Ars Artium, Vol. 7, 2019 All papers by nageswararao g
Ars Artium, Vol. 7, 2019
Creative writers author many works depicting history while silhouetting it against some plot. Her... more Creative writers author many works depicting history while silhouetting it against some plot. Here it is very pertinent that historical facts should not be trivialized, also popular version with some biases should not be pressed into service during fictional account. The need to safeguard the historical sacredness of facts is very important since political leaders pander to popular history to whip up hatred. This is all the more important since vested interests are inclined to appropriate history by projecting their own version. Such subversion if accepted poisons the minds of the gullible sections of society. They feel that their forefathers had been wronged and therefore, seek to avenge the real or imagined perpetrators' progeny in the present. In the subcontinent, all the vested interests cutting across the barriers of religions have been responsible for the mayhem caused over the decades by "the so-called injustice" (my emphasis). Such prejudicial histories must be contested and the fallacious arguments be dismantled in light of looming threat to the survival of minorities in particular. Writing history over the last few centuries has become a muddled area as historians have got themselves entangled in the cobweb of promoting parochial interests. While throwing light on depiction of history and the pitfalls involved when it is foregrounded to some story, anecdotes etc., the paper descants upon locating the positioning of veiled historians in creative writing while touching upon the issue of partition in particular. A few Indian novels were taken for the study.
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Ars Artium, Vol. 7, 2019 All papers by nageswararao g