How Do We Judge Historical Figures

Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the hologram statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate on his 125th birth anniversary. This led to a controversy where people started calling Netaji a fascist. From native Indian "eminent intellectuals" to some South Asian "Experts" everyone seems to have an opinion. This monologue uses this recent controversy as an example and is an attempt to talk about the larger issue which is how do we judge historical figures? Are there certain parameters that we can define and then base a framework on which every personality can be judged? Is there an Emic View vs Etic View problem when it comes to historical figures?

#NetajiSubhashChandraBose #Churchill #Gandhi
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Time Stamps
00:00:00 Intro
00:07:10 How I plan to approach this
00:09:33 Starting with quotes and why
00:12:07 Emic and Etic Views
00:18:48 How do we judge historical figure in Emic and Etic Views
00:20:38 Test of Blame worthyness
00:25:19 moral luck and moral unluck
00:28:13 Presentism
00:32:32 Hitler made everything easy
00:34:40 Woodrow Wilson's Case
00:37:00 Not Judge People in the Past ?
00:44:30 Netaji and Churchill
00:46:54 The process to judge people
00:55:00 How to think - Netaji, Churchill and Others
01:11:00 QnA