IAS online Source

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http://www.iasgeneralstudies.com/
इस साईट पर काफी कुछ है |

Bhopal Gas Lekage

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http://expressbuzz.com/nation/arjun-mum-pranab-fingers-him/181328.html

itna kuch khad gaya aur abhi tak antekaran nahi jaga.

Legacy of Raja Rammouhan Roy

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Bill upgrading Presidency College to university passed- Education

The link above is about raising Presidency College to University Status. Presidency College has a long prestigious legacy in which it has remained associated with every stage of history of Modern India since 1817. It was started as Hindu College by Raja Rammouhan Roy, the father of Indian Renaissance and Nationalism. There are some references in the news report also.

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Elite talking history Phulkian Versus Sindhawalia

Refer to the following report.

Amarinder Talks about his family

S Amarinder Singh is an ex-CM of Punjab and descendant of rulers of Patiala. The following report is a journalistic report talking nothing much except the usual stuff. However, the person who is the author he is definitely a part of history and directly related to Maharaja Ranjit Singh also.

The blogger had learnt that the family library of Amarinder Singh contains such documents which had hidden many secret not only from pre-colonial period but also from post independence period. Hence, this report is a befitting selection for reviving posting which had remained suspended for long only because of long and erratic electric supply in Punjab where only British ruled. (The Indian Punjab remained outside the control of Lahore Darbar after the Amritsar Treaty of 1809 between Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Metcalfe).

As the topic taken in report is highly controversial as why the Punjab was annexed by Dalhousie after the Anglo-Sikh war, the issue is of Conspiracy History which sadly not undertaken seriously in India. But in the report, those events had been mentioned which had been behind the final annexation of Punjab.

History Coming Alive in News Through Theft Cases

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This is another way that History is coming into news. A watch gifted to Ex Prime Minister, Late Lal Bhadur Shastri by Alexei Kosygin of Russia when he was in Tashkent Conference in 1966 is stolen.

Sometime back, the Nobel Prize medal awarded to Guru Rabindranath Tagore was stolen. The case was given to CBI but it was closed without any result.

However, what may be the conspiracies behind it, such thefts bring History into news.

Is it not surprising that there is no Conspiracy theories in India? History is an opinion but different from myths. India has always tried to live the myths. India has lived the myths of their heroes who are infallible and therefore their history is sacred without blemish of conspiracies. But, why is it that thieves know better than the nation and disappear with the items which were symbols of the greatness of the Indian heroes. The stolen items are not recovered. But no conspiracy is pursued with the aim of reaching the actual truth. The ambiguity is preserved but thieves escape with the symbols.

Will these stolen items will again bring into news the history again?!!!

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Shastri's watch stolen from his memorial in Delhi - Delhi - City - NEWS - The Times of India

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Conspiracy History Demands Space in Indian Histriography

There is absence of Conspiracy History in Indian Historiography. The Indians have the tendency to worship heroes and make God out of them. Vaishnavism can be interpreted as one of the best case in support of this argument.

Jaswant Singh Book may have troubled BJP on ideology level. However, on the sideline, it has again brought History in News and the aim with which this blog is created stands vindicated.

There are many such patches in Indian History which demands new interpertation and further inquiry. Another important topics are the Subash Chander Bose death, Lal Bahadur Shashtri Death, Shimla Summit, and so on.

The hitched report can be read in light of above mentioned points also.

I am rather satisfied with the aim of this blog as there is a place for "HISTORY IN NEWS"

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Our Heroes, Nehur and Patel but Questioning them without Records! How Fair?

Conspiracy History demands Space in Indian Historiography

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With the release of book of Jaswant Singh, BJP, the controversy of genesis of partition of India in 1947 has again acquired an attention.

The general press and the rival political parties are again indulging in superficial debates with different motives at hand. However, India as a nation must understand that after 1947, there was a need to look at our history from a fresh angle. As Carr said, history requires a continuous dialogue between present and past. We must understand that when we live present, we are not having the perception of the future. We have it in dreams and opinions only. It is only when the future is registered into past, that we can define that in which direction at least we are going. This the beauty and contribution of historic evaluation. It is an ongoing process. History is about and always alive. The need is to imbibe the actual reality as it has existed in present. For that we have to shed our biases and confusions and face the reality as it is even if it hurts. Nehru was great. Jinnah was great. But we have to understand our present problems in right perspective. Remember, in Pakistan Jinnah is great and Nehru was not great. Will you say that truth has two versions. It is not unpatriotic if someone calls a leader of enemy country as a person with stuff. You must take facts as facts. This elucidation may go on and on. In NUTSHELL, there is need to write our history for present times. NOT as REVISIONIST but as the demand of the craft of history. That is the need.

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Check the following report.
Jinnah was a great man: Jaswant Singh - India - NEWS - The Times of India

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