Course Synopsis: This course is intended to familiarize graduate students in South Asia studies and allied fields (especially history, as well as art history, anthropology, archeology, comparative literature, sociology, and history of religions) with some of the theoretical debates central to the study of South Asia. Our approach will be both critical and historical, a combination meant to
... [Show full abstract] portray the past of the discipline, as well as engage its recent deliberations. We will explore the fields of philology, comparative philosophy, missionary interaction, Orientalism, social evolution, and structuralism. We will also engage debates within postcolonial studies, subaltern studies, nationalism discourse, historiography, feminism, Marxism, modernity, and representation discourse.
