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142040 UE Nehru's Vision and Leadership in Post-British India (2025S)
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Friday 07.03 10:00 - 13:00 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
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Students will be assessed as per their oral (50%) and written (50%) participations. The course requires regular attendance and proactive participation of students in interpreting the readings, and debating and discussing as well as oral presentations. Similarly, regarding the written evaluation, students are required to do homework and submit their final papers.
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Positive evaluation will be based on the level of students’ understanding of the course content given that other criteria mentioned-above are fulfilled.
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Students are free to chose their choice of topic from the content of the course both for their oral presentations and final written essays.
Literatur
This reading list is subject to change as per the availability, and there will be new additions to both the book list and especially the articles and essays list during the semester.Bibliography
Books:
Bhagwati, J and Panagariya, 2014, Why Growth Matters: How India’s Growth Acceleration Has Reduced Poverty, PublicAffairs
Burns, J M, 1978, Leadership, New York: Harper Collins
Chandra, B, Mukherjee, M, Mukherjee A, 2013, India After Independence 1947-2000, India: Penguin
Dalvi, J P, 1969, Himalayan Blunder, Bombay: Thacker
Dinkel, J, 2018 The Non-Aligned Movement: Genesis, Organization and Politics (1927 – 1992), Leiden and Boston: Brill
Dutt, R C, 1981, Socialism of Jawaharlal Nehru, New Delhi: Abhinav Publications
Godbole, M, 2014, The God Who Failed: An Assessment of Nehru’s Leadership, New Delhi: Rupa
Guha, R, 2010, Makers of Modern India, Belknap
Guha, R,2008, India after Gandhi, Ecco
Gupta, N B, Raina , J L, Juahari H M, Juahari, B M (eds), 1993, Nehru and Planning in India, New Delhi: Concept Publishing
Jain, P C, 2012, Economic Determinants of India’s Foreign Policy: The Nehru Years (1947-64)
Judith, B, 1999, Nehru: Profiles in Power
Kashyap S, 1990, Jawaharlal Nehru: His Life, Work and Legacy, S Chand & Company
Larry Collins, and Dominique Lapierre, 1982, Mountbatten and Independent India, New Delhi: Vikas
Mathai, M O, 1978, Reminiscence of the Nehru Age, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing
Mathai, M O, 1979, My Days with Nehru, Vikas
Maxwell, N, 1970, India’s China War, Pantheon
Michele, L, 2018, Comrades Against Imperialism: Nehru, India and Interwar Internationalism, Cambridge University Press
Moraes, F, 2008, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, Jaico Publishing
Mukherjee, A, 2025, Nehru: Past, Present and Future, Vintage Books
Nehru, J, 1928, Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches and Impressions, Allahabad: Ram Mohan Lal
Nehru, J, 1934, Glimpses of World History, Allahabad: Kitabistan
Nehru, J, 1936, Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography
Nehru, J, 1938, Letters from Father to a Daughter, Allahabad: Kitabistan
Nehru, J, 1945, The Discovery of India
Panagariya, A, 2008, India the Emerging Giant, Oxford University Press
Sarvepalli G, 1975, Jawaharlal Nehru, A Biography: Volume One 1889-1947, Delhi: Oxford University Press
Sengupta, H, 2018, The Man Who Saved India: Sardar Patel and His Idea of India, Penguin India
Singh T, Hussein, A, 2021, Nehru: The Debates that Defined India, William Collins
Sherman, T, Nehru’s India: History in Seven Myths, Princeton: Princeton University Press
Tharoor Sashi, 1997, India: From Midnight to Millenium, New York: Arcade
Tharoor Sashi, 1982, Reasons of State, New Delhi: Vikas
Tharoor Sashi, 2011,The Invention of India, New York: ArcadeArticles:Balakrishnan, P, 2007, “The Recovery of India: Economic Growth in the Nehru Era”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42, Nr. 45/46
Bhargava, R, 2020, “Nationalism and the Crisis of Federalism”, The Hindu
Das, S, 2001, “The Nehru Years in Indian Politics”, Edinburgh Paper in South Asian Studies, Nr. 16
< WP16_Suranjan_Das-libre.pdf>
David, A, 2013, “Nehruvian Science and Post-Colonial India”, The Journal of History of Science Society, Vol. 104, Nr. 2, Chicago University Press
Guha, R, 2022, “Nehru Read Ramayana Every Morning For Pure Joy. He Also Turned to Relgion In His Old Age”, The Print
Mantri, R, 2014, “Nehru’s Legacy: The Husk of Democracy”, Swarajya
Satiya, P, 2024, “ Nehru’s Other Indias”, The Wire
Singh, S, 2011, “From Delhi to Bandung: Nehru ‘Indian-ness’ and ‘Pan-Asian-ness’”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 34, Issue 1, Taylor and Francis
Srivastava, V K, 2022, “Nehru and His Views on Secularism”, Congress Sandesh
Books:
Bhagwati, J and Panagariya, 2014, Why Growth Matters: How India’s Growth Acceleration Has Reduced Poverty, PublicAffairs
Burns, J M, 1978, Leadership, New York: Harper Collins
Chandra, B, Mukherjee, M, Mukherjee A, 2013, India After Independence 1947-2000, India: Penguin
Dalvi, J P, 1969, Himalayan Blunder, Bombay: Thacker
Dinkel, J, 2018 The Non-Aligned Movement: Genesis, Organization and Politics (1927 – 1992), Leiden and Boston: Brill
Dutt, R C, 1981, Socialism of Jawaharlal Nehru, New Delhi: Abhinav Publications
