Tag: points to ponder
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The woman’s magazine
Woman….. Thank fully the anguish of listening to women on women, specially Fulbright scholars , who have lived in Delhi and somewhere in uncle sam’s land, or those intellectual, activists who did their work on Indian women from Harvard has dulled, the headache of listen to woe’s of the woman, waiting to be rescued by a magical wand…
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Historiography
Historiography Is the writing of history, the writings of history based on critical examination of sources, the selection of particulars from authentic materials and synthesis the particulars into a narrative that will stand the test of critical methods. It can also be called the principles theory, a history of historical writing. Two tendencies of history…
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Oligarchy
Oligarchy is a term that refers to a govt. Run by a few specially a small faction of persons or families. Dadabhai Naoroji refers to this as one of the causes of the draining of wealth from the subcontinent. In his books Poverty and Un-British Rule in India, he talks of draining of 200-300 Million…
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creating a hindu
Histography? Is a historian looking at history. When we look at history it is important to know who is telling the story. That is whose point of view are we speaking? History is also how people look at themselves. How did the Indians write their history? They wrote is just the way British wrote it.…