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Table of Contents. India’s Demographics2.05 British East India Company2.06 Battle of Plassey / Sati 2.07 Sati2.13 1857 Incident2.14 British Raj2.15 7. British Raj2.25 8. Thuggees and Education2.26 MAKE UP WORK 2.26. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Table of Contents1. India’s Demographics 2.052. British East India Company 2.063. Battle of Plassey / Sati 2.074. Sati 2.135. 1857 Incident 2.146. British Raj 2.157. British Raj 2.258. 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:1. Do Now2. Notes 3. Video4. Readings5. Discussion- Macaulay a Hero or Orientalist?6. 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.
Thuggees Macaulay’s Minute Orientalism
Orientalism
• A distorted, exoticized, patronizing perception of the East and its culture
Ex: 300 movie PersiansIndiana Jones movies thuggeesKungfu movies NOT ALL ASIAN PEOPLE KNOW KUNGFU
Socratic Seminar on Orientalism 2.261. Why do many people in our our society view
Carlton Banks negatively?2. 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?)
3. Even though they executed criminals, did the British harm Indian culture by destroying the “thuggees”?
4. Do blacks in America “give up” their culture by having to speak formal “white” English in school?