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ORARI: AA 2025-2026, I semestre
Magistrale
Lingua e Letteratura Hindi B
Martedì, 12-14.00, Lab. Did. Aula 2, Marco Polo
Inizio: 7 ottobre 2025
Narratives of Modernity
Mercoledì, 14-16.00, Lab did. Aula 1, Marco Polo
Venerdì, 10.00-12.00, Lab 3
Inizio: 8 ottobre 2025
Triennale
Storia dell’India
Mercoledì, 16-18.00, Lab did. Aula 1, Marco Polo
Venerdì, 12.00-14.00, Lab 3
Inizio: 8 ottobre 2025
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Timetable: 2024-2025, II semester
Classes begin on: 24 febbraio 2025
10599603 SOCIAL HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY INDIA B
Thursday, 10:00-12:00 Aula T03 Marco Polo ground floor.
Friday, 10:00-12:00 Laboratorio didattico - Aula 1, Marco Polo
10600285 HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF SOUTH ASIA ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF INDIA
Tuesday, 10:00 - 12:00 Laboratorio didattico - Aula 1, Marco Polo
Friday: 14:00 -16:00 Laboratorio didattico - Aula 3, Marco Polo
ORARI: AA 2024-2025, I semester
Classes start on: 2 ottober 2024
Wednesday, 14:00 -16:00: Laboratorio didattico - Aula 1 (Marco Polo III piano)
Friday, 10:00 - 12:00: Aula 11, Vetreria Sciarra.
10589235 NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL INDIA B
10589235 NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL INDIA B
Wednesday, 16:00 -18:00: Laboratorio didattico - Aula 1 (Marco Polo III piano)
Friday, 12:00 - 14:00: Aula 11, Vetreria Sciarra.
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GLOBAL HUMANITIES: Exams: 8 September, 15 September
Students who wish to take the oral exam on the history of South Asia (10595544 HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY OF SOUTH ASIA) on 8th or on 15th September please send me an email and make an appointment.
Orari I semestre 2022-23. Classes start from 28 September
055465 NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY IN COLONIAL & POST COLONIAL INDIA
mercoledì 17.00-19.00: lab 01, Marco Polo III piano
venerdì 13.00-15.00: Aula 11, Vetreria Sciarra
10589149 STORIA DELL’INDIA
mercoledì 15.00-17.00: lab 01, Marco Polo III piano
venerdì 11.00-13.00: Aula 11, Vetreria Sciarra
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EXAMINATIONS: Summer session 2022
7 June 2022: Narratives of Modernity, Society and Culture in India, Storia dell’India (I APPELLO)
17 June 2022: Narratives of Modernity, Society and Culture in India, Storia dell’India (II APPELLO)
7 July 2022: Narratives of Modernity, Society and Culture in India, Storia dell’India (III APPELLO)
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Orari II semestre (3 March - 3 June)
Orari II semestre (3 March - 3 June)
10599604 SOCIAL HISTORY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY INDIA B
Thursday: 11:00-13:00, Lab.did. Aula 3, Marco Polo
Friday: 11:00-13:00, Lab. did. - Aula 2, Marco Polo
Link alla videochiamata: https://meet.google.com/efq-eqhp-irj
GLOBAL HUMANITIES 2021-22
EXAMINATIONS
Examinations will be in 2 phases: Prof. Das Gupta will examine the part on Modern South Asia in Global History (6 credits) and Prof. Davide Torri will examine the part on Trans-Himalayan Anthropology (6 credits).
Exams are registered by Prof. Torri on the day of the exam related to the anthropology part.
For the exam on history, non-attending students will appear for an oral exam on a previous date to be fixed with Prof. Das Gupta. Attending students will only do the written exam as below.
Attending students:
Written exams during the course: 3 essays and 1 term paper - for details see the bacheca/ Classroom.
Non-attending students:
Oral examination with marks up to 30/30, relating to the exam reading list.
