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142221 SE Resistance to Colonial Rule in South Asia (2023W)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 03.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 10.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 17.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 24.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 31.10. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 07.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 14.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 21.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 28.11. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 05.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14
  • Tuesday 12.12. 10:00 - 12:00 Seminarraum 3 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-14

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Indian resistance to British colonial rule is often solely associated with Mahatma Gandhi and his non-violent political strategies. The aim of this seminar is to show that Indian resistance was not only more complex but also more violent than that. Anticolonial resistance is a theme than runs through the 190 years-long history of British rule on the Subcontinent. It includes the wars of Tipu Sultan against the East India Company in the late 18th century, the uprisings within the colonial army in the middle of the 19th century and bombings by left-wing revolutionaries in the early 20th century. The colonizers faced peasant movements, tribal revolts, and mutinies by Indian soldiers. A focus on these lesser known forms of Indian resistance to British rule allows us to think about colonization, decolonization and the role of violence in both.

Topics:
- Violence
- Bureaucracy (structural violence)
- Cross-national resistance
- Tipu Sultan
- Santal Rebellion
- The Great Rebellion of 1857–58
- The Blue Mutiny, 1859–62
- The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
- The Indian National Army

Assessment and permitted materials

- Reading: Read the texts provided for each session

- Writing: You have to post 3 short reading responses in the forum on Moodle

- Presentation I: Present one of the readings in class.

- Presentation II: Present the draft of the seminar paper in one of the last sessions of the seminar

- Seminar paper: Write a seminar paper (15–20 pages). You can write the paper in English or German. Submit the paper until 31 March 2024

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

You can miss class max. 2 times.

// Grading:

1) Active participation in classroom // 15%
2) Reading Responses // 20%
3) Presentation // 15%
4) Final Seminar paper, 15 pages // 50%

>= 87,5% very good (1)
>= 75% good (2)
>= 62,5% satisfactory (3)
>= 50% sufficient (4)
< 50% deficient (5)

Examination topics

Reading list

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1963).

David Graeber, Dead Zones of the Imagination (2006).

Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1999).

Amitav Ghosh, India's Untold War of Independence (1997).

Association in the course directory

IMAK1

Last modified: Fr 22.09.2023 17:27