Imperialism and Colonialism: the British Empire in India, 1760 to 1947

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1 HIST 4020 Professors Chester & Kent Spring 2013 Hellems 225 & 203 Tue/Thu 11-12:15 Office Hrs: T, Th 12:30-1:45 (Kent) Th 1-3 and by appointment (Chester) Imperialism and Colonialism: the British Empire in India, 1760 to 1947 This course examines the experiences of imperialism and colonialism from the perspectives of Britain and Britons on the one hand and India and Indians, on the other. It addresses topics such as the impact of the East India Company and missionaries on these processes, gender and sexuality, anti-colonial resistance, and decolonization. Due to the broad nature of the subject matter, cases studies are taken from different parts of the India subcontinent to illustrate these themes. Required Texts The following texts are available at the CU Bookstore (and are also on reserve at Norlin): Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of Modern India (Cambridge, 2001) Zareer Masani, Indian Tales of the Raj (California, 1987) Journal articles are available through Chinook, the University of Colorado library catalog. Other items are available on D2L or as E-Books (through Chinook), where noted. Assignments and Grading Maps 10% Quiz February 12 20% Paper 1 Due Mar 12 20% Paper 2 Due Apr 23 25% Final Exam Due May 7, 7:00 PM 25% * You MUST hand in assignments on time, otherwise we will not accept them. The only possible exception is in a documented case of illness or some other extraordinary circumstance. In this situation, please see one of us BEFORE the assignment is due. Disability Statement: If you qualify for accommodations because of a disability, please submit a letter to me from Disability Services in a timely manner so that your needs may be addressed. Disability Services determines accommodations based on documented disabilities. Contact: , Willard 322, or at: Decorum Statement: Students and faculty each have responsibility for maintaining an appropriate learning environment. Students who fail to adhere to behavioral standards may be subject to discipline. Faculty have the professional responsibility to treat students with understanding, dignity and respect, to guide classroom discussion and to set reasonable limits on the manner in which 1

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3 Metcalf and Metcalf, Ch. 2 Edward Said, Orientalism, intro Peter Cain and A.G. Hopkins, Gentlemanly Capitalism and British Expansion Overseas I: The Old Colonial System, , Economic History Review 39, 4 (1986), (JSTOR) Map Due: India in 1760 (2 dates of Mughal power) Week 3 India Under the EIC 1/29 British expansion (Chester) 1/31 Maps and power (Chester) Metcalf and Metcalf, Ch. 3 David Washbrook, The Indian Economy and the British Empire, in Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu, India and the British Empire (Oxford, 2012) (D2L) Week 4 Liberal Empire 2/5 British Reforms (Kent) 2/7 The Impact of British Reforms (Chester) Thomas Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj (Cambridge, 1994), Ch. 2 Stephen Hay, ed., Sources of Indian Tradition, Ch. 1 (D2L) Map due: India under EIC Week 5 The Indian Rebellion, 1857 Tue 2/12 Thu 2/14 Factors Contributing to the 1857 Uprising (Chester) The Rebellion (Kent) Metcalf and Metcalf, Ch. 4 Letters from Queen Victoria (D2L) Ghalib, Life and Letters (selections) (D2L) * Tue Quiz on material through week 4 Week 6 Tue 2/19 Thu 2/21 Rebellion, cont. and The New Colonial Regime The Uprising and Anglo-Muslim Relations (Chester) The British Response to the Rebellion (Kent) 3

4 Week 7 Tue 2/26 Thu 2/28 Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four Bernard Cohn, The Census, Social Structure, and Objectification in South Asia, in Cohn, An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays (Oxford, 1987) (D2L) Hay, Sources of Indian Tradition, pp , (D2L) Map due: India after the Mutiny Paper Workshop and WWI paper workshop WWI: Indians in the War (Kent) Metcalf and Metcalf, Ch. 5 David Omissi, Europe Through Indian Eyes: Indian Soldiers Encounter England and France, English Historical Review CXXII: 496 (Apr 2007) (JSTOR) Claude Markovits, Indian Soldiers' Experiences In France During World War I: Seeing Europe From The Rear Of The Front in Heike Liebau et al, eds, The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia (Leiden: Brill, 2010) (D2L) Week 8 Paper workshop and Reneging on Promises 3/5 paper workshop 3/7 reneging on promises made (Kent) Week 9 Tue 3/12 Thu 3/14 Amritsar The Jallianwallah Bagh (Chester) Challenges to Empire: Ireland and Race Riots (Kent) * Tue 1 st Paper due Metcalf and Metcalf, Ch. 6, pp Indian National Congress Report on Amritsar Massacre Week 10 Tue 3/19 Thu 3/21 Indian Nationalism The Rise of Gandhi (Chester) The Khilafat Movement (Chester) Metcalf and Metcalf, Ch. 6, pp Hay, Sources of Indian Tradition, pp (D2L) Week 11 Spring Break 4

5 Week 12 Gandhi and Civil Disobedience (give out 2 nd paper question) 4/2 The Salt March and the 1930s (Chester) 4/4 The British Response: The India Act of 1935 (Kent) Week 13 Hay, Sources of Indian Tradition, pp (D2L) Gandhi 4/9 Film: Gandhi 4/11 Film, cont. Masani, Indian Tales of the Raj, pp Hay, Sources of Indian Tradition, pp (D2L) Week 14 Tue 4/16 Tue 4/18 World War II Quit India, The Indian National Army, Congress and Muslim League (Chester) Promises of Self-Government Again (Kent) Metcalf and Metcalf, Ch. 7, pp Masani, pp Week 15 Tue 4/23 Thu 4/25 *Thu Freedom at Midnight British Ignominy (Kent) Partition (Chester) Second paper due: Identifying British policies that led to partition Map: partition Metcalf and Metcalf, Ch. 7, pp Masani, pp Winston Churchill, speeches (D2L) Week 16 Tue Thu May 7, 7:00 PM Legacy Aftermath of Partition (Chester) The End of Empire (Kent) Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh, Cold Meat, Open It (D2L) Masani, pp Ferguson, Empire, intro and conclusion (D2L) FINAL EXAM take home evaluating Ferguson s arguments with regard to India 5