Fw: H-ASIA: A course on 'Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century India'

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: A course on 'Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century India'


> H-ASIA
> December 22, 2012
>
> Query re: a course on "Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century India"
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> Ed. note: Dr. Kamtekar has come up with a great idea here and I do
> hope that many of you can make suggestions on both the lecture
> organization, the student readings and research sources. I will
> try to come up with some suggestions myself later this week. Please
> do share your posts with H-ASIA as well as Dr. Kamtekar. FFC
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> From: Indivar Kamtekar <indivar@mail.jnu.ac.in>
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I write this post to seek your help and advice with a course I hope to
> teach on 'Changes in everyday life in twentieth-century India.'
> The course will be taught to M.A. level students in modern history at
> the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
>
> The beginning and end of the twentieth century will be the two
> boundaries. At the end of the course I would like my students at JNU
> to be able to compare the lives of people from various social classes
> at these two points in time, and to have a sense of what occurred in
> between.
>
> There is a tentative list of topics below. I would particularly
> appreciate suggestions for readings, both for myself and for potential
> students. Also, if you have come across nuggets of information which
> we might now find surprising, please do share them.
>
> TENTATIVE LIST OF TOPICS:
>
> 1. Housing, furniture, water supply and sanitation, electricity
> 2. Food: daily diets, methods of cooking, storage, refrigeration
> 3. Dress: styles and materials
> 4. Health, diseases and medicines
> 5. Work and production
> 6. Items of mass consumption
> 7. Communications and transport
> 8. Marriage, gender relations, and the family
> 9. Social hierarchies
> 10. Avenues of entertainment
> 11. Sources of information and education
> 12. Relationships with government and the city
>
> Advice about other themes which I should cover, and how lectures
> (there would be about fourteen two-hour lectures) could be structured,
> would also be welcome. I would also wish to offer a research seminar
> to M. Phil. students, so please do suggest primary sources which might
> be mined profitably.
>
> The subject is vast, but it also seems far too important to ignore.
> I?m excited at the prospect of a discussion within the wide and
> diverse H-Asia community. So, in advance - thanks a lot!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Indivar Kamtekar
> Centre for Historical Studies
> Jawaharlal Nehru University
> New Delhi
>
>
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