Reading South Asia - Spring 2009
Led by Barbara Metcalf, the eminent scholar and leading authority on the history of South Asian Islam.
The Reading List:
- February 19
R. Sreenivasan, The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, C. 1500-1900 (2007) - March 19
M. Sarkar, Visible Histories Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in late Colonial Bengal (2008) - April 16
S. Roy, Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism (2007) - May 21
V. Zamindar, The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (2007)