Please contact me at sanjukta.dasgupta@uniroma1.it to fix the dates of the oral examinations.
Gli esami si dividono in 2 prove relative a 2 parti del programma: il Prof. Davide Torri valuta la parte sull'Antropologia Trans-Himalayana (6 crediti) e la Prof. Sanjukta Das Gupta valuta la parte storica su Modern South Asia in Global History (6 crediti).
Gli esami sono verbalizzati dal Prof. Torri al termine della prova da lui condotta, secondo il calendario presente su Infostud. La prova condotta dalla Prof. Das Gupta per studenti non frequentanti va sostenuta prima, in data da concordare direttamente con la docente.
Modalità d'esame:
Per la parte antropologica, vedere la bacheca del Prof. Torri.
Per la parte storica:
Studenti frequentanti:
Prova scritta in itinere (3 essays + 1 term paper).
Studenti non frequentanti:
Prova orale finale, valutata in trentesimi, relativa ai testi d'esame.
Gli studenti devono scrivere alla docente (sanjukta.dasgupta@unirome1.it) per concordare la data della prova orale.
PROGRAMMI 2021-22:
Please click on the following link : https://www.lettere.uniroma1.it/node/6195/1090/2021
ORARIO 2021-22:
STORIA DELL'INDIA (dal 6 ottobre)
Mercoledì: 15:00 – 17:00
In presenza: Lab. did. – Aula 1 Marco Polo
Link alla videochiamata: https://meet.google.com/evg-utyx-azx
Giovedì: 17:00 – 19:00
In presenza: Lab. did. – Aula 1 Marco Polo
Link alla videochiamata: https://meet.google.com/ofu-jfvj-dcm
NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY (dal 7 ottobre)
Giovedì, 11.00-13.00
In presenza: Aula E, Vetrerie Sciarra
Link alla videochiamata: https://meet.google.com/tgg-jrkv-dtc
Venerdì, 11.00-13.00
In presenza: Lab did. Aula 1, Marco Polo
Link alla videochiamata: https://meet.google.com/tgg-jrkv-dtc
GLOBAL HUMANITIES: HISTORY OF SOUTH ASIA (dal 7 ottobre)
Giovedì, 11.00-13.00
In presenza: Aula B, Vetrerie Sciarra
Link alla videochiamata: https://meet.google.com/yph-mhmb-chn
Venerdì, 11.00-13.00
In presenza: Aula 103 (Marco Polo).
Link alla videochiamata: https://meet.google.com/yph-mhmb-chn
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Prossimi appelli: 2021 - dalle ore 15.00
16 giugno
Esame in presenza: Laboratorio didattico - Aula 2 (RM021-P03L002) - Non risultano prenotati
1 luglio
26 luglio
1 settembre
24 settembre
15 novembre
Avvertenza a tutti gli studenti:
E' possibile prenotare l'esame su Infostud in modalità in presenza, oppure da remoto. In quest'ultimo caso è obbligatorio comunicare al docente via email la motivazione.
Chi prenota l'esame in presenza, e si trovi poi in condizione di doverlo sostenere da remoto, dovrà comunicarlo al docente via email, indicando la motivazione, prima del'inizio dell'appello.
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Classes in the II semester 2020-21:
LAUREA MAGISTRALE: SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN INDIA A
Beginning from: 11 marzo 2021
Thursday: 11-13
Lab.did. aula 3, III piano (Marco Polo).
Google Meet link per le lezioni online - accedere dall'account uniroma1.it :
https://meet.google.com/tqw-zanf-dje
Friday: 11-13.00
Lab.did. aula 1, III piano (Marco Polo).
