Universität Wien

070105 GR Guided Reading (2013W)

Indo-European Encounters in the Indian Subcontinent: Understanding thePerception of the "Other" (1400-1800).

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 7 - Geschichte
Continuous assessment of course work
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Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 08.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 15.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 22.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 29.10. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 05.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 12.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 19.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 26.11. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 03.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 10.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 17.12. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 07.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 14.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 21.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9
  • Tuesday 28.01. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum Geschichte 3 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 9

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Course description: European expansion in the Indian subcontinent and multiple forms of interactions with the ‘other’ would be the main focus of this course. The course will make a survey of European perception of the ‘alien’ cultures in the Indian subcontinent with regard to the religious, cultural and political differences as depicted in the accounts of the Portuguese, Dutch, and English travellers, missionaries, ambassadors and merchants. This course also attempts to reconstruct the European image portrayed in the Indian texts which would complete the picture of encounter as a two way process.
Sources: Accounts of travellers, missionaries, ambassadors and merchants of Portuguese, Dutch, English origin.
Indian texts: Mughal (Mogul) chronicles and regional texts from multiple principalities of the subcontinent.

Secondary literature: Bitterli, Urs: Cultures in Conflict: Encounters between European and Non-European Cultures, Stanford 1989.
Lach, Donald F, Asia in the Making of Europe: The Century of Discovery, vol.1, Chicago, 1965.
Joan-Pau Rubiés, Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India Through European Eyes, 1250-1625, Cambridge, 2002.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Courtly Encounters: Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia, Harvard, 2012.

Assessment and permitted materials

Course assessment: The course will be based on continuous assessment and student participation, interaction and completion of small weekly tasks will be graded.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

- Einführung in ausgewählte Methoden, Fragen und Kontroversen der mediävistischen Forschung.

Examination topics

Reading list

Association in the course directory

BA 12: PM Vertiefung; Guided Reading - Neuzeit (4 ECTS) | BA 11: WM Neuzeit; prüfungsimmanent (4 ECTS) | BA 08: PME Neuzeit; prüfungsimmanent (4 ECTS) | LA: Vertiefung Guided Readings: Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte (4 ECTS)

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