Schedule

week readings anything extra

1
 20 January



Background material on India and its neighbors

 


More information on the literature and culture of the Indian subcontinent

Sources for maps of India on the Web
2
 25–27 January

Contexts for Understanding:

Monday: Said on Orientalism, Cohn on forms of knowledge, Suleri on the Feminine Picturesque
Wednesday: Indian Ink

 

Film screening Tuesday night 8 p.m.
Heat and Dust (Ivory, 1983), 133 mins. Library 306.

Oral Histories of Britons in South Asia
3
 1–3 February


Travellers and Administrators

Monday: Snow Day
Wednesday:Thomas Twining, Maria Graham, George Atkinson, Emily Eden, Nupur Chaudhuri, Rozina Visram


 


 
4
 8–10 February


The Space of Empire
Monday: Snow Day II
Wednesday: Fanny Parkes, Thomas Metcalf

also review“The Feminine Picturesque,” from Suleri
 

A useful site on AngloIndian architecture
Ancient Indian Architecture

 
5
 15–17 February

AngloIndian childhood

Monday:The Secret Garden
Wednesday: Kim, Kipling’s poetry


Also read Said and/or Suleri on Kipling


 

 

e-texts of much of Kipling’s work


Browse or search Hobson-Jobson’s Dictionary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words

A source for historical travel books about India and Indians
6
 22–24 February

Mutiny, or War of Independence?

Monday: Kim
Wednesday: Mangal Pandey

 

Film screening Tuesday night 7 p.m.
Mangal Pandey: the Uprising (Mehta, 2005), 150 minutes. Library 306.

 
7
 1–3 March


The seductions of sport:
Monday: 1857: Ghose, Tytler, Pouchepadass.
Wednesday: CLR James, Guha, Chaudhuri (2), Lagaan

 

 Film screening Tuesday night at 6;00 p.m. in LI 321; Lagaan (Gowariker, 2001), 224 minutes. Library 307.
8
 8–10 March

 

Can’t we all just get along?
A Passage to India

Also read Suleri on Forster


Film screening Tuesday night 7 p.m.
A Passage to India (Lean, 1984), 163 minutes. Library 306.

 
9
 15–18 March

No class—Spring Break!

 

 
10
 22–24 March

Partition and Modern India:

Monday: Midnight’s Children

Wednesday: Earth


Film screening Tuesday night 8 p.m.
Earth (Mehta, 1998), 110 minutes. Library 306.

 
11
 29–31 March


Midnight’s Children

 

 

see the Midnight’s Children website

 
12
 5–7 April

Hangovers of Empire:

Monday: Shakespeare Wallah

Wednesday: Londonstani


 

Film screening Sunday night 6 p.m.
Shakespeare Wallah (Ivory, 1965), 120 minutes. Library 321.

 

 
13
 12–14 April

Monday: Londonstani

Wednesday: Bend it Like Beckham

Film screening Tuesday 8 p.m..
Bend it Like Beckham (Chadha, 2002), 112 minutes. Library 306.

 
14
 19–21 April

Monday: Seminar papers

Wednesday: Seminar papers

  
15
 26–28 April

Monday: Seminar papers

Wednesday: Seminar papers

 

 
16
 8 May (Saturday) final exam meeting—9:00 a.m. Final Paper Due