Ep 173: The Resonance of Akbar
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Value of Getting History Out to the Masses
There is always great value that people are bringing, the popular authors who are interpreting and breaking down history. At the same time, there is also a ger that while doing that, you might not draw a line, and use fanciful imagination to give a very different picture of history which is at variance with history itself. So everyone writes about history. I mean, it's a free world. It's a free domain. Everyone can write. But i understand that the fear and the insecurity that academic so has. The academy is also at fault, because it has not been able to figure out a language suitable enough for the people to read. You see these university press books. One as available
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