Hist 104, Lecture 18:
Post-Colonial South Asia
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0. Keywords

Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, The Muslim League, Sikhs, Punjab, Bengal, Kashmir, Bangladesh

1. Independence and War in India & Pakistan

a. The Liberation and Partition of India
b. Religious and Ethnic Strife
c. Nehru’s New India
d. Indian-Pakistani Tensions

2. The Struggle for Independence in Indonesia and Vietnam:
A Study in Decolonization (video: “From the Barrel of a Gun" part 2)

a. The Descent into Colonial Warfare
b. Western Postwar Interests
c. Post-Colonial Indonesia and Vietnam