Ep 244: The Multitudes of Our Maharajahs
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Is There a Civilizational Identity?
i assume that there is hardly any interaction or common culture between the people of patiola and the people of travencour, for example. So do you find a sense of that civilizational identity? Like one thing that we discussed in the middle episode we did, the second har f the three episodes we've done so far, is where you spoke about how a lot of modern hinduism might actually have ended up being a colonial construct. As a historian, how does one even get a sense of this? Because if someone writes a history of 20 21, you have plenty of sources, you know what everybody thinks, because of social media.
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