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Dibs Fall 2026

HIST 9A

Introduction to Asian Civilizations: History of India

Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Introductory survey for beginning students of major cultural, social, and political ideas, traditions, and institutions of Indic civilization. P/NP or letter grading.

Course statistics

Predicted GPA
3.55
n = 183 · 4 terms · ± 0.039
A range
61%
of letter grades
Taken P/NP
7%
92% of those passed
D / F / W
0.5%
incl. withdrawals

Sections in Fall 2026

Sections offered, with live enrollment and predicted GPA
Section Status Enrolled Seat risk Meets Instructor Predicted GPA
Lec 1 Closed
53 of 53
100% full
 fills TR 2:00pm-3:15pm Subrahmanyam, S.
3.53n=107 · this instructor

Enrollment history

Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.

  • 4421F
  • 5522F
  • 4023F
  • 5824F
Enrolment by term: 21F 44, 22F 55, 23F 40, 24F 58
Peak 58 Most recent 58 in 24F 4 terms on record

Grade distribution

  • A+ 9 · 4.6%
  • A 49 · 24.9%
  • A- 53 · 26.9%
  • B+ 47 · 23.9%
  • B 14 · 7.1%
  • B- 3 · 1.5%
  • C+ 5 · 2.5%
  • C- 2 · 1.0%
  • F 1 · 0.5%
  • P 12 · 6.1%
  • NP 1 · 0.5%
  • I 1 · 0.5%

Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.

By instructor

Instructor Predicted Raw n Terms A range
SUBRAHMANYAM, SANJAY 3.53 3.53 107 2 56%
LAL, VINAY 3.56 3.56 76 2 67%

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.

By term