Course Information
- 2024-25
- CFM214
- 5-Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), 3-Year LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M., Master's Programme in Public Policy
- III, IV, V
- Jul 2024
- Core Course
This course is a taught and a standalone course. It has been designed to give students a bird’s eye view of the significance and the state of “frontier studies” in South Asia. The course materials selected are primary books and journal papers.
The pedagogical methods employed for this course are lectures and seminar style discussion. Layout of the course—module structure and sequence:
1. The Idea of Frontier, Concepts and Theories
2. Frontier Making in British India
3. Making the Northeast Frontier
4. Making the Northwest Frontier
5. Legal Regimes at the Frontier
6. Surveying the Frontiers
7. Ethnography at the Frontier
8. Road Making and Labour Regimes at the Frontier
9. Rebellion and Resistance in the Frontier
10. Imperial Afterlives in the Frontier
