Dinyar Patel on Dadabhai Naoroji and the Building of Modern-Day India
Ideas of India
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How Did You Decide to Become a History Major?
i'm just curious about your intellectual journeys. So, how did you decide to become a historian? I'd always been interested in history from, you know, a pretty young age. And starting in college, i started coming to india annually for long periods of time and studying more about the history and culture. It was kind of natural that i gravitated toward it. But i didn't think that i would become an academic.I thought that i would go back into the policy world. They're after. You have limited agencies. The interest in southeastian history should have comes from your own family background andtice to india or was it something else that picked that interest? Yes
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