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• British rule in India

• India gains freedom: Gandhi,

Jinnah and the creation of the modern

subcontinent

• The tryst with destiny: Nehru and theidea of India

Colonial history

• British rule in India

- the ‘civilising’ mission

- the ‘woman’ question

- education as part of modernity

Colonial history (continued)

Calcutta University, estd.1857 

 Abolition of Sati practice

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• India gains freedom

-  The First Indian Rebellion 1857

-  The Indian National Congress

-  Mohandas Gandhi, non-violence and

non-cooperation

Colonial history (continued)

Hindu and Muslim worldviews and destinies were so

irreconcilable that they could not peacefully live together

in one country under any circumstances

Colonial history: rationale for partition 

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Slide 3:  Jinnah Gandhi [photographer unknown] [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons,http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJinnah_Gandhi.jpg 

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Practice of Sati (widow immo lates on a husband’s pyre, 16-17th century practice in India): Ceremony of burning the body of a Hindu widow with the body of

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Slide 5: Massacre in the boats off Cawnpore - The history of the Indian Mutiny (1858-1859), opposite 336 – BL by Charles Ball [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

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Gandhi during the Salt March [photographer unknown] [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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Slide 6: Map showing the Partition of India, by McMullen [Public Domain], via Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partition_of_India.PNG