The noted historian isn't worrying about William Dalrymple's charges
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Glaring omissions, faulty maps, quirky highlighting and the airbrushing of Islam off early medieval India are some surprises in this much-touted book
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India these days is being identified with Hinduism. Our history tells us why patriots must stand against this.
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Gandhiji’s vision of India—a moral, secular version of village life and economy—was the opposite of Nehru’s ideals of socialism, democracy and science. Both made compromises in their stands.
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Zahir Dehlvi isn’t a very reliable narrator, but his memoir describes the Mutiny in Delhi vividly. This is a loose translation of an important source.
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An account of late imperial hypocrisy has interpretive errors, but is valuable for the British story
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