Understanding South Asia

The course on “Understanding South Asia” promises to provide interdisciplinary training that will allow learners to understand the complexities of the region in the 21st Century. The course is balanced through a combination of theoretical debates and empirical cases where learners will acquire knowledge of the history, culture, economy, literature, religion and politics. As this course focuses on South Asia as a region, it will facilitate better comparative work and thus a more nuanced understanding of developments in individual countries. It is an important course for the students of Humanities and social sciences from various disciplines, such political science, international relations, sociology, anthropology, religious studies and history.  The objectives of the course are: 

• To introduce the learners with importance of South Asia as a region

• To make learners aware about the colonial history and the debates on nationalism in South Asia 

• To understand the nation-building project and experiments of constitutional in South Asia 

• To engage with the serious question on the political economy of the region 

• To explore the causes and aftermaths of intra-state conflicts in the region 

• To understand the working of SAARC, its challenges and future prospectus