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Ep. 139: The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of History Writing

Sino: I have been a kind of history junkie. And one can see how the history writing also changed the time when I was in college to subsequently. You find that this is saying something which is first time history writing or you don't call it history, don'tcall it. It's a kind of literary history of a different kind of things which no one bothered about your history books never told you. Sino: In any ordinary Hindu household they did not be rapidly communal or anything. But if you ask anyone, everyone knew about Gita press and everyone had their own story about GitaPress. So then you realize, so in fact before it started working on it,

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