Lecture 1 - An Overview of the Lectures - Week 1
Lecture 2 - Origins of the Nation: Western Foundations and Influences
Lecture 3 - Print Capitalism and the Making of Nation States
Lecture 4 - Nation, Nationalism, and Modernity: Their Journey to the Colonies
Lecture 5 - The Civilizing Mission: Justifying Empire through European Values
Lecture 6 - Orientalism in Practice: Reading Kipling’s The Mark of the Beast
Lecture 7 - Gods, Power, and Representation: Orientalism in The Mark of the Beast
Lecture 8 - Understanding Modernity: Ideas and Origins in the European Context
Lecture 9 - Civilizing Mission and Colonial Mimicry in Khushwant Singh’s Karma
Lecture 10 - From Western to Alternative Modernity: Nationalist Reimaginings of the Modern
Lecture 11 - An Overview of the Lectures - Week 2
Lecture 12 - Negotiating Modernity: Tradition and the Public-Private Divide in Colonial India
Lecture 13 - Colonial Encounters with Classical Knowledge: Power, Authority, and Interpretation
Lecture 14 - Women and Reform: Empowerment or Patriarchal Continuity?
Lecture 15 - The Colonial Prison: Punishment, Power, and Institutional Transformation
Lecture 16 - Colonial Time and the Advent of Punctuality
Lecture 17 - An Overview of the Lectures - Week 3
Lecture 18 - Forging an Alternative Modernity: Reform and Cultural Synthesis
Lecture 19 - The Bhadramahila and the Nation: Gender, Reform, and Representation
Lecture 20 - Bhadramahila on Screen: Gender, Nation, and Modernity in Ghare Baire
Lecture 21 - Textile Prison: Shame, Femininity, and the Bhadramahila in Colonial Bengal
Lecture 22 - Modernity and the Remaking of the Domestic Sphere
Lecture 23 - An Overview of the Lectures - Week 4
Lecture 24 - The Social History of the Sari: Sartorial Politics in Colonial Bengal
Lecture 25 - Colonial Modernity and the Transformation of Friendship: Reading Sibnath Sastry’s Autobiography
Lecture 26 - Colonialism and the Birth of the Indian Novel
Lecture 27 - The Paradox of Restoration: Nationalism and the Colonial Presence
Lecture 28 - Nationalism and the 'Good' Empire: Reading Lagaan and the Legacy of Colonial Administration
Lecture 29 - The Anglicist–Orientalist Debate: A Shared Justification for Empire
Lecture 30 - Vande Mataram and the Making of Mother India
Lecture 31 - Language as Mother: Tamil, Nationalism, and Emotional Belonging
Lecture 32 - Secularism and the Nation: Religion, Reform, and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Lecture 33 - Secularism and the Postcolonial Indian State: Reform, Religion, and 'Principled Distance'
Lecture 34 - Caste and the Making of Nation
Lecture 35 - Subaltern Studies and Methods of Historiography
Lecture 36 - Dalit Politics and Dalit Historiography
Lecture 37 - Anti-Caste Movements and Jotirao Phule
Lecture 38 - Anti-Caste Movements and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
Lecture 39 - Anti-Caste Movements and E.V.R. Periyar
Lecture 40 - Caste in Bengal
Lecture 41 - Women and Nation
Lecture 42 - Women's Autobiographies and Identity Formation
Lecture 43 - Women's Writing as Representation
Lecture 44 - Women in Politics
Lecture 45 - Women in Ambedkarite Movements
Lecture 46 - Women in Periyar's Self Respect Movement
Lecture 47 - Nation and Popular Culture
Lecture 48 - Nation and Representation
Lecture 49 - Nation and Queer Desire
Lecture 50 - Emergence of Publishing Houses
