Ep 244: The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Will the Relevance of Academic History Change?
There is a certain amount resentment among academic historians of popular historians who haven't paid the dues. But going forward, where you don't have to depend gate keepers and degrees or whatever, any one can just get in there and do history. So what role does the whole academic discipline play? And i think about this in other fields, for example, where academic is lapsing more and more into irrelevance. You know, many fields were never relevant anyway. History is very relevant, important. The only resentment i've got from academic historians are from my contemporaries, not from senior historians. Some pressure,. i will admit, comes from my mother, because my father never finished his page
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