About the Book: Speaking Of History: Conversations About Indias Past And Present
Speaking of History brings Indias 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
historians craft: 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