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November 11, 2007
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Vol. LIX, No. 18, NEW DELHI, November 11, 2007
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A lesson of history - By R. Balashankar
"HISTORY smiles at all attempts to force its flow into theoretical patterns or logical grooves; it plays havoc with our generalizations, breaks all our rules; history is baroque.?
After finishing The Story of Civilization to 1789 in ten volumes Will and Ariel Durant reached this conclusion and wrote in their celebrated treatise, The Lessons of History, that human history is a brief spot in space, and its first lesson is modesty.
As a student of history, I have read almost all the great historians including our eminent historians of the Marxist genre. Nowhere have I encountered the kind of sweeping arrogance and cavalier disregard for facts as in the Indian Leftist historians. They pronounce with all finality. They have an ideology, a predetermined hypothesis, which they promote as history. For them their agenda is their history. And in this they heavily lean on colonial historians who themselves worked on a peculiar frame.
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