POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Eurocentrism, British Subject, Montesquieu
25 Nov 2015
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Poli 100 lecture 21 critical multiculturalism. European cartographers put europe in center of map. The west is a cultural as well as geographical entity. Question basic terms like "west", "east", "orient", "indian". Secretary to the committee on trade and plantations. Agrarian labour theory of property justifies dispossession. Indians need to give up their ways modes and notions" if. Js mill and montesquieu and "the asian" they are to become civilized. Need for british to civilize" indians in india through benevolent despotism. Indians are custom bound so cannot exercise liberty. Exclusion from property/liberty based on ethnicity and race. Non-west is uncivilized and must be improved". 1945 prohibited groups, if they served in wwii, allowed to vote. 1947 prohibition against chinese and hindus explicitly removed. 1985 british subject dropped as qualification to vote. First self-described orientalists were 19th c. british scholars. School of oriental and african studies (soas) Departments include, s. asia, e. asia, middle east.
