HIST 3841 India
Introduces students to the historical dynamics/continuities of India as expressed in her artistic and religious values manifested by the caste system, Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and will explore how India responded to the Western presence of the “British Raj,†both political and technical, by transforming these values into nationalistic philosophies, visions, symbols for action exemplified by the lives of Ghandi-Ji, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Ghandi as a way first to gain Indian Independence and second to lay the basis for the emerging technological giant of the twenty-first century.