Contemporizing Indian History: A Study of GurcharanDas’Larins Sahib

Abstract

M.D.U. Rohtak (Haryana) History is asignificantchannel maintaining a connection between past, present and future wherein parallel currents between different epochs can be observed. Due to an abiding principle of continuity inherent in historical change, bits and pieces of the past always walk into the present. History is indeed, as Allen Nerins puts it, “a bridge connecting the past with the present and pointing the road to the future.” (Nerins 12).The treatment of history in its multiple dimensions makesGurcharan Das one of the most relevant contemporary writers in the present scenario. His literary world portrays contours of a nation which is undergoing transformation in the post-independence era. Regarding his consciously chosen role of a historian of contemporary India, Gurcharan Das himself accepts: “Now I feel that each blade of grass has its spot on earth from where it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from where his life begins” (Das, Harvard Business,1).