History of British India [Lec 01]

History of British India [Lec 01] -- Upper-division undergraduate course, comprised of 20 lectures, at UCLA in the Fall Quarter 2013.  Introduction to course; course requirements; some general comments on British colonization; anecdote about visit to my office of American military intelligence official; Hindu-Muslim divide in India and Western perceptions of this divide; Mark Mazower's book, SALONICA, and an understanding of ecumenical societies; the fiction of a "world citizen"; problem of American exceptionalism; English as the language of Indian elites; the use of English in Indian courts; overview of the syllabus; Ronald Inden's "Orientalist Constructions of India"; very brief remarks about Orientalism; John Malcolm's Memorandum on behavior of English officials in India; the colonization of the Indian mind

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