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Nation and Narration

Prof. Sreenath V.S and Prof. Anandita Pan · IIT Madras,IIT Hyderabad

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. An Overview of the Lectures--Week 1 YouTube
  2. Origins of the Nation: Western Foundations and Influences YouTube
  3. Print Capitalism and the Making of Nation States YouTube
  4. Nation, Nationalism, and Modernity: Their Journey to the Colonies YouTube
  5. The Civilizing Mission: Justifying Empire through European Values YouTube
  6. Orientalism in Practice: Reading Kipling’s The Mark of the Beast YouTube
  7. Gods, Power, and Representation: Orientalism in The Mark of the Beast YouTube
  8. Understanding Modernity: Ideas and Origins in the European Context YouTube
  9. Civilizing Mission and Colonial Mimicry in Khushwant Singh’s Karma YouTube
  10. From Western to Alternative Modernity: Nationalist Reimaginings of the Modern YouTube

Week 2

  1. An Overview of the Lectures-Week 2 YouTube
  2. Negotiating Modernity: Tradition and the Public-Private Divide in Colonial India YouTube
  3. Colonial Encounters with Classical Knowledge: Power, Authority, and Interpretation YouTube
  4. Women and Reform: Empowerment or Patriarchal Continuity? YouTube
  5. The Colonial Prison: Punishment, Power, and Institutional Transformation YouTube
  6. Colonial Time and the Advent of Punctuality YouTube

Week 3

  1. An Overview of the Lectures--Week 3 YouTube
  2. Forging an Alternative Modernity: Reform and Cultural Synthesis YouTube
  3. The Bhadramahila and the Nation: Gender, Reform, and Representation YouTube
  4. Bhadramahila on Screen: Gender, Nation, and Modernity in Ghare Baire YouTube
  5. Textile Prison: Shame, Femininity, and the Bhadramahila in Colonial Bengal YouTube
  6. Modernity and the Remaking of the Domestic Sphere YouTube

Week 4

  1. An Overview of the Lectures--Week 1 YouTube
  2. The Social History of the Sari: Sartorial Politics in Colonial Bengal YouTube
  3. Colonial Modernity and the Transformation of Friendship: Reading Sibnath Sastry’s Autobiography YouTube
  4. Colonialism and the Birth of the Indian Novel YouTube
  5. The Paradox of Restoration: Nationalism and the Colonial Presence YouTube
  6. Nationalism and the “Good” Empire: Reading Lagaan and the Legacy of Colonial Administration YouTube

Week 5

  1. The Anglicist–Orientalist Debate: A Shared Justification for Empire YouTube
  2. Vande Mataram and the Making of Mother India YouTube
  3. Language as Mother: Tamil, Nationalism, and Emotional Belonging YouTube
  4. Secularism and the Nation: Religion, Reform, and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial India YouTube
  5. Secularism and the Postcolonial Indian State: Reform, Religion, and "Principled Distance" YouTube

Week 6

  1. Caste and the Making of Nation YouTube
  2. Subaltern Studies and Methods of Historiography YouTube
  3. Dalit Politics and Dalit Historiography YouTube
  4. Anti-Caste Movements and Jotirao Phule YouTube
  5. Anti-Caste Movements and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar YouTube
  6. Anti-Caste Movements and E.V.R. Periyar YouTube
  7. Caste in Bengal YouTube

Week 7

  1. Women and Nation YouTube
  2. Women's Autobiographies and Identity Formation YouTube
  3. Women's Writing as Representation YouTube
  4. Women in Politics YouTube
  5. Women in Ambedkarite Movements YouTube
  6. Women in Periyar's Self Respect Movement YouTube

Week 8

  1. Nation and Popular Culture YouTube
  2. Nation and Representation YouTube
  3. Nation and Queer Desire YouTube
  4. Emergence of Publishing Houses YouTube

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras,IIT Hyderabad
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Taught by
Prof. Sreenath V.S, Prof. Anandita Pan
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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