Intellectuals revise their own published history to appease a new regime

Evidence

By the second quarter of the nineteenth century History had become formally constituted as a ‘discipline,’ with its own elaborate array of professional journals. Very quickly the Year One made way for 1792 A.D., and the revolutionary ruptures of 1776 and 1789 came to be figured as embedded in the historical series and thus as historical precedents and models. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 724 (#expands, via linked claim)

The late President Sukarno always spoke with complete sincerity of the 350 years of colonialism that his ‘Indonesia’ had endured, although the very concept ‘Indonesia’ is a twentieth-century invention, and most of today’s Indonesia was only conquered by the Dutch between 1850 and 1910. Preeminent among contemporary Indonesia’s national heroes is the early nineteenth-century Javanese Prince Diponegoro, although the Prince’s own memoirs show that he intended to ‘conquer [not liberate!] Java,’ rather than expel ‘the Dutch.’ Indeed, he clearly had no concept of ‘the Dutch’ as a collectivity. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 118 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Academic history reabsorbed revolutionary newness back into serial continuity — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 724; Founding myths substitute fabricated narrative for genuine history to serve ruling classes; Nationalist memory retroactively invents the very nations it claims to remember — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 118 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Academic history reabsorbed revolutionary newness back into serial continuity #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 724
• Founding myths substitute fabricated narrative for genuine history to serve ruling classes #exemplifies (0.75)
• Nationalist memory retroactively invents the very nations it claims to remember #exemplifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 118