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...addition to teaching History 1810, "South Asia from 1700 to 1947," this semester, Washbrook will teach a Core Curriculum course on modern India in the spring. Historical Studies A-32, "The Making of Modern India," will count for both Foreign Cultures and Historical Studies A. Washbrook is also involved with a comparative seminar on China and India at the Fairbank Center...
Government Professor James G. Manor from the University of Leicester in England is another India specialist visiting partly for the comparative Fairbank seminar. While Manor and Washbrook were appointed through their respective departments, their visits are being financed by grants through the Fairbank Center, MacFarquhar says...
...very much hope that this will generate intellectual and fiscal enthusiasm in Indian studies," says History Professor Simon Schama. "I'm delighted with Washbrook. He's an extremely gifted, subtle, and powerful historian...
...Washbrook, who received all his degrees from Trinity College in Cambridge, England, has spent about three years in India doing research...
Scholarship on India today is beginning to look beyond the effects of British imperialism, Washbrook says. "There is increasingly a generation gap among Indian scholars. The older ones, both Indian and British, sees the issue as nationalism versus imperialism. The younger generation, of which I am a part, sees the questions more in terms of class, capitalism, and social change," says the 38-year-old scholar...