We have histories not the history as past is ideologically accounted. The quest for the history has ever eluded the humanity. Can there be only one history? There cannot be one but we can approximate as Max Weber does in the Protestant Ethic. Yet, people in general would not recognize the best approximation as being so. One way of determining is the democratic way. Where does the larger world stand? The statement smacks of majoritarianism or the sway of superior power but there is another test, which clarifies the issue at least to my satisfaction. Does that majority view allow the contesting view to co-exist; does the view respect the other view? If yes, then the first view is correct to me and I hold them as the acceptable purveyor of history. But the contesting view may not be benign. We must judge their worldview on the same parameters and if that does not meet the standards then the venomous part of the view must be neutralized.
Niraj Kumar Jha
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