Key facts

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Level 2  -  18 credits  -  spring and summer terms

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Study Direct: V1329 (09/10)

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Course description

Course outline

This course looks at Gandhi and his ideology leading up to the defining moment in Indian nationalism, civil disobedience in 1930. The salt march provided a dramatic stage set for the encounter between the British Raj and popular nationalist sentiment. Colonial authority was undermined by the symbolic illegality of the march and other associated events. The participation of women for the first time, the emergence of popular nationalism and the divisions within it in the form of Hindu-Muslim rivalry will be the themes running through this course.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, a successful student should be able to:
1) understand a historical moment by reference to the particular context in which it occurred;
2) communicate the importance of locality in history, and the specificity of particular historical events;
3) supply evidence of these skills in essays that distil information provided in course lectures and for class discussion;
4) undertake a sustained argument largely based on secondary sources but also using a limited amount of primary material.

Assessments

Resit mode of assessment

Timing

Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.

Weighting

Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.

Teaching methods

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The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.

Contact details

Dr Vinita Damodaran

Assess convenor, Convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/profile7389.html

Dr Lucy Robinson

Assess convenor
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/profile22808.html