Table of Contents 1.India’s Demographics British East India Company Battle of Plassey / Sati Sati Incident British Raj British Raj Thuggees and Education2.26 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 points (5 homework assignments) Multiple choice questions (like DN) Map Essay question about British Raj
Thuggees and Education___2.26 Agenda: 1.Do Now 2.Notes 3.Video 4.Readings 5.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 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 Summarize the THREE most important details about your reading in your notebooks. ThuggeesMacaulay’s MinuteOrientalism
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 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?