Emotional Community and the Hindu Nationalist Interpretation of History

What is it about?

History is recorded and interpreted by people to explain their present and project their future. Events of the past are not only a sphere of knowledge, but of emotions as well. There are means to change the emotional perceptions of historical events by individuals and groups, to transform a hero into a villain and vice versa.

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Why is it important?

There have been many valuable works on the history of emotions. The present article chooese a different view and traces how emotional perception of a historical event may change through the centuries and how it may be changed to serve political means.

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