Lahore University of Management Sciences. SS 139 History of Lahore Summer 2017

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1 SS 139 History of Lahore Summer 2017 Instructor Room No. Office Hours Telephone Secretary/TA TA Office Hours Course URL (if any) Abdul Majeed Sheikh Course Basics Credit Hours 4 Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week Recitation/Lab (per Nbr of Lec(s) Per week) Week Tutorial (per week) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 4 Duration 110 minutes Duration Duration Course Distribution Core Elective Open for Student Category Close for Student Category Open for all students COURSE DESCRIPTION This course surveys the history of Lahore in the broadest terms from the beginning of time till the present. The course will provide students a broad rudimentary framework for understanding the history, culture and sociology of Lahore, so as to provide, through direct experiences, an understanding of the city and its people as it exists today. The course will help students to understand and experience at first hand Lahore, so as help students to understand the key themes and forces over time that shaped it. Students will undertake three visits to the city with specific objectives. A short research exercise will also be planned so as to understand relatively recent upheavals in the life of the city and its people, and how they still continue to shape the way we think about our national narratives. This will open up the way for a possible deeper research exercise of the social, cultural, intellectual, environmental and technological histories of the city, in which secondary and primary text sources will be of immense assistance

2 COURSE OBJECTIVES To provide students with an introduction to the history and people of Lahore from the earliest times to the present. Learning Outcomes The course is designed to, firstly, introduce the history of Lahore in its elementary form, and, secondly, to impart content knowledge relating to key themes and issues in its history, culture and sociology. Grading Breakup Class Participation 20% Attendance 10% Written Assignment 1 10% Written Assignment 2 10% Class Quiz -1 10% Class Quiz -2 10% Mid-Term Exam 10% Final Exam 20% This course is designed to facilitate active learning, coupled with the ability to research and to make original presentations with flair. To achieve excellence students are expected to attend each class and complete assigned readings so as to offer informed contributions to class discussions. I will regularly take attendance and assign occasional homework exercises throughout the semester. The two class quizzes that collectively count for 20% of the total grading, will be undertaken without notice. The participation component of the final grade will be based on how actively students engage in discussions and other exercises completed during class and how well they prepare themselves by reading and thinking about the assigned material before class. Questions are encouraged, as is the respect for the views of others. The dates for the Mid-Term and Final Exams shall be announced in advance, as will be those for the submission of the two written assignments. These dates are final and regardless of your extracurricular in LUMS or elsewhere. Requests for grade revisions will NOT be tolerated. The Instructor s grading is final. If this is unacceptable, do not take this course. It is a requirement of this course that all participants purchase a hardcopy (paper copy) of the Course Pack at the beginning of the Course. If you are unable or unwilling to do so, then do not take the course. COURSE OVERVIEW (The course is spread over 14 weeks with two sessions a week of105 minutes each, hence we will have 28 sessions, all of which are titled below.) Week 01, Session One: Introduction to the course, followed by a brief description of oral myths of Lahore s origins. A description of how the River Ravi flowed and changed its course over time, and a topographical description of the walled city and the Lahore Fort, as well as the surrounding areas, and its relevance to how the city developed over time. History of Lahore, by S.M. Latif, ch 1,2 and 3. Hadood-e-Alam (translation by V.F. Minorsky) ch. 2, 3 and 4. Lahore by Amin, Willet and Farrow, 1988, Ferozesons, ch 1 and 2,

