CHANGE THE CBSE HISTORY NARRATION FROM ITS PRESENT MARXIST ORIENTATION TO ITS PRISTINE STORY-TELLING OF ROYAL DYNASTIES AND THEIR EFFECTS

CHANGE THE CBSE HISTORY NARRATION FROM ITS PRESENT MARXIST ORIENTATION TO ITS PRISTINE STORY-TELLING OF ROYAL DYNASTIES AND THEIR EFFECTS

 The CBSE history course must be radically changed and a smooth and orderly narrative of royalty as of yore ought to replace the current Marxist narrative of history in diverse dimensions with special effect on the progressive rise of the proletariat through the evolutionary scheme of things. The present presentation of history is too complex for easy ingestion by students with immature minds who would rather revel in reading the ride of royalty through the ages and its effects in its multifarious phases on the life of the masses in general. Right now the course is cursory, disjointed and drab with a plethora of subjects making their brief appearances and disappearances which leave the students with insufficient data and depth-understanding of the subject at hand. 

The Marxist treatment of history has its relative validity and value but delivered to children with immature faculties makes a mockery of the study of the subject with any degree of comprehension. Students exposed to this regimen of Marxist historiography quickly lose contact with their national roots as internationalism takes them over and denationalises them in spirit to an extent. Humanity becomes the watchword as a vague representation of what real humanity is as viewed through the prism of the nation's historical vicissitudes through the ages. Undermining the importance of past royal dynasties and their policies and replacing them with human development in its diverse phases and movements may be a modern approach anf a valid one at that but it betrays a certain lack of understanding of what the imaginative child mind can be spurred on by and what essentially nourishes the child in terms of growing up to be a healthy patriot with an abundance of love for his motherland/fatherland which need not necessarily degenerate into parochialism or narrow nationalism that can cause international disruption when the situation permits. 

To rob the child of his imagination in the realm of emperors and empires and to replace it with a diet of proletarian culture as developing through the ages is a supposed advancement in the wrong direction. Hence, it is meet that history books in the CBSE curriculum be rewritten in a coherent, chronological and comprehensive manner with a far greater emphasis on the reign of kings and emperors, their conquests and failures, and the rise and fall of dynasties, and through it all in a brief nutshell the evolutionary trend of things, the progressive evolution of the emerging common man. 

The history taught at school level ought to be a good mixture of storytelling and analysis, inference et al. To make it over-complex and over-intellectual may suit the college and the university goer but certainly not the schoolgoer. Hence, simplify history, keep it chronologically ordered and coherently present it so that today's students may mature into patriots worth the salt and not puerile people who are blessed ignoramuses devoid of kinship with their own country. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo: One of the greatest of modern Indian historians, the irrepressible Ramesh Chandra Majumdar who, despite seemingly insurmountable barriers put up by the ruling dispensation post-Independence and opposition and opprobrium from fellow Marxist historians, carried on with his crusade of chronicling the entire history of India from the Ancient through the Medieval to the Modern times, courtesy the patronage of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, a study which ought to duly be the model for the CBSE to follow.