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1 | Introduction | |
2 | Quest for Freedom, Partition and Memories (1857-2004), (A Historical Approach and Personal Memoirs) | Film: Mehta, Deepa. Earth. 1998. Reading: Reading: |
3 | Land Reforms (1950-85): Poverty Line and Peasantry |
Film: Benegal, Shyam. Ankur. 1974. Reading: Reading: Besley, Timothy, and Robin Burgess. "Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, And Growth: Evidence From India." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, no. 2 (2000): 389-430. |
4 | "The Emergency Rule" (1975-77): Democracy or Dictatorship? | Reading: ![]() |
5 | "The Emergency Rule" (1975-77): Democracy or Dictatorship? (cont.) | Reading: ![]() |
6 | The Universal Civil Code Debate and the Shah Bano Case (1985 and its Aftermath): Women and Islam |
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7 | Mandal Commission (1990): Caste and Affirmative Action |
Film: Mundhra, Jag. Bawandar. 2000. Reading: Reading: Omvedt, Gail. "Introduction to Dalit Poems." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars X, no. 3 (1978): 2-10. (Selections from this text.)
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8 | Documentary Cinema and Academic debate: Ayodhya (1992): Religious Conflict, Within and Beyond Borders |
Film: Bose, Sugata. Mandir, Masjid, Mandal, and Marx: Democracy in India. 1991. Reading: |
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Parallel Cinema and Fiction: Seventy-Third Amendment, Panchayati Raj and the Empowerment of Women (1992-2004) Guest Speaker: Professor Esther Duflo, MIT |
Film: Kapur, Shekhar. Bandit Queen. 1994. Reading: Sen, Amartya. "More than 100 million women are missing." New York Review of Books, December 1990. Reading: |
10 | Popular Culture and its Critique: The World Cup and Bollywood Goes West (1983-2001): Cricket mania, Post-Colonialism and National Pride |
Film: Gowariker, Ashutosh. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India. 2001. Reading: Majumdar, Boria. "The Empire Drives Back." outlookindia.com, July 16, 2001. (Web publication.) Reading: |
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Ethnography and Pulp Magazines: Star TV arrives in India: Global or Local? (1990's - the present) Health Care in India: guest lecture by expert from MIT-Health, followed by Q and A |
Reading: Reading: Stardust and Filmfare, North Indian cine magazines. (Excerpts from these texts.) |
12 | Press and Other Media: IT Revolutions (1990-the present): BPOs, Call Centers, Outsourcing and all that |
Reading: Reading: Times of India, The Hindu, India Today, and Frontline, Indian newspapers and magazines. (Clips and excerpts from these texts.) |
13 | History and Religion in Modern Times: The Romila Thapar Controversy (2001 and Ancient History): Myth, Legends, History and National Identity |
Reading: Thapar, Romila. "In Defence of History." Lecture delivered at Tiruvananthapuram, March 2, 2002. Reading: |
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Politics, Documenting and Civil Society: Elections 2003-2004: Consensus and Controversies Guest Speaker: Professor Abhijit Banerjee, MIT Wrap up Discussion
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Film: Banerjee and Banerjee. The Name of the Disease. (In-class screening.) Readings: Probe Report, Indian Express and Outlook. (Excerpts from these texts.) |