Week IX: The End of Empire and the Transfer of Power
Mar 14: India's war at home and abroad, 1939-1945
Mar 16: A bloody birth: Independence and Partition
---------- Film: Earth, 7-9 pm, Bodine 300
Mar 18: Discussion
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Reading:
Hay, 195-242, 304-315
Jalal, 1-9
Metcalf, 203-230
Ian Talbot, "A Tale of Two Cities: The Aftermath of Partition for Lahore and Amritsar" in Modern Asian Studies (41:1) 2007
Documents:
Subhas Chandra Bose, Plan for cooperation between the Axis powers and India (1941)
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Brief for the Führer on "British India" (1941)
US State Department, Orders to American Forces in India (1942)
Clement Attlee, "The end of British rule in India" (1947)
Winston Churchill, "Britain's shameful flight from India" (1947)
Jawaharlal Nehru, "A tryst with destiny" (1947) [Audio: BBC Radio Archive]
Images:
Quartz India/National Army Museum, Japanese Anti-British propaganda (1942-1945)
BBC Photo Archive, Photographs of the partition of India and Pakistan (1947)
Video:
BBC Film Archive, Lord Mountbatten reads address by King George VI on Indian independence (1947)
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RESPONSE PAPER #3 DUE MAR 18
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