University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 60

ECTS credits : 30

Level : SCQF level 10

Semester: Full Year

Planned timetable: TBC

India was central to the British imperial system and represented the first seminal case in which a subject peoples raised and pressed the case for significant self-government. This module considers the nature of this challenge and the political and popular response it evoked in Britain in a series of constitutional reforms, beginning with the Montagu-Chelmsford Declaration of 1917, to the granting of Independence and Partition in 1947 and culminating in a study of the formative years of the newly independent India, 1947-1950. Throughout, the focus will be upon the process by which those reforms were arrived at and the competing perspectives on these problems. As such it will provide an in-depth analysis of British attitudes to 'the problem of empire' in the climactic years after the end of the First World War and the battle of ideas and interests which constituted the debate over India's - and by implication, the Empire's future.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact:

Scheduled learning hours: 66

Guided independent study hours: 534

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews:

As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 60%
Practical examinations : 7%
Coursework: 33%

Personnel