Fall 2025 History BC2859 section 001

South Asian Diasporas

Call Number 00157
Day & Time
Location
MW 2:40pm-3:55pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Anupama Rao
Type LECTURE
Course Description

This survey focuses on the South Asian diaspora, that is, the migration of people originating from the Indian subcontinent into a global horizon, and the multi-dimensional array of economic, political and cultural relationships produced between diasporic communities, their places of origin, and their places of arrival. The course will be structured around key themes and questions in the history of the diaspora, using these as entry points into deeper contexts while making connections between historical and contemporary phenomena. We will explore flows of labor (indentured and otherwise), transnational mercantile and financial connections, overseas political movements, and South Asian communities in North America ain the wake of the War on Terror. Topics will include: questions of bondage and contract, circulation of revolutionary praxis and radical cross-fertilization, racial and cultural identity formation, legal and extralegal economies, gender, class and caste.  Our readings will draw upon literary texts, oral and public histories, as well as archival sources; not to mention observations from your own forays into the city.

 

Web Site Vergil
Department History @Barnard
Enrollment 9 students (70 max) as of 11:06AM Friday, April 25, 2025
Subject History
Number BC2859
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Global Programs, General Studies, Professional Studies
Section key 20253HIST2859X001