History Optional (UPSC)

We had recently uploaded a video of a speech by Romila Thapar. It was on the impact of Sufis and Nathpanthi Yogis on Punjab during 10th-12th centuries, and how Punjab's religious demography changed during the medieval time.

Although it was a very scholarly video, it received massive views in 3-4 days and then a huge amount of abuse and hate from random people. I know that I personally do not agree with a lot of what Romila Thapar claims, and on some points, I stand diametrically opposite to her viewpoint. (not that I am a historian or something). But that does not mean that people can go on abusing scholars. A scholar must be defended/opposed in scholarly fashion. With debates, discussions, arguments and books. Not with trolling which is really not correct.

I hope that our students here, and aspirants in general, are not involved in such avoidable online abuse. We will continue uploading video clips of eminent historians, known as well as unknown, from left-right-and-centre, the entire spectrum. These vides would not be primarily on the syllabus point directly, but on connected issues. As a student of history for UPSC CSE, you would be aware of something related to the topics, and these videos would provide alternative view or some peripheral analysis or some deeper perspective. It will be fun. But please keep it civil.

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We had recently uploaded a video of a speech by Romila Thapar. It was on the impact of Sufis and Nathpanthi Yogis on Punjab during 10th-12th centuries, and how Punjab's religious demography changed during the medieval time.

Although it was a very scholarly video, it received massive views in 3-4 days and then a huge amount of abuse and hate from random people. I know that I personally do not agree with a lot of what Romila Thapar claims, and on some points, I stand diametrically opposite to her viewpoint. (not that I am a historian or something). But that does not mean that people can go on abusing scholars. A scholar must be defended/opposed in scholarly fashion. With debates, discussions, arguments and books. Not with trolling which is really not correct.

I hope that our students here, and aspirants in general, are not involved in such avoidable online abuse. We will continue uploading video clips of eminent historians, known as well as unknown, from left-right-and-centre, the entire spectrum. These vides would not be primarily on the syllabus point directly, but on connected issues. As a student of history for UPSC CSE, you would be aware of something related to the topics, and these videos would provide alternative view or some peripheral analysis or some deeper perspective. It will be fun. But please keep it civil.

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