Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of history books?

NCERT - Themes in World History

Book: NCERT - Themes in World History

Chapter: 10. Displacing Indigenous Peoples

Subject: Social Science - Class 11^th

Q. No. 4 of Exercises

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Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of history books?

There was discrimination. The Australian History was purposely left out of the history books. The intention was to keep English History above all, and hence Australian work was ignored and praises were given to English people in their books.

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1

Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.

2

Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in nineteenth-century USA?

3

What did the ‘frontier’ mean to the Americans?

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Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of history books?

5

How satisfactory is a museum gallery display in explaining the culture of a people? Give examples from your own experience of a museum.

6

Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: a former African slave, a Chinese labourer, a German who had come out in the Gold Rush, and a native of the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation.