The uses and teaching of history
Roy K.
2021
The Routledge Handbook of Education in India: Debates, Practices, and Policies: Second Edition
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10.4324/9781003030362-11
History occupies a rather unique space within the urban, literate, upper-caste/middle-class imagination in India at present. It is also worth clarifying that while history is based on evidence, what is considered as evidence is by no means self-evident. The preliminary pages of the Golden Social Science emerge from a different but far more immediate milieu as far as the learners are concerned. A revolution may result in sudden overthrow of an established government or system by force and bloodshed, e.g., the French Revolution. In fact, once revolution is reduced to a definition, there is a compulsion to delimit it. History, as indeed many of the other social sciences/liberal arts subjects, seems to be poised at a critical juncture, demanding that practitioners revisit their academic concerns and work out ways and means of connecting the past and the present in ways that can be meaningful to those who have been excluded from these processes. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Krishna Kumar.
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