140147 VO Regional Cultures and Social History in Modern India (2018S)
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Language: English
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Monday
25.06.2018
12:00 - 14:00
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Friday
05.10.2018
11:30 - 13:00
Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
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Monday
09.04.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
16.04.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
23.04.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
30.04.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
07.05.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
14.05.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
28.05.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
04.06.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
11.06.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
Monday
18.06.
11:45 - 13:45
Seminarraum 1 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-25
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Suggested Literature1. Arora, Vibha, 'Framing the Image of Sikkim', in Visual Studies,24:1,2009, 54-64.
2. Bar, Pat, Simla: A Hill Station in British India, New York: Scribner, 1978.
3. Bashford, Alison, Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2004.
4. Bhasin, Raja, Simla: The Summer Capital of British India, Viking Penguin, London, 1992.
5. Berreman, David, Hindus of The Himalayas, Oxford University Press, 1998.
6. Foucault, Michel, "Panopticism" from "Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison", in Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, Vol. 2, No. 1, The Dynamics of Race and Incarceration: Social Integration, Social Welfare, and Social Control (Autumn,2008), pp. 1-12.
7. Guha, Ramachandra, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Changes and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991.
8. Hockings, Paul, (ed.), Blue Mountains Revisited: Cultural Studies on the Nilgiri Hills, Delhi, OUP, 1997.
9. Inden, Ronald, ‘Orientalist Constructions of India’, in Modern Asian Studies, Vol.20, No.3, 1986, pp.401-446.
10. Jennings, Eric T., ‘Urban Planning, Architecture, and Zoning at Dalat, Indochina, 1900-1944’, in
11. Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 33, No. 2, French ColonialUrbanism (Summer 2007), pp. 327-362
12. Kanwar, Pamela, Imperial Simla, Delhi: OUP, 1990.
13. Kennedy, Dane, The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
14. Kenny, Judith, ‘ Climate, Race, and Imperial Authority: The Symbolic Landscape of the British Hill Station in India’, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 85, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp.694-714.
15. King, Anthony D., “Culture, Social and Environment: The Hill Station in Colonial Urban Development”, in Social Action, Vol.26, April-June, 1976, pp.195-213.
16. King, Anthony D., Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1976.
17. Metcalf, Thomas R., ‘Architecture and the Representation of Empire: India, 1860-1910’, in
18. Representations, No. 6, Spring, 1984, pp. 37-65 .
19. Mills, Sara, Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism, Routledge, 2003.
20. Mitchell, Nora, Indian Hill Station: Kodai Kanal, Chicago, 1972.
21. Pati, Biswamoy and Mark Harrison, ed., The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India, Routledge, 2009.
22. Pradhan , Queeny, Empire in the Hills: Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund and Mount Abu (1820-1920), OUP (India), 2017
23. Prakash, Gyan, After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Post Colonial Displacements, Princeton University Press, 1995.
24. Pratt, Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, , London: Routledge, 1992
25. Sengupta, Parna, ‘An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy’, in Comparative Study in Society and History, Vol.45, No.1, January 2003, pp.96-121.
26. Skaria, Ajay, Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India, ‘Introduction’, Oxford University Press, 2001.
27. Stoddart, Brian, “Sport, Cultural Imperialism, and Colonial Responses in the British Empire”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 30, No.4, pp.649-673, October 1988.
28. Tilley, Christopher, A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments, Chapter 1,‘Space, Place, Landscape and Perception: Phenomenological Perspective’, Berg/Providence, USA, 1995, pp.7-35.
29. Tillotson, G. H. R., “Indian Architecture and the English Vision”, in David Arnold and Peter Robb, eds., Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1993, pp.120-143.
2. Bar, Pat, Simla: A Hill Station in British India, New York: Scribner, 1978.
3. Bashford, Alison, Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2004.
4. Bhasin, Raja, Simla: The Summer Capital of British India, Viking Penguin, London, 1992.
5. Berreman, David, Hindus of The Himalayas, Oxford University Press, 1998.
6. Foucault, Michel, "Panopticism" from "Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison", in Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, Vol. 2, No. 1, The Dynamics of Race and Incarceration: Social Integration, Social Welfare, and Social Control (Autumn,2008), pp. 1-12.
