KHAYAAL

For quite a while now, we have in our midst, a debate which tends to polarise opinions. The popular conscience of the country is demanding a rewriting of our history to ‘correct’ the mistakes of existing history writing while the writers of existing narrative criticise this change with short-sighted arguments; that whatever shall be produced, would be communal in nature. Both the parties have weightage to their arguments, but the solution to this seemingly chaotic question is rather simple – i.e., the birth of a new school of thought. History study at graduate and post graduate levels follows various schools of thought. In the simplest of terms, it is a specific way in which history is told. At the high school levels, we may suffice with a chronological narration of events, while touching upon a few eminent personalities, but the reading and writing of history becomes much more nuanced when you contextualise and interpret these events. Indian history writing has broadly seen Orientalis...