21F.040 A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society, Spring 2005
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Banerjee, Arundhati
Alternative Title
A Passage to India: Introduction to Modern Indian Culture and Society
Date Issued
June 2005
Abstract
This course introduces students to Indian Culture through films, short-stories, novels, essays, and newspaper articles. The course examines some major social and political controversies of contemporary India through discussions centered on India's history, politics and religion. The focus is on issues such as ethnic tension and terrorism, poverty and inequality, caste conflict, the "missing women," and the effects of globalization on popular and folk cultures. Particular emphasis is on the IT revolution, outsourcing, the "new global India," and the enormous regional and sub-cultural differences.
Subjects
Bipan Chandra
Ismat Chugtai
Mahasweta Devi
Nayantara Sahgal
Amartya Sen
directors
film
writers
leading parallel film makers
Shyam Benegal
Shekhar Kapoor
Govind Nihalani
Satyajit Ray
IT revolution
documentaries
Indian culture
globalization
Indian cities
political events
social events
negotiating the "system" in India
ideology of a "new Indian"
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. History Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies
MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
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