POL2 211: Politics of South Asia

"Accounts of the personal tragedies caused by the civil war in Sri Lanka."

"Impact of Sri Lanka's 20-year ethnic conflict on women."

"Manhood, male insecurities, and anti-Muslim violence."

"Documents India-Pakistan religious militarism and India-Pakistan peace activism"

"Political agendas behind militant Hindu revivalist violence against India’s Christian minority."

"religion and law affecting women in Pakistan's Punjab"

"abuses of women's rights by male establishments and female collaboration"

"the growing movement of Bangladeshi women who run profitable cottage industries"

"government efforts to make schools more accessible, particularly to girls"

"Mira Nair's first film, a tour around the Jama Masjid area in Old Delhi"

"From the first War of Indian Independence in 1857 to the division of the Subcontinent in 1947"

"Participants in partition violence explain what they thought they were doing"

"examines the role of Pakistan’s founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, in the partition of Pakistan"

"Ahmad investigates politico-religious ideals leading to the partition of India."

"India’s political history from Partition to the assassination of Indira Gandhi"

"Pakistan’s political history from partition to the election of Benazir Bhutto."

"an NGO-established school's experience with bureaucracy and politicians"

"philosophy, development, and function of the micro-credit Grameen Bank"