The claim that India uniquely lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. Romila Thapar, distinguished scholar of ancient India, …
Biographical note:Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Main description:The claim, often made, that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according to Romil…
Biographical note: Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding thefoundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.
This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India…
This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India…
This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.
This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India…
"Discusses the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism as well as our current understanding of the roots of its postcolonial identity crisis"--
This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.
