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    The essay analyzes Girish Karnad's play "Tughlaq" to demonstrate how post-colonial historical literature has become "history fictions". The play depicts the failures of the 14th century Delhi Sultan Muhammad Bin Tughlaq and draws parallels to post-colonial India. It highlights the contradiction between how Muslim historians portrayed Tughlaq versus modern Orientalist historians who blamed Tughlaq for necessitating British rule. While one saw Tughlaq as not religious, the other used this to assert their own philosophy. The play also draws parallels between Tughlaq's rule and leadership styles of Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and other Indian rulers, showing

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    The essay analyzes Girish Karnad's play "Tughlaq" to demonstrate how post-colonial historical literature has become "history fictions". The play depicts the failures of the 14th century Delhi Sultan Muhammad Bin Tughlaq and draws parallels to post-colonial India. It highlights the contradiction between how Muslim historians portrayed Tughlaq versus modern Orientalist historians who blamed Tughlaq for necessitating British rule. While one saw Tughlaq as not religious, the other used this to assert their own philosophy. The play also draws parallels between Tughlaq's rule and leadership styles of Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and other Indian rulers, showing

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    The essay analyzes Girish Karnad's play "Tughlaq" to demonstrate how post-colonial historical literature has become "history fictions". The play depicts the failures of the 14th century Delhi Sultan Muhammad Bin Tughlaq and draws parallels to post-colonial India. It highlights the contradiction between how Muslim historians portrayed Tughlaq versus modern Orientalist historians who blamed Tughlaq for necessitating British rule. While one saw Tughlaq as not religious, the other used this to assert their own philosophy. The play also draws parallels between Tughlaq's rule and leadership styles of Nehru, Indira Gandhi, and other Indian rulers, showing

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    READ THE ESSAY TITLED ‘HISTORICAL FICTIONS AND POST COLONIAL

    REPRESENTATION: READING GIRISH KARNAD’S TUGHLAQ’ BY APARNA


    DHARWADKER AND WRITE A SUMMARY OF IT.

    The contradiction, or rather ‘complicity’ as the author puts it, between the history
    of the Orient world that fairly embodies fiction in it and the vision of the Western
    historical literature which has over the time changed the face of the Orient
    history or rather has led to its diminishing is the point under consideration in
    Aparna Dharwadker ‘Historical Fiction and Postcolonial Representation: Reading
    Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq. To be precise, the author is using the drama ‘Tughlaq’ to
    get home her idea of how the post-colonial historical literature has rather
    become history fictions.
    Karnad’s Tughlaq revolves around the astounding Delhi Sultanate ruler
    Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who was so ill fortunate that he is often regarded as the
    most unsuccessful kings of India. The decisions of Tughlaq that backfired includes
    his decision to transfer his capital to Daulatabad, the abolishing of differentiated
    taxation systems for people of different faiths, etc. However, the play tries to
    draw parallel to the post-colonial era of India. It also brings to the fore the
    ideological differences of the Orientalists and the medieval Muslim historians in
    explaining the period of medieval history of India.
    The contradiction of the way the Muslim historians of the medieval period
    explained and judged the rule of Tughlaq and the modern oriental historians
    judged the same as the main cause that necessitated the British rule and thereby
    the death of the Sultanate rule in India. The stark contrast in the narrative of the
    two groups as to the cruelty inflicted by Tughlaq on his people, where one says is
    because he was not religious while the other uses it to impose the supremacy of
    their philosophy on the other, itself explains how influenced the noting of history
    has been biased over the periods.
    The narrative of Tughlaq also goes on to draw a parallel between the post-colonial
    Indian administration and the ruling period of Tughlaq. Although the author goes
    on stressing that this play is not to draw out any character I the modern India, it
    so happens that the play has been drawing parallels to the different periods in the
    Indian history ranging from Nehru to Indira Gandhi to the latest rulers. The play,
    though it appears to be a fictional narrative of the Tughlaq period, it draws
    parallels to post-colonial India as well.
    The author uses this play as an instrument to demonstrate how the historical
    fictions and their representation in the modern period is totally different to one
    another. The very essential of the essay is intended at the point that the literature
    form of history may often be different from the real happenings at the ground
    level and how these variations may be effected due to the inclination of the
    author or the authors to the incident and how they wish to picturize this incident
    safeguarding their opinion.

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