lessons about, i don t know, the indian rebellion of 1857? or did you learn about the amritsar massacre of 1919? no! these are hugely important moments in the evolution of a sort of independence mind set in india. even when we were taught things, we weren t taught about the imperial context. so, for example, world war i, world war ii, we all learn about that at school. no one told a kind of ethnically diverse student base that six million soldiers from the colonies also fought for britain in both world wars. and also, no one mentioned when we were studying the tudors that there were black people in henry viii s court, that queen elizabeth i was complaining about there being too many black people in the 1600s. and i think you can carry on teaching these things, but also include the imperial dimension. so, curriculums need rewriting, do they? yeah. and when you talk about the decolonisation of curriculums, people get upset. it implies that you re
and into the establishment. there s no way i would have got a job on the financial times if i hadn t gone to cambridge university. but at the same time, i think i lost touch with my ethnic background and being punjabi in that i didn t study a single brown author until my final terms at university. and i think that was a failure of education, and i don t think my experience is untypical, in that a lot of our education, our curriculums are whitewashed and we don t study the role that empire had in so many things. and to take things that are very relevant to your own family s history, did you learn in your history lessons about, i don t know, the indian rebellion of 1857? or did you learn about the amritsar massacre of 1919? no! these are hugely important moments in the evolution of a sort of independence mind set in india. even when we were taught things, we weren t taught about the imperial context. so, for example, world war i,
well, i guess it got me where i wanted to go, which was into journalism and into the establishment. there s no way i would have got a job on the financial times if i hadn t gone to cambridge university. but, at the same time, i think i lost touch with my ethnic background and being punjabi in that i didn t study a single brown author until my final terms at university. and i think that was a failure of education, and i don t think my experience is untypical, in that a lot of our education, our curriculums are whitewashed and we don t study the role that empire had in so many things. and to take things that are very relevant to your own family s history, did you learn in your history lessons about, i don t know, the indian rebellion of 1857? or did you learn about the amritsar massacre of 1919? no! these are hugely important moments in the evolution of a sort of independence mind set in india. even when we were taught things, we weren t taught about the imperial context.
are very relevant to your own family s history, did you learn in your history lessons about, i don t know, the indian rebellion of 1857? or did you learn about the amritsar massacre of 1919? no! these are hugely important moments in the evolution of a sort of independence mind set in india. even when we were taught things, we weren t taught about the imperial context. so, for example, world war i, world war ii, we all learn about that at school. no one told a kind of ethnically diverse student base that six million soldiers from the colonies also fought for britain in both world wars. and also, no one mentioned when we were studying the tudors that there were black people in henry viii s court, that queen elizabeth i was complaining about there being too many black people in the 1600s. and i think you can carry on teaching these things, but also include the imperial dimension. so, curriculums need rewriting, do they? yeah. and when you talk about
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