Ep 167: India's Greatest Civil Servant
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Oral History Is an Important Primary Source When We're Writing History
It's not a shame to admit that the greatest leaders were also capable of human pettiness and human vice. We need to start looking at oral history as an important primary source when we're writing history, rather than dismissing it as mere hearsay or gossip. A country could be made or broken on the whim of a rumor.
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