HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Triangular Trade, Social Studies, Instrumentalism
13 Nov 2020
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7: name 3 ways in which archives may be biased or subservient to the interests of the nation state. National archives are built because they wanted to relate to their history. Related to democracy = they want to be transparent, so the state need to put all their document in archives so people can access it. E. g. research to relationships between british men and local woman in india. India did not really want to give those documents because they wanted to show that the hindu culture is to be preserved from contamination by the occupying" power. But presents the colonial encounter in a far more positive light, so british archives were happy to share the information: nations or peoples without states also lack the infrastructure that can ffacilitate the writing of their history. Approach which relates the past too directly to the present; ever emphasis on continuity.
