Ep 187: Dadabhai Naoroji and the Fight for India
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Indian History - Naroji's Papers
When naroji died, there was a collection of probably maybe 50 thousand documents. It took him 20 odd years to go through the papers and cull out collections for or publication. When i got to the national archives in ingeli, by this point and time, had whittled down to maybe around 40 to 30 thousand documents. So what we have over here is a very clear track record of loss because of bad record keeping. A lot of stuff gets lost. And naroti is actually one of the best cases of preservation that we have,. Because at least here lectionism in ou the order of tens of thousands, right? If you look at someone like ranade, we
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