HISTORY 570:SUMMER WORKSHOP NON-WESTERN HISTORY FOR TEACHERS

The following is a list of textual resources used in the making of this website, sources that can provide further information of the subjects.  By no means is this a comprehensive list.  Most of the literary works were taken from web pages on the Internet, primarily from Fordham University's Internet Modern History Sourcebook.  If you have a resource that you feel should be included, please email me with the citation and I will include it on the list.  For a list of internet sources, click here.

For a Gandhi bibliography, click here and scroll halfway down the page.
 

*Bayly, C.A.  Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Provides a synthesis of the India's role in the political and economical shaping of the British Empire.  Early chapters focus on the inability of Indian states to prevent the British into the country while later chapters highlight the changes in social organization and ideologies that led to Indian resistance to colonialism.

*Khilnani, Sunil.  The Idea of India.  New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997.

Offers an Indian perspective to many of the same events that appear in textbooks, however from the other viewpoint and in the context of importance to Indians.  It primarily focuses on the political side of the British presence but looks at other avenues as well.

*Said, Edward.  Orientalism.  New York: Vintage, 1979.

An excellant source, written from the post-colonial perspective, on the misconceptions of the East by the West, providing definitions and accurate viewpoints on the West's errors.

*Wild, Antony.  The East India Company: Trade and Conquest from 1600.  New York: Harper Collins, 2000.

Offers the history of the East India Company, including the political powers that it weilded and relinquished to the British Crown in all of its territories.

*Winks, Robin W.  A History of Civilization: Renaissance to the Present, 9th ed.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1996.

A general history textbook that provided me with many of the basic facts, though it primarily focused on the British in India rather than India itself.

*Gandhi, Directed by Richard Attenborough.  188 minutes.  Columbia/Tri-Star, 1982.  DVD

This is the version starring Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, and Martin Sheen.  A good movie that all should watch at one time or another.  Obviously some parts have been changed for entertainment purposes.  There is a two disc autobiography, titled The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, showing historical footage of Gandhi and the work that he did.