More quotes by Romila Thapar
Nationalism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject.
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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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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