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‘Making procedures visible helps clarify how historical interpretations are formed’: Romila Thapar

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‘Making procedures visible helps clarify how historical interpretations are formed’: Romila Thapar

[ad_1] In a conversation with Scroll, Historians Romila Thapar and writer Namit Arora talk about their book Speaking of History: Conversations about India’s Past and Present. They discuss how historical knowledge is produced and why method matters, the discomfort with ambiguity in public understandings of the past, and the ways in which political and cultural … Read more

The question of anachronism in Romila Thapar and Namit Arora’s new book, ‘Speaking of History’

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‘Making procedures visible helps clarify how historical interpretations are formed’: Romila Thapar

[ad_1] In the recently published book Speaking of History, a conversation between historian Romila Thapar and Namit Arora, the writer and social critic who also practises public history, the participants touch upon many interesting matters of cultural and social history that provoke further conversations. Since a large part of the book revolves around India’s cultural … Read more