The noted historian isn't worrying about William Dalrymple's charges
Irfan Habib
Editor
Glaring omissions, faulty maps, quirky highlighting and the airbrushing of Islam off early medieval India are some surprises in this much-touted book
India these days is -being -identified with -Hinduism. Our history tells us why patriots must stand against this.
Gandhiji’s vision of India—a moral, secular version of village life and economy—was the opposite of Nehru’s ideals of socialism, democracy and science. Both made compromises in their stands.
Zahir Dehlvi isn’t a very reliable narrator, but his memoir describes the Mutiny in Delhi vividly. This is a loose translation of an important source.
An account of late imperial hypocrisy has interpretive errors, but is valuable for the British story
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