Written exam comprising two short essay questions.

1 - Written exam - 80

Blog assignment (600 words)

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 20

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The module will thematically consider key moments in the first half of twentieth-century South Asian history, using image and text to shed fresh light on our interpretation of these events. You will look at colonial photography and its constructions of subjecthood; anticolonial resistance and its relationship to philosophical writing; South Asian participation in two world wars and its representation in letters and memoirs; the end of empire and the violence of nation formation in poetry and novels. Throughout the module, you will pay close attention to key historical debates and incorporate new research recovering excluded voices and marginalised actors. And you will locate this history within the backdrop of international movements and global contexts.

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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A Revolutionary History of Interwar India

India in the Second World War: An Emotional History

Modern India: 1885-1947

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy

The Great Partition – The Making of India and Pakistan

IP2068 - The Making of Modern South Asia: A Cultural History

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Acquisition of knowledge and understanding is promoted through a combination of lectures and interactive seminars with a strong emphasis on your personal contribution, including if appropriate in the form of student presentations and class exercises. This learning process is supported by the use of a wide range of information sources, from books and journal articles to online sources, official documents and audio-visual sources of information. 
You are expected to undertake extensive, independent reading in order to: (1) understand the topics covered in the course; (2) broaden and deepen your knowledge of the subject; (3) participate actively in the class discussions.

The Making of Modern South Asia: A Cultural History

Critically analyse and evaluate primary and secondary sources.

Skills

Employ primary and secondary sources to present reasoned and effective arguments in written and oral form.

Critically evaluate how history, society, and politics shape and influence one another, and change our forms of language.

Contextualise the making of modern South Asia within broader patterns of global development.

Knowledge

Differentiate and interpret various forms of writing and visual material, and their relationship with history.

Critically evaluate historiographical debates in the history of modern South Asia.

Demonstrate respect for different opinions and perspectives.

Values and attitudes

Describe and discuss key developments in the history of South Asia during the first half of the twentieth century.

Critically evaluate the impact of South Asian politics on global developments, and vice versa.

Develop curiosity about diverse human experiences and systems.

Apply conceptual tools to analyse historical events and their relationship with writing and visual culture.

Cultivate a practice of critical thinking, reflection and independent study.