History is written by the victors ...Is this true ?

To an extent it is indeed true. You only have to look at the Indian history and realise it has happened here, most of the history written is from the perspective of the Moghuls and later on the British followed by the minions they left when they freed India. Real history survived mostly because it was woven into tales and songs and passed on by oral tradition while remaining chunk was documented in bakhars and documents preserved in various muths and temples.

I agree that most f our recent history is full of pot holes because​ most of  it has been written by people with vested interest.

Interestingly the history of Holocaust too is supposed to be exaggerated because it was written by allied forces. The account given by European​ nations is somewhat different esp on cold war..

Lot of unwritten history consists of perception and exaggeration of savage incidents. Their is the chronicle history which just records the events as they took place. Subsequent ideologies interpret these as per their wishes. Thus the same incident will appear differently during Congress and later on during BJP rule. Therefore a serious student of history has to guard against such biases to know the truth. But veryvfeecare interested in knowing the truth. Most of the time we are judgemental in nature.

The unfortunate fact is that even the historians are open to bias as can be seen with many , so it simply depends on what we want to believe . I am simply amazed at the different versions they have of Mughal Kings which are totally contradictory in nature , the same goes for some of the prominent Indian rulers ..

The methods to preserve historical documents and scriptures were not that sophisticated as they are now. Some are discovered while some are swept with the tides of time. 

Even some of the ones that were discovered were not complete so I guess the historians and researchers filled in the blanks to  the best of their knowledge trying to gather information through word of mouth .. As long as it remains within the pages, so problem but the problem comes in when it becomes an issue and begins to haunt the present day life like in Babri Masjid and Mughal Kings ..

The basic problem is in the authenticity of any history book. The historians should remain unbiased while writing a history book but it's a man's nature to form an opinion. Accordingly, when it is passed on through the different ages the readers too form a biased opinion about different historical events and facts. This creates some tension and tussle which is unhealthy for the humankind.

There are stories and sub stories that have evolved with time. Historic facts seem to get enhanced with time in some cases. There is a famous Shiva Temple in Dharmasthala close to Mangalore which is thriving mainly because of the additional historic facts that have been added on from time to time. It is the same case with all laces of worship and historical monuments .

History is exploited by everyone as per ones biases. So one has to struggle to know the real history.

vijay wrote:

History is exploited by everyone as per ones biases. So one has to struggle to know the real history.

Where can I get real history ?

rambabu wrote:

vijay wrote:

History is exploited by everyone as per ones biases. So one has to struggle to know the real history.

Where can I get real history ?

Why don't you Google and find out ?

Real history needs courage to be  accepted without ones bias coming in  the way. So you will find it difficult to fin.

I think in the first place history is written by other people than the victors & usually it is victors stories that form of history though stories like Hiranyakashapa's death & other mythological or society stories of failure are written to let people know the impact of negative habits, acts & its consequences

History is now being rewritten by breaking statues.

I am totally against breaking down history ( statues) no matter who indulges in it...

History in fact is written and re-written as and when required. After all thousands of Indian buildings and roads have seen a different signboard on them in last couple of hundred years. Rewriting history is a continuous process but it should be done with correct facts... That's all...  

History is written and events re-interpreted as new fact come to light. This is normal, even if the victors write the true facts emerge later. An example is that the rule of the Mughals was whitewashed by the Congress and now the facts are coming out as written by historian Duff*(English) that 80 million Hindu were killed by Mughals. This must be highlighted.

If we have to g back in history, there are far too many things that have happened in this country by the invaders who plundered .killed and destroyed ..

Most of the great temples in North India were destroyed during the period and no great temples were built under Muslim rulers except the Vrindavan temples under Akbar which lack ornamentation as imagery was generally prohibited.^[10] The architecture of Hindu temples underwent change under the Muslim rulers and incorporated Islamic influences.^[11]

Ruins of the Martand Sun Temple. The temple was destroyed by the Muslim Sultan Sikandar Butshikan.^[12]

Historian K. S. Lal in his book Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India claims that between the years 1000 AD and 1500 AD, the population of the Indian subcontinent decreased from 200 to 170 million.^[13] In Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India meanwhile he had claimed that it fell from 200 million to 125 million by 1500 and 120 million by establishment of the Mughal empire because of killings, deportations, dissemination, wars, and famines.^[14] He stated that his estimates were tentative and did not claim any finality.^[14]These population estimates, however, have been questioned by Simon Digby^[15] and Irfan Habib.^[16] Will Durant calls the Muslim conquest of India "probably the bloodiest story in history".^[17] Even those Hindus who converted to Islam were not immune from persecution, which was illustrated by the Muslim Caste System in India as established by Ziauddin al-Barani in the Fatawa-i Jahandari.^[18]

The Muslim rule was not beneficial to Hindus who for 1000 years were second class citizens. The coming of the English was a godsend as Hindus became free.  There is lot of literature on this topic. 

It's not the matter of Hindu, English or Muslims but the day the English left and this country was divided in to two (Later in to three) the history changed its course. Now we should face the truth and write a new history that begins from 1947. Rest is HISTORY in ARCHIVE and we should accept the fact.