Government and Politics of South Asia/Y356
Professor Sumit Ganguly
Department of Political Science
Indiana University, Bloomington
Spring 2007
Office: 362 Woodburn Hall.
Office Hours: 2-4 p.m. on Tuesdays or by appointment.
Class Timings: 9:30 to 10:45 Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Course Description: This course will introduce students to the contemporary politics of South Asia. To that end we will examine the development and evolution of political institutions, patterns of governance, social movements and political crises.
Course Requirements:
- All students are expected to read and comment on the assigned material.
- All students are expected to take four in-class, essay exams.*
* Students will be expected to demonstrate a capacity to integrate material drawn from the class lectures with the readings. Mere repetition of class lecture notes or rote summarization of the content of the readings will not suffice.
N.B. The dates of these in-class examinations are on this syllabus. Barring serious extenuating circumstances, such as acute illness, NO make-up examinations will be given.
Grading Procedures: Each examination will constitute a quarter of the final grade.
Required Texts:
- Neil DeVotta, Blowback: Linguistic Nationalism, Institutional Decay, and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004)
- Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. And Stanley A. Kochanek, India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation (Fort Worth: Harcourt Publishers, 2007)*
- Owen Bennett Jones, Pakistan: Eye of the Storm (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)
* Please note that the seventh edition of this textbook will NOT be available for purchase until early February.
Course Schedule:
January 9: Introduction to the study of South Asian politics.
January 11: The Legacies of British Colonialism in South Asia.
January 16: Explaining Divergent Institutional Outcomes: Jones: Chapter 7.
January 18: Variants of Nationalism: Jones: Chapter: 4.
January 23: Institutional Strength and Weakness: Jones: Chapter 8.
January 25: National Cohesion and Secessionist Movements: Jones: Chapter 5.
January 30: "Intermestic" Issues: Jones: Chapter 3.
February 1: Political Evolution: Jones: Chapter: Chapter 1.
February 6: Colonial Legacies: (a second cut): Hardgrave and Kochanek: Chapter 2.
February 8: Institutional Strength and Weakness (a second cut): Hardgrave and Kochanek: Chapter 3.
February 13: First Examination.
February 15: Federalism and Its Discontents: Hardgrave and Kochanek: Chapter 4.
February 20: Political participation: Hardgrave and Kochanek: Chapter 6.
February 22: Political participation: Hardgrave and Kochanek: Chapter 7
February 27: The Politics of Development: Hardgrave and Kochanek: Chapter 8.
March 1: The Politics of Foreign Policy: Hardgrave and Kochanek: Chapter 9.
March 6: Second Examination.
March 8: Colonial Legacies (a third cut): DeVotta: Chapters: 1-2.
March 20: Political Institutions: DeVotta: Chapter 3.
March 22: Political participation and its discontents: DeVotta: Chapter: 4.
March 27: Institutional Breakdown: DeVotta: Chapter 5.
March 29: Secessionist Movements (a second cut): DeVotta: Chapter 6.
April 3: Third Examination.
April 5: Ethnic Conflict: DeVotta: Chapter 7
April 10: Political Evolution: DeVotta: Chapter *.
April 12: Cross-national Comparisons: readings to be handed out.
April 17: Cross-national Comparisons: readings to be handed out.
April 19: Cross-national Comparisons: readings to be handed out.
April 24: Review session for fourth examination.
April 26: Fourth examination.
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