SEMINAR IN S,SEASN - Debates in Medieval Indian History

Drawing on a broad cross-section of theoretical and methodological perspectives this course will interrogate some of the key historiographical debates that have shaped our understanding of the place of Islam and Muslims in pre-1750 Indian history. In so doing, you will be expected to not only think about the ways in which knowledge gets constituted and its impacts (both within academia and beyond) but, more crucially, the question of historical method itself. We will consider, among others, works by Romila Thapar, Finbarr Flood, Richard Eaton, Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Aditya Behl, Allison Busch, Azfar Moin and Abhishek Kaicker.