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A chronicle of a divided discipline (opens the original)
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Shaan Kashyap’s book is an account of how India’s history has been interpreted first by the British and later by Indian historians over the last 150 years. Over time, and particularly since Independence in 1947, these interpretations have hardened into two broad camps: Left-secular and Hindu-nationalist, each accusing the other of bending history to ideological ends. Taking up historian Sumit Sarkar’s observation that Indian historians rarely examined their own positions in society, Kashyap has
Reaffirming what India chose 79 years ago (opens the original)
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On August 16, 1946, India woke to the Great Calcutta Killings. Four days of communal slaughter followed the Muslim League’s call for “Direct Action” in support of Pakistan, a dark preview of what Partition would bring — hundreds of thousands dead, fifteen million uprooted. Independent India could have taken that carnage as proof that Hindus and Muslims could never share a nation. Instead, it chose a remarkably different path. At considerable political cost, its leaders reassured the Muslims who
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