Week I: Introduction
Sep 2: Introduction to course and participants
Sep 4: Lecture: the rise of British power in India. Discussion: What was the British Raj?

Week II: Building the British Raj
Sep 9: Discussion: Bayly (1-105)
Sep 11: Discussion: Bayly (106-206), Mukherjee

Reading:
C.A. Bayly, Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
Rudrangshu Mukherjee, "Satan Let Loose Upon the Earth: the Kanpur Massacres in India and the Revolt of 1857" in Past and Present, 128 (1990), pp. 92-116

Week III: Power and Knowledge in the British Raj
Sep 16: Discussion: Cohn (3-75)
Sep 18: Discussion: Cohn (76-162), Trevelyan

Reading:
Bernard Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge
George O. Trevelyan, "An Indian Railway" in The Competition Wallah (1864)

Week IV: The Ideological Formation of the British Raj
Sep 23: Discussion: Metcalf (1-112)
Sep 25: Discussion: Metcalf (113-234)

Reading:
Thomas Metcalf, Ideologies of the Raj

Week V: Architects, Laureates, and Critics of "High Imperialism"
Sep 30: Discussion
Oct 2: Discussion

Reading:
Benjamin Disraeli, "The Maintenance of Empire" (1872)
Joseph Chamberlain, "The True Conception of Empire" (1897)
Rudyard Kipling, "Gunga Din," (1891) "The White Man's Burden" (1898)
Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Hands All Round," (1885) "Opening of the Indian Exhibition" (1886)
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj (1909)

Week VI: Fault Lines of the Raj
Oct 7: Discussion: Forster
Oct 9: FALL BREAK

Reading:
E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

Week VII: Exit, Partition, and Postcolonial Perspectives
Oct 14: Discussion: Nandy
Oct 16: Discussion: Attlee, Churchill, Nehru

Reading:
Ashis Nandy, "The uncolonized mind: a postcolonial view of India and the West" (in The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self under Colonialism)
Clement Attlee, "The End of British Rule in India" (1947)
Winston Churchill, "A Protest Against Britain's 'Shameful Flight' from India" (1947)
Jawaharlal Nehru, "The Appointed Day" (1947) and "A Tryst with Destiny" (1947) [Audio: BBC Radio Archive]

Images:
BBC Photo Archive, Photographs of the partition of India and Pakistan (1947)

Video and Audio:
BBC Film Archive, Lord Mountbatten reads address by King George VI on Indian independence (1947)
BBC Radio Archive, Muhammad Ali Jinnah's address on Pakistan's independence (1947)

THESIS PROPOSAL AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE OCT 16

Week VIII:
Oct 21: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic
Oct 23: Individual meetings during class period to discuss topic

Week IX:
Oct 28: No class meeting, individual research
Oct 30: No class meeting, individual research

DETAILED THESIS OUTLINE DUE OCT 30

Week X:
Nov 4: Presentation of primary sources
Nov 6: No class meeting, individual research

Week XI:
Nov 11: No class meeting, individual research
Nov 13: Meeting to distribute papers drafts for peer review

THESIS DRAFT DUE IN CLASS NOV 13

Week XII:
Nov 18: Peer review of drafts
Nov 20: Peer review of drafts

Week XIII:
Nov 25: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor to discuss peer review)
Nov 27: THANKSGIVING

Week XIV:
Dec 2: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)
Dec 4: No class meeting (optional meeting with instructor)

Week XV:
Dec 9: Final discussion

FINAL THESIS DUE BY 5PM MONDAY DEC 15