Week 11

   For Mon, June 10 - Final Term Paper & Presentation

• Final term paper DropBox, opens June 6, after class. Deadline 1:30pm Mon.

  Week 8

   For Mon, May 20 - Nationalism & Gandhi 

• Read Gandhi's Speech & Letters (from CWMG). Refer to Discourses as needed
• Read Chakrabarty, Dipesh and Rochona Majumdar. 2010. "Gandhi's Gita and politics as such."
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30pm Mon. 

   For Wed, May 22 - The BG & the West

• Read the Miller Afterword in your copy of the BG, "Why did Henry David Thoreau take the Bhagavad-Gita to Walden Pond?" pp.147-54.
• Read T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets.
• Read Hijiya, James A. 2000. "The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer."
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30pm Wed.
  

  Week 7

   For Mon, May 13 - Nationalism & Aurobindo 

• Read assigned essay + one essay of your choice from Ghose, Aurobindo. 1997 (1928). Essays on the Gita.
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30pm Mon. 

   For Wed, May 15 - Nationalism & Tilak

• Read Tilak’s remarks & Preface to his Bhagavadgītā-rahasya, 1935-36 (full text available for download via this page).
• Read The Philosophy of Bal Gangadhar Tilak: Karma vs. Jñāna in the Gītā Rahasya by D. Mackenzie Brown, 1958
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30pm Wed. 

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  Week 6

   For Mon, May 6 - Traditional Interpreters, Intro 

• Mid-term paper DropBox, deadline 1:30pm Mon. 
• Read Sarkar, Mahendra Nath. 1962. "The Bhagavad-gītā: Its early commentaries."

   For Wed, May 8 - Rāmānuja and Śankara

• Read the commentaries by Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja provided, on BG 2.10-30
• Read the commentaries by Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja provided,18.13-66.
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30am Wed.
  

  Week 5

   For Mon, Apr 29 - Bhagavad Gītā Chs 13-16 

• Read Chapters 13 through 16 in Miller's translation. 
• Read Arapura, J. G. 1975. "The Upside down Tree of the Bhagavadgītā Ch. XV: An Exegesis."
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30am Mon.

• Read Chapters 17 and 18 in Miller's translation. 
• Read MacKenzie, Matthew D. 2001. "The Five Factors of Action and the Decentring of Agency in the Bhagavad Gītā."
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30am Wed.

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  Week 4

   For Mon, Apr 22 - Bhagavad Gītā Chs 7-9

• Read Chapters 7 through 9 in Miller's translation. 
• Read Vireswarananda, Swami. 1962. "The Bhagavad-gītā: Its synthetic character." .
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30am Mon.

• Read Chapters 10 through 12 in Miller's translation. 
• Read Minor, Robert N. 1987. "Religious Experience in the Bhagavadgītā Eleven and the Text's Interpretation."
  
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30am Wed.

  Week 3

   For Mon, Apr 15 - Bhagavad Gītā Chs 3-5

• Re-read Chapters 3 through 6 in Miller's translation. Compare it with any one other translation provided.
• Revist the Dalmiya article
• Read Hiltebeitel, Alf. 2010. "Dharma in the Bhagavad Gītā." In Dharma, 109-123. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.
• Answer the WebQ questions, deadline 10:30am Mon.
  

• Read/re-read Chapters 5 through 7 in Miller's translation. Compare it with any one other translation provided.
  
• Read Matilal, Bimal Krishna. 2002. "Caste, Karmā and the Gītā." In Ethics and epics: the collected essays of Bimal Krishna Matilal, edited by Jonardon Ganeri, 136-144. New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press.
• DropBox assignment, deadline 10:30am Wed.

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  Week 2

   For Mon, Apr 8 - Introduction to the Bhagavad Gītā

• Read Brockington's article on the Bhagavad Gītā, which has a Western, academic perspective, as well as Belvalkar's similar article which has more of an "insider" yet academic perspective.
• Answer the WebQ questions (TBD, posted by Saturday), deadline 10:30am Mon.
  

• Read Chapters 1 through 6 in Miller's translation. Compare it with any one other translation provided.
  
• Read the Dalmiya (2010) article.
• WebQ to be posted by Tues morning.

   Week 1
   For Wed, Apr 3 - Philosophical Context: Sāmkhya, Yoga

• Read the Hamilton introduction to Sāmkhya and Yoga.
  
• Read Brockington's essay, "Yoga in the Mahābhārata."
  
• Answer the questions on these readings in the WebQ, within the character limit assigned. It is recommended that you compose your answers in a separate word-processing application so that you don't accidentally lose your work. You can then cut and paste the answers to the WebQ window. The WebQ will close at 10:30am on Wed.