What is history...?
Each human being is related to the history. History makes the past present. Anything and everything has a history. It is not one sided or what happened. It is memory and what is remembered and why it is remembered. It is measured in three parameters.
I Individual and social...
We as a human being cannot live without company. We need someone to share or for various other reasons. We are interdependent and not individuals.
II Time and space…
From our birth, we have a certain period for different activities. Man carries the identity of his culture and his state. History is the reasoned application of the human mind. History is about the individuals in space.
III Change and continuity…
We are changed continually as well socially. Some things change but some things continue. The nature changes but idea remains the same. History is based on memory and records.
History is about the change in a group of people. It is based on three things…
- Observation…
- Analysing…
- Generalising…
History is always the past. It is repeats itself but not exactly same way. There are changes with time and value. Time does not return. It is the record of social experiences. The perception and the interpretations or viewpoints are essential. There is no conclusion without confirmation.
E.g., seven written details are available of Alexander defeating Paras. History provides numerous, choices to human being. Primary facts are taken up to about of twenty-twenty-five years from the event. Secondary facts basically are at the time of the reconstruction of history.
Till the nineteenth century history was known as ‘The Mother of All the Knowledge’. But now science has taken that place. Unfortunately, history cannot be proved as science can be. But science too has its own history. So there is nothing without history, neither you nor I.
FRANCIS LOBO SJ.
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