Michel-rolph trouillot biography of mahatma
Already in his own time, and ever more so in the last four or decades, Gandhi's politics have been subjected to powerful critiques from the left.
This is from Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past: Power and Production of History: The Haitian revolution therefore entered history..
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Haitian American academic and anthropologist
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (November 26, 1949 – July 5, 2012[1][2]) was a Haitian Americanacademic and anthropologist.[3] He was a Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.[1][4] He was best known for his books Open the Social Science (1990), Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995), and Global Transformations (2003), which explored the origins and application of social science in academia and its implications in the world.[5] Trouillot has been one of the most influential thinkers of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, because he developed wide-ranging academic work centered on Caribbean issues.[6][7] Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall mentioned that "Trouillot was one of the most original and thoughtful voices in academia.
His writings influenced scholars worldwide in many fields, f