Region,Nation and the Making of Post-Colonial India
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Course No:
HS 521
Course:
MA in Development Studies
Semester:
IV
Title:
Region,Nation and the Making of Post-Colonial India
Stream:
History
Historical Background: fragmented polities of pre-colonial times, colonial unification of the sub-continent, nationalist mobilization; National movement and the language question: sanskritization of Hindi, introduction of Hindi in schools, anti-Hindi agitations of 1930s and 40s; Debates on national language: constituent assembly debates, language commission, official languages act, regional agitations; Reorganization of states: Indian National Congress and the reorganization of states, commissions and legislations on state reorganization, regional responses and unresolved demands; Movements for self-determination: nation-state and nationalisms, Naga and Kashmir movements; Nation-state and the inevitability of regions.
