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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar termed History as a \u201ccomplicated\u201d subject, saying that the politics of the day often indulges in \u201ccherry-picking facts\u201d.<\/p>\n
That is, according to him, what has happened in the case of Tipu Sultan, the 18th century ruler of Mysore.<\/p>\n
Jaishankar spoke at the launch of Vikram Sampath\u2019s book \u2018Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore Interregnum 1761-1799\u2019 on Saturday. He claimed a \u201cparticular narrative\u201d about the former ruler has been advanced over the years. He said there are some basic questions that \u201cconfront us all\u201d today as to how much of \u201cour past has been airbrushed\u201d, how awkward issues have been \u201cglossed over\u201d and how \u201cfacts are tailored for regime convenience\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last decade, the changes in our political dispensation have encouraged the emergence of alternative perspectives and balanced accounts. We are no longer prisoners of a vote bank, nor is it politically incorrect to bring out inconvenient truths. There are many more subjects on which the same degree of objectivity is needed,\u201d he was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn one hand, he has a reputation as a key figure who resisted the imposition of British colonial control over India. It is a fact that his defeat and death can be considered a turning point when it came to the fate of peninsular India. At the same time, he evokes strong adverse sentiments, even today, in many regions, by some in Mysore itself, in Coorg and Malabar,\u201d he said, terming Tip Sultan as a \u201ccomplex figure\u201d in Indian history.<\/p>\n
According to the EAM, contemporary history writings at the national level have focused largely on the former aspect, \u201cunderplaying, if not neglecting,\u201d the latter. He claimed that it wasn\u2019t an accident.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy highlighting the \u201cTipu-English binary\u201d to the \u201cexclusion of a more complicated reality, a particular narrative has been advanced over the years\u201d, the minister said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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