Essay on The Subaltern Turn: Rereading Grirish Karnad’s Tughlaq

Gandhi Gramsci and Garvey all created a new way of life for their respective group of followers, but the life style they supplied differed in that Gandhi left room and encouraged the mix between British and Indian, Garvey worked to create a division between black people and white people, and Gramsci, whom dealt more with the class barrier then race segregation, argued that all men were important to society and wanted recognition for the lower classed who he felt were crucial to the running of a nation. To each movement the structure and character instilled in their lives became a necessity for daily life, creating loyalty which replaced disorientation and class disarray. Mohandas Gandhi, Antonio Gramsci and Marcus Garvey were able to

In the article Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are written by David McCullough, is an essay in which he informs how important it is to learn about our history and how it shapes who we are today. Throughout, he connects important events from American History and relates it to our lives and the world around us. The three main ideas; which are “Character and Destiny”, “Our failure, Our Duty”, and “Listening to the Past”. These ideas

The idea of the exclusion of important narratives is a common theme amongst many of the historians involved in the discussion. The omission of such narratives would only stand to present an unfinished version of history from which one cannot grasp the lessons history intends to teach. Catherine Emerson would be the first to

In Telling the Truth About History, three historians discuss how the expanded skepticism and the position that relativism has reduced our capacity to really know and to expound on the past. The book talks about the written work of history and how individuals are battling with the issues of what is “truth.” It likewise examines the post-modernist development and how future historians

Throughout time, history has been recorded from the perspective of the victors. It is this bias within the archives that shape the views and motives of the groups involved. As a result of this influence the general way of thinking, and recollection of historical events has been altered to a certain degree to conform to the conqueror’s ideals. Society turns a blind eye to the horrors of the past, preferring to plead ignorance than to face the reality of the cruelty humans are capable of. There are parts in history that conversely cannot be ignored, such as the genocide in Rwanda, 9-11, Terror in Paris and the most historical, the holocaust in World War II, where the true extent of human vindictiveness came to light. In spite

History is often fabricated and told in a way that is appealing to youth and descendants. History is often told from “white eyes” Loewen suggest that it be told through red eyes to provide true insight in what has formed our country. “One does not start from point zero, but from minus ten” (Loewens 93). High School students are presented information in a biased way. Students are not always taught how to view a situation through another perspective. Students are only able to view a situation based on how they have lived or what they know best. When teaching history of the world teachers often teach harsh situations from the past in ways that are fabricated. “If we look Indian history squarely in the eye, we are going to get red eyes” (Loewen 95). In this statement Loewen suggest that if a reader looks at a situation “squarely” the reader will develop “red eyes” that open the reader up to reality of our decedents and the

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We are not makers of history. We are made of history.”

In the reading, Who Owns History? , by Eric Foner, the preface, made up of primarily James Baldwin’s thoughts, creates an argument about the passage of history, and in particular, who has claim to such at any given time. The question of ownership over what is essentially just memories, relates to how we learn, and grow, as well as shapes our culture. By having ownership over history, the particular group of people are able to have most influence over what parts of history are most important as well as the actual way we study history. These elements may seem trivial but they are exactly how we, as youth, are able to grow with and around our culture. History belongs to everyone, the originators of prominent events, those who pass it on to remember it, and those who continue to pass the information long after those in play have passed.

The people who go down in history are the ones who break free from the mundane and make a change. The history within literature and film photography has shown this over the years since they have been in our culture. Puritan poetry and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible show that individualism, in any time, is fundamental in worldly interaction because it keeps everyone from becoming an army of indistinguishable drones.

Haunani Trask is an indigenous nationalist, and professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai’i- Manoa, who is vocal when it comes to social justice. Haunani Kay Trask uses writing and her voice to enlighten those who have a misconception of the United States. She defines our country as “ a country created out of genocide and colonialism”. In her article “The Color of Violence” she makes the claim that America was founded on the oppression of colored people. She supports her claim by informing us about colonization, “peaceful violence”, and racism. In order to do so she uses logos, pathos and structures her essay by using cause and effect.

“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect men and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.”

In this thesis, I investigate the silenced histories of Indigenous peoples who have been written out of collective memory, official documents and, in some cases, their own family histories. I show how the actions of colonists can be explained through a colonial-Marxist lens of historical materialism and how this methodologically creates space for colonialism which, in turn, strategically silences and erases Indigenous lives. I focus my research on a family who has searched for answers for over sixty years, the Beier family, to aid them in the search for the life story of George Ralph McKenzie, an Indigenous man who served in the Canadian military and who was erased from his family’s history. I gathered data including, but not limited to, birth

Understanding the ‘true’ history is especially important not only it would be given the true and the form of contemporary issue, but also is to unpack the information that we received from the institutions of power. Whether on Rosalie Kunoth-Monks’ Q&A television show or on Utopia documentary, there are some people think that some of the disreputable history such as assimilation and invasion are the past; and by bringing up the issue or history, it does not have any positive development to the society or any contribution of the road of reconciliation, but strengthen the social division. Indeed, this essay will be explored some of the history that not everyone recognised as important as the other part of history. The reason for that is without

Orientalism is a study of language and traditions of the people and their culture in the Middle East. These studies are mostly done by people outside of the culture that is being looked at, and mostly the studies are being performed by white western men. Edward Said believed that there was a problem with the way in which other people were studying and writing about his culture. He was upset and spoke up when he wrote a booked called “Orientalism,” in his book he points out many reasons why the study of orientalism is hurting the cultures in which they are studying. The study of other cultures and countries better known as the Orient has become a popular discussion since Said’s book on orientalism was published. This paper will take a look

It is no wonder that how advanced the world may be, there are still a number of human beings, who struggle a lot for their survival; These are the human beings, who are pushed to the margins for the reasons unknown to them, these are the human beings, who are denied a secured place in the world for the mistakes which are not committed by them. These are marginalized people and just like them, their history too is marginalized. Being neglected by the mainstream history, this marginalized history, sometimes has to transform itself and settle in fiction in order to come into light.