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Islam in South Asia: 1707-Present—Fall 2012 Islam in South Asia: 1707-Present—Fall 2012 Course Code: ISLA 421 Hours: TR 10:05am-11:25am Classroom: 1085 Dr. Penfield Rm. 002 Instructor: Prof. Pasha M. Khan [email protected] Office: Morrice Hall Rm. 312 (514) 398-4400 ext. 09863 Office Hour: T 2:30pm-3:30pm or by appointment This seminar-style course will present students with a survey of the political, cultural, and linguistic history of South Asia from the death of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb to the present, with a particular focus on the Muslims of South Asia and their influence. Special attention will be given to the perception of the eighteenth century as a period of decadence and decline; the history of poetry, visual art, and music; Islamic religious movements; the relationship of Islam to other thought systems; gender; and minority politics. Required Texts: Metcalf, Barbara. A Concise History of Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2006. Pritchett, Frances. Nets of Awareness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Jalal, Ayesha. Self and Sovereignty. New York: Routledge, 2000. All of these texts are available at the McGill Bookstore (3420 McTavish Street). All other readings (listed in the course schedule) will be made available to you via MyCourses. If you do NOT have access to the MyCourses page for this class, please notify me A.S.A.P.! Note as well that the list of readings is tentative, and texts may be added or subtracted according to the needs of the course as it develops. Please pay attention to announcements in class and to class emails. It is highly recommended that you also buy the following text in addition to the required texts listed above: Talbot, Ian. Pakistan: A Modern History. London: C. Hurst, 2009 Grading Scheme: Class Participation 30% Participation in class discussions makes up a significant portion of your grade. Please come to class and engage in the discussion! Comments on 10% Students should post their brief thoughts (no more MyCourses Forums than a paragraph) biweekly on the forum that is to be made available on the MyCourses page for the site. They should be posted by 11pm the night before class. These will form much of the basis of the class discussion. Minor Research Paper 10% 5-7 pages, due Oct. 18 Major Research Paper 30% 20-30 pages, due Dec. 4 Presentation 20% Nov. 13-Nov. 29 In your presentation, you will “teach” a half-hour lesson on a topic to be chosen from the course topics for the modern period. A script or bullet-point notes for the presentation must be handed at the beginning of the class following the presentation. Class Schedule: Week 1 *EIGHTEENTH CENTURY* Sept. 6 INTRODUCTION Readings (in class): "Islamicate" in Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The Venture of Islam. Week 2 Sept. 11 The Eighteenth Century: An Era of Decline? Readings: Metcalf 28-44 Sarkar, Jadunath. “Condition of the People” in History of Aurangzib. Vol. 5. Bombay: Orient Longman, 1973. Perlin, Frank. “The Problem of the Eighteenth Century” in The Eighteenth Century in Indian History. Recommended: Alam, Muzaffar. Introduction to Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India. Delhi: OUP, 1986. Sept. 13 SHAH WALIULLAH Guest lecturer: Asif Iftikhar Readings TBA Week 3 Sept. 18 VAISHNAVISM AND ISLAM Readings: Flood, Gavin. An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1996. Ch. 6 Busch, Allison. Poetry of Kings: The Classical Hindi Literature of Mughal India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. (Selections) Raslīn, Ġhulām Nabī. “Ras-prabodh” in The Hindi Classical Tradition: A Braj Bhāṣā Reader. By Rupert Snell. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1991. Sept. 20 TURMOIL IN DELHI, FLORESCENCE IN AWADH Readings: Cheema, G.S. The Forgotten Mughals. Delhi: Manohar, 2002. (Selections) Irvine, William, and Jadunath Sarkar. in Later Mughals. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1971. Ch. 13: “Nadir Shah in Delhi” Saudā, Mirzā Muḥammad Rafī‘. Poems in The Golden Tradition: An Anthology of Urdu Poetry. By Ahmed Ali. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. Mīr, Mīr Muḥammad Taqī. Poems in The Golden Tradition: An Anthology of Urdu Poetry . By Ahmed Ali. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. Week 4 Sept. 25 LIBRARY SESSION Sept. 27 PASHTUNS, PUNJAB, AND SUFISM Readings: Gannon, Kathy. “Pashtuns key to region’s past, future.” The Seattle Times, August 19, 2009. sec. Politics and Government. Sarkar, Jadunath. Fall of the Mughal Empire. Calcutta: M.C. Sarkar, 1942-52. (Selections) Hujweri, ‘Ali Usman. Kashf ul-Mahjub. Trans. R.A. Nicholson. London: Luzac, 1936. (Selections) Rizwi, Abbas. A History of Sufism in India. Vol. 2. