Now you've got me wondering--is part of what's going on a difference in the choice of language used for Eurocentric revolutions? Because I don't think of the Indian struggle for independence as a "revolution," not instinctively, though of course you're right that it is; I guess I think of it as... well, as the Indian struggle for independence. I can certainly come up with Big Social and/or Political Movements, but other than the Cultural Revolution--which I can understand you not wanting to be my primary association--they aren't tagged with the word "revolution" in my mind, that's not how I learned about them. So to what extent is how I'm applying the word racist, as separate from a lack of knowledge or the belief that colonialism was just great for India or whatever?
(Okay, I came up with one more: the Green Revolution. I suspect this is not the kind of revolution they wanted to talk about, though, and besides I don't know enough about it to know how much of it was home-grown; I know there are a lot of issues with it being imposed on people from outside, and the way that they were injured by that, but I don't know if it was, say, the Indian government or a bunch of American NGOs doing it.)
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Wed, May. 30th, 2007 11:12 pm (UTC)(Okay, I came up with one more: the Green Revolution. I suspect this is not the kind of revolution they wanted to talk about, though, and besides I don't know enough about it to know how much of it was home-grown; I know there are a lot of issues with it being imposed on people from outside, and the way that they were injured by that, but I don't know if it was, say, the Indian government or a bunch of American NGOs doing it.)