Credit Course on History and the Disciplines (One Credit) By Professor Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee Dube from: 06th December to 20th December, 2018
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GOA UNIVERSITY
Directorate of Visiting Research Professors Programme
D.D.Kosambi Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies in
Goa University
and
Department of History, Goa University
Course on
Topic: History and the Disciplines
Credit: 01 Credit (12 contact hours; 25 marks)
By
Professor Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee Dube
From: 06th December to 20th December, 2018
Participants: Any Student at the Goa University is welcome to register. Course is open and free for students & general public, but registration is compulsory.
Students at Goa University who would like to earn credit are requested to go through the syllabus, teaching and evaluation details.
Participation Certificate will be issued to all those who maintain minimum 75% attendance for the course.
Syllabus
Course Code: HSO 200
Title of the Course: History and the Disciplines
Number of Credits: 1
Effective from AY: 2018-19
Prerequisites for the course: A careful reading of the core text that shall be indicated for each session shall be essential. The course is aimed at Masters and Ph.D. students from the departments of history, literature, sociology, and other related ones in the humanities and social sciences. Participants will be assessed of the basis of participation in class and a final examination/short paper at the end of the course. Objective: This course extends the spirit of DD Kosambi’s scholarship, particularly its pioneering of a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of history in India. Our effort will be to explore some of the ways in which the recent rethinking and recasting of history-writing has emerged out of critical conversations with key disciplines in the social sciences and critical humanities. Against a wider backdrop of changes in history writing, the course shall consider the interplay of the historical discipline with literature and sociology, anthropology and politics, including the making of historical anthropology in these terrains. Such discussions will be taken sustained by focussing on the substantive themes of gender and identities, subalterns and communities, nations and nationalisms, temporalities and traditions, myth and historical-consciousness, and colonialism, Christianity, and conversion. Content: 1. Introduction: History, Literature, Disciplines 2.. Recasting History: Questions of Gender
3. Rewriting History: Subalterns and Nation(s)
4. History and Anthropology/Sociology: Time and Tradition
5. Historical Anthropology: Colonialism and Conversion
3 3
2
2
2
Pedagogy: Lectures/ Tutorials/Assignments/Self-study References/Readings (Indicative list)
1. Abrams Philip, Historical Sociology (Shepton Mallet: Open Books, 1982).
2. Amin, Shahid, Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
3. Banerjee-Dube, Religion, Law and Power: Tales of Time in Eastern India, 1860-2000 (London: Anthem Press, 2007).
4. Baxi, Upendra, “‘The state’s emissary’: The place of law in Subaltern Studies”, in Partha Chatterjee and Gyanendra Pandey (eds.), Subaltern Studies VII: Writings on South Asian History and Society (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 257-64.
5. Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
6. Chartier, Roger, Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations, trans Lydia G. Cochrane (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).
7. Cohn, Bernard, An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987).
8. Comaroff, John and Jean Comaroff, Ethnography and the Historical Imagination (Boulder: Westview, 1992).
9. Dube, Saurabh, Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004).
10. Dube, Saurabh, Subjects of Modernity: Time-space, Disciplines, Margins (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017; Delhi: Primus, 2017).
11. Guha, Ranajit, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983).
12. Guha, Ranajit (ed.), Subaltern Studies I—VI: Writings on South Asian History and Society (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982-1989).
13. Hansen, Thomas Blom and Finn Stepputat, “Introduction: States of imagination”, in Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat (eds.), States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), pp. 1-38.
14. Kelley, Donald R., Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
15. Mani, Lata, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
16. Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid (eds.), Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.
18. Scott, Joan, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, The American Historical Review, vol. 91, issue 5 (DEc. 1986), pp. 1053-1075
19. Review, 91, 5, 1986: 1053-1075.
20. Skaria, Ajay, Hybrid Histories: Forest, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999).
21. Stocking Jr., George, The Ethnographer’s Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992).
22. Stoler, Ann Laura and Frederick Cooper, “Between metropole and colony: Rethinking a research agenda”, in Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler (eds.), Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 1-56.
23. Thompson, EP, Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture (New York: The New Press, 1993).
24. Vincent, Joan, Anthropology and Politics: Visions, Traditions, and Trends (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1990).
