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This course is about India from the fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This was a period of sometimes slow or subtle, occasionally cataclysmic, but often palpable transformation, and we shall examine the ways in which what people believed, where and how they lived, their relationship to the state and its power, and how they expressed themselves was changing. Certain aspects of these developments were unique or idiosyncratic, but others were linked to changes experienced in other places, like the upheavals associated with the Little Ice Age or the upsurge in radical preaching associated with the anticipation of the End Times. Connected as never before, thanks to the upsurge in mobility and thickening globalisation witnessed in these centuries, India and Indians shaped 鈥� perhaps as much as they were shaped by 鈥� developments in other parts of the world, from Europe and the Atlantic world to the Islamic lands and the Indian Ocean arena. Although we will focus first and foremost on India, by placing its history in its global context throughout this course, we shall scrutinise the emerging notion of a 鈥榞lobal early modernity鈥�.听
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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