Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Integrate these readings with a wider understanding of the modern world.
- Think critically about nationalism and its impact on history writing.
- Connect historical writing to the wider historical problems of its time.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Present arguments in oral and written form and engage with the reasoned arguments of others
- Interpret historical texts as products of their own context and not as repositories of positivist knowledge.
- Assimilate a variety of interpretations and consider the evidence for each
- Understand how these texts can be related to other forms of evidence
- Develop independent ideas on key problems and be able to justify and defend them
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Major theories of nationalism
- Debates within the field of the historiography of European and Non-western nationalism
- Major ways in which the story of India as a singular nation has been narrated in history writing, literature and visual arts
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Think critically about narratives of nationhood in history writing, literature and visual culture
- Recognize the internal fragmentation of the Indian nation state.
- Weigh the comparative merits of influential theories of nationalism
- Think critically about the applicability of European theories of nationalism to new post-colonial nation states.
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Revision | 24 |
| Completion of assessment task | 30 |
| Seminar | 12 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 72 |
| Lecture | 12 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Mill, James, and William Thomas (1975). The history of British India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Raja Rao (1963). Kanthapura. New York: New Directions.
Shingavi, Snehal (2014). The Mahatma misunderstood: the politics and forms of literary nationalism in India. Anthem Press.
Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, and S. T. Godbole (1971). Six glorious epochs of Indian history. Bombay: Bal Savarkar; associate Publishers & sole distributors.
Herder, Johann Gottfried, and Frank Edward Manuel (1968). Reflections on the philosophy of the history of. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sartori, Andrew (2008). Bengal in global concept history: culturalism in the age of capital. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. (1991). Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso.
Gellner, Ernest (1997). Nationalism. N.Y: New York University Press.
Nehru, Jawaharlal (2004). The discovery of India. New Delhi: Penguin.
Tagore, Rabindranath (1917). Nationalism. New York: The Macmillan Co..
Goswami, Manu (2004). Producing India from colonial economy to national space. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hunter, William Wilson, and P. E. Roberts (1966). A history of British India. New York: AMS Press.
Chatterji, Bankim (2005). Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Essay | 60% |
| Exercise | 40% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External