
History and Literature: A comparative analysis
What is History, how it is different from Literature, their inter-relation and how our Ramayana and Mahabharata are not just part of history but history themselves, and not literature: Explains Abhinav Shankar Anikul_
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What the history terms gruesomely, dismissively & witheringly otherwise; the literature treats in a generous, lenient & commiserative manner. In a way we see a strange paradox between these two here, but perhaps naturally so.
Equally ironic is that today when it is a standard practice to look into literature while caricaturing the history, difficult to say how much of this paradox is acoounted while doing so. The History follows it's own simple & plain rules for describing things. It is utilitarian in it's basic purpose. It belie...