CWS214 | Warfare, State and the Making of Modern South Asia

This course is a taught and a standalone course. It has been designed to give students a bird’s eye view of the relevance of warfare and state making in the historical evolution of modern South Asia. The course materials selected are primarily 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). Warfare and State making: Concepts and Theories

2). Warfare and State making: Concepts and Theories

3). The Military labor markets of Colonial South Asia

4). Mutiny and the birth of the British Raj

5). War and state Making at the Imperial Fringes

6). The British Raj in the Great War

7). Second world war and the making of modern South Asia

8). Contested State making in the Himalayas

9). A state is born: Indo-Pak war of 1971 and the making of Modern Bangladesh

10). War and Commemoration in South Asia