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To categorize some people as indigenous and others as alien, to argue about the identity of the first inhabitants of the subcontinent, and to try and sort out these categories for the remote past, is to attempt the impossible.

— 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.

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.

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