History Wars

This course will focus on moments in modern public life when the past becomes a matter of explicit, and sometimes violent, contestation. The course will use mainly South Asian but also some comparative instances to introduce certain themes: historical discourse and the politics of recognition; the idea of historical wound; the difference and the relationship between “historical truth” and “historical wound”; the public and cloistered lives of the discipline of History in modern political formations.

HIST 61902| SALC 37905 | CCCT 61902