7. Guha, Ramachandra, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Changes and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1991.
8. Hockings, Paul, (ed.), Blue Mountains Revisited: Cultural Studies on the Nilgiri Hills, Delhi, OUP, 1997.
9. Inden, Ronald, ‘Orientalist Constructions of India’, in Modern Asian Studies, Vol.20, No.3, 1986, pp.401-446.
10. Jennings, Eric T., ‘Urban Planning, Architecture, and Zoning at Dalat, Indochina, 1900-1944’, in
11. Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, Vol. 33, No. 2, French ColonialUrbanism (Summer 2007), pp. 327-362
12. Kanwar, Pamela, Imperial Simla, Delhi: OUP, 1990.
13. Kennedy, Dane, The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
14. Kenny, Judith, ‘ Climate, Race, and Imperial Authority: The Symbolic Landscape of the British Hill Station in India’, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 85, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp.694-714.
15. King, Anthony D., “Culture, Social and Environment: The Hill Station in Colonial Urban Development”, in Social Action, Vol.26, April-June, 1976, pp.195-213.
16. King, Anthony D., Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1976.
17. Metcalf, Thomas R., ‘Architecture and the Representation of Empire: India, 1860-1910’, in
18. Representations, No. 6, Spring, 1984, pp. 37-65 .
19. Mills, Sara, Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism, Routledge, 2003.
20. Mitchell, Nora, Indian Hill Station: Kodai Kanal, Chicago, 1972.
21. Pati, Biswamoy and Mark Harrison, ed., The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India, Routledge, 2009.
22. Pradhan , Queeny, Empire in the Hills: Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund and Mount Abu (1820-1920), OUP (India), 2017
23. Prakash, Gyan, After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Post Colonial Displacements, Princeton University Press, 1995.
24. Pratt, Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation, , London: Routledge, 1992
25. Sengupta, Parna, ‘An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy’, in Comparative Study in Society and History, Vol.45, No.1, January 2003, pp.96-121.
26. Skaria, Ajay, Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India, ‘Introduction’, Oxford University Press, 2001.
27. Stoddart, Brian, “Sport, Cultural Imperialism, and Colonial Responses in the British Empire”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 30, No.4, pp.649-673, October 1988.
28. Tilley, Christopher, A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments, Chapter 1,‘Space, Place, Landscape and Perception: Phenomenological Perspective’, Berg/Providence, USA, 1995, pp.7-35.
29. Tillotson, G. H. R., “Indian Architecture and the English Vision”, in David Arnold and Peter Robb, eds., Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1993, pp.120-143.
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BA13, EC1/1, IMAK5A
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==========================================The lecture will look at the advancement of the British Empire in the hills of India in the nineteenth and the twentieth century. As an area of societal and regional study, mountains have been neglected in the past, and an attempt is made to understand the patterns of development in the hills of India beyond the rural-urban and the plain-hill binaries. The lecture will explore spatial histories of these mountain stations, with the focus mainly on the hill stations of Simla, Darjeeling, Ootacamund and Mount Abu (colonial spellings used). There are many more hill stations that come up in this period. There are multiple reasons for their emergence. On explorations, many visions, desires and aspirations of the English settlers come in the foreground. The lecture is situated in the broader area of ‘Empire, Space and Culture’. The discursive imaginations of the Europeans about Indian hills convey that the only monuments on the landscape are the mountains and the imperial gaze of the writer. The people of the land with their history are missing. Were the hill sites places without people and no history? Are these hill stations the European ‘discoveries’? The treaty negotiations and the folk tales reconstruct a parallel history of the hill sites. The lecture will link colonisation, ecological and environmental concerns in the large-scale reorganisation of the mountain spaces.The lecture will introduce different sources that can be used to understand the past, such as the oral histories, folk tales, archival sources, church, school and temple records, personal memoirs and travel accounts, maps, photographs and treaties, and the archival records.