Godbole, M, 2014, The God Who Failed: An Assessment of Nehru’s Leadership, New Delhi: Rupa
Guha, R, 2010, Makers of Modern India, Belknap
Guha, R,2008, India after Gandhi, Ecco
Gupta, N B, Raina , J L, Juahari H M, Juahari, B M (eds), 1993, Nehru and Planning in India, New Delhi: Concept Publishing
Jain, P C, 2012, Economic Determinants of India’s Foreign Policy: The Nehru Years (1947-64)
Judith, B, 1999, Nehru: Profiles in Power
Kashyap S, 1990, Jawaharlal Nehru: His Life, Work and Legacy, S Chand & Company
Larry Collins, and Dominique Lapierre, 1982, Mountbatten and Independent India, New Delhi: Vikas
Mathai, M O, 1978, Reminiscence of the Nehru Age, New Delhi: Vikas Publishing
Mathai, M O, 1979, My Days with Nehru, Vikas
Maxwell, N, 1970, India’s China War, Pantheon
Michele, L, 2018, Comrades Against Imperialism: Nehru, India and Interwar Internationalism, Cambridge University Press
Moraes, F, 2008, Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography, Jaico Publishing
Mukherjee, A, 2025, Nehru: Past, Present and Future, Vintage Books
Nehru, J, 1928, Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches and Impressions, Allahabad: Ram Mohan Lal
Nehru, J, 1934, Glimpses of World History, Allahabad: Kitabistan
Nehru, J, 1936, Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography
Nehru, J, 1938, Letters from Father to a Daughter, Allahabad: Kitabistan
Nehru, J, 1945, The Discovery of India
Panagariya, A, 2008, India the Emerging Giant, Oxford University Press
Sarvepalli G, 1975, Jawaharlal Nehru, A Biography: Volume One 1889-1947, Delhi: Oxford University Press
Sengupta, H, 2018, The Man Who Saved India: Sardar Patel and His Idea of India, Penguin India
Singh T, Hussein, A, 2021, Nehru: The Debates that Defined India, William Collins
Sherman, T, Nehru’s India: History in Seven Myths, Princeton: Princeton University Press
Tharoor Sashi, 1997, India: From Midnight to Millenium, New York: Arcade
Tharoor Sashi, 1982, Reasons of State, New Delhi: Vikas
Tharoor Sashi, 2011,The Invention of India, New York: ArcadeArticles:Balakrishnan, P, 2007, “The Recovery of India: Economic Growth in the Nehru Era”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42, Nr. 45/46
Bhargava, R, 2020, “Nationalism and the Crisis of Federalism”, The Hindu
Das, S, 2001, “The Nehru Years in Indian Politics”, Edinburgh Paper in South Asian Studies, Nr. 16
< WP16_Suranjan_Das-libre.pdf>
David, A, 2013, “Nehruvian Science and Post-Colonial India”, The Journal of History of Science Society, Vol. 104, Nr. 2, Chicago University Press
Guha, R, 2022, “Nehru Read Ramayana Every Morning For Pure Joy. He Also Turned to Relgion In His Old Age”, The Print
Mantri, R, 2014, “Nehru’s Legacy: The Husk of Democracy”, Swarajya
Satiya, P, 2024, “ Nehru’s Other Indias”, The Wire
Singh, S, 2011, “From Delhi to Bandung: Nehru ‘Indian-ness’ and ‘Pan-Asian-ness’”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 34, Issue 1, Taylor and Francis
Srivastava, V K, 2022, “Nehru and His Views on Secularism”, Congress Sandesh
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IMAK 5B UE
Letzte Änderung: Fr 24.01.2025 09:25
The independent India the world knows today is arguably in large part what its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had envisioned and built both for good and bad. Nehru took charge of India from the British amidst critical social, political and economic challenges – the independence came at the cost of partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan. In his primeministership (1947-1964), Nehru led India on the path of secularism, socialism and foreign policy of non-alignment. Nehru, an agnostic himself, believed that the pan-Indian socialism is the right way to guarantee the rights of Muslims and other minorities in plural India and opposed communalism. As regards his economic socialism, a policy influenced by his idealism, Gandhian socialism and Soviet Union, it was Nehru’s formula to try and transform the under-developed India and provide employment to its masses. Similarly, Nehru found likeminded partners in Yugoslavia and China in upholding the Panchsheel (five principles) of peaceful co-existence as an alternative ideology in the post-colonial world, which became India’s ‘nonalignment’ doctrine. However, Nehru’s critics have increasingly pointed out that his policies were either faulty or have run their course and that India needs new vision both domestically and internationally. In this course, we will examine and understand Nehru’s vision and leadership under three different sections: 1) Nehru’s personality, 2) his policies and 3) criticism.Objectives:
Understanding of Nehru is essential not only to understand pre- and post-independent India, but also today’s India and its challenges and possibilities. What path did Nehru’s India purse to manage India’s social diversity and economic necessities and what foreign policy doctrine it had and why? These are important questions to understand for students, scholars and professionals from various fields of study.Teaching Method:
Weekly readings will be recommended to students which will then be proactively discussed in the classroom. After the brief lecture on a topic is given, the rest of the class will be dedicated to discussions and debates, and questions and answers. In addition to reading book chapters and articles, videos and documentaries materials will also be used as needed.