HIST 373 History of Premodern S Asia

This course looks at the broad outlines of the history of the Indian subcontinent prior to 1500. Through a combination of lecture, film and discussion students will explore the development of the Indus Valley cultures, the Vedic age, Hindu, Buddhistic, and Jaina worldviews, early kingdoms and empires, medieval state formations, Islamicate culture and Sultanic regimes which reveal the multilayered and complex character of the subcontinent’s history, one that goes beyond simple labels of "Hindu" and "Muslim."