GS302- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 71 pages long!)
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Major center of civilization since at least 3300 bce. World"s largest democracy and fastest growing economy. Historiography: the way history is written or told. History which supports the political claims of a dominant group. Disputed site: mosque (1527 ce); electoral strategy (bjp) A selective application of modern methods (archaeology) to legitimize political claims based on pre-modern sources. Nothing can be more confused, nothing more imperfect than the chronology of the indians; no people is an incapable for history. : g. f. w. Hegel, lectures on the history of philosophy 1819-1831. Emphasis on class conflict as what drives history forward (subaltern studies) The story of independence from the british government has been told in nationalist terms. Elite histories focusing on major personalities: i. e. attenborough"s gandhi (1982) Subaltern school: history from below : reconstructed from triangulating fragments , oral histories, reading against the grain of records, shows how small histories intersect with the largest arc of history, often with surprising and counter-intuitive results.
