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the many pasts of india's present
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Course details

Common Curriculum Module:

Understanding India
 
Semester 1
duration:15 weeks

Course Contents

UNIT 1. WHAT IS INDIA? (4 weeks)

     1.1 The Personal Idea of India

     1.2 The Locality of India: Our Neighbourhood

     1.3 The Political Idea of India

 

UNIT 2. TIME (3 weeks)

     2.1 Mythic Time

     2.2 Deep Time

     2.3 Historical Time

 

UNIT 3. FLOWS (3 weeks)

     3.1 Flows of Goods and Biota

     3.2 Flows of People into India

     3.3 Flows of People Out of India

 

UNIT 4. Ideas OF India (4 weeks)

     4.1 Colonial Forms of Knowledge

4.2 The Landscape of Nationalist Thought I

4.3 The Landscape of Nationalist Thought II

     4.4 Making of the Indian Constitution

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