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Coming from India, I already know how much of history can be inaccurate. This can happen at two levels: at a national level and at an international level. Like
by darth_avocado 4y ago
Coming from India, I already know how much of history can be inaccurate. This can happen at two levels: at a national level and at an international level. Like at a national level a lot of history that showed the not so good side about Gandhi is mostly missing and at times forcefully removed from public access. And at an international level, a lot of history around the extent of British brutality and its effects are intentionally left out of history books.
History is truly written by victors.
- ardit33 4y agoThat’s a bad phrase. History was written by those that could write at all! Most of ancient history is not documented as most peoples didn’t have a written system at all. Also, for many other battles and events there are other parties (third parties) that wrote about them, but they were neither the losers nor the victors. Third parties has their own biases so that is often needed to take account into history. In the case of India, the bias might be into minimizing conflict and trying to minimize bad sides of previous figures. This happens in many other countries as well.