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Prof. Sreenath V.S, IIT Madras
Prof. Anandita Pan, IIT Hyderabad

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ABOUT THE COURSE:

The concepts of nation and nationalism originated in Europe during the seventeenth century, mainly due to the decline of religious communities, the end of dynastic rule, and the rise of print capitalism. These concepts that originally developed in Europe eventually spread beyond the boundaries of Europe to Afro-Asian regions, significantly changing their social and cultural histories. The initial conception concerning nationalism in Afro-Asian countries was that they were blind imitations of their European models. But, this canonical notion concerning nationalism and modernity in the Afro-Asian countries was later proven historically problematic by theorists like Partha Chatterjee. The postcolonial critics opine that the nationalism and the nationalist identities that were formed in the non-European countries were not the modular forms of these entities in Europe. In Afro-Asian contries, a new form of nationalism that was not Western, but modern, was developed. According to Chatterjee, “the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa are posited not on an identity but rather on a difference with the ‘modular’ forms of the national society propagated by the modern West” (Chatterjee, “Whose Imagined” 216). Nationalist intellectuals believed that incorporating Western material practices was necessary to overcome Western domination, but they also emphasized the need to retain spiritual distinctiveness and uphold traditional values. This approach led to significant transformations in all aspects of life in India. This course aims to introduce the students to the questions of nation, nationalism, and modernity in the Indian context, focusing particularly on the colonial period.

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Graduate, undergraduate and PhD students in Humanities and Social Sciences