Practice question · Multiple choice
Chakrabarty says the "waiting room of history" still speaks someone else’s grammar. Whose, and why does that matter?
Hints
- "Not yet ready" assumes a destination everyone is travelling toward.
- Who put whole continents outside history so the plot had somewhere to climb from?
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D. Hegel's staircase of stages, peoples ranked by distance
Why
The metaphysics was abandoned a century ago and the sentence structure runs untouched. "Not yet ready for democracy" is the staircase in a policy brief, which is why recognizing the grammar is a practical skill and not an antiquarian one.
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