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History Writing at Risk
Latest update : 28 April 2023.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" — George Orwell’s 1984
Writing History of India and dangers from the far right: Web resources
- See this Section’s Archived Page - From June 1996 - August 2008
- The Future of The Indian Past by Romila Thapar
- See also the 2003 SACW Alert In Defence of the Indian Historian of Romila Thapar
cartoon by Nala Ponnappa
Articles in this section
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’India’s Struggle for Independence’ the 1988 book by leading historians under attack from the Hindu Right and is withdrawn by Delhi University | Co-Authors respond
30 April 2016 -
The Us Versus Them War Against American Scholars of India | Elizabeth Redden
22 April 2016 -
Video: Romila Thapar lecture on ’The Nation and History: Then and Now’ at JNU teach-in of 6 March 2016
6 March 2016 -
India: How Hindutva Historiography is Rooted in the Colonial View of Indian History | D.N. Jha
11 February 2016 -
Indian historiography under threat
30 October 2015, by -
Video: Romila Thapar explains how the hindutva view of Indian history is based on colonial scholarship
27 October 2015 -
India: When Propaganda Passes for History | Nayanjot Lahiri
8 October 2015 -
India: The inconvenience of the past | Janaki Nair
1 October 2015 -
India - History: What We Can Learn From India’s Medieval Past | Audrey Truschke
24 September 2015 -
India: How Historians Came Under Attack in 1977 - interview with RS Sharma and Bipan Chandra
7 September 2015
