HIST 313 Modern India

The history of South Asia from the reign of Akbar to the late twentieth century.  Main topics will be the Mughal Empire, the process of British conquest, the development of colonial policy and imperial ideology, the various forms of Indian reaction and resistance, the independence movement, and the history of independent India and Pakistan through the 1990s.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

HIST 108 or permission of the instructor.