Monday, November 23, 2009

different shades of history

hi to all the souls who are vella enough to read my post and secondly plz ignore any grammatical errors. Now a days while studying a part of history - indian history- i observed few interesting thing, it is that there is many opinion about almost every topic that i read in course of my study and dont worry will not dare bore you - Here i am assuming that there are  atleast few vellas among friends - with my  finicky tendencies. Second and more inportant thing is the relative - with emphasis on term relative - ease with which different peoples - not neccassarily scholars - can make a certain theory and propagates it and that too in medievel times which presents both coducive and difficult situations at the same times for this type of endeavor. in modern times all the technology and means of preservations and reproduction of information that is available, this is relatively easy provided and one has the means including manpower and required ingenuity. Recent example of it is te occasion of unveiling  of logo of tamil summelan by Tamilnadu CM K. Karunanidhi. his party used this logo for indirectly claiming legacy - Although i am not sure what consitutes this -  of one of the oldest civilisation - Harrapan civilisation that is -  in history of mankind. In other words they claims to be true successor of that civilasation and in turn oldest inheriter of this ancient land and all this in name of  tamil pride. You may ask that may be they have any scientific evidence to it. regarding this i wanna clarify there is indeed a precarious link to show this but that is simply not enough. And there logic be granted than mongols can claim majority of landmass on earth on the basis of bounry of empire of Chenges khan. On the lighter note, i am also planning to come up with my own version of history of India. may be i come up with a definitive plan for doing so in my next post.        

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