Monday 20 March 2017

Online Discussion : Irfan Habib Historian Interview and Caste Politics and Ashoka in Bihar



Respected sir,

View on the first article by Irfan Habib.




Article of Irfan Habib speaks about history. According to T.S. Eliot " the historical sense involves a perception, not only the pastiness of the past, but also its presence." If we connect this idea with this article, we cannot say that history speaks about truth or facts, but if we understood the present some basic ideas of past are important. Though history is always written by the winners, but we can assume the circumstances of that time. Here is one thing about renaming the Aurangzeb Road,but why should they do that kinds of thing?  Here we can apply the theory of Michael Foucault's idea of Power & Knowledge. Banning meat connected with religious emotions but we are individual and free human beings so one should not denied to whatever we want. 

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