{"id":11190,"date":"2015-02-04T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:54:10","slug":"unsung-heroes-indian-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/unsung-heroes-indian-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unsung Heroes of Indian History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        The Unsung Heroes of Indian History\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Last December, <a title=\"Chinnaiah Jangam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/people\/chinnaiah-jangam\/\">Dr. Chinnaiah Jangam<\/a> delivered the <a title=\"The Hindu | Rewrite Indian History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/telangana\/there-is-a-need-to-rewrite-history-with-a-dalit-bahujan-perspective\/article6711179.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keynote speech at the Telangana University&#8217;s 2014 Lecture series<\/a>. There, he spoke about the role of Dalits and other underprivileged peoples in Indian history. Dalits, demonstrates Professor Jangam, agitated against caste discrimination at least 30 years before the rise of B.R.Ambedkar&#8217;s movement against caste discrimination and the practice of untouchability. The caste system, argues Professor Jangam, ultimately discriminated against the Dalits in the writing of history as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can watch his talk below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m1Q4K8Dsogo\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last December, Dr. Chinnaiah Jangam delivered the keynote speech at the Telangana University&#8217;s 2014 Lecture series. There, he spoke about the role of Dalits and other underprivileged peoples in Indian history. Dalits, demonstrates Professor Jangam, agitated against caste discrimination at least 30 years before the rise of B.R.Ambedkar&#8217;s movement against caste discrimination and the practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,126],"class_list":["post-11190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lecture","tag-video"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11199,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11190\/revisions\/11199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}