Course Catalog - 2007-2008

     

HIST 272 - MODERN SOUTH ASIA

Long Title: HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA, 1857 TO PRESENT
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Study of South Asian independence, from development of political resistance to partition and its aftermath: the legacy of Ghandi and the Nehru dynasty, separaitist movements in Sri Lanka and Kashmir, communism, literacy, gender, Islamic Pakistan vs India's Saffron Wave, Bollywood and Bangalore, a nuclear South Asia.