Pensum høsten 2017
Bøker som må kjøpes:
Pechilis, Karen og Selva J. Raj 2013: South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Oxon: Routledge.
Bigelow, Anna 2010: Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India. New York: Oxford University Press.
Arild Engelsen Ruud, Eldrid Mageli og Pamela Price 2004: Indias historie med Pakistan og Bangladesh. Oslo: Cappelen akademisk forlag. (Utsolgt fra forlaget. I fall den ikke lar seg bestille, vil de aktuelle kapitlene gjøres tilgjengelig på annet vis.)
Resten av pensum gjøres tilgjengelig ved kursstart.
Indiske religioner (1): Hinduisme og sikhisme
Narayanan, Vasudha 2013: «Hinduism: Practicing tradition today», i Karen Pechilis og Selva J. Raj (red.): South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Oxon: Routledge, s. 38-70 (32 sider)
Singh, Pashaura 2013: «Sikhism: Practicing tradition today», i Karen Pechilis og Selva J. Raj (red.): South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Oxon: Routledge, s. 222-249 (27 sider)
Indiske religioner (II): Islam og kristendom
Ruffe, Karen G. 2013: «Islam in South Asia: Practicing tradition today», i Karen Pechilis og Selva J. Raj (red.): South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Oxon: Routledge, s 192-221 (29 sider)
Thangaraj. M. Thomas 2013: «Christianity in South Asia: Practicing tradition today», i Karen Pechilis og Selva J. Raj (red.): South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Oxon: Routledge, s 160-191 (31 sider)
Bakgrunn: Stat og religiøs kompleksitet
Crowder, George 2013: «Introduction», i Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press, s. 1-37 (37 sider)
Omer, Atalia og Jason A. Springs 2013: «What is ‘religious’ about religious nationalism?», i Religious Nationalism: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, s. 1-42 (42 sider)
Mahajan, Gurpreet 2002: «Secularism as religious non-discrimination: The universal and the particular in the Indian context», India Review 1(1), 33-51 (18 sider)
Mogulske kontraster
Mageli, Eldrid 2004: «Mogulriket 1526-1720», i Arild Engelsen Ruud, Eldrid Mageli og Pamela Price: Indias historie med Pakistan og Bangladesh. Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, s. 152-191 (39 sider)
Sunil Khilnani 2016: «Akbar: The world and the bridge», i Incarnations: A History of India in 50 lives, s. 116-123 (7 sider, podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wq1fh).
Truschke, Audrey 2017: «Overseer of Hindu religious communities”, i Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s most Controversial King. Stanford: Stanford University Press, sidetall kommer.
Kolonitidens transformasjoner
Pamela Price 2004: «Britisk etablering og det indiske samfunnet 1793-1885», i Arild Engelsen Ruud, Eldrid Mageli og Pamela Price: Indias historie med Pakistan og Bangladesh. Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, s. 221-261 (40 s).
Cohn, Bernard S. 1997: «Law and the colonial state in India», i Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge, Delhi: Oxford University Press, s. 57-75 (18 s.)
Appadurai, Arjun (1993): «Number in the colonial imagination» i Carol Breckenridge og Peter van der Veer (red.): Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives from South Asia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, s. 314-339 (25 sider)
Tilspissing: Uavhengighetsbevegelse, frihet og splittelse
Khilnani, Sunil 2016: «Lakshmi Bai, rani of Jhansi: Bad-ass queen, 1828-1858», Incarnations: A History of India in 50 lives, s. 165-171 (6 sider, podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xgm2b)
Ruud, Arild Engelsen 2004: «Uavhengighetsbevegelsen, 1885-1947», i Arild Engelsen Ruud, Eldrid Mageli og Pamela Price: Indias historie med Pakistan og Bangladesh. Oslo: Cappelen Akademisk Forlag, s. 262-311 (49 sider)
Sunil Khilnani 2016: «Gandhi: In the palm of our hands – 1869-1948», Incarnations: A History of India in 50 lives, s. 289-298 (9 sider, podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072mvvr)
Sunil Khilnani 2016: «Jinnah: The chess player, 1876-1948», Incarnations: A History of India in 50 lives, s. 299-308 (9 sider, podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072n5xh)
Nair, Neeti 2013: «Beyond the ‘communal’ 1920s: The problem of intention, legislative pragmatism, and the making of Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code», The Indian Economic and Social History Review 50(3): 317-340 (23 sider)
Delingen av India sett fra Malerkotla
Bigelow, Anna 2010: Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India. New York: Oxford University Press, s. 1-150 (150 sider)
Fellesreligiøse rom sett fra Malerkotla
Bigelow, Anna 2010: Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India. New York: Oxford University Press, s. 151-246 (95 sider)
Fellesreligiøse rom og praksiser: Tre perspektiver
Das, Veena, 2012: «The dreamed guru: The entangled lives of the amil and the anthropologist», i Jacob Copeman og Aya Ikegame (red.): The Guru in South Asia: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Routledge, s. 133-155 (22 sider)
Frøystad, Kathinka 2012: «Divine intersections: Hindu ritual and the incorporation of religious others», Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal 4(2), 1- 21 (21 sider)
Hayden, Robert M. 2002: «Antagonistic tolerance: Competitive sharing of religious sites in South Asia and the Balkans», i Current Anthropology 43(2): 205-231 (26 sider)
Etnoreligiøs vold og staten
Veena Das 1996 [1990]: «Our work to cry, your work to listen», i Veena Das (red.): Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and Survivors in South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, p. 345-398 (53 sider)
Van der Veer, Peter 1996: “Riots and rituals: The construction of violence and public space in Hindu nationalism”, i Paul Brass (red.): Riots and Pogroms. New York: New York University Press, s. 154-176 (22 sider)
Ghassem-Fachandi, Parvis 2012: «Why do you leave? Fight for us», i Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India. Princeton: Princeton University Press, s. 31-57 (26 sider)
Multikulturalisme og kjønn
Forbes, Geraldine 1996: «Women in Independent India», i Women in Modern India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, s. 223-254 (31 s.)
Philips, Amali 2011: «Sharia and Shah Bano: Multiculturalism and women’s rights», i Anthropologica 53(2), s.275-290 (15 s.)
Kapur, Ratna 2012: «Pink chaddis and slut walk couture: The postcolonial politics of feminism lite», i Feminist Legal Studies 20(1), s. 1-29 (20 s.)
Krenkelser og blasfemi
Khilnani, Sunil 2016: «M. F. Husain: ‘Hindustan is Free!’», i Incarnations: A History of India in 50 lives, s. 383-391 (8 sider, podcast http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0745d3j).
Chandran, Mini 2010: «The Democratization of Censorship: Books and the Indian public» i Economic and Political Weekly 45(40), side 27-31 (4 sider).
Frøystad, Kathinka 2013: «Cosmopolitanism or iatrogenesis? Reflections on religious plurality, censorship and disciplinary orientations», i Uwe Skoda, Kenneth Bo Nilsen og Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger (red.): Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond. London: Anthem Press, s. 19-40 (21 sider).
Wendy Doniger 2015: «The fight for the history of Hinduism in the academy», i Wendy Doniger og Martha Nussbaum (red.): Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right. New York: Oxford University Press, s. 310-326 (16 s.)