HIST 154 CM - Gandhi’s India

This seminar is an exercise in how to study a topic in history from different theoretical perspectives. We will look at Mohandas (“Mahatma”) Gandhi, the India he belonged to of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, and the problems he took up (inequality, leadership, self-perfection) through the perspectives of narrative history, development, Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, cultural studies, postmodernism, deconstruction, and feminism.

Offered: Every year

Credit: 1

Course Number: HIST154 CM