UNIT 1. WHAT IS INDIA? (3 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 Within and Out of India

 

UNIT 4. BIRTH OF THE NATION STATE (4 weeks)

     4.1 Of Names, Maps, and Travelers

     4.2 Colonial Forms of Knowledge

     4.3 The Landscape of Nationalist Thought

     4.4 Framing of the Indian Constitution