South Asia
“Expose the Hollowness of Moral Pretensions”: Gandhi on Non-cooperation and Anticolonialism in 1920
Discussion of how Gandhi saw non-cooperation as a response to events of 1919 and 1920
“The World Will Be Reconstructed”: Four Visions of Anticolonialism in 1920
Discussion of how to teach the various anticolonial strategies of 1920.
“For the Right of Every People to Govern Themselves”: Challenging Empire in 1919
Discussion of how to teach 1919 as the start of decolonization.
“Colonialism in all its Manifestations is an Evil”: Teaching Decolonization, 1914 to Present
Discussion of how to teach decolonization in world history courses and centering the agency of colonized peoples
“There is One God”: Teaching Sikhism and Syncretism
A discussion of how to teach the Hindu and Islamic influences on Sikhism.
“The Air is Filled with the Stink of Jute”: Teaching South Asia’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution
Discussion of how to teach South Asia’s economic changes in the nineteenth century
“Being Deeply Concerned with Agriculture”: The Spread of Champa Rice, and some surprises
Discussion of how to use different sources to teach the spread of Champa rice
“Filled with Various Races”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Long Nineteenth Century
A discussion of how to teach the Indian Ocean exchange network in the nineteenth century.
“Chinese Came In Droves”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
A discussion of teaching the Indian Ocean exchange network in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
“The Unspun Thread for the Message of Allah”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
A discussion of teaching the Indian Ocean exchange network in the sixteenth century.