Google Meet link per le lezioni online - accedere dall'account uniroma1.it :
https://meet.google.com/tqw-zanf-dje
AVVISO: EXAMS
The link for the online exam will be sent to candidates one day before the exam
SESSIONE INVERNALE 2021
29 gennaio 2021: Narratives of Modernity, Society and Culture in India, Storia dell’India (I APPELLO)
1 febbraio: Narratives of Modernity, Society and Culture in India, Storia dell’India (II APPELLO)
5 febbraio: Narratives of Modernity, Society and Culture in India, Storia dell’India (III APPELLO)
Laurea Magistrale: Narratives of Modernity
Non c'e lezione venerdì 23 ottobre.
Lezioni del I semestre 2020-21: ORARIO E PROGRAMMI
LAUREA TRIENNALE: STORIA DELL'INDIA
Inizio: 13 ottobre 2020
martedì: 11-13
Lab.did. aula 3, III piano.
Google Meet link per le lezioni online - accedere dall'account uniroma1.it :
meet.google.com/qfe-ioip-nfg
venerdì: 13-15
Aula 101, I piano
Google Meet link per le lezioni online - accedere dall'account uniroma1.it : :
meet.google.com/wvs-ctpt-bhs
LAUREA MAGISTRALE: NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY
Inizio: 15 ottobre 2020
giovedì 11-13, Sala Riunioni 1, III piano (Marco Polo)
venerdì 11-13, Aula G informatica (Vetrerie Sciarra, II piano, via dei Volsci 122)
Link alla lezione online - accedere dall'account uniroma1.it :
meet.google.com/znc-tixp-mrs
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LAUREA TRIENNALE: STORIA DELL'INDIA
Programma
Il corso introduce gli studenti ad aspetti della storia e della cultura dell'India dalla Civiltà di Harappa al declino dell'impero Gupta (2600 a.C. - 600 d.C.). Le lezioni si soffermeranno sui seguenti argomenti:
1. L'interpretazione del passato indiano
2. Le fonti letterarie e archeologiche
3. La civiltà di Harappa
4. La civiltà arya vedica
5. L'ascesa dei mahajanapada
6. L'ascesa del Magadha
7. Ajivika, Buddhisti e Jaina
8. L'impero Maurya
9. L'India settentrionale sotto Shunga, Saka and Kushana
10. L'impero Satavahana nel Deccan
11. I regni meridionali: Chera, Chola e Pandya
12. L'età Gupta-Vakataka
Testi
Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: from the Stone Age till the 12th century, Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2008, pp. 2-57, 132-211; 256-294, 302-425; 463-496; 526-545
LAUREA MAGISTRALE: NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY
Inizio: 15 ottobre 2020
giovedì 11-13, Sala Riunioni 1, III piano (Marco Polo)
venerdì 11-13, Aula G informatica (Vetrerie Sciarra, II piano, via dei Volsci 122)
General framework
An analysis of the changing socio-economic structure of colonial rule in India as reflected in the city of Calcutta, focusing on cultural transformations and new literary genres.
Programme
1) History and Literature: theoretical considerations
2) Calcutta and the Currents of History
3) Folk and elite culture in colonial Calcutta
4) Calcutta and the Bengal Renaissance
5) The new prose literature and the Bengali novel
6) Exploring gender relations
7) Autobiographies and the idea of a private life
8) The public theatre in colonial Bengal
9) The city in modern Bengali poetry .
Tematica
Analisi dei mutamenti nelle strutture socio-economiche del dominio coloniale in India, visti attraverso la città di Calcutta, con particolare attenzione alle trasformazioni culturali e ai nuovi generi letterari.
Articolazione della didattica frontale
1) Storia e letteratura: considerazioni teoriche
2) Calcutta e le correnti della storia
3) Cultura folk e di elite nella Calcutta coloniale
4) Calcutta e il Rinascimento Bengalese
5) La nuova letteratura in prosa e il romanzo bengali
6) Esplorare le relazioni di genere
7) Autobiografie e l’idea della vita privata
8) Il teatro pubblico nel Bengala coloniale
9) La città nella poesia Bengali moderna
Testi:
1. Banerjee, Sumanta, The Parlour and the Streets: Elite and Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Calcutta, Calcutta, Seagull, 1989, cap. 3,4.
