Tuesday, September 29, 2009
How Political Landspace transforms Historical Events
What is in a name even if it is a Historical event, many times depends upon from which side you are looking but more importantly who wins the battle. One of the example of groing in recently got independent poorer India or 70s is the word Indian Rebellion of 1857 or Sepoy mutiny (depending whether you are a British or Indian. A freedom fighter is someone's terrorist, example of Azad and Indian Kashmir).Interestingly the terms Indian Rebellion and Sepoy Mutiny and changing of the term in the last 30 odd years is another example of how history is dictated by Politics rather than reality. Sepoy Mutiny was still common when we were younger or reading 1950s or 60s Indain hsitory But after Britain's failing importance in World and India' re-emergence, Sepoy Mutiny is now just an addendum to historical British Britanica and the word does not even come in the democratic Wikipedia.
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