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This page contains an archive of names, terms, dates, and other relevant information covered in lecture; a list of reserve materials at the UCSB main library pertinent to topics covered; and weblinks to major South Asia Studies archives.

I. Notes Archive

1.8 Introduction to Key Concepts

  • South Asia (what nations comprise it?); geopolitical region; British colonial rule, 1756-1947; modernity; William Jones; Asiatic society

1.10 Making Worlds

  • orientalism; latent and manifest orientalism; Edward Said; Orientalism (1978)

1.15 Role of the Popular: The Colonial Imagination

  • popular culture; Birmingham and Frankfurt School; Rudyard Kipling’s “Gunga Din,” 1892; George Steven’s Gunga Din (1939);Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); late imperial cinema

1.17 Becoming Man: Making Subject, Making Other

  • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936); colonial subject; Jungle Books (1894); Social Darwinism; Herbert Spencer; Charles Darwin; race; adventure genre; juvenile fiction; private and public sphere; pedagogic function; colonialism

1.22 Rethinking Law: Rights and Privileges

  • Anti-colonial subject; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948); civil disobedience; satyagraha; rule of law; non-violence; mass mobilization; hunger strikes; idioms of protest; Indian and Pakistani independence, 1947; Partition of India; Salman Rushdie

1.24 Revising Rules: forming community

  • Gandhi legacy; icon; gangster genre revival; Bollywood; melodramatic mode; populist nationalism or the national popular

1.29 Political Community: Introduction to Pakistan

  • Partition; Pakistan; Muhammed Ali Jinnah; 1971 war; Bhutto regime; Meatless Days, 1987; history and memory; everyday practice versus political abstractions; mixed-race postcolonial subject

1.31 Costs of Nation: The Daughter’s Story

  • trauma and mourning; private histories and official history; memoir

2.5 Rethinking Progress: Criticizing Economic Development

  • concert of nations; Homi Bhabha; nuclear blasts in Pokhran 1998; nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Arundhati Roy, he God of Small Things (1996); Booker Prize; Sahitya Akademi Prize; writing as activism

2.7 Back to the Jungle: Environmental Justice

  • Arundhati Roy, Cost of Living (1999); Franny Alexander, Drowned Out (2002); adivasis; SSP project; Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the Narmada Struggle); Medha Patkar

2.12 Drowned Out

  • Global civil society; global governance; environmentalism; the green movement; environmental justice; Chipko 1973; ecosystems people versus the omnivores; activism; global North and South

    2.14 The Mystic East: Music, Counterculture, Nepal

    • internationalism; cosmopolitanism; youth movements; counterculture; Hippies; mysticism; Hare Rama, Hare Krishna, 1971; Nepal as Orient; Beatles, George Harrison, and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; Monterey Pop, 1967; D.A.Pennebaker and the Direct Cinema Movement

    2.19 The Other Nepal: Struggle for Democracy

    • Himalayan state; move to democracy 1990; Maoist insurgencies; royal killings 2001; April uprising 2006; Samrat Uphadyay’s Royal Ghosts (2006); South Asian writing in English; history and histories on parallel tracks

    2.21 The Guru: Marketing Spirituality

    • guru;Gita Mehta, Karma Cola (1979); karma; guru chic; global markets

    2.26 Consumption and Identity: The Guru Within

    • diaspora; post-1965 immigration; Daisy von Scherler Mayr The Guru (2002); romantic comedy

    2.28 Ethnic Cuisine: Cosmopolitan Narratives of Self and World

    • ethnicity; national cuisine; cultural translation; Madhur Jaffrey; cultural icon; curry; authenticity

    3.4 Cultural Translation: The Cookbook

    • genre; cuisine; food practices or food ways; material context; producer; consumer

    3.6 Resident Alien: Increasing Difference

    • Screening of X-files episode

    3.11 Contaminations: Accountability and Redress

    • televisual flow; Bhopal gas leak, 1984; multinationals; 1991 trade liberalization;Union Carbide; CEO Warren Anderson; Sufi mystic; corporate globalization; corporate accountability; resident alien or greencard holder; racialized immigrants; corporeality; religion and non-modern practices; paranormal; the uncanny and the marvellous

     

    Library Resources

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