3 Shrouds over Lahore Antiquity, daily Dawn, 22 August, 2003, and Maps of Old Lahore, 1935, Survey of India. Week 01, Session Two: Ancient Lahore: Tracing origins based on archaeological findings, on written records, on Mahabharata and Battle of the Ten Kings, on Rigveda and on the Puranas, on Panini and his Astadhyayi, on Pingala and his Chandashastra, on the Aryans and their push eastwards. Notes on Rgveda, translation by H.P. Schmidt, ch to 10, pp41-47; Dasarajna: Ten Kings, by Ashok Banker, 2014; Panini: A Survey of Research, by G. Cardona, 1998; Crest of the Peacock, G.G. Joseph, pp , Princeton, 2000; The Primitive Aryans, H.G. Wells,1922, Cambridge; Week 02, Session One: Lahore before Islam: A brief survey of rulers and religions of Lahore before the arrival of Mahmud from Ghazni. Vedic period, Scythians, Alexander s arrival, Maurya, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Indo-Parthian, Gupta, Hunas, Harsha and Hindushahi. History of the Punjab, D.C. Sircar, 2004, pp30-45; History of Lahore, by S.M. Latif, ch 2,3 and 4 ; History of Buddhism in India, S. Vilasani, pp ; Plutarch, Alexander, pp 44-46; Rise and Fall of Imperial Gupta, A. Agarwal.pp Week 02, Session Two: Lahore and Mahmud Ghazni, Raja Jaipal and the Hindushahi rulers. History of India by its own historians, by Elliot and Dowson, History of Lahore, by S.M. Latif, ch 6, 7; The Brahama Hindushahis, R.T. Mohan, 2008, pp ; Cambridge History of Islam in India, 2004, ch 3, 4 and 5; Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders, S.R. Goel, 2001; The Shahis and Gandhara, by D.W. Macdowell, Week 03, Session One: Pre-Moghal Lahore - 1: Lahore under the Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyed and Lodhi rulers. Major events. History of Lahore, by S.M. Latif, ch 7-9; History of India by its own historians, by Elliot and Dowson, Lahore, a glorious heritage by Ihsan Nadiem, Sang-e-Meel, Lahore; The History of India, , A.L. Sriastava Week 03, Session Two: Pre-Moghal Lahore 2: Lahore under the Khilji, Tughlaq, Sayyed and Lodhi rulers. Major rulers. History of Lahore, by S.M. Latif, ch 8, 10;

4 History of India by its own historians, by Elliot and Dowson, Lahore, a glorious heritage by Ihsan Nadiem, Sang-e-Meel, Lahore; The History of India, , A.L. Sriastava Week 04, Session One: Moghal Lahore-1 (Their rise and peak); Babernama, translation by Dilip Hiro, 2006; Baber and the culture of Empire, by S.F. Dale, pp 15-21; Humayun Badshah, S.K. Bannerji; Establishment of the Moghal Empire, by S.M. Ikram, 1964, Colombia; Rise of Muhammadan Power in India, by M.K. Ferishta, 2013, Cambridge; Week 04, Session Two: Moghal Lahore-2 (Their peak and decline); History of Lahore, by S.M. Latif; The Din-e-Elahi, by R. Chaudhary and Makhan Lal, 1997, Orient; The Empire of the Great Mughals, Annemarie Schimmel, 2006; Akbarnama, Abu l Fazl, translation, The Successors of Akbar , J. Weber, 2004; Week 05, Session One: Moghal monuments in Lahore; Lahore and its Important Monuments, M. Waliullah Khan, 1973, DoA, GoP; The City Within Lahore, Samina Qureshi; History of Lahore, S.M. Latif; Gardens of Moghal Lahore, Ihsan H. Nadiem, Sang-e-Meel; Week 05, Session Two: Post Moghal chaos and the rise of the Sikhs; A History of the Sikhs, Vol. 1, Khushwant Singh; Causes of the Fall of the Mughals, Pragati Sen; Crisis of Empire in Moghal India, Muzaffar Alam; The Sikhs of the Punjab,Grewal, J. S. (1998); Week 06, Session One: Lahore of Maharajah Ranjit Singh; A History of the Sikhs, Vol. 1, Khushwant Singh; Maharajah Ranjit Singh: Lord of the Five Rivers, J.M. Lafont, Oxford, 2002; Ranjit Singh, , Khushwant Singh, PU Patiala, The Sikh Empire, J.S. Grewal, Ch 6, Cambridge, 1990; Ranjit Singh: Secular Sikh Sovereign, by K.S. Duggal, Abhinav, 1989;

