A sensible charting out of Vedic people; history for the layman
To ban books on the basis of ‘hurt sentiment’ with no nod to scholarship or debate is untenable
Indian nationalism’s anti-colonial, and inclusive, origins are increasingly being trampled underfoot by votaries of Hindu majoritarianism. In this essay, Romila Thapar shows how the cant of Hindutva was built on the myopic and tendentious tradition of colonial history-writing.
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