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    What is your opinion about teaching partition history in schools of India

    Only a few days back, an important opposition leader from Maharashtra opined that the bloody history of partition should not be taught to the school-going children of India. According to him, this would create enmity among different categories of children.

    As a son of refugee parents who had to face utmost difficulties and penury due to partition, my experience was peculiar. My near relatives never told me about the horrible problems during partition days. Due to the silence of my parents and relatives, I forced myself to study loads of books to understand the gory history of partition.

    Today, those who are studying partition in India are doing it totally on their own, because Indian history-writers have not done justice to truth. They have never told us what actually happened to people during those days and who were the real culprits behind such terrible agony of common people.

    On the other hand, the history books taught in Pakistan and Bangladesh put complete blame on Hindus for partition.

    Under these circumstances, do you think Indian school-going children must not be taught the history of partition? Shouldn't they know about the real culprits hiding behind incorrect history books? Further, will we be doing justice to our next generation by deleting partition history or teaching incorrect history of partition?

    What do you think?
  • #774661

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    Yes, reading the incidents that happened in the pre- partition days is not likely to go easily on the minds of the people. However the fact is very few people have witnessed that brutal massacre that happened those days. The contents written in the history books might have been distorted to the extent that the writers wished to highlight such atrocities.
    History writers of Bangladesh, Pakistan and India have provided the details of the pre - partition period in the different ways - not identical with one another. This is enough to raise the questions of the veracity of the original texts.
    We need to think over the impact of misinformation of such incidents and how it can pollute the minds of the school going children with such bad tastes. Description of wrong contents will further widen the relationship of Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.,

  • #774662

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    When somebody is projecting us as villains we must speak out the facts. If we are not speaking the truth, other people may take our silence as acceptance. So I feel the actual history should be taught to school-going children. At the same time, distorted history should not be told.

    Unfortunately, many of our history books are not expressive about the actual incidents that happened at that time. So the history books should be rewritten with all the facts and the same should be taught to the students. Not only the history of partition but also other facts also should be known to the school students.

    I was having a colleague in my previous organisation, whose father was working in Karachi in a government office. He told us once or twice when they were in Karachi, immediately after the partition how they were harassed by the people there. In the night, leaving all their belongings there, they were to start to India and take many pains to cross their borders.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #774663

    Points:1
    Although the political leader is telling us to forget the past, we must not forget what George Santayana said: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
    (a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
    (b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

  • #774667

      

    Points:4
    History is all about what has happened in the past and those who are interested must learn what has happened in the past. I am not aware of what the opposition leader has said but in most cases, politicians comment on things keeping the elections in mind. They engage in fighting among themselves and suddenly they preach unity, secularism, etc when there is an upcoming election.

    The question is what is to be done to the culprits. Are they still alive to face punishment? There is no way to punish the culprits who are no more even after knowing who are the real culprits but for that, we cannot punish the next generation. Can a grandchild be punished for the misdeeds of the grandfather? I do not know whether there is any such law.
    Sankalan

    "Life is easier when you enjoy what you do"

  • #774668

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    Just now read the comments of Sankalan Sir. I am extremely pained but it is quite natural. Most of us only read history blindly following the given syllabus to pass the Xth Board examination. We don't bother to understand the flow of historical events and their consequences. We tend to forget: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." And today's West Bengal is going to repeat the blunders of the past, because they don't study history.
    (a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
    (b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

  • #774671

    Points:4
    We can't punish a grandchild for the mistakes of his/ her grandfather. It is correct. At the same time as a parent, we should not allow our children to suffer because of certain negative forces in society. We should tell them what happened in the past and we should tell them they should be vigilant and should protect their interest and see others will also protect their interests. At the same time somebody is working against us we should not keep silent. In this aspect telling the students about the old history will be useful, I feel.
    drrao
    always confident

  • #774680

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    The next generation must learn from our (forefathers') mistakes. That's the reason to study correct partition history. They must also identify the culprits and must resist their glorification.
    (a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
    (b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali


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