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.
In fact, when one looks for them, there are evidence for migration.
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