2. Ghosh, Anindita, Claiming the City: Protest, Crime and Scandals in Colonial Calcutta, c.1860-1920, Delhi: OUP, 2016, ch. 2,3.
3. Chaudhuri, Rosinka, Freedom and Beef Steaks: Colonial Calcutta Culture, Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012, cap. 2.
4. Chaudhuri, Supriya, ‘The Bengali Novel’, in V. Dalmia & Rashmi Sadana (ed), Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture, Cambridge: University Press, 2012, cap. 6.
5. Kaviraj, Sudipta, The Invention of Private Life, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2014, cap. 2, 9, 10.
6. Nandy, Ashis, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism, Delhi: OUP, 1983
7. Ray, R.K., Exploring Emotional History: Gender, Mentality and Literature in the Indian Awakening, Delhi: OUP, 2001, cap. 4.
8. Sarkar, Sumit, ‘The City Imagined: Calcutta of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, in Writing Social History, Delhi: OUP, 1997.
9. Sarkar, Tanika, Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2009, cap. 4.
Further readings:
1. Sarkar, Tanika, Words to Win: The Making of a Modern Autobiography, Delhi: Zubaan, 1999.
2. Bardhan, Kalpana (ed) The Oxford India Anthology of Bengali Literature, Vols 1&2, Delhi: OUP 2010.
3. Chaudhuri, SUkanta (ed), Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Poems, Delhi: OUP 2012.
4. Michael Madhusudan Dutta, The Poem of the Killing of Meghnad, Penguin, 2010.
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Presentazione delle lezioni del I semestre
Storia dell'India (LT): martedì 29 settembre alle 11.00.
Il link alla videoconferenza Meet :
meet.google.com/ydn-jrur-zof
Narratives of Modernity (LM): giovedì 1 ottobre alle 11.00.
Il link alla videoconferenza Meet :
meet.google.com/zqv-egbp-ivz
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Lezione: 3.4.2020
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Lezione : 2 .4.2020
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Lezione: 27.3.2020
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Lezione: 26.3.2020
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Lezione 20.3.2020
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Lezione 19.3.2020
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Lezione 13.3.2020
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Lezione 12.3.2020
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DISTANCE LEARNING
for periods of suspension due to a health emergency
Semester: 2019/20
Platform: e-learning (from 19 March, also through videoconferencing. Details will follow)
https://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=10974¬ifyeditingon=1
Notice board: https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/it/users/sanjuktadasguptauniroma1it
Society and Culture in India 2019/20
Starting date: March 12, 2020
Procedure for "attending" students:
The power points of the lessons will be uploaded together with the text for study. Students will have to go through the teaching materials, and they can ask questions to the teacher on specific points of the different topics.
On Thursday morning the teacher will upload the study materials relating to each topic. Students will carefully read the texts provided and may request clarifications or further information by email by Thursday evening.
On Friday morning the teacher will upload questions to assess the students. Students will have to reply to the queries and email it to the teacher within a couple of days. This is to ensure that students have followed the lesson, and is not intended to be an examination.
ORARIO II SEMESTRE:
Society and Culture in India
Classes will start on - 27 February 2020
Thursday: 11.00-13.00, Lab 3 (Marco Polo, 3rd floor)
Friday: 11.00-13.00, Lab 1 (Marco Polo, 3rd floor)
A.A. 2017-18
Lecture schedules and programmes are available here:
http://www.lettere.uniroma1.it/node/6195/1090/2017
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A.A. 2016-17
LAUREA MAGISTRALE:
NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY IN COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL INDIA A
a.a.: 2016/2017 - anno di corso: 1
Settore L-OR/19 - CFU 9 - Semestre nd - Codice 1044836
Programme: MODERN BENGALI LITERATURE: 19th AND 20th CENTURIES
This course outlines the development of the new Bengali literature in modern India since the advent of colonial rule, with a specific focus on the emergence of the new literary genres. The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the discourses of modernity in colonial and post-colonial India.
