Making of Contemporary India

By Prof. Soumitra Sreemani | Netaji Subhas Open University Kolkata

Learners enrolled: 755

The proposed course is going to cover a period of Indian history starting with rise of Gandhi in India’s freedom struggle and culminating in our very recent past. In this long journey covering nearly seven decades which are full of epoch –making events in the world history. India gained her freedom after a prolong struggle but while gaining it she had to part with portions and people for creation of another state. India a colony of the British had suffered in many ways for two centuries. Moreover, India is a country of various races, religions and ethnic groups. Some such groups also asserted their rights. After her independence India had to address all such issues and also has started to modernise herself. The biggest achievement of her is to adopt democracy and to hold periodic elections. To satisfy all stake holders it has drawn her constitution in that manner. It made a great leap forward in industrialisation and technical innovations and through five years’ plans it tried to bring equity in all of its parts. To enhance education it has initiated concerted programmes. To bring higher amount of participation in public life reservations for women in three-tyre Panchayati Raj was also affected. While framing her foreign policy India decided to keep herself away from the running cold war between the USA and the then Soviet Russia. India with some countries pursued a non-aligned policy for maintaining balance and peace in world politics.

The course is accompanied by academic script, glossary, exercises, model questions and references to learn more.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	13 Jan 2020
End Date :	06 Mar 2020
Enrollment Ends :	08 Mar 2020
Exam Date :	16 Sep 2020 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1

Module 01: Nationalism Trends 1919-1947

Module 02: Gandhian Ideology

Module 03: Gandhi’s Rise in Indian Politics

Module 04: Rowlatt Satyagraha

Week 2

Module 05: Background to the non cooperation movement

Module 06: Phases of the non cooperation movement

Module 07: Civil Disobedience Movement

Module 08: Quit India Movement

Week 3

Module 09: Ideological Trends within the Congress

Module 10: Congress and the Princely states

Module 11: Reforms of 1909 and 1919

Module 12: Government of India Act 1935

Week 4

Module 13: Cripps Mission and Cabinet Mission

Module 14: Two nations in one Country

Module 15: The Idea of Pakistan

Module 16: Countdown to Partition

Week 5

Module 17: The Final Cut

Module 18: Partition, Migration and Settlement

Module 19: Displaced Persons and Rehabilitation-Agrarian Policy

Module 20: Integration of Princely States

Week 6

Module 21: Making of the Constitution

Module 22: Framing of the Constitution of India-1

Module 23: Framing of the Constitution of India-2

Module 24: Framing of the Constitution of India-3

Week 7

Module 25: Situating India in The World

Module 26: Indian & The Non Align Movement

Module 27: Post Independent India-1 (Effect of Language, Region, Caste & Religion)

Module 28: Post Independent India-2 (Electoral politics and Changing party System)

Week 8

Module 29: The Planned Economy – The Land, Labour, Industry, and education questions

Module 30: The women’s Question – Movements & Legislations

Module 31: Cultural trends – Institutions, Ideas, Literature, Media & Arts

Books and references

1. Modern Times by Sumit Sarkar

2. India since Independence by Bipan Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee and Aditya Mukherjee

3. India after Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha

4. A History of Modern India by Ishita Banerje -Dube

5. Women and Social Reform in Modern India by Sumit and Tanika Sarkar

Instructor bio

Prof. Soumitra Sreemani

Netaji Subhas Open University Kolkata

Superannuated as Associate Professor from P.N.Das College, 24 Parganas (N) in October 2015 and presently is engaged as Associate Professor at Netaji Subhas Open University. Direct teaching experience of more than 34 years. Also acted for some time as the Teacher-in- Charge.

Acted as a member of the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Written researched books, Anatomy of a Colonial Town: Calcutta, 1754-1796; The Gangetic West Bengal, c 17th - 19th century- A Survey. Apart from editing a number of tiles individually and jointly also written a number of University- level text books. Also written a number of researched articles in Bengali and in English

Presently also engaged as the Editor-in Chief of the research journal ITIKOTHA (listed in Group C of the UGC- CARE List).