: Social Movements and the state.
7. A. Jalal and S Bose: Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy, New Delhi, Oxford University Press
8. B. Chakrabarty and R. Pandey: Modern Indian Political Thought, New Delhi, Sage Publications
9. R. Pradhan: Raj to Swaraj New Delhi, Macmilan
10.M.A.K. Azad:India Wins Freedom