Teaching India

A History Institute for Teachers

March 11–12, 2006

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Sponsored by the Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education
A Division of the Foreign Policy Research Institute

Co-sponsored by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Asia Program

Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn
Chattanooga, Tennessee

The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education is pleased to announce its History Institute for Teachers on “Teaching India,” chaired by David Eisenhower and Walter McDougall. Specially designed for secondary school teachers and curriculum supervisors, the weekend-long program will feature a series of lectures by leading scholars.

Speakers and Topics

Why It’s Important To Know About India
Ainslie T. Embree, Emeritus, Columbia University
Ainslie T. Embree is Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University, where he served as director of the undergraduate programs in Asian civilization and Western civilization. He was president of the American Institute of Indian Studies and of the Association for Asian Studies. He taught in India from 1948 to 1958 and has served in the American Embassy in Delhi.
Audio/Video of the Embree lecture
Read Why It’s Important To Know About India
Early Indian History
Richard H. Davis, Bard College
Richard Davis teaches in the Religion and Asian Studies programs at Bard College. He has written broadly in the areas of South Asian religions, history, and art. He is currently commencing work on a cultural history of early India.
Audio/Video of the Davis lecture
Modern Indian History
Marc Jason Gilbert, North Georgia College and State University
Marc Jason Gilbert is a University System of Georgia Regents Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning and Co-director of the University System of Georgia’s programs in India and Vietnam.
Audio/Video of the Gilbert lecture
Domestic Indian Politics
Philip Oldenburg, The University of Texas at Austin
Philip Oldenburg is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, and an Adjunct Research Associate at the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University. He has taught political science at Columbia University since 1977. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations-Asia Society Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward South Asia.
Audio/Video of the Oldenburg lecture
Indian Religions
Guy Welbon, University of Pennsylvania
Guy Welbon is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in the religious and cultural history of South and Southeast Asia. He is former director of Penn’s South Asia Center and former chairman of its South Asia Studies department.
Audio/Video of the Welbon lecture
The Rise of the Indian Economy
John Williamson, Institute for International Economics
John Williamson was Chief Economist for the South Asia Region of the World Bank, 1966-1999. He has taught at MIT, Princeton, University of Warwick, and University of York, and has been an adviser to the International Monetary Fund.
Audio/Video of the Williamson lecture
Read The Rise of the Indian Economy, FPRI E-Notes, 4/2006
India-Pakistan Relations
Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University
Sumit Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and Professor of Political Science. He has published extensively in the areas of ethnic conflict, inter-state war and defense and security policy. He is he editor of a new journal, The India Review, published by Frank Cass and Company.
Audio/Video of the Ganguly lecture
Read India-Pakistan Relations, FPRI E-Notes, 4/2006
Panel Discussion on Teaching About India and South Asia
Donald Johnson, New York University
Jean Johnson, Asia Society
Yasmeen Mohiuddin, University of the South
William Harman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Moderated by Lucien Ellington, Senior Fellow, Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education, and Asia Program Director, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Audio/Video of the panel

Classroom Lessons

ABCs of India (29K Microsoft Word document)
Slides for ABCs of India (80K Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
Josh Alper
India from the Raj to Today (55K Microsoft Word document)
Abe Mikell
Understanding India (37K Microsoft Word document)
Slides for Understanding India (414K Microsoft Word document)
Abe Mikell
India and Pakistan: Assessing Likelihood of Nuclear War (31K Microsoft Word document)
Paul Dickler
India Since the British (112K Microsoft Powerpoint presentation)
Schroeder

FPRI is pleased to acknowledge the support of The Annenberg Foundation for the History Institute.