HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Bubonic Plague, Hind Swaraj Or Indian Home Rule, Elphinstone College
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Interpreting a primary source: peasants against empire, how do non-literate people form ideas, remember gandhi: these views are mine, and not yet mine they are not mine, because i lay no claim to originality. They have been formed after reading several books (hind swaraj, p. 11) Creating historical knowledge: new questions, is it possible to write histories that are not partners of empire (or against. Empire): are all histories national histories, is it possible to write histories beyond national histories, new directions, marxists histories, feminist histories, cultural histories, social histories, economic histories, environmental histories, intellectual histories, histories of sexuality, many other histories . I was sitting in the maharashtra state archives in bombay (mumbai) and i came across a letter in a file. It was composed by a peasant named ranchod vira, who could not read or write. I showed the letter to local scholars: historians, sociologists, linguists, religious studies.
