HISTORY FOR WHAT?
History for what?
Aachal
Burande
Philosophically, History is defined as “the chronological record of significant events often including an explanation of their causing”. In a simple wording, History is nothing but the study of past events. A second passed on gets summed up in the history. Usually, in the school days, history is pretends to be like a boring subject. But as students grown up & looks forward, then it realizes how history is important in the life. History taught you to observe the flaws & strength in yours and act accordingly. It saves us from repeating the same mistakes done by our ancestors.
When we overlook the history, it
includes from the origin of human species till today. This vast form of
knowledge, to study it in a simple way history itself dived into two parts one
is prehistory & other is history. prehistory and history also contains many
ages like stone age, metal age, ancient age, middle ages, modern age,
contemporary age & present age. Day by day, humans are got engaged in shaping
their future and they don’t care about the history. Now, in the changing era of
digitization, history shifted in a secondary thought process. While looking
towards to future, for development, Indians are going backward. They are struck
in the period which their so called history is. Before one century they were
saying Indians invented zero and after a century, we still says the same &
it will keep on continuation. The world borrowed a zero from Indians and they
invented the whole number system & still Indians are at zero. It is just an
example, but the thing is all the intelligence Indians having getting used by
whole world instead of India. Same like Sushutra, the first who did plastic
surgery was an Indian but world did miracles in medical & Indian was happy
in Sushutra only. These are examples from B.C. (Before Christ). The recent
example is from 19th century, the missile was first invented by
Tippu Sultan but now India need to import it from foreign countries. This is
what the moto of the article is. This is the reason of history for what?
History gift human beings their
identity. So as well it is able to convert it into ‘an identity crisis’
problem. An identity crisis is an uncertainty or confusion in which a person’s
sense of identity becomes insecure. Identity can be based on caste, religion,
region, race & culture. The worst form of religion based identity crisis in
the history had started much before 150 B.C. The history of Pushyamitra Shung
shows disdain towards Buddhhist from that time. The caste such as Mannewar
which does not has their original religion acceptable now, so many like them
merged under the category S.T. (Schedule Tribes). The influence of Brahmans in
history tends to extinction of religion. Same with the people belongs to
Aadiwasi. The meaning of the word aadiwasi is the people living in specific
locality from long time ago. But now a days, history turned negatively that if
anyone said aadiwasi so it means a group people lives in forest areas or
inaccessible region. From the racial perspective, the historical civil war
against Apartheid (racism in S. Africa) in South Africa. It was lead by Nelson
Mandela. Also the issue of racism in USA. (The movie “Hidden Figures”). Such as
thousands of issues held in History which gives applied knowledge to face the
complex social, economical, political situation.
As an identity, History itself is an ideology. As per the book by Francis Fukuyama “The end of the History and The Last Man” History is taken as ideology. He argued that the end of the cold war is the end of the progression of human history. “What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War or the passing of a particular period of Post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.”
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