South Asian History Short paper

Question: From the list of primary sources below select two sources that you feel offer compelling examples of how a particular aspect of social identity (for ex. Gender, caste, social class, religious identity or national/imperial identity) changed during the colonial period (1757-1947). Use the two sources you select to compare and contrast the historical changes you identity. Answer the following prompt—What kind of historical change in identity do the two sources represent? How does each author use their work to connect to their target audience?

Clive’s speech https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1772cl…

Edmund Burke’s speech https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1783Bu…

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s The Causes of the Indian Revolt

Tarabai Shinde’s “A Comparison of Men and Women,”

Ramabai Ranade’s Memoirs of Our Life Together

M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj

Instructions: Formulate a clear analytical thesis that responds to the question posed above. Make sure you have sufficient evidence from the primary sources you select to back up your argument and begin my explaining WHAT form of social identity your paper will explore and specifies the types of historical changes it will examine. You may use secondary sources to contextualize your claims, but the bulk of your citations should be for primary sources. Try to use only class texts to do this assignment.

Format

Papers will be short 5 page papers, double spaced, one inch margins. You may use parenthetical citation in these shorter papers: for example (Sarkar 24).

Make sure that these short papers are analytical and express your own views, rather than summarizing the original text, or offer weak personal reactions not backed up by evidence from the text. In other words, I am asking for an informed analysis of the readings, not descriptive summaries or emotional reactions. Even if you agree 100% with an author, you need to explain why that argument is well-structured, or convincing, or provide the historical/social context for it. In the case of primary documents make sure that you contextualize that document historically.