The Punjab story, told by the man who rewrote it
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A new generation of historians are bringing the subject out of the shadow of Marx and Nehru, fulfilling its role of restoring civilisational pride among Indians.
The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
Historiography under previous governments can, and should, be contested. But history that’s being rewritten under the present government is not merely to eulogise some leaders, but also, and more worryingly, to condemn several chapters of the past.
Updated: 05 Feb 2022 11:56 pm
STEREOTYPES tend to assume a larger than life dimension in turbulent times, particularly to a reporter engaged in the eternal search for the established fact. So, when one such reporter first came across K.P.S. Gill one balmy spring evening after a hard day's work, counting mutilated bodies at the Golden Temple complex, the mind wasn't really working too hard and the body was in search of potable potations.
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