Royal Holloway offers a wide range of modules and courses that includes topics on Global South Asia. To give you an idea of the options on offer, we’ve gathered together some information on undergraduate modules linked to South Asia within different departments.
History
- First Year: Mao to Mandela: Twentieth-Century Leaders of the non-Western World
- Second Year: Despots and Mullahs: The (Modern) Muslim World and Development, 1930-1980; From Pardah to Parliament: Women and Politics in Modern Muslim Societies
- Third Year: Drawing the Line: Independence, Partition, and the Making of India and Pakistan
Politics
- First Year: Introduction to International Relations
- Second Year: Politics Outside the West
- Third Year: Politics of South Asia; Gender and Nationalism in the Middle East and South Asia
- Third Year: The British in India: a Social and Political History
These modules are taught by researchers and lecturers widely regarded in the field, including Dr. Antara Datta, and Dr. Ibrahim Halwai.
Film
- Second Year: Beyond Bollywood: Indian Cinema in a Transitional Frame
- Second Year: Contemporary Chinese Cinemas
- Third Year: Transnationalism, Diaspora and Globalisation in Contemporary Film
English
- First Year: Shakespeare in India: The adaptation and transposition of Othello to Omkara
- Second Year: Kanthapura by Raja Rao, Studies of Gish Jen, Jo Hamya, Guy Gunaratne, Uschi Gatward, and Jhumpa Lahiri
- Third Year: Studies of R.K. Narayan and Micheal Ondaatje
Centre for Global South Asia 