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HIST369: India - Partition and the Post-Colonial Nation
Special Subject (60 credits)
Module Convenor: Dr Deborah Sutton
In 1947 the national territories of India and Pakistan were carved out of British India and the Princely States under British paramouncy. This partition of territory precipitated the largest migration in history and was accompanied by riots in which at least one million people lost their lives. This course explores the history of the partition not as an event but a complex and contested process which, arguably, continues up to the present. How were resources - environmental, human and governmental - allocated to the two nascent states, by what means and at what cost to ordinary men and women? How can historians approach the inter- and intra-community violence that accompanied the process of dividing border populations?
The course examines the processes and events through which the boundaries lying between India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh have been negotiated and contested politically, culturally and socially since 1947 in film, literature, war and politics. How have the bounded and divided identities which lay at the heart of Partition - between Hindu and Muslim - resonated in Indian society and politics since 1947? Primary sources for the course will include political and biographical accounts and histories, journalism, literature and film. The course will also explore the re-visitation of the Partition in recent historiography as a means to interrogate the relationship between history writing and the post-colonial nation state.
Teaching Arrangements: All Special Subjects in the History department operate on the basis of 66 hours of official teaching contact, equivalent to 3 hours per week over a period spanning 22 weeks (10 weeks in Michaelmas Term of year 3, 10 weeks in Lent Term of year 3, and 2 weeks [revision seminars] in Summer Term of year 3), plus individual consultations. Working within the 66-hour overall figure, teaching approaches will vary due to the specialist nature of the courses.
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