HI 1670
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Summer examinations 2007/08
DEVELOPING SOUTH ASIA: FROM COLONIALISM TO GLOBALISATION
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(i) For candidates who are offering a whole-unit paper:
Time allowed: 3 hours
Answer THREE questions.
(ii) For candidates who are offering a half-unit paper:
Time allowed: 2 hours
Answer TWO questions
Answers should NOT include any significant amount of material already presented in
ANY assessed essays.
Read carefully the instructions on the answer book and make sure that the particulars required
are entered on each answer book.
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1.
‘Colonialism was a development project.’ Discuss.
2.
What is the relationship between modernisation and colonialism?
3.
‘The Green Revolution was a success.’ Discuss.
4.
How did Indians leaders nationalise development under colonial rule?
5.
Do you agree with Jawaharlal Nehru’s claim that megadams were India’s ‘new
temples to modernity’?
6.
Why does population control matter to the history of development in South Asia?
7.
‘The South Asian peasant has proved impervious to development.’ Discuss.
8.
‘Knowledge is power.’ Discuss in relationship to EITHER the history of colonialism
in South Asia OR the history of development in independent South Asia.
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9.
‘Women’s bodies are the palimpsest upon which successive regimes inscribe their
writ.’ Discuss.
10.
‘Whereas colonialism produced docile bodies, development produces consumers.’
Discuss.
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