Anticolonial Resistance In The British Empire

AY2021/2022 Semester 1

This course will examine anticolonial thought and movements that were a corollary of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will study the response of colonized peoples to the expansion of the British Empire as it spread across the globe through the means of both formal and informal rule. Further, we will try and understand how anticolonial resistance changed and mutated as the British Empire consolidated itself, and how people effected social and political transformations under conditions of colonialism. Finally, we will examine the dismantling of the British Empire and the lasting legacies of empire that continue to shape the trajectory of postcolonial nation states. This course will be of interest to students of 19th and 20th Century political and intellectual history; methods of comparative study; as well as for those with an interest in working with visual sources, such as films and graphic novels. Finally, students with an interest in developing independent research, writing and critical thinking skills will benefit most from this course. This course will be listed under the category of World History for the BA in History