Who is rewriting India's history? Romila Thapar on the Hindu Rashtra project
Romila Thapar, Hindutva Ideology: At the second Sitaram Yechury Memorial Lecture, 96-year-old historian Romila Thapar demonstrated how Hindutva historiography inherits colonial myths. From James Mill’s periodisation of Indian history and the ‘Aryan’ theory to the historical context of the Battle of Haldighat and ancient India’s own traditions of historical writing, her lecture examined these contested narratives through historical evidence.
Renowned historian Professor Romila Thapar recently delivered a significant lecture on the evolution of historical scholarship on ancient India, the roots of colonial distortions, and the dangerous misuse of colonial interpretations of history in contemporary politics.
The 96-year-old historian delivered the lecture, titled Historiography and Early Indian History, at the second edition of the Sitaram Yechury Memorial Lecture.
The central argument of her lecture was clear: the ongoing attempt in ...
