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The fundamental sanity in Indian civilization has been due to an absence of Satan.

— Romila Thapar

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Nationalism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject.

Some forms of Indian asceticism, although not all, have a socio-political dimension and these cannot be marginalized as merely the wish to negate life.

All history is contemporary history; you can't get away from the politics around you.

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.

Romila Thapar quoted in Vishal Agarwal (2005)

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