Teaching Resources
History of South Asia II (1526–current year)
Professor Truschke teaches the History of South Asia II every spring term at Rutgers University-Newark. She assigns as her main textbook, India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent, which offers primary source excerpts in every chapter. Here, she offers some supplementary materials that she uses as paper handouts, in the hopes that her colleagues find them useful.
Map Quiz documents (typically given in week 2 of class)
Baburnama and Jahangirnama excerpts
Pair with discussion of either king; use for content and also as an example of how to read a primary source, including identifying editor’s additions, using notes, etc.
Caste System Diagram
Credit to Equality Labs; useful for discussing Brahmin letter (India, pp. 275–76) and Shudra kings (India, chap. 15)
Sepoy Rebellion Primary Sources
Poetry and prose that speaks to perceptions of the British and rebelling Sepoys; goes with India, chap. 18