HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Dark Future, Radcliffe Line, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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Being trained in law allows them to use that to resist. Thinking of future beyond empire while experiencing it. Privileged family (most privileged of scholars looked at) Studied at an elite boarding school in england. Key passage: behind some of these [european and american] democracies lay empires where there was no democracy at all. (p. 481) By writing about the past i have tried to rid myself of the burden of the past. But the present remains with all its complexity and irrationality and the dark future that lies beyond, and the burden of these is no less than that of the past. (p. 479) Physical act of writing has allowed him to overcome burden of history. Burden of present + future is not less than that of the past. Everything is connected -> cannot simply move on separately from past. Anticipation that ending of empire will be a dark moment.
