There is no need to resort to the excuse of Covid-19. The deletions relating to the Mughals, the RSS and the Gujarat riots are justified in themselves. School children should not be burdened with complications
(Illustration by Nilanjan Das)
PPeople often wonder why history, once written, is not carved in stone—why it undergoes revision at all. But philosophers of history have always understood it as a dynamic process. For example, RG Collingwood wrote these words in idea of history: “Each age writes its own history”; and “each age must reinterpret the past in the light of its own prejudices”.