History often appears as a resource to manufacture pride or embarrassment for people. That is the most common use to which ordinary individuals or groups put their pasts. The past either appears as a matter of glory or shame.

It is either highlighted or hidden, emphasized, or underplayed, remembered, or ignored.
This episode wonders why history is so often used by people either as an ingredient for celebration or for guilt generation.

The episode suggests that it has something to do with the obsessive interest of the state to control its circulation. It makes the point with two examples from the recent history of India, though it also includes instances from outside India.

It also offers a perspective on how to verify facts in history. It concludes that it is necessary to understand how history is made and circulated. That understanding is useful to make sense of how history can be an effective tool with which to reason.

Hosted by Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay 

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