Description: Speaking of History brings India’s past into sharp, urgent focus. In these wide-ranging conversations, Romila Thapar, the distinguished historian, joins Namit Arora, incisive writer and social critic, to explore how history is written, remembered and fought over.Together, they pull back the curtain on the historian’s how evidence is weighed, how interpretations are made, and why the past has become a battleground of politics and identity. From caste and gender to religion, mythology and nationalism, they revisit much contested terrain and ask the vital questions—what can we really know about our past, and why does it matter so much today?The result is both erudite and refreshingly a book that challenges distortion and mythmaking, while celebrating history as an act of curiosity, argument and critical inquiry. At a time when the discipline is under siege, Speaking of History is both a defence of rigorous scholarship and a lively reminder that to engage with history in all its complexity is to undertake a profound journey—an inquiry not just into the past, but into ourselves.____________________‘The book’s chief strength lies in its dialogic format. Thapar speaks—with patience, erudition, and plainspoken clarity, occasionally spiced with wry humour ... Arora is the ideal interlocutor and foil, posing questions that are informed, judicious, and occasionally mildly provocative’. —Jayanta Sengupta, The Telegraph‘In Speaking of History, Thapar and Arora discuss a wide range of issues pertaining to history and history-writing, and talk about the perils of being a historian at a time when there is a fierce onslaught on the discipline ... an engaging and lively discussion.’ —Prof. Amar Farooqui, The Wire We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding Speaking of History: Conversations about India’s Past and Present, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.