More quotes by Romila Thapar
Nationalism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject.
The fundamental sanity in Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.
Epic literature is not history but is again a way of looking at the past.
In fact, when one looks for them, there are evidence for migration.
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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
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