HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Radcliffe Line, Minority Rights
22 Aug 2018
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Studied at an elite boarding school in england. Behind some of these [european and american] democracies lay empires where there was no democracy at all. (481) An indian"s and englishman"s view of india and her place in the world will inevitably diverge and differ, conditional as each is on a different individual and national past. (524) Individual past - if you come from a specific background and past. We all have different histories and background but we also have a lot in common. Those who are the colonizers also have a particular past that changes this view. By writing about the past i have tried to rid myself of the burden of the past. Bu tthe present remain 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. (479)
