British Colonial rule in Asia

 

Post has three assignments

1:A) What impacts British Colonial rule in Asia had on Himalayan regions and how the British view shaped the perception of the people of Himalaya?
B) Using the example of either Kashmir or Tibet, explain the current conflict in these regions. What are the sources of the conflict?
C) The diversity of languages in Nepal and Bhutan are an obstacle to the development of the country.

Please follow the rules below:
1) Write your name, student number and course title.
2) Save the paper with your name and course number. (Don’t save as the Final Paper”).
3) Write the question you are answering as the heading of the paper.
4) General: Final paper: A 2000-2500 word academic paper based on an assigned topic or student research/project paper, (agreed and discussed with the instructor). The paper must show a critical understanding of the subjects covered in the course and demonstrate student understanding of issues and ability to provide critical analysis of the subject. The paper will be graded on content and academic writing skills. For the final paper, the students are expected in addition to assigned readings, to utilise secondary academic secondary sources and materials. The paper will be graded on factual content, analysis, form and academic writing style. (Based on Learning objective 2, 3, 5 & 6)
Learning Objectives:
2) Be able to discuss the value of open, free inquiry and ethnic and cultural diversity.
3) Able to show knowledge of the religious, political, moral, and cultural contexts in which different tradition.
5) Students can recognize cultural differences and similarities and embrace them. That is, students develop cultural competence in a globalized world.
6) Develop critical analytical skills and writing based on assigned readings

General Guideline on Formatting Written Paper:
Written assignments should:
A) Begin with an introduction that restates the paper topic and presents your conclusions as specifically as possible.
B) Provide the thesis or the central point first before supporting it with evidence.
C) Develop an argument in a coherent, compelling way, where all information and description presented is tied to your argument and each paragraph contributes to your argument.
D) Avoid mere description.
E) be grammatically correct and well-cited.
F) be written for an academic audience.

Course Description:

Himalayas mountainous region, stretching from Northern Pakistan to Myanmar and China in the East, with Tibetan Plateau occupying central position, the region has long occupied a significant global imagination. The region has become sight of mass tourism and attraction international moisteners. The region is subject of academic studies, from anthropology and religious studies to development environmentalism, and tourism. The course introduces the Himalayan region to students through interdisciplinary approaches in social sciences and humanities, that will deal issues of language, ethnicity, nation building and This course will explore the history, cultural formation, religious traditions and the popular representations of the Himalaya in the west; in films and literature. This course will examine the origins of the Trekking, mountaineering and its local impact; Religion and the Himalaya; Mountain development and conserving diversity.

Reading:
The class will rely mainly on secondary sources and translations of local language sources. There will be no language requirement, however, students will be introduced to key terms in Buddhism, Hinduism and the Culture and Politics of the Himalayan region.

The course assignment and reading materials will introduce the students to available academic and popular works in English.

Students will be required to read the latest scholarly publications on related to Himalayan region. In addition, the class will show films, documentaries and other visual representation of religion, people and arts of Tibet and Himalayas.

READING LIST:

READING SOURCES: (BASED ON THE TOPIC & CHOOSE THE READING sources that you need TO WRITE THE PAPER)

Week 1: Introduction and course syllabus Tuesday 3th January 2017 5th Thursday
van Schendel, W. (2002). “Geographies of knowing, geographies of ignorance: jumping scale in Southeast Asia.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 647-668.

Week 2: Geography, Territoriality, and Space: Tuesday 10 & Thursday 12 January
Bishop, Peter, (1993). “Tibet Discovered”, Dreams of Power, Tibetan Buddhism, and the Western Imagination, 1993, London, The Athlone Press, pp:22-41

Shakya, Tsering, (1991) TIBET AND THE OCCIDENT The Myth of Shangri-la
https://info-buddhism.com/Myth_of_Shangri-Ia_Tsering_Shakya.html

Week 3: Colonial politics, Natural history, and the creation of Himalaya, 17 & 19 January:

Caplan, L 1991. ‘Bravest of the Brave’: Representations of ‘The Gurkha’ in British Military Writings. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Jul., 1991), pp. 571-597

McKay, Alex, 2001. Truth, Perception, and Politics: The British Construction of an Image of Tibet. IN T. Dodin and H. Räther, eds. Imagining Tibet: Perceptions, Projections, and Fantasies. Boston: Wisdom Publications, pp. 67-

Brockway, L 1979. Science and colonial expansion: the role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens. American Ethnologist, Vol. 6, No. 3, Interdisciplinary Anthropology (Aug., 1979), pp. 449-465

Week 4: 24 & 26 January: Popular representations of the Himalaya

Hansen, Peter. 1996. The Dancing Lamas of Everest: Cinema, Orientalism, and Anglo-Tibetan Relations in the 1920s. The American Historical Review. Vol. 101, No. 3, Jun., 1996: 712 – 717

Bishop, Peter, (1989). “Lost Horizon: From Sacred Place to Utopia (1904-59)”, The myth of Shangri-La : Tibet, travel writing, and the western creation of sacred landscape. Berkeley, pp: 191-239

Week 5: 31 January & 2nd February, Religion and Scared Space: Shamanism /Folk Religions

Ortner, S.B. 1995. The case of the disappearing shamans, or no individualism, no relationalism. ETHOS Vol. 23, No. 3, Sep., 1995: 355-390

Samuel, Geoffery 1993. Civilised Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute Press.