Learning Outcomes This brief but intensive course will take the participants/students through significant debates in history, distinct trends in historiography and the interface of history with disciplines such as anthropology, literature and sociology, enabling thereby, a solid grounding in the disciplines and their evolution and transformation. Further, the course will offer insights into the conjunctures of socio-political and cultural and economic processes that relate directly to rethinking within the disciplines and allow an understanding of the relevance of critical thought in the understanding of everyday social worlds.
Programme: M. A. (History)
Course Code: HSO 201
Title of the Course: History and the Disciplines
Number of Credits: 1
Effective from AY: 2018-19
Prerequisites for the course: A careful reading of the core text that shall be indicated for each session shall be essential. The course is aimed at Masters and Ph.D. students from the departments of history, literature, sociology, and other related ones in the humanities and social sciences. Participants will be assessed of the basis of participation in class and a final examination/short paper at the end of the course. Objective: This course extends the spirit of DD Kosambi’s scholarship, particularly its pioneering of a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of history in India. Our effort will be to explore some of the ways in which the recent rethinking and recasting of history-writing has emerged out of critical conversations with key disciplines in the social sciences and critical humanities. Against a wider backdrop of changes in history writing, the course shall consider the interplay of the historical discipline with literature and sociology, anthropology and politics, including the making of historical anthropology in these terrains. Such discussions will be taken sustained by focussing on the substantive themes of gender and identities, subalterns and communities, nations and nationalisms, temporalities and traditions, myth and historical-consciousness, and colonialism, Christianity, and conversion. Content: 1. Introduction: History, Literature, Disciplines 2.. Recasting History: Questions of Gender
3. Rewriting History: Subalterns and Nation(s)
4. History and Anthropology/Sociology: Time and Tradition
5. Historical Anthropology: Colonialism and Conversion
3 3
3
3
3
Pedagogy: Lectures/ Tutorials/Assignments/Self-study References/Readings (Indicative list)
1. Abrams Philip, Historical Sociology (Shepton Mallet: Open Books, 1982).
2. Amin, Shahid, Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
3. Banerjee-Dube, Religion, Law and Power: Tales of Time in Eastern India, 1860-2000 (London: Anthem Press, 2007).
4. Baxi, Upendra, “‘The state’s emissary’: The place of law in Subaltern Studies”, in Partha Chatterjee and Gyanendra Pandey (eds.), Subaltern Studies VII: Writings on South Asian History and Society (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 257-64.
5. Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
6. Chartier, Roger, Cultural History: Between Practices and Representations, trans Lydia G. Cochrane (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).
7. Cohn, Bernard, An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987).
8. Comaroff, John and Jean Comaroff, Ethnography and the Historical Imagination (Boulder: Westview, 1992).
9. Dube, Saurabh, Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004).
10. Dube, Saurabh, Subjects of Modernity: Time-space, Disciplines, Margins (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017; Delhi: Primus, 2017).
11. Guha, Ranajit, Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1983).
12. Guha, Ranajit (ed.), Subaltern Studies I—VI: Writings on South Asian History and Society (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982-1989).
13. Hansen, Thomas Blom and Finn Stepputat, “Introduction: States of imagination”, in Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat (eds.), States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001), pp. 1-38.
14. Kelley, Donald R., Faces of History: Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
15. Mani, Lata, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).
16. Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid (eds.), Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.
18. Scott, Joan, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, The American Historical Review, vol. 91, issue 5 (DEc. 1986), pp. 1053-1075
19. Review, 91, 5, 1986: 1053-1075.
20. Skaria, Ajay, Hybrid Histories: Forest, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999).
21. Stocking Jr., George, The Ethnographer’s Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992).
22. Stoler, Ann Laura and Frederick Cooper, “Between metropole and colony: Rethinking a research agenda”, in Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler (eds.), Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 1-56.
23. Thompson, EP, Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture (New York: The New Press, 1993).
24. Vincent, Joan, Anthropology and Politics: Visions, Traditions, and Trends (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1990).
Learning Outcomes This brief but intensive course will take the participants/students through significant debates in history, distinct trends in historiography and the interface of history with disciplines such as anthropology, literature and sociology, enabling thereby, a solid grounding in the disciplines and their evolution and transformation. Further, the course will offer insights into the conjunctures of socio-political and cultural and economic processes that relate directly to rethinking within the disciplines and allow an understanding of the relevance of critical thought in the understanding of everyday social worlds.
Note: This paper will be taught to the present MA Part II students as per the old ordinance (80 credits/15 hrs per credit)