HISTORY II COURSE OUTLINE July Sep 2013 Aim: To study the Colonial period in the Indian Subcontinent and

d the developments in Post Independent India Objectives: To understand the economic, socio-legal and political developments in post independent India, particularly to be able to appreciate the legal and judicial developments and identity formation. Perspective: Materialist Conception of History including use of the Subaltern Perspective for understanding the peoples movements in particular 1. The Schools of India Historiography Imperialist, Nationalist, Marxist and Subaltern (Introduction from Bipan Chandra et.al. Indias Struggle for Independence, Partha Chatterjee, A Brief History of Subaltern Studies, Dr. B. Surendra Rao, Perceptions of Indias Struggle for Freedom: A Historiographical Overview) 2. The Three Stages of Colonialism (Bipan Chandra, Colonialism, Stages of Colonialism and the Colonial State 3. Impact of Colonialism: (a) Economy - Transformation of Agriculture and Industry (A.R. Desai, Social Background of Indian Nationalism)(b) Law (i) Development of Personal Law (Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Barristers and Brahmans in India: Legal Cultures and Social Change in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 8, No. 1 Oct 1965, , Alen Gledhill, The Influence of Common Law and Equity on Hindu Law Since 1800 in Intnl and Com Law Quarterly, Vol 8 Oct 1954, J. Duncan M. Derrett, The Administration of Hindu Law by the British in CSSH Vol. 4,No.1 Nov. 1961), Michael R. Anderson, Islamic Law and the Colonial Encounter in British India in David Arnold & Peter Robbs, (EDS) Institutions and Ideologies] (ii) Codification of Laws with special reference to criminal law [Elizabeth Kolsky, Codification and the Rule of Colonial Difference: Criminal Procedure in British India in Law and History Review, Fall 2005 David Skuy, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code of 1862: The Myth of the Inherent Superiority and Modernity of the English Legal System Compared to Indias Legal System in the 19th Century, MAS 32, 3 (1998)] (iii) Regulation of forests and tribal communities & of public spaces - Mahesh Rangarajan, Imperial agendas and Indias forests: The early history of Indian forestry, 1800-1878 The Indian Economic and Social History Review, 31, 2 (1994), K.N. Ganesh, European Perceptions of Kerala Landscape from Barbosa to Buchanan & Kesavan Veluthat, Logans Malabar: Text and Context from P.P. Sudhakaran, Advances in History , Pradip Prabhu, Pre-Independence Forest Legislations and the Tribals, & Post-Independence Forest Legislations and Forest Dwellers, Michael R. Anderson, Public Nuisance and Private Purpose: Policed Environments in British India, 1860-1947 (SOAS Law Department working papers) (iv) changes in identity of self and communities [Amrita Shodan, A Question of Community: Religious Groups and Colonial Law, Lloyd I. Mattison Mines, Courts of Law and Styles of Self In Eighteenth Century Madras: From Hybrid to Colonial Self in Modern Asian Studies 35, 1 (2001)] (v) Introduction of English law and principles and judicial institutions the courts, the legal profession [ David Washbrook, Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India in Foundations of Law in Colonialism and Capitalism, Bernard Cohn, Some Notes on Law and Change in North India, in An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays,. (iv) erosion of customary law

 case law from early 20th century, Prem Chowdhry, Customs in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana, in Kumkum Sangari & Sudesh Vaid (eds) Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History) Lucy Carroll, Law, Custom, and statutory social reform: the Hindu Widows Remarriage Actof 1856in the Indian Economic and Social History Review, 20, 4 (1983) (c) Society (i) emergence of a middle class ( A.R. Desai, Ronen Shamir and Daphna Hacker, Colonialisms Civilizing Mission: The case of the Indian Hemp Drug Commission in 26 Law and Society Inquiry, 435, 2001 (ii) impact on womens lives (Lata Mani, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India, Rosalind OHanlon, Issues of Widowhood: Gender and Resistance in Colonial Western India in Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash (eds) Contesting Power: Resistance & Everyday social Relations in South Asia, Veena Talwar Oldenburg, " Lifestyle as resistance: The case of the courtesans of Lucknow, India in Feminist Studies Vol. 16 (1990), Antoinetter Burton, Colonial Encounters in Late-Victorian England: Pandita Ramabai at Cheltenham and Wantage 1883-6in Feminist Review No. 49, Spring 1995, Sumit Sarkar, chapter V National and Stri-Swadhinatain his Beyond Nationalist Frames (ii) The Devadasi system *Kunal M. Parker, A Corporation of Superior Prostitutes Anglo-Indian Legal Conceptions of Temple Dancing Girls, 1800-1914 in MAS32, 3 (1998)] 4. Responses to Colonialism : (a) Peasant & Tribal movements (Ranajit Guha, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency, Sumit Sarkar,Popular Movements & Middle ClassLeadership in Late Colonial India: Perspectives & Problems of History from Below , Eric Stokes, The Peasant and the Raj: Studies in agrarian society and peasant rebellion in colonial India) (b) Middle Classes (i)Socio-religious reform movements (Sumit Sarkar, Writing Social History,) (ii) The Indian National Movement (Shahid Amin, Approvers Testimony, Judicial Discourse: The Case of Chauri Chaura in Subaltern Studies V, Sudipta Kaviraj, The Imaginary Institution of India, Subaltern Studies VII, Irfan Habib, The formation of India Notes on the History of an Idea in Social Scientist, Vol. 25, Nos. 7-8, July-August 1997) (iii) Communalism - Sumit Sarkar, Indian Nationalism and the Politics of Hindutva (Iv) Revolutionary Actions and other lesser known aspects of Indian NationalismBipan Chandra, The Ideological Development of the Revolutionary Terrorists in Northern India in the 1920s, Hindi as the National Language of the Hindus in Vadudha Dalmia, Nationalisation of Hindu Tradition, (c) Marginalised communities - Self Respect and Temple Entry Movements, Conversions ( V. Geetha, Does God Need Such a Big Place? The SelfRespect Movement as an instance of Urban Atheism 5. Post- Independence India : (i) Communalism, Secularism and the Politics of Conversion (ii) The Secessionist Movements Kashmir, Khalistan, Naga movements (iii) Official Language Controversy and National Languages of India (iv) Some Peoples Movements JP Movement, Chipko Movement