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Ep. 112: Early Indians

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Cost of Intercoming

The idea migration and the reason I think it's born out of a misunderstanding that of civilization is single source. If you say that came from that was the result of a migration then you're saying all of our culture is. The historian is to nationalists what the opium makers or popi growers are to heroin addicts they provide the raw material that the market for nationalism needs. An idea of identity creation requires myths about who we are and what we are and there are myths that are more appealing for political purposes than reality.

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