Mubarak Ali: Politics

Mubarak Ali is Historian, activist, scholar. Explore interesting quotes on politics.

Mubarak Ali: 24 quotes0 likes

“In our society, we don not study history to understand the process of change but just to entertain ourselves with past events. For this reason, history is not regarded as a useful subject. The history that we teach in our educational institutions is political history and, as such, it is used by the ruling classes.”

In the Shadow of History, Chapter: Why should we study History? p. 4
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“History is a powerful subject which can be used to create a true historical consciousness. Unfortunately, it can also he misused and we often sec how politician distort it to whip up the emotion of people in older to achieve their political agenda. As they have a large following their version of history becomes popular among their followers. If not corrected the falsification of history is accepted as the absolute truth. This reaise the question whether historians should challenge the popular emotions of the people and correct historical facts or keep silent and let the falsification go on unchecked.”

What History Tells Us, Chapter: Task of the Historian, p. 25
History, What History Tells Us

“Culture plays also an important role in the life of minorities, who are generally discriminated in such societies where there is no political and religious freedom. Under these circumstances, their cultural values and symbols help them to retain their identity.”

In Search of History, Chapter: Cultural Intervention and Social Change, p. 13/14
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“Historical process is not a linear one. It is also not stagnant. On the contrary, it moves ahead and brings changes to social, political and economic structure.”

Dimensions of History, Chapter: Divvying up History, p. 72
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