Module POC3105 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POC3105: Negotiating Postcoloniality: History and Politics of Independent India
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- ‘The Imaginary Institution of India’: Whose history and by whom?
- ‘Tryst with destiny’: Independence and Partition
- ‘The Unnatural Nation’: Constructing postcolonial India
- The Indian Model: Contextualising democracy and secularism
- ‘Gandhiji, I have no homeland’: Understanding caste and inequality
- ‘The Violence of Normal Times’: Gender and Minorities
- ‘Everybody Loves a Good Drought’: Development and endangered livelihoods
- Contesting the State: Terror and counter-terror
- ‘Self-fashioning and worlding’: India and the World
- Diaspora, Cinema and Cricket
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 48 | Seminar preparation through directed reading. |
| Guided Independent Study | 10 | Preparation for essay |
| Guided independent study | 48 | Preparation for term paper |
| Guided independent study | 22 | Seminar presentation preparation. |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Suggested Films
Khamosh Pani. directed by Sabiha Sumar. (2004).
Parzania. directed by Rahul Dholakia. (2007).
Nero’s Guests. directed by Deepa Bhatia (2009).
Kashmir’s Torture Trail. UK Channel 4 Documentary (2012).
Lagaan. directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar. (2001).