Mumford, S. R. 1990. Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal. Kathmandu: Tiwari’s Pilgrims Book House.

Week 6: Religion and Scared Space: Buddhism

Samuel, Geoffery 1993. Civilised Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute Press.

Week 7: Language, Ethnicity and Nation

Burghart, R 1984. The Formation of the concept of the Nation-State in Nepal. The Journal of Asian Studies 4, 101-25.

Samuel, Geoffery, 1982. Tibet as a Stateless Society and Some Islamic Parallels, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 41, No. 2 (Feb., 1982), pp. 215-229

Phuntsho, Karma, 2014, “The Unification of Dragon Kingdom”, The History of Bhutan, Haus Publication, pp:

Week 9: Scard Sites and Pilgrimage:

Buffetrille, K, 1998, “Reflection on Pilgrimages to Sacret Mountains, Lakes and Caves”, in Alex McKay, Pilgrimage in Tibet, London, Routledge, pp: 18-30

Bharati, Agehananda, 1978 “Actual and Ideal Himalayas: Hindu View of the Mountains”, James F. Fisherm (Ed), Himalayan Anthropology: The Indo-Tibetan Interface, The Hague, Mouton Publishers, pp: 77-83

Week 9 Romance of Himalayas and Allure of the Everest:
Adams, V 1997. “Dreams of a Final Sherpa”. American Anthropologist 9(1) 85 -98.
Nyaupane, Gyan P, 2015. “Mountaineering on Mt Everest: evolution, economy, ecology and ethics”, Eds, Ghazali Musa, James Higham, Anna Thompson- Carr, Mountaineering Tourism, London, Routledge, pp: 266-271
Mazzolini, Elizabeth, 2012. “The Garbage Question on the Top of the World”, in Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social Justice, Edited Stephanie Foote, Elizabeth Mazzolini, Cambridge, The MIT Press, pp: 147-171

Week 10: Himalayas as a Zone of Contest:

Shneiderman, Sara, and Mark Turin 2004. The Path to Jan Sarkar in Dolakha District: Towards an Ethnography of the Maoist Movement. In Michael Hutt (ed) Himalaya People’s War: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion, London: Christopher Hurst.

van Schendel, W. 2014. “Asian Borderlands: Introducing their Permeability, Strategic Uses and Meanings”, Journal of Borderlands Studies, 29:1, 3-9,

McGranahan, Carole 2005. “Truth, Fear, and Lies: Exile Politics and Arrested Histories of the Tibetan Resistance”. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 20, Issue 4, pp. 570-600.

Week 11: Development:

Litzinger, Ralph. 2006. Contested Sovereignties and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund PoLAR: Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 66-87.

Snodgrass, Jeffery et al. 2008. Witch Hunts, Herbal Healing, and Discourses of Indigenous Ecodevelopment in North India: Theory and Method in the Anthropology of Environmentality. American Anthropologist Vol. 110, No. 3, pp. 299-312.

Yeh, Emily, (2013) “Build a Civilized City”: Making Lhasa Urban”. Taming Tibet, Landscape transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, pp: 195-227
Week 12: Politics and the Himalaya

Gellner, David & Krishna Hachhethu, 2008. “Chapter 1, Introduction”, Local Democracy in South Asia: Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours, New Delhi, ?SAGE Publications India, 2008?, pp:13-25???????

Turin, Mark, 2014. “Mother Tongues and Language Competence: The Shifting Politics of linguistic belonging in the Himalayas”. In Gerard Toffin, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (Edited), Facing Globalization in the Himalayas: Belonging and the Politics of the Self, New Delhi, ?SAGE Publications India, 2014, pp: 371-396 ????????

Week 13: Emerging Issues in Himalayas:

Climate Change/Natural Disaster

Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Biodiversity, livelihood and climate change in the Himalayan region. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Biodiversity, Livelihood and Climate Change in the Himalayas. (eds.) Jha, P.K., K.K. Shrestha, R.P. Chaudhary and B.B. Shrestha. Central Department of Botany, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu. pp. 1-39.

Migration:

Adhikari, Jagannath and Hobley, Mary (2015) “”Everyone is leaving. Who Will Sow Our Fields?” The Livelihood Effects on Women of Male Migration from Khotang and Udaypur Districts, Nepal, to the Gulf Countries and Malaysia.,” Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: 35,1, pp;10-21

Resource Crisis:

Wasson, Robert J.; Newell, Barry, “Links between Floods and Other Water Issues in the Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau Region,” Pacific Affairs, Volume 88. 3. 2015, pp. 653-675

2: How Successful have UN Peacekeeping Operations been since the 1990s?

Order Description

Focus on post Brahimi report operations and analysis against the following criteria:
– Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
– Clear and achievable mandate
– UN Leadership & unity of purpose/effort
– Political will and commitment to missions, including resource allocation
– credibility/legitimacy of the missions
Include regional influence in conflict containment/restoration

2 x case studies:
South Sudan (UNMIS)
Mali (MINUSMA)

3:How will community development decrease smoking rate among adult on glasgow?

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