Historians are angry with Narendra Modi

Narendra Modi’s history bloomers became news obviously because he is trying to sell himself as an invincible super-politician. As it is election season, his detractors gleefully lampooned him. They made it appear that he would recklessly bluff about things he did not know.

But, the grievance of a historian would be different. History has only very few facts to hold on to, namely, dates of events and names of people and places. That is the stuff largely of elementary class history. Everything else in its vast corpus is interpretation or perception; just gas that is usually dealt with at higher levels. Here, Modi has failed in elementary history! That is unpardonable in an aspiring PM of India.