This socio-historical travel along the Indus's entire length is anchored in grittiness, and marred by persistent wonder
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A new generation of historians are bringing the subject out of the shadow of Marx and Nehru, fulfilling its role of restoring civilisational pride among Indians.
The BJP, with its insistence on the purity of Hindu Rashtra, would sadly reduce the soaring generosity of their founding vision to the petty bigotry of majoritarian chauvinism.
Historiography under previous governments can, and should, be contested. But history that’s being rewritten under the present government is not merely to eulogise some leaders, but also, and more worryingly, to condemn several chapters of the past.
Updated: 05 Feb 2022 8:41 pm
Till a few years back, when the ceasefire had not given birth to an uneasy peace along the Line of Control, military commanders in Kashmir used to say that there was one weapon mightier than their entire arsenal—if only they were allowed to deploy it.
That weapon was water.
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