1. Table of Contents 1.India’s Demographics2.05 2.British East India Company2.06 3.Battle of Plassey / Sati 2.07 4.Sati2.13 5.1857 Incident2.14 6.British Raj2.15 7. British Raj2.25 8. Thuggees and Education2.26 MAKE UP WORK 2.26

2. Classwork for Tuesday 2.26 (15 points) DN (5 pts) Readings Notes (5 pts) Discussion (5 pts)

3. QUIZ ON THURSDAY 2.28 50 points (5 homework assignments) Multiple choice questions (like DN) Map Essay question about British Raj

4. Thuggees and Education___2.26 Agenda: 1.Do Now 2.Notes 3.Video 4.Readings 5.Discussion- Macaulay a Hero or Orientalist? 6.TTL

5. Thuggees English word “thug”  “thuggee” Organized bandits that roamed throughout / terrorized India for centuries Murdered over 1,000,000 people between 1740 and 1830. avg murders in America annually: 15,000.

6. Indian Languages Sanskrit: spoken by Hindus Persian: (India was once controlled by the Persian Empire) Arabic: spoken by Muslims Common language?

7. Thomas Macaulay British politician who gave a famous speech “Macaulay’s Minute” Advocated British Raj teaching Indians English ONLY to help “integrate” them.

8. Macaulay’s Children The “Anglicized” Indians who grew up speaking only English  disconnected from Indian culture. Carlton Banks (what does he “not get” that makes Will Smith upset?)

9. Classwork 2.26 -Summarize the THREE most important details about your reading in your notebooks. ThuggeesMacaulay’s MinuteOrientalism

10. A distorted, exoticized, patronizing perception of the East and its culture Ex: 300 movie  Persians Indiana Jones movies  thuggees Kungfu movies  NOT ALL ASIAN PEOPLE KNOW KUNGFU

11. Socratic Seminar on Orientalism 2.26 1.Why do many people in our our society view Carlton Banks negatively? 2.Was Macaulay’s “Minute on Education” a piece of condescending racism or a helpful, beneficial law for Indians?(Does it give them more opportunities, or does it take away their culture?) 3.Even though they executed criminals, did the British harm Indian culture by destroying the “thuggees”? 4.Do blacks in America “give up” their culture by having to speak formal “white” English in school?