HIST 374 History of South Asia After 1500

This course examines the broad contours of the history of the Indian sub-continent after 1500 especially those parts covered by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Major themes include: the Mughal Empire, European colonial interventions and indigenous responses (reform, rebellion, and nationalism), and the painful emergence of south Asian nations and their postcolonial predicaments. These themes will also intersect with the following concerns: Mughal state making, colonial governance and its forms of knowledge, subaltern histories, gender and caste studies, communalism, and discourses on development.