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[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]
This course will engage with the ideas on India articulated by the leading figures of modern India – M.K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, B.R. Ambedkar, V.D. Savarkar, M.S. Golwalkar, S.A. Dange, M.N. Roy among other thinkers and in the process deal with the theme of history, culture, religion, caste and class in the imaginary of nation. Focusing on the key texts (stated below) of these thinkers and interpretative secondary readings on them, the course will attempt to understand the durability of their thought and the legacy it has created in contemporary India as indeed the heterogeneous and contested imaginary of nation.
- M. K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj.
- Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India.
- B. R. Ambedkar, Castes in India, Annihilation of Caste and Philosophy of Hinduism.
- V. D. Savarkar, Hindutva: Who is a Hindu?
- M. S. Golwalkar, Bunch of Thoughts, We, or Our Nationhood Defined.
- S. A.Dange, India from Primitive Communism to Slavery.
- M. N. Roy, India in Transition and other writings.
- Anthony J. Parel, Gandhi: ‘Hind Swaraj’ and Other Writings, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- C. A. Bayly, Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Christophe Jaffrelot, The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics 1925 to the 1990s, Penguin Books, 1999.
- Christopher Jaffrelot, Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analyzing and Fighting Caste, Columbia University Press, 2005.
- Kris Manjapra, M. N. Roy: Marxism and Colonial Cosmopolitanism, Routledge India, 2010.
- Martha C. Nussbaum, The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future, Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Ramachandra Guha, Makers of Modern India, Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Talking Back: The Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse, Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Sunil Khilnani, The Idea of India, Penguin Books, 2004.
