Studentene oppfordres også til å skaffe seg en generell bakgrunnskunnskap om sørasiatisk historie. Les gjerne Part I og II i Corbridge og Harriss Reinventing India, som dog bare handler om India. Alternativer for mer av Sør-Asia, men som ikke er på pensumslisten:
- Ruud, Mageli og Price Indias historie, med Pakistan og Bangladesh (Oslo 2004), kap. 8-10
- S. Bose & A. Jalal Modern South Asia: History, culture, political economy (London 1998), kap. 10 og utover
Mesteparten av pensum er å finne enten her:
- Kompendiet for SAS1504 (markert med K)
- Corbridge & Harriss, eds. Reinventing India
- P. Chatterjee, ed. State and politics in India, OUP Delhi
- C. Jaffrelot, ed. Pakistan: Nationalism without a nation? Zed Books, London (markert med J)
- Arild Engelsen Ruud, Poetics of Village Politics, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003)
Noe pensumslitteratur er tilgjengelig andre steder:
- internett (markert med I - kan bare hentes opp fra en universitetsmaskin!)
- deles ut på forelesning eller hentes utenfor rom 381 PA Munchs hus
Introduksjon
Corbridge, Stuart & John Harriss: Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy, 2000. Oxford University Press, Delhi. Part III, s. 143-239 (i alt 82 s.).
Patroner, klienter og subalterns
(K) Cohn, BC.: Some notes on law and change: An anthropologist among the historians, 1987. s. 554-574.
(UHS) Dumont: "Power and Territory", i Homo hierarchicus : the caste system and its implications , s. 152-166.
(K) Chakrabaty: Rethinking working-class history, Kap. 4: The paradox of organization, 1989. Princeton University Press. s. 116-154.
(K) Ruud, A.E.: "Talking dirty about politics" i C. Fuller & V. Bénéï, red: The everyday state, 2000. s. 115-136.
Fasene i indisk politikk
(C) Manor, James: "Parties and the party system" i P Chatterjee, red: State and politics in India, OUP. s. 92-124.
(C) Butler, David et al: "India decides: Elections 1952-1995" i P. Chatterjee, red: State and politics in India, OUP Delhi. s. 125-177.
(C) Yadav, Y: "Reconfiguration in Indian politics: State assembly elections 1993-1995" i P. Chatterjee, red: State and politics in India, OUP Delhi. s. 177-208.
(K) Kochanek, Stanley A: Indira Gandhi's India, A Political System Reappraised, 1976. Kap. 4 Mrs. Gandhi's Pyramid: The New Congress, s. 93-124.
(K) Kaviraj, Sudipta: "Kap 4. On State, Society and Discourse in India" i Manor ed: Rethinking Third World Politics,, 1991. s. 72-99.
Primordial og instrumental: Opptøyer med fokus på hindunasjonalisme
(K) Brass, Paul: The production of Hindu-Muslim violence in contemporary India, 2003. OUP Delhi. Kap. 9 The practice of communal politics, s. 240-261.
(K) Juergensmeyer, M: "The logic of religious violence" i T.N. Madan, red: Religion in India, OUP Delhi. s. 382-393.
(C) Basu, Amrita: "When local politics are not merely local: Bringing the state back in, Bijnor 1988-1992" i P. Chatterjee, red: State and politics in India, OUP Delhi. s. 390-435.
Corbridge, Stuart & John Harriss: Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy, , 2000. Oxford University Press, Delhi. Part III, s. 143-239 (i alt 82 s.).
Kaste og politikk
(K) Kothari, Rajni: "Introduction" i R. Kothari, red: Caste in Indian politics,, 1991. s. 3-25.
(K) Pai, Sudha: Dalit assertion and the unfinished democratic revolution: the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh, 2002. Sage, New Delhi. Kap. 5. ’New forms of Dalit assertion at the grassroots: The BSP in Meerut district, s. 192-219.
(I) Chandra, Kanchan: "The transformation of ethnic politics in India: The decline of Congress and the rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Hoshiarpur" i Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 59 no. 1, 2000. s. 26-61. Fulltekst.
(K) Mendelsohn, Oliver & Marika Vicziany: The Untouchables: Subordination, poverty and the state in modern India, 1998. CUP. Kap. 7 Untouchable politics and untouchable politicians since 1956 (s. 203-237).
(K) Jaffrelot, Christoph: "The Sangh Parivar between sanskritization and social engineering" i C. Jaffrelot & T.B. Hansen, red: The BJP and the compulsion of politics in India, 1998. OUP Delhi. s. 22-71.
Politiske ledere, fokus på sør
(C) Pandian, M.S.S: "Culture and subaltern consciousness: An aspect of the MGR phenomenon" i P. Chatterjee, red: State and politics in India, Delhi. s. 367-389.
(K) Bate, J. Bernard: "Political praise in Tamil newspapers: The poetry and iconography of democratic power" i Diane P. Mines and Sarah Lamb, red: Everyday life in South Asia, 2002. Indiana University Press. s. 308-325.
(K) Price, Pamela: "Ideological integration in post-colonial (South) Asia: Aspects of a political language" i C Bates & S Basu, eds: Rethinking Indian political institutions, 2005. Anthem. s. 39-62.
(I) Price, Pamela: Revolution and Rank in Tamil Nationalism, 1996. JAS. s. 359-383.
(I) Sara Dickey: "The Politics of Adulation: Cinema and the Production of Politicians in South India. " i The Journal of Asian Studies, vol.52 No.2, pp. 340-372. Fulltekst.
Bondekommunisme
(R) Ruud, Arild Engelsen: Poetics of Village Politics, 2003. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. s. 1-211.
(C) Kohli, Atul: "From breakdown to order: West Bengal" i P. Chatterjee, red: State and politics in India, s. 336-366.
Nasjonalisme, fokus på Pakistan
Bakgrunn:
(J) Jaffrelot, Christophe, ed: A History of Pakistan and Its Origins, 2002. London: Anthem Press. Part 1 (s.9-94).
(J) Jaffrelot, Christoph, red: Pakistan: Nationalism without a nation?, Zed books / Manohar Delhi 2002. Ian Talbot: The punjabization of Pakistan: Amélie Blom: The 'multi-vocal state': The policy of Pakistan in Kashmir; Mohammad Waseem: The dialectic between domestic politics and foreign politics; Jean-Luc Racine: Pakistan and the 'India syndrome': Between Kashmir and the nuclear predicament Myth or reality? og Yunas Samad: In and out of power but not down and out: Mohajir identity politics..
(K) Talbot, Ian: "Understanding religious violence in contemporary Pakistan: Themes and theories" i Kaur ed: Religion, Violence and Political Mobilisation in South Asia, s. 145-164.