HIS 2068 HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA
This course surveys the social and political history of the Indian subcontinent from the end of the 18th-century to c. 1995. Itexamines the evolution of Indian nationalism and the Indian nation-state, beginning with the rise of British imperial dominance in southern Asia in the 18th -century and concluding with the economic, political, and social pressures on the subcontinent 150 regional and national as well as international 150 after independence and partition in 1947. It looks at the political, social, and religious developments in the nations of present-day South Asia and their impact on the world. No prior background of the region is required.