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1983. (Selections) Bullhe Shah. “Bullha, who knows who I am?” Week 5 *NINETEENTH CENTURY* Oct. 2 THE BRITISH IN INDIA Readings: Metcalf 44-68 Bose, Sugata and Ayesha Jalal. Modern South Asia. New York: Routledge, 2004. (Selections) Oct. 4 FORT WILLIAM AND BRITISH ATTITUDES TO INDIA Readings: Metcalf 80-83 Faruqi, Shamsur Rahman. Chapter 1: “History, Faith, Politics—Origin Myths of Urdu and Hindi” in Early Urdu Literary Culture and History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Kidwai, Sadiqur Rahman. Chapter 1.2: “Fort William College” in Gilchrist and the ’Language of Hindoostan’. New Delhi: Rachna Prakashan, 1972. Week 6 Oct. 9 PERFORMING GENDER IN LITERARY WORKS Readings: Naim, C. M. “Homosexual (Pederastic) Love in Pre-Modern Urdu Poetry” in Urdu Texts and Contexts. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004. Petievich, Carla. “Doganas and Zanakhis: The Invention and Subsequent Erasure of Urdu Poetry’s ‘Lesbian’ Voice” in Queering India. Ed. Ruth Vanita. New York: Routledge, 2002. Dakkani ghazals and Reḳhtī poems in When Men Speak as Women: Vocal Masquerade in Indo-Muslim Poetry. Trans. Carla Petievich. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. Oct. 11 SYED AHMAD BARELWI Guest lecturer: Asif Iftikhar Readings TBA Week 7 Oct. 16 RANJIT SINGH AND THE SIKHS Readings: Metcalf 83-85 Khullar, K. K. 1980. Maharaja Ranjit Singh. New Delhi: Hem Publishers. (Selections) Hasrat, Bikrama Jit. 1977. Life and Times of Ranjit Singh. Hoshiarpur: V. V. Research Institute Book Agency. (Selections) Oct. 18 WAJID ALI SHAH AND “DECADENCE,” GHALIB AND HIS TIMES Minor Research Paper DUE Readings: Pritchett Ch. 1 Sharar, Abdul Halim. “"Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture” in Lucknow Omnibus. New York: OUP, 2001. (Selections) Pati, Biswamoy. The 1857 Rebellion. New Delhi: OUP, 2007. Ch. 2 Week 8 Oct. 23 THE 1857 REBELLION Readings: Metcalf 92-123 Pritchett Ch. 2-3 Sayyid Ahmad Khan. The Causes of the Indian Revolt. Oct. 25 CHANGING WORLDVIEWS Readings: Pritchett 11-12 Nazir Ahmad. The Repentance of Nussooh. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004. (Selections) Week 9 Oct. 30 WOMEN’S EDUCATION; COURTESAN CULTURE Readings: Oldenburg, Veena Talwar. 1990. “Lifestyle as Resistance: The Case of the Courtesans of Lucknow, India.” Feminist Studies 16 (2): 259–287. Ashraf ‘Ali Thanwi. Perfecting Women. Trans. Barbara Metcalf. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. (Selections) Rokeya Sakhawat Hosein. “Sultana’s Dream.” Nov. 1 RELIGIOUS REFORM; DEOBANDIS; AHMADIS Readings: Metcalf 123-167 Metcalf, Barbara. Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900. Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1982. (Selections) Friedmann, Yohannan. Prophecy Continuous. Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1989. (Selections) Week 10 *TWENTIETH CENTURY* Nov. 6 LANGUAGE DEBATES Readings: Jalal Ch. 3 Brass, Paul R. Language, Religion and Politics in North India. New York: Cambridge U.P., 1974. (Selections) King, Christopher: One Language, Two Scripts. Bombay: OUP, 1994. (Selections) Nov. 8 THE KHILAFAT MOVEMENT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE Readings: Jalal Ch. 5 Minault, Gail. The Khilafat Movement. New York: Columbia U.P., 1982. (Selections) Ram Prasad Bismil. “Sarfaroshi ki tamanna.” Week 11 Nov. 13 IQBAL, JINNAH, AND THE IDEA OF PAKISTAN Student presentation Readings: “Lahore Declaration” Selections from the poetry of Muhammad Iqbal Jalal, Ayesha. The Sole Spokesman. New York: Cambridge U.P., 1985. (Selections) Wolpert, Stanley. Jinnah of Pakistan. New York: OUP, 1984. (Selections) Nov. 15 PARTITION Student presentation Readings: Jalal Ch. 9 Amrita Pritam. “Today I Say to Waris Shah.” Ustad Daman. “Partition.” Manto, Sa‘adat Hasan. “Toba Tek Singh.” Week 12 Nov. 20 MODERN MUSIC Student presentation Readings: Qureshi, Regula. Sufi Music of India and Pakistan. New York, Cambridge U.P., 1986. (Selections) Sanyal, Ritwik and Richard Widess. Dhrupad: Tradition and Performance in Indian Music. Burlington: Ashgate, 2004. (Selections) Peter Manuel. “The Popularization and Transformation of the Light- Classical Urdu Ghazal Song.” in Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions. Ed. Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, Margaret A. Mills. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Nov. 22 BHUTTO AND BANGLADESH Student presentation Readings: Talbot, Ian. Pakistan: A Modern History. London: C. Hurst, 2009. Ch. 7 History of Bangladesh, Van Schendel (Selections) Week 13 Nov. 27 ZIA UL-HAQQ AND THE BLASPHEMY LAW Student presentation Readings: Talbot, Ian. Pakistan: A Modern History. London: C. Hurst, 2009. Ch. 9 Ustad Daman. “My Country Has Two Allahs.” Gabriel, Theodore. Christian Citizens in an Islamic State. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007. (Selections) Gualtieri, Antonio. Conscience and Coercion. Montreal: Guernica, 1989. (Selections) Naim, C.M. “Islamic ‘Adl in Orakzai.” Outlook Magazine. Apr. 23, 2009. Habib Jalib. “Political Advisor.” Pushpa Vallabh. Selected poems.
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