War in India, 1757-1857
HIST 327
Spring 2008 not offered
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| Certificates: International Relations |
| Course Cluster: Southern Asia Studies |
This seminar will examine the rise of British military power in the Indian subcontinent, with a focus on the Indian sepoys who formed the backbone of the Bengal Army between 1757 and 1857. The course will begin with a consideration of the early modern military revolution in world history, followed by a series of introductory monographs on the military and social history of India between 1500 and 1860. We will then turn to the figure of the sepoy (from the Persian/Urdu SUOAGU soldier) and the cataclysmic events of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, including its rapid explosion into a populist north Indian rebellion against British rule. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Required texts:
G. Parker, THE MILITARY REVOLUTION
Jos Gommans, MUGHAL WARFARE: INDIAN FRONTIERS AND HIGHROADS TO EMPIRE 1500-1700
C. A. Bayly, INDIAN SOCIETY AND THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Rudrangshu Mukherjee, AWADH IN REVOLT 1857-1858: ASTUDY OF POPULAR RESISTANCE
In addition, we will also read and report on the following major assessments of the Mutiny/Rebellion:
William Howard Russell, THE INDIAN MUTINY: A DIARY OF THE SEPOY REBELLION (London 1859)
Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, HISTORY OF THE BIJNOR REBELLION (North India 1860s)
John William Kaye, HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857-8 (London 1870-79)
G. B Malleson, THE INDIAN MUTINY OF 1857 (London 1891)
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, THE INDIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (Kuala Lumpur 1909, London 1910)
Edward John Thompson, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MEDAL (London 1925)
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, THE SEPOY MUTINY AND THE REVOLT OF 1857 (Calcutta 1957)
Surendra Nath Sen, EIGHTEEN FIFTY-SEVEN (Delhi 1957)
Eric Stokes, THE PEASANT AND THE RAJ: STUDIES IN AGRARIAN SOCIETY AND THE PEASANT REBELLION IN COLONIAL INDIA (Cambridge 1978)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Students will be graded on short papers, formal presentations, seminar discussion, and a final research paper of fifteen pages. |
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