Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-E-24 Course Name: Imperialism, Knowledge Production and the Oriental World |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Discursive Formations of ‘Orientalism’: The Idea of ‘Orientalism’ and Imperialism/Colonialism; Criticisms of ‘Orientalism’ – Edward Said and his Predecessors; Epistemological Imperatives of the Colonial State; Exhibitionary Regimens and Disciplinary Apparatuses of Imperialism/Colonialism | |
| 2 | Imperialism, ‘Indology’ and the Cultural Politics of Knowledge: Indological Studies – ‘The Wonder that was India’; Understanding the Peoples of India: Ethnography and Anthropometry; Indian Anthropology and its Relation with Imperialism/Colonialism; Representations of Terror and the Terror of Representation; Documents of Civilization and Documents of Barbarism | |
| 3 | Colonialism and the Making of Indian Pasts: Narratives of History and the Power of Discursivity; Formulating Chronology and Periodization of Indian Pasts – James Mill and Others; The Making of Ancient India: Linguistics, Archeology and Numismatics; The Making of Medieval India: Elliot and Dowson Project, The Medieval Chronicle; The ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 | |
| 4 | British Imperialism in India and its Law and Language: Jeremy Bentham, Emerging ‘Science of Jurisprudence’ and India; The ‘Native Informant’ and Knowledge Production; Indigenous Law and the Idea of Sovereignty – The ‘Land Settlements’; Legislation around ‘Religion’ and ‘Crime’ – Sati and Thugee; Language and the Law – ‘Mosaic Ethnology’ in 18th Century and Indigenous Conceptions; The Reconfiguration of Race, Language and Nation in British India; Race and the Imperial Discourse on Caste | |
