The MA in Contemporary India offers multi-disciplinary training in the study of contemporary India, providing the intellectual tools necessary for analysing India's current social, political and economic processes, and its global role, while encouraging students to think comparatively through India about the wider world. The flexible curriculum allows you to acquire expertise in a topic of your choice, and gain the kind of regional knowledge (including the possibility of language-training) and research skills that are greatly valued by employers, policy-makers and scholars with eyes on the world's largest emerging superpower.<br><br>The course offers theoretically and methodologically rigorous training in the study of contemporary India. You will develop the historical awareness and critical sophistication required for analysing India's current social, political and economic issues, and for understanding the country's role in global political and economic life. The modules on offer at the India Institute and the School of Global Affairs allow you to explore topics ranging from India's foreign policy to the creation of new states, from religious violence to India's democracy, from the economics of corruption to the anthropology of new forms of romantic love, from political criminalisation to the rise of India's middle class.