Teaching India: A Workshop for College and University Instructors

February 10-12, 2005

University of Central Arkansas

Historically, India is the home of Hinduism and Buddhism, two of the world’s major religions, and the site of Mughal and British contests for cultural domination.  Contemporary India witnesses some of the sharpest extremes of poverty and technological power. An Orientalist fantasy for centuries of Anglo-Europeans, from John Donne and Thomas Coryate to Allen Ginsberg and the Beatles, India today is one of the world’s few nuclear powers and the site of the "outsourcing" of American business, medical, and even religious needs. India has been as much a powerful source of spiritual and cultural influence as a site of contesting authorities, making it essential to the study of global cultural and political history. This workshop is intended to support the efforts of college and university teachers to incorporate material on India into their undergraduate, particularly General Education, courses.

Co-sponsored by the East-West Center’s Asian Studies Development Program and the UCA Humanities and World Cultures Institute with funding from The Freeman Foundation

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