MO4949 Modern India: From Empire to Republic (1917 - 1950)

2024 to 2025 Full Year

Curricular information may be subject to change

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Available only to students in the Second Year of the Honours Programme.

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Prof C Kaul

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Module Staff

Professor C Kaul

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Module description

India was central to the British imperial system and represented the first seminal case in which a subject peoples raised and pressed the case for significant self-government. This module considers the nature of this challenge and the political and popular response it evoked through the critical decades of the twentieth century till the granting of Independence and Partition in 1947 and culminating in the formative years of the newly independent India, 1947-1950. Several interrelated issues including constitutional devolution, the problem of minorities, princely India and the Raj, communications and media, challenges facing the new Republic, etc., will be examined. As such the course will contribute towards an in-depth analysis of attitudes to 'the problem of empire' in the climactic years after the end of the First World War and the battle of ideas and interests which constituted the debate over India's - and by implication, the Empire's future.

Assessment pattern

60% Coursework 40% Examination (2x2-hour paper)

Re-assessment

New Coursework: 1 x primary source exercise (2,000 words) and 1 x 5,000-word essay = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 3-hour seminar, plus 1 office hour

Scheduled learning hours

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

534

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.