Contemporary India

The MA in Contemporary India offers multi-disciplinary training in the study of contemporary India, providing the intellectual tools necessary for analysing India's current social, political and economic processes, and its global role, while encouraging students to think comparatively through India about the wider world.

Key benefits:

• At the India Institute you will be part of the only British research centre dedicated solely to the study of India.
• The School of Global Affairs is offering one Master's Award of

Bachelor's degree with 2:1 honours degree (or international equivalent). In order to meet the academic entry requirements for this programme you should have a minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree with a final mark of at least 60% or above in the UK marking scheme. If you are still studying you should be achieving an average of at least 60% or above in the UK marking scheme.

MA

Required Modules

• The Making of Contemporary India: Political Power and Social Order in Historical Perspective (20 credits)
• Contemporary India: State, Society & Economy since 1947 (20 credits)
• Contemporary India Dissertation (60 credits)

Optional Modules:

You will also take 40 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:

• Indian Democracy (20 credits)
• Crime, Violence & the State in India (20 credits)
• India in Global Politics (20 credits)
• Indian History & Political Theory (20 credits)
• The Anthropology of India (20 credits)
• India's Political Economy (20 credits)
• Religion & Politics in India & Pakistan (20 credits)
• The economics of corruption (20 credits)
• A range of modules offered by the School of Global Affairs
• Language modules (including Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Panjabi or Gujarati) offered by the Modern Language Centre at Kings, which can be taken for additional credit (20 credits)

Fees:

• Full time overseas fees:

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