Language, Identity, and Nation in South Asia: Suggested Readings Gwendolyn S. Kirk and Umar Anjum This (extremely incomplete) list will point you towards key works connected with the topics from today’s seminar. However, there are so many more excellent resources, many articles, literary works, and other things that we haven’t included. We also realize this list is heavily focused on North India, Pakistan, and and doesn’t include literature on other areas of South Asia. If you are looking for more suggestions, or for something specific, please don’t hesitate to be in touch with us and we will do our best to help you!

Part 1: Colonization and Anti-Colonial Movements Scholarly Books: • Partha Chatterjee, Empire and Nation • Bernard Cohn, Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge • Ranajit Guha, Dominance without Hegemony • Walter Hakala, Negotiating Languages • Christopher King, One Language, Two Scripts • Farina Mir, The Social Space of Language Novels: • Ali Ahmad, Twilight in Delhi • Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy) • Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World Films: • Junoon (Shyam Benegal, 1978) • Ghare Baire (Satyajit Ray, 1984) • Lagaan (Ashutosh Gowarikar, 2001) Web Resources: • SOAS History Resources: The British Empire • UK National Archive Resources on Empire • British Library India Office Records

Part 2: Independence and Partition Scholarly Books: • Shahid Amin, Event, Metaphor, Memory • Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India Wins Freedom • Sikandar Hayat, The Charismatic Leader • Gyanendra Pandey, Remembering Partition • Vazira Zamindar, The Long Partition Novels: • Qurratulain Hyder, River of Fire • Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children • Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice Candy Man Films: • 1947 Earth (Deepa Mehta, 1999) • Train to Pakistan (Pamela Rooks, 1998) • Pinjar (Chadraprakash Dwivedi, 2003) Web Resources: • 1947 Partition Archive • UT Austin: Partition in the Classroom • Nerve Center: Partition and Conflict

Part 3: 1971 War Scholarly Books: • Nayanika Mookherjee, The Spectral Wound • Yasmin Saikia, Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh • Willem Schendel, A History of Bangladesh Novels: • Tahmina Anam, A Golden Age • Naemat Imam, The Black Coat • Tasleema Nasreen, Shame Films: • Matir Moina (Tareque Masood, 2003) • The Poison Thorn (Farzana Boby, 2015) • The Promised Land (Tanveer Mokammal, 2007) • (Munsur Ali, 2014) Web Resources: • Bangladesh Genocide Archive • US Dept. of State, South Asia Crisis, 1971

Part 4: Nationalism and Populism Today Scholarly Books: • Thomas Blom Hansen, Majoritarian State • Gyanendra Pandey, A History of Prejudice • Raza Rumi, Identity, Faith, and Conflict • Saadia Toor, State of • Shahid Siddiqui, Language, Gender, and Power in South Asia • Tariq Rahman, From Hindi to Novels: • Arvind Adiga, The White Tiger • Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist • Muhammad Hanif, A Case of Exploding Mangoes • Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Films: • Bombay (Mani Ratnam, 1995) • English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde, 2012) • Hindi Medium (Saket Chaudhury, 2017) • Khamosh Pani (Sabiha Sumar, 2004) • Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (Aparna Sen, 2002) • PK (Rajkumar Hirani, 2014) • The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mira Nair, 2013)