Any account of history leaves a reader with the
impression that every word has the weight of gospel. But that is deceptive as
history depends entirely on source material. Until relatively recently that was
a collection of contemporary texts, on paper, parchment or stone. Thus, we know
about the greatness of Ashoka or the wickedness of Aurangzeb only through the
written records of their times
Histories have to be updated as and when new materials turn
up. But in the last two centuries sc