ASST 426
Envisioning the South Asian City, 1700-1900 Fall 2016
Division II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed ARTH 426
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This seminar explores cities in South Asia as sites of cross-cultural encounters and power negotiations through its visual production — urban planning and landscaping, architecture, ritual performance, and the representations of cities in maps, panoramas, topographic paintings, and photography albums. What was the relationship between a new urban identity and the city’s past layers of history? How did the visual representations reinforce and disseminate a city’s image by selectively promoting or erasing certain characteristics? How did cultural encounters create a hybrid urban space? With these questions in mind, we will look at some of the major South Asian cities that went through significant transformations in their urban forms between 1700-1900, such as Delhi, Jaipur, Lucknow, Banaras, and Calcutta. We will consider not only the distinctive visual production of each city, but also the ways in which these cities were linked to each other through the larger political, social, and cultural networks.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Expected: 12
Class#: 1453
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: presentations, one short midterm paper (3-4 pages), and one final paper (15-20 pages)
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites: some coursework in ARTH and/or ASST would be useful; or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: majors
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: meets Division I requirement if registration is under ARTH; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under ASST
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ASST 426 Division II ARTH 426 Division I
Attributes: ARTH post-1600 Courses

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