Lecture 1 of 50Week 1
An Overview of the Lectures--Week 1
Prof. Sreenath V.S and Prof. Anandita Pan · IIT Madras,IIT Hyderabad
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All the lectures
- An Overview of the Lectures--Week 1
- Origins of the Nation: Western Foundations and Influences
- Print Capitalism and the Making of Nation States
- Nation, Nationalism, and Modernity: Their Journey to the Colonies
- The Civilizing Mission: Justifying Empire through European Values
- Orientalism in Practice: Reading Kipling’s The Mark of the Beast
- Gods, Power, and Representation: Orientalism in The Mark of the Beast
- Understanding Modernity: Ideas and Origins in the European Context
- Civilizing Mission and Colonial Mimicry in Khushwant Singh’s Karma
- From Western to Alternative Modernity: Nationalist Reimaginings of the Modern
- An Overview of the Lectures-Week 2
- Negotiating Modernity: Tradition and the Public-Private Divide in Colonial India
- Colonial Encounters with Classical Knowledge: Power, Authority, and Interpretation
- Women and Reform: Empowerment or Patriarchal Continuity?
- The Colonial Prison: Punishment, Power, and Institutional Transformation
- Colonial Time and the Advent of Punctuality
- An Overview of the Lectures--Week 3
- Forging an Alternative Modernity: Reform and Cultural Synthesis
- The Bhadramahila and the Nation: Gender, Reform, and Representation
- Bhadramahila on Screen: Gender, Nation, and Modernity in Ghare Baire
- Textile Prison: Shame, Femininity, and the Bhadramahila in Colonial Bengal
- Modernity and the Remaking of the Domestic Sphere
- An Overview of the Lectures--Week 1
- The Social History of the Sari: Sartorial Politics in Colonial Bengal
- Colonial Modernity and the Transformation of Friendship: Reading Sibnath Sastry’s Autobiography
- Colonialism and the Birth of the Indian Novel
- The Paradox of Restoration: Nationalism and the Colonial Presence
- Nationalism and the “Good” Empire: Reading Lagaan and the Legacy of Colonial Administration
- The Anglicist–Orientalist Debate: A Shared Justification for Empire
- Vande Mataram and the Making of Mother India
- Language as Mother: Tamil, Nationalism, and Emotional Belonging
- Secularism and the Nation: Religion, Reform, and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial India
- Secularism and the Postcolonial Indian State: Reform, Religion, and "Principled Distance"
- Caste and the Making of Nation
- Subaltern Studies and Methods of Historiography
- Dalit Politics and Dalit Historiography
- Anti-Caste Movements and Jotirao Phule
- Anti-Caste Movements and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
- Anti-Caste Movements and E.V.R. Periyar
- Caste in Bengal
- Women and Nation
- Women's Autobiographies and Identity Formation
- Women's Writing as Representation
- Women in Politics
- Women in Ambedkarite Movements
- Women in Periyar's Self Respect Movement
- Nation and Popular Culture
- Nation and Representation
- Nation and Queer Desire
- Emergence of Publishing Houses