Reading list:
Bandyopadhyay, Asit, History of Modern Bengali Literature, Calcutta: Modern Book Agency, 1986.
Harder, Hans, "The Modern Babu and the Metropolis: Reassessing Early Bengali Narrative Prose”, in Stuart Blackburn and Vasudha Dalmia (ed), India's Literary Histories: Essays on the Nineteenth Century. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004; pp. 358-401.
Kaviraj Sudipta, The Invention of Private Life: Literature and Ideas, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2014, pp.22-158; 219-250; 272-334.
Bardhan, Kalpana (ed.), The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, Volume 1: 1861-1941, Delhi: OUP, 2010
Bardhan Kalpana (ed.), The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, Volume 2: 1941-1991, Delhi: OUP, 2010
Class hours:
Thursday 14.00 - 16.00 (Aula 4 lab.did.)
Friday 14.00 - 15.00 (Aula 2 lab.did.)
SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN INDIA B
a.a.: 2016/2017 - anno di corso: 1
Settore L-OR/17 - CFU 9 - Semestre nd - Codice 1044973
Programme: WOMEN IN MODERN INDIA (19th and 20th centuries)
This course focuses on the transformations and continuities in the lives of women in colonial and postcolonial India. It provides an understanding of the historical debates in context of the following themes:
• Constructions of gender in colonial and nationalist contexts
• The discourses relating to reform, marriage and sexuality in the nineteenth century
• Women and Politics
• Women and Labour
Reading list:
Sarkar, Tanika and Sumit (eds.) Women and Social Reform in Modern India, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2014. Volume 1
cap: 1-6, 12.
Sarkar, Tanika and Sumit (eds.) Women and Social Reform in Modern India, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2014. Volume 2
cap: 14,17,18,20, 22,23.
Chatterjee, Partha. “The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question,” in K. Sangari and S. Vaid (eds.), Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History, New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989.
Chaudhuri, Maitreyee. “Introduction”, Feminism in India, Delhi: Kali for Women, 2004.
Ghosh, Durba. “Decoding the nameless: gender, subjectivity, and historical methodologies in reading the archives of colonial India”, in Kathleen Wilson (ed.), A New Imperial History: Culture, Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660–1840 , New York, 2004.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse”, in Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Ann Russo, and Lourdes Torres (eds.), Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press,1991.
Class hours
Wednesday 14.00 - 16.00 (Aula R 301)
Thursday 10.00 - 11.00 (Aula 102)
The courses will be taught in English
LAUREA TRIENNALE:
HISTORY OF INDIA (2600 BC. - 600 AD.)
a.a.: 2015/2016 - anno di corso: 2
Settore L-OR/17 - CFU 9 - Semestre I+II - Codice 1044824
Programme
This course introduces students to aspects Indian history and culture from the time of the Harappan civilization till the decline of the Gupta empire (from 2600 BCE to 600 CE). Lectures will include the following topics:
1. Interpreting the Indian past
2. Literary and archaeological sources
3. The Harappan civilization
4. Vedic Aryan civilization
5. The rise of the mahajanapadas
6. The rise of Magadha
7. Ajivikas, Buddhism and Jainism
8. The Mauryan empire
9. Northern India under the Shungas, Sakas and Kushanas
10. The Satavahana empire in the Deccan
11. The southern kingdoms: the Cheras, the Cholas and the Pandyas
12. The Gupta-Vakataka age
Reading:
Upinder Singh, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: from the Stone Age till the 12th century, Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2008, pp. 2-57, 132-211; 256-294, 302-425; 463-496; 526-545
Class hours:
Wednesday 13.00 - 14.00 (Aula 3 lab.did.)
Friday12.00 - 14.00 (Aula 104)
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