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Syllabus, with integrated digital resources, for a Columbia University undergraduate anthropology course designed to introduce students to seminal writings in the emergence of modernity on the Indian subcontinent. The course surveys major figures who grappled with and helped shape social and political struggles during the British colonial period (roughly 1818-1947). It focuses on debates about religious reform, the role of women, nation formation, and caste stratification. Readings include autobiographies, speeches, dialogues, treatises, ethnography, and literary fiction; digital resources include primary texts, maps, timeline, illustrations, video.
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