Is There A War Over History Analysis
IS THERE A WAR OVER HISTORY? WHY IS THIS SO?
The war being referred to in the title is fundamentally amid the historians since all the historians are divided into two school of thoughts- the conventional approach and the revised approach. The traditional history, which was taught to us in school arose from the historians who followed the conventional or the orthodox approach. It is the plain reality that went from stage to stage till it got its final shape from oral form to written form. This methodology is extensively prominent in schools as it delivers exceedingly attention-grabbing stories unlike the revised approach since it debates around the outlooks of historians that are generally theoretical and uninteresting. Both the methodologies …show more content…
It’s all stories, which different people recite differently.
Only after researching, I found out about the negative points of Jalal-u-din Akbar, such as-
Akbar had a victory tower erected with the heads of the captured/ surrendered army of hemu after the second battle of panipat. Later, Akbar again slaughtered more than 30,000 unarmed captive Hindu peasants after the fall of Chitod on february 24, 1568.
What does this prove now? Few incidents give a very righteous, glamorous and a just picture of Akbar but what after reading that he slaughtered thousands of innocents. History can never be just a story or a written piece of paper because each of us think diierently. Revised view gives us the freedom to think and draft our own …show more content…
He had a liberal attitude which also helped him a lot in the expansion of his territory. Later, he went on to lay the foundation of a new religion- Din-e-Illahi. Although Din-e-Illahi was not a religion in the true sense of the term since it didn’t have any holy-book or formal base. He founded this religion to create a unified social order which could transcend the difference based on religion. Din-e-Illahi was based on the basic principles of the major religions such a Hinduism, Islam and Parsi faith. Though his religion failed and hence, had to be abolished soon. If Akbar could have succeeded in propagating his religion, he could have created a unified social order which could endure differences based on religion. Before reading extensively about Akbar, I had a very common notion about Akbar and all the Mughal Rulers being biased, against the Hindu population and
The war being referred to in the title is fundamentally amid the historians since all the historians are divided into two school of thoughts- the conventional approach and the revised approach. The traditional history, which was taught to us in school arose from the historians who followed the conventional or the orthodox approach. It is the plain reality that went from stage to stage till it got its final shape from oral form to written form. This methodology is extensively prominent in schools as it delivers exceedingly attention-grabbing stories unlike the revised approach since it debates around the outlooks of historians that are generally theoretical and uninteresting. Both the methodologies …show more content…
It’s all stories, which different people recite differently.
Only after researching, I found out about the negative points of Jalal-u-din Akbar, such as-
Akbar had a victory tower erected with the heads of the captured/ surrendered army of hemu after the second battle of panipat. Later, Akbar again slaughtered more than 30,000 unarmed captive Hindu peasants after the fall of Chitod on february 24, 1568.
What does this prove now? Few incidents give a very righteous, glamorous and a just picture of Akbar but what after reading that he slaughtered thousands of innocents. History can never be just a story or a written piece of paper because each of us think diierently. Revised view gives us the freedom to think and draft our own …show more content…
He had a liberal attitude which also helped him a lot in the expansion of his territory. Later, he went on to lay the foundation of a new religion- Din-e-Illahi. Although Din-e-Illahi was not a religion in the true sense of the term since it didn’t have any holy-book or formal base. He founded this religion to create a unified social order which could transcend the difference based on religion. Din-e-Illahi was based on the basic principles of the major religions such a Hinduism, Islam and Parsi faith. Though his religion failed and hence, had to be abolished soon. If Akbar could have succeeded in propagating his religion, he could have created a unified social order which could endure differences based on religion. Before reading extensively about Akbar, I had a very common notion about Akbar and all the Mughal Rulers being biased, against the Hindu population and