CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIA OUTREACH

University of Wisconsin-Madison


Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program
Understanding India's Cultural Heritage
Summer 2009

The Center for South Asia (CSA) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to serve as the host of the pre-departure orientation for the Summer 2009 Fulbright Seminar program to India. We are delighted to be collaborating with the US Department of Education Fulbright office and with the United States-India Educational Foundation in New Delhi.

Resources (in order of PDO schedule)

    Web Sites:
  • Kashmira Sheth, author or Blue Jasmine and Monsoon Afternoon
    • Powerpoints and Handouts:
  • Ancient South Asia by J. Mark Kenoyer
  • Forthcoming by Aseema Sinha
  • Powerpoint and Handout for India's Colonial History lecture by Mitra Sharafi
  • South Asian Children's Literature by Rachel Weiss
    • Recommended Readings:
  • Cultures and Societies of the Indus Traditions by J. Mark Kenoyer
  • Indus Civilization by J. Mark Kenoyer in the Encyclopedia of Archaeology, Deborah Pearsall, editor-in-chief, 2008
  • Hindu Beginnings: Assessing the Period 1000 BCE to 300 CE by Guy Welbon
  • Teaching Islam as an Asian Religion by Vernon James Schubel
  • Can a Muslim Be an India? by Gyanendra Pandey
  • India's Democracy; Illusion or Reality? by Philip Oldenburg
  • British Rule in India: An Assessment by Tapan Raychaudhuri (Chapter 15) in The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire edited by P.J. Marshall
  • Reading Across the Curriculum: Using the Fiction of the Indian Subcontinent in Social Science Classes by Andrea Caron Kempf
    • Additional Readings:
  • From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective by Andre Wink
  • India in the World: The World in India 1450 - 1770 by Howard Spodek and Michele Langford Louro
  • Other Information

    Pre-departure Information

    Schedule

     
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