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Romila Thapar: Why Indian History Cannot be Reduced to 'Hindu vs Muslim' (CD Deshmukh Lecture, 2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0i5YqaYREo
The WireJan 19, 2023
Titled “Our History, Your History, Whose History?”, her speech delivered at the annual C.D.Deshmukh memorial lecture at the India International Centre brought out the primary contradiction between professional historians who depend on methodological analysis that “demands a training in reading sources” to give an understanding of how our past came to be and popular historians who lack training but more often than create an imagined history to establish majoritarian supremacy.