CULTURAL STUDIES Course Outline of Semester System

Date_21 Sep 2010_ to _7 Jan 2011_ Course Code Year/Semester Name of Course Credit Hours Pre Requisites Category Aim and Objective CS 390 Course Instructor Kyla Pasha Fall 2010 E-Mail kylapasha@gmail.com CS Practicum in History: Readings in South Asian History 4 CS 200 History of Ideas or consent of the instructor Introductory ___ Intermediate ___ Research ___ Practicum __ Advanced ___ Other ___ To submerge the student in key topics of South Asian history while teaching historical method through a semester-long research project and a class-wide archiving project in Lahore city. By the end of the course, the student will be trained in historical method and well-versed in aspects of South Asian history. 21/9/10 Tu Introduction to the course: class discussion of versions of history 23/9/10 Th Sources of historical information, primary and secondary. Introduction to the semester-long research projects. Week 2 Unheard Histories 28/9/20 Tu Venkatachalapathy, A.R. Introduction: History, Literature, Language. In Those Days There Was No Coffee. New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2006. pp. 1-8 30/9/10 Th Eaton, Richard Maxwell. Introduction. Chatterjee, Indrani & Richard Maxwell Eaton Eds. Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. pp. 1-16 (Also on EBRARY) 5/10/10 Tu Ludden, David. Introduction. Agrarian History of South Asia. Port Chester, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1999. pp. 1-5 (Also on EBRARY) 7/10/10 Th
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Week 3 Alternative Perspectives

Ludden. Territory. Agrarian History. pp. 60-112 (Also on EBRARY) Week 4 Fact vs. Narrative 12/10/10 Tu Thapar, Romila. The Context. Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2004. pp. 1-17 Thapar. The Setting. Somanatha. pp. 18-37 14/10/10 Th Thapar. The Turko-Persian Narratives. Somanatha. pp.3876 PRACTICUM Week 5 Fact vs. Narrative SITE REPORT 1 16/10/10 Sa First Practicum Trip to Model Town Graveyard BRING: Digital Cameras, Notebooks, Pens and Pencils!! 19/10/10 Tu Thapar. Sanskrit Inscriptions from Somanatha and its Vicinity, and Biographies, Chronicles and Epics. Somanatha. pp. 76-145. 20/10/10 W 11:56 PM via email 1st Site Report Due: Reflection on findings at Model Town Graveyard. Limit : 500 words, typed, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt font. 21/10/10 Th Thapar. The Perceptions of Yet Others, and Colonial Interpretations and Nationalist Reactions. Somanatha. pp. 146-201 26/10/10 Tu Thapar. Constructing Memory, Writing Histories. Somanatha. pp. 202-233 Grewal, J. S. Historical Geography of the Punjab. Journal of Punjab Studies. 2:1 (Spring 2004). pp. 1-18 28/10/10 Th Ali, Imran. Colonisation. The Punjab Under Imperialism, 1885-1947. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. pp. 8-61 30/10/10 Sa Second Practicum Trip to Model Town Graveyard 1/11/10 M 2nd Site Report Due: Collated and transcribed findings from Model Town Graveyard.

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Colonial Punjab PRACTICUM Week 7 SITE REPORT

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2 2/11/10 Tu Talbot, Ian A. The Punjab under Colonialism: Order and Transformation in British India. Journal of Punjab Studies. 14:1 (Spring 2007) pp. 3-11 Gilmartin, David. Introduction. Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan. London: I.B. Tauris, 1988. pp. 1-9 _____. The British Imperial State. Empire and Islam. pp. 1038 4/11/10 Th Mir, Farina. Imperial Policy, Provincial Practices: Colonial Language Policy in Nineteenth-century India. Indian Economic and Social History Review. 43:4 (2006). pp. 395-427 Kamran, Tahir. Punjab, Punjabi and Urdu, the Question of Displaced Identity: A Historical Appraisal. Journal of Punjabi Studies. 14:1 (Spring 2007) pp. 11-39 9/11/10 Tu Iqbal Day holiday 10/11/10 W Mid-term Paper due via email to the entire class by 11:59 PM. 11/11/10 Th In-class presentation & conference of mid-term research 16/11/10 Tu Glover, William. An Urban Palimpsest: The Precolonial Development of Lahore. Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City. 2007. pp. 125 _____. A Colonial Spatial Imagination: British Knowledge of the City and Its Environs. Making Lahore Modern. pp. 2758 18/11/10 Th Eid Holidays 23/11/10 Tu Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali. The Place of Partition and Muslim Exodus from Delhi. The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. pp. 1-44

Colonial Punjab

Urdu and Punjabi

Week 8 Iqbal Day MID-TERM PAPER DUE PRESENATATI ON Week 9 Lahore

Eid Holidays Week 10 Partition and People

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25/11/10 Th Zamindar. Hindu Exodus from Karachi Refugees, Boundaries, Citizens. The Long Partition. pp. 45-119 30/11/10 Tu Zamindar. Economies of Displacement. The Long Partition. pp. 119-160 2/12/10 Th Zamindar. Passports and Boundaries. and The Phantasm of Passports. The Long Partition. pp. 161-228

PRACTICUM Week 12

4/12/10 Sat Third Practicum Trip: Model Town Graveyard 7/12/10 Tu Zamindar. Moving Boundaries. The Long Partition. pp. 229240 9/12/10 Th Banerjee, Mukulika. Partition and the North West Frontier: Memories of Some Khudai Khidmatgars. The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India. Ed. Suvir Kaul. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001. pp. 30-73 14/12/10 Tu Murphy, Richard McGill. Performing Partition in Lahore. The Partitions of Memory. pp. 183-207 16/12/10 Th Class Discussion: Archiving Project Assessment 21/12/10 Tu Presentation: Individual findings from the Archiving Practicum 23/12/10 Th In-class archiving processing and collation

Week 13

PRACTICUM Week 14 PRESENATATI ON

Weeks 15 & 16 FINAL PAPER DUE Teaching Strategy

Archive finalization 7/1/11 Fri Final Paper Due ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ Lecture Discussion Seminar Field Research Presentation Conferencing

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Assessment First Second Mid-term Final Total 100%

Class Participati on

Quiz 5%

Site Repo rt 5% 10%

Presentati on

Paper

10% 10% 10% 30% 10%

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