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Understanding India

you will explore the history, diverse culture, and dynamic present of one of the world's most fascinating countries through webquests and literature.

Understanding India - A webquest

We'll focus on basic facts on India, it's colonial past and present-day India.

1: Webquest instructions

Literature focusing on colonial themes

We'll read a couple of classics that focus on the complex relationship between

7: Karma

7A: Karma Tasks

8: Lispeth + white man

8A: Lispeth Tasks

8B: Lispeth TallPal

Literature focusing on postcolonial/present-day themes

9: Mother and Son

9A: Mother and Son Tasks

10: The Covenant of Water

10A: The Covenant of Water Tasks

10B: The Covenant of Water summary

11: Stench of Kerosene

11A: Stench of Kerosene Tasks

11B: Stench of Kerosene Homework

12: Through the Fog

12A: Through the Fog Tasks

Shakespeare in India

Coming

Bibliography:

BBC-Bitesize: “British colonialism in India”, https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zx8sf82#zg3pg2p

Rudyard Kipling: “Lispeth”, (1886), https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/tale/lispeth.htm

Rudyard Kipling: The White Man's Burden (1899), https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_burden.htm

Abraham Verghese: Excerpt from “The Covenant of Water”, Grove Press, UK, 2023

Kushwant Singh: “Karma” (1950), https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c-WfkTd-uxvKSGftHyNiAoeIrNjXeWaLfimp05AWU0U/edit?usp=drive_link

Narayan, R.K.: ”Mother and Son”, 1956, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G2Uzf8dw3La5puyF-u7kMdPv5FmMDsuObV-RlZ3Tbok/edit?usp=sharing

Isabel Wilkerson: “Through the Fog of Delhi to the Parallels in India and America (chapter 7)” in “Caste – The Origins of Our Discontents“, Random House. 2020

Amrita Pritam: “Stench of Kerosene and other short stories”, Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1991