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Table of Contents . India’s Demographics 2.05 British East India Company 2.06 Battle of Plassey / Sati 2.07 Sati 2.13 1857 Incident 2.14 British Raj 2.15 7. British Raj 2.25 8. Thuggees and Education 2.26 MAKE UP WORK 2.26.
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Table of Contents • India’s Demographics 2.05 • British East India Company 2.06 • Battle of Plassey / Sati 2.07 • Sati 2.13 • 1857 Incident 2.14 • British Raj 2.15 7. British Raj 2.25 8. Thuggees and Education 2.26 MAKE UP WORK 2.26
Classwork for Tuesday 2.26 (15 points) • DN (5 pts) • Readings Notes (5 pts) • Discussion (5 pts)
QUIZ ON THURSDAY 2.28 • 50 points (5 homework assignments) • Multiple choice questions (like DN) • Map • Essay question about British Raj
Thuggees and Education___2.26 Agenda: • Do Now • Notes • Video • Readings • Discussion- Macaulay a Hero or Orientalist? • TTL
Thuggees • English word “thug” “thuggee” • Organized bandits that roamed throughout / terrorized India for centuries • Murdered over 1,000,000 people between 1740 and 1830. • avg murders in America annually: 15,000.
Indian Languages • Sanskrit: spoken by Hindus • Persian: (India was once controlled by the Persian Empire) • Arabic: spoken by Muslims • Common language?
Thomas Macaulay • British politician who gave a famous speech “Macaulay’s Minute” • Advocated British Raj teaching Indians English ONLY to help “integrate” them.
Macaulay’s Children • The “Anglicized” Indians who grew up speaking only English disconnected from Indian culture. Carlton Banks (what does he “not get” that makes Will Smith upset?)
Classwork 2.26 • Summarize the THREE most important details about your reading in your notebooks.
Orientalism • A distorted, exoticized, patronizing perception of the East and its culture Ex: 300 movie Persians Indiana Jones movies thuggees Kungfu movies NOT ALL ASIAN PEOPLE KNOW KUNGFU
Socratic Seminar on Orientalism 2.26 • Why do many people in our our society view Carlton Banks negatively? • Was Macaulay’s “Minute on Education” a piece of condescending racism or a helpful, beneficial law for Indians?(Does it give them more opportunities, or does it take away their culture?) • Even though they executed criminals, did the British harm Indian culture by destroying the “thuggees”? • Do blacks in America “give up” their culture by having to speak formal “white” English in school?