Past as present: forging contemporary identities through history (Record no. 175932)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789383064014
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Classification number 306 THA
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Personal name Thapar,Romila
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Title Past as present: forging contemporary identities through history
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Aleph
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
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Extent 329p.
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Summary, etc. Many popularly held views about the past need to be critically inquired into before they can be taken as historical. For instance, what was the aftermath of the raid on the Somanatha temple? Which of us is Aryan or Dravidian? Why is it important for Indian society to be secular? When did communalism as an ideology gain a foothold in the country? How and when did our patriarchal mindset begin to support a culture of violence against women? Why are the fundamentalists so keen to rewrite history textbooks?<br/><br/>The answers to these and similar questions have been disputed and argued about ever since they were first posed. Distinguished historian Romila Thapar has investigated, analyzed and interpreted the history that underlies such questions throughout her career; now, in this book, through a series of incisive essays she argues that it is of critical importance for the past to be carefully and rigorously explained, if the legitimacy of our present, wherever it derives from the past, is to be portrayed as accurately as possible. This is especially pertinent given the attempts by unscrupulous politicians, religious fundamentalists and their ilk to try and misrepresent and willfully manipulate the past in order to serve their present-day agendas. An essential and necessary book at a time when sectarianism, bogus ‘nationalism’ and the muddying of historical facts are increasingly becoming a feature of our public, private and intellectual lives.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element India-Social history
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-08   306 THA 157207 2020-02-08 2020-02-08 Books

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