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  • Week 3:   September 14 & 16

    ·      Shonaleeka Kaul, “The Idea of India:  a historical corrective,” The New Indian Express, August 14, 2020

    ·      Malavika Kasturi and Mekhola Gomes, “To Say That an Indian Nation-State Existed in the Ancient Past is Historical Manipulation,” The Wire, August 17, 2020

    ·      Shonaleeka Kaul, “The Empire Strikes Back:  Ad Hominem as History,” The Wire August 29, 2020

    ·      Malavika Kasturi and Mekhola Gomes, “Debate:  History, Historians and the Many Ideas of India,” The Wire August 28, 2020

    ·      Dilip Menon, “Debate:  History, Historians and a Desire Named India,” September 1, 2020 The Wire

    ·      Janet Abu-Lughod, “The Indian Subcontinent:  On the Way to Everywhere,”  pp. 261-290

    • "The Idea of India:  a historical corrective," The New Indian Express Auguist 14, 2020

    • Kasturi & Gomes, "To Say That an Indian Nation-State Existed in the Ancient Past is Historical Manipulation," The Wire, August17 2020

    • Shonaleeka Kaur, “The Empire Strikes Back:  Ad Hominem as History,” The Wire August 29, 2020

       

      • Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350 (OUP 1989):  “The Indian Subcontinent:  On the Way to Everywhere,” pp. 261-290
    • Jonathan Wolfe, "Why Mokha, Historical Port that Shaped the Coffee Trade..." The New York Times, September 12, 2026

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