{"id":229442,"date":"2023-03-02T19:53:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=229442"},"modified":"2023-03-02T19:53:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T14:23:08","slug":"supreme-court-censure-on-renaming-games-because-the-past-lives-in-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/supreme-court-censure-on-renaming-games-because-the-past-lives-in-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court censure on renaming games: Because the past lives in the present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cSupreme Court censure on renaming games: Because the past lives in the present\u201d <\/strong>published in the Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a02nd March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS-1: Urbanization, their problems and their remedies.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About renaming places.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Supreme Court has recently dismissed a PIL that sought a renaming commission focussed on \u201cancient India\u201d.<\/p>\n

About the case and renaming places after history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Must read: Listen to the court \u2013 SC warning against renaming places by abusing history, and invoking it selectively, is valuable and timely<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Why terming medieval rulers as \u201cinvaders\u201d and \u201coutsiders\u201d is wrong?<\/h3>\n

Firstly<\/strong>, during medieval times, kings and sultans were not accountable for their actions. These were times when hierarchies were held as important for \u201csocial cohesion\u201d and statecraft had very different objectives. Wars and violence were often critical to empire-building.<\/p>\n

Secondly<\/strong>, the history is too complex to be captured in binaries. For instance, Aurangzeb revoked many of the policies of his forefathers. He imposed Sharia laws, brought back the discriminatory jizya tax that Hindus had to pay in return for protection and gave orders to destroy Hindu shrines in some parts of his empire.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, there were more Hindus in the higher echelons during Aurangzeb\u2019s rule than any other Great Mughal. He had Rajput relatives, and gave grants for maintaining Hindu temples.<\/p>\n

Thirdly<\/strong>, the colonial regime periodised India\u2019s past into Hindu rule, Muslim rule and British rule. This is evident from James Mill\u2019s History of India. His book categorises Mahmud of Ghazni, Ibrahim Lodhi, Aurangzeb and Tipu Sultan as the invader. His book had a significant impact on the country\u2019s education system for most of the colonial period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSupreme Court censure on renaming games: Because the past lives in the present\u201d published in the Indian Express on\u00a02nd March 2023. Syllabus: GS-1: Urbanization, their problems and their remedies. Relevance: About renaming places. News: The Supreme Court has recently dismissed a PIL that sought a renaming commission… Continue reading Supreme Court censure on renaming games: Because the past lives in the present<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10500],"class_list":["post-229442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}