Audrey TruschkeAlright folks, let’s try again with some specificity — Float me your questions about Mughal history and let’s see what we can do...
#IndiahatesCAA_NRC_NPR@audreytruschke how exactly and effectively we could chase the history and how much imagination comes into effect when historians try to draw a history on the basis of some findings
@st_in Q: How much imagination comes into play when historians construct narratives about the past?
A: It depends on the historian to some degree. When historians go too far in this regard, they usually get criticized. For my comments on tellings of Mughal history that are overly imaginative rather than solidly historical, see: https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/mughal-lite/
Mughal Lite - Open The Magazine
INDIA IS GRIPPED by Mughal fever these days. Seemingly obsessed with premodern India’s most famous empire, the saffron brigade works tirelessly to scrub Modi’s India clean of vestiges of the Mughals by writing them out of school textbooks, renaming cities and roads, and neglecting Mughal monuments. When Hindu nationalists are not marginalising the Mughals, they … Continue reading "Mughal Lite"
@audreytruschke but why nobody take any effort to create awareness about the imagination part of history creation and its implications in the present era especially when vested groups use history as a tool to curb freedom and knowledge selectively the main victims of this kind of restrictions are women and societies with minimal means for education