AP/HIST4999 6.0 A: Special Topics In History
Offered by: HIST
Session
Fall 2023
Term
Y
Format
SEMR
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
The content of this special topics course varies from year to year. Please consult the Department of History Supplemental Calendar for detailed information. Prerequisites: None Course credit exclusions: None Open to: History Majors and Minors Notes: This course is restricted to History Honours majors and minors who have completed at least 84 credits.
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FW23-24 Topic - Intimacy, Romance and Marriage in 19th to 21st century India
The course explores the transformation of intimate relationships and concurrent shifts in gender relations, and sexual politics in colonial and postcolonial India. It examines socio-political and legal dynamics as well as changing ideas and experiences of intimate life from the late 19th century through to contemporary times. In particular, the course considers how questions of intimacy were grounded in caste, class, religious and racial politics. Some of the themes covered include, the relationship between conjugality and nationalism; the emergence of companionate marriage; criminalization of same sex intimacy; reproduction, contraception and the state; and the regulation of and tensions around romantic love.
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