Historiographical singularity and democratic erosion in India | Zeeshan Ashraf

To the vast majority, who thought their past to be multicultural, tragic, and complex, the idea of glorification of the past along with historiographical singularity will always feel stimulating. What it attempts to demonstrate is the glorious achievements of the past and how drastically the deterioration of that position has taken place. This artistic formula has been adopted by almost all authoritarian, fascist, and democratically strained nations. The political leader, in order to appeal to the masses, erodes the line between nationalism and glorification of the past, thereby reducing a multicultural and complex history of the nation into a single framework, citing it as the indigenous version of their history.

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