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The Makers of Modern India & Pakistan: A Dramatic Enactment

Thu, April 28, 2016
Dinner Program
Performance Ensemble from HIST 154

5C students studying the conflicts and achievements of leaders Gandhi, Jinnah, and Nehru will enact the dramatic personal relations and traumatic creation of present-day states of India and Pakistan.

Through dramatic performance, students of HIST 154 (Makers of Modern India & Pakistan) tell the story of how leaders are made. They perform Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, and others from South Asia, to weave in their childhood experiences, their families, languages, and most of all, the experiences of colonialism with its mixture of good and bad.

Students also will perform scenes of everyday life to give a glimpse of how class and gender works in the countries of South Asia and give an introduction to the cultural unity of the subcontinent through a quick look at the Mughals.

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