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Orientation – The Tourist
Jamaica Kincaid's short and sharp essay, "The Tourist", uses powerful and accusatory language to make a point about tourists from privileged continents visiting the global south. Pointedly addressing the tourist and contrasting the tourist to the 'native', Kincaid writes, "Every native would like to find a way out, every native would like a rest, every native would like a tour. ...
ENV 240 – Indian Environment and Ecology
“Separating the Assam valley from the plains of Bangladesh, hilly Meghalaya – the ‘abode of clouds’ – is a cool, pine-fresh mountain state set on dramatic horseshoes of rocky cliffs. Cherrapunjee and Mawsynram are statistically amongst the wettest places on earth; most of the rain falls between June and September, creating very impressive waterfalls and carving out some of ...
HIS 379 Islam in South Asia
Muslims in South Asia constitute the largest population of Muslims worldwide. This is a course on the history of Muslim communities and Islamic institutions in South Asia. Its aim is to introduce students to the broad historical currents of the expansion of Islam in the Indian subcontinent, the nature of Muslim political authority, the interaction between religious communities ...
SOU 310 India Past and Present
This course will use a combined chronological and thematic approach, against a historical canvas that engages such diverse issues as political economy, conquest, resistance, state formation, economic exploitation, national liberation, gender, and identity politics. Beginning with the Mughal empire, we will turn our attention to the eighteenth century during the transition ...