5 Week 06, Session Two: The chaos after Ranjit Singh; A History of the Sikhs, Vol. 2, Khushwant Singh; The Sikh Empire, J.S. Grewal, Ch 6, Cambridge, 1990; The Resourceful Fakirs, S.F. Aijazuddin, Sang-e-Meel; 35 Years in the East, J.M. Honigberger, London, 1950; The Fall of the Sikh Empire, A. Gardner, 1989; Lahore University of Management Sciences Week 07, Session One: Lahore and soldiers of fortune; Ranjit Singh and his white officers, Maj. H. Pearse, Cambridge; European Adventurers of Northern India, ,by Garrett and Grey, AEU; White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18 th century India, W. Dalrymple, Penguin, 2004; 35 Years in the East, J.M. Honigberger, London, 1950; Fauj-e-Khas: Ranjit Singh s French Officers, J.M. Lafont, Guru Nanak Univ., India, 2002; Week 07, Session Two: The Walled City and its history; History of Lahore, by S.M. Latif; Hadood-e-Alam (translation by V.F. Minorsky) ch. 2, 3 and 4. Lahore by Amin, Willet and Farrow, 1988, Ferozesons; 'Lahore: Blood on the tracks', by W. Dalrymple, Week 08, Session One: Colonial Lahore: Colonial Lahore: History of the City and Beyond, Ian Talbot, T. Kamran, Hurst, 2015; Making Lahore Modern, W.J. Glover, Minnesota, 2007; The Raj, Lahore and Bhai Ram Singh, P. and S. Vandal, Lahore NA, 2006; Mutiny at the Margins: Lahore 1857, Crispin Bates; Railway Development in Colonial Punjab, B. Singh, A. Kaur, CSCAS, PU, Bathinda, 2012; Week 08, Session Two: Lahore a city of poets, education, gardens and foods; The Coffee House of Lahore, K.K. Aziz, Sang-e-Meel, Lahore; Literary Cultures in History: South Asia, by S. Pollock, California; Faiz Ahmad Faiz: Living Verse, by O. Tareen, (English translation),pjh, Lahore, 2008; Siyasat nama, Punjabi nama and Saqi nama by Ustad Daman, Sang-e-Meel; Historical Gardens of Lahore, S.R. Dar, Life and Works of Saadat Hasan Manto, trans by Tahira Naqvi, Vanguard, 1985; Week 09, Session One: Mid-Term Examination;

6 At end of session research tasks will be given for presentation in Week 14 Session One. Week 09, Session Two: Visit to see Colonial and Sikh Lahore: This session will be planned for a Saturday or Sunday outing so as not to clash with other classes of the students. Week 10, Session One: Architecture in the colonial era Guest speaker. Q&A session to follow lecture. Colonial Lahore: History of the City and Beyond, Ian Talbot, T. Kamran, Hurst, 2015; The Raj, Lahore and Bhai Ram Singh, P. and S. Vandal, Lahore NA, 2006; Harvest from the Desert:Life and work of Sir Ganga Ram, Baba P.L. Bedi,NCA Lahore, 2003; Lahore: Colonial Period, Nazir A. Chaudhary, Sang-e-Meel; Week 10, Session Two: Lahore and the Freedom Movements; History of the Freedom Movements of India, Vol 3, R.C. Majumdar, Freedom Movements in Punjab, S.C. Mittal, Ghadar Movement: A Short History, by H.K. Puri; Bhagat Singh: Unique Martyr, by O. Saigal, Gayan, 1998; Punjabi Century: , by Prakash Tandon; The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, by Ayesha Jalal, 1994; Week 11, Session One: Lahore and its Maps Guest speaker. At end of session research tasks will be given for presentation in Week 14 Session One. Mapping Lahore: Tracking Historical Geography, Y. Lari; Lahore: Illustrated City Guide, Yasmin Lari, 2003; Rare Maps of Pakistan, F.S. Aijazuddin, Ferozsons, Lahore; Week 11, Session Two: Lahore and the run-up to 1947; Aspects of the Pakistan Movement, Sikander Hayat, Progressive, 2011; Divided Cities: Lahore and Amritsar, Ian Talbot, 2006, Oxford; Lahore 1947, A. Saleem, IRP,2001; The Great Partition, by Yasmin Khan, 2013; Bearing Witness: Partition, by S. Kamra, Week 12, Session One: Lahore and Partition (Partition stories and tasks allocated); Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh; Ice Candy Man, by Bapsi Sidwa;

7 Partition, Ian Talbot, Hurst, 1988; Disastrous Twilight, by Shahid Hamid, London Leo; Week 12, Session Two: Lahore and Partition (Partition stories Tasks). In this session five students will be selected to read their accounts (Tasks given at end of Mid-Term Examination). Q&A will follow at the end of the session. The reading list will remain the same as in the last session. Week 13, Session One: Researching history of Lahore. Research tasks Week 13, Session Two: Memories of Old Lahore Guest Speaker; After the guest speaker, students can quiz two typical Lahori characters about their lives. Week 14, Session One: Research Paper Presentations. Winding up of course. Tasks given at end of Week 11, Session One. Week 14, Session Two: Final Examination.

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