Huvudgrupp 1

Litteraturen läses i urval, totalt ca 1 000 sidor

• Hansen, Thomas Blom, The saffron wave: democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1999Obligatorisk*
• Jaffrelot, Christophe, Hindu nationalism: a reader, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c2007Obligatorisk*
• Jones, Kenneth W.., Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990Obligatorisk*
• Mittal, Sushil; Thursby, Gene Robert, The Hindu world, London, Routledge, 2004Obligatorisk*
• Kauṭalya, King, governance, and law in ancient India: Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra, New York, Oxford University Press, [2013]Obligatorisk*
• Olivelle, Patrick, Āśrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution, Oxford University Press, 1993Obligatorisk*
• Olivelle, Patrick; Manu; Olivelle, Suman, Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra, Oxford University Press, 2005Obligatorisk*
• Thapar, Romila, From Lineage to State: Social Formations of the Mid-First Millennium BC in the Ganga Valley., Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1984, URLObligatorisk*
• Artiklar och källtexter (tillhandahålls av läraren vid kursstart)Obligatorisk*

* Obligatorisk