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HIS-30094 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2022/23 Last Updated: 09 June 2022

HIS-30094 - Religion, Rebellion and the Raj : The Partition of India I
Coordinator: Shalini Sharma Room: CBB1.060 Tel: +44 1782 7 33206
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733147

Programme/Approved Electives for 2022/23

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Yes

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2022/23

In August 1947 British India was partitioned to create two independent countries, India and Pakistan. This partition resulted in an estimated one million deaths and the largest migration of people in modern history. What were the forces which led to the Partition of India in 1947: British policy; Muslim separatism or the unitary impulses of Indian nationalism? We will look at religious and political identity in British India and how different historians have explored it.
The module is taught through student presentations, film analysis and seminar discussion.

Aims
To introduce students to the events, sources and modern historiographical debates of the Partition of India in 1947 - an event that led to the largest migration of people in modern history - and an event that still resonates in the politics and culture of India and Pakistan today.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/his-30094/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

explain and recognise the causes and consequences of the partition of India in 1947, the complexities of the concerns which drove the process of decolonisation in the Indian subcontinent and the emergence of communal conflict in the Indian subcontinent: 1,2
critically read and assess primary materials and to judge their historical significance: 1,2
evaluate and critically assess secondary sources and historiographical debates, and to use them appropriately in the development of historical analysis: 1,2
consider the relationship between contemporary debates on communalism and nation building with their historical context: 1,2

Study hours

10 x 2 hour seminars
2 hour exam
34 hours seminar preparation
36 hours historiographical commentary preparation
36 hours preparation for examination
22 hours independent study

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Commentary weighted 50%
Extended historiographical commentary
An analytical response to a historiographical perspective on the Partition of India and/or communal relations in colonial India. Students can choose to present their findings in a 1500-word essay or an academic poster.

2: Open Book Examination weighted 50%
24-hour take home examination
An unseen twenty-four hour examination in which students will be expected to answer two essay questions.

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Last Updated: 09 June 2022