REQUIRED
WORK:
*Barbara D.
and Thomas
R. Metcalf, "Mughal Twilight: the Emergence of Regional States and
the
East India Company," Chapter 2 of A Concise History of India
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 28-54. This is a required
text (at BookCulture), and is also on BUTLER RESERVE. The new second
edition
is called A Concise History of Modern India, and page numbers
are
one digit higher.
*Muzaffar
Alam, "The
Awadh Regime, the Mughals and the Countryside," in Lucknow:
Memories
of a City, ed. by Violette Graff (New Delhi: Oxford University
Press,
1997), pp. 16-31: on
the CU website.
*Michael H.
Fisher, "Awadh
and the English East India Company," in Lucknow: Memories
of a City, ed. by Violette Graff (New Delhi: Oxford University
Press,
1997), pp. 32-48: on
the CU website.
*Barbara D.
Metcalf, "The
'Ulama in Transition: The Eighteenth Century," Chapter I of Islamic
Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900 (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1982), pp. 16-45: these
pages on the CU website.
*Letters
I-VI, The
Travels of Dean Mahomed: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India,
ed. by Michael Fisher (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997), pp.
15-29: Letters
I-VI
on the CU website. Also, whole book: BUTLER RESERVE. Also: at
the Univ. of Cal. Press site. Also, online through Netlibrary.
Once inside their system, you can go directly to the exact
location.
*B. R.
Srikanth, "An
Icon Besmirched" -- on Tipu Sultan (d.1799): a hero, but now a
figure
of controversy; from Outlook India Magazine, May 24, 1999: *on
the CU website*.
POSSIBLE
PAPER TOPIC SIX:
Choose some aspect of Dean
Mahomed's
life-- his educational background, his interest in travel, his military
pursuits, his economic ideas, his political observations, etc.-- and
explore
it in detail, reading all the letters in the book. How does this aspect
of his life resonate with what we have learned about the period from
other
sources? How does he see himself as an Indian and/or Muslim vis-a-vis
the
British? What can you make of his views on social class? Source: The
Travels of Dean Mahomed: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India,
trans. by Michael Fisher (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997).
