while it is useful to document narratives, that is not the same as documenting fact. the further narrative is from an event, the less likely it is to be fact. so while things would have been easier for historians of india if indians documented events in greater detail (this is also true for many other parts of the world, e.g. africa, or south east asia) documenting narratives _today_ doesn't really help.
a narrative of the past that can be documented today would be about as close to historical fact as, say, the bible. On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:43 +0530, shiv sastry wrote: > c) I believe that we must Move on to actual individual documentation > of > narratives and observations that can eventually build up into a huge > body of > documented social experience that serves as research material about > the true > state of mind of modern India and what has been recorded in folk > memory >
