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• History

  History is not written by committee, in India or anywhere else

  28 March, by PATHAK Vikas, RAMAN Anuradha, THAPAR Romila

  History and mythology both try to explain the past but while history relies on evidence, myths rely on fantasy and must be examined differently, says the scholar
  The role of a public intellectual is not easy, especially when it comes to interrogating the government in power and holding it (...)

• History

  Eugene Genovese (1930-2012) – Historian of American slavery

  1 January 2013, by PHELPS Christopher

  AFTER HIS DEATH last year at the age of 82, most obituaries of Eugene Genovese — the historian of American slavery whose masterpiece, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, was published in 1974—stated that he traveled from left to right, from Marxism to conservatism.
  While not (...)

• History

  Watch this man – On Niall Ferguson’s neoimperialist vision

  3 October 2011, by MISHRA Pankaj

  Review: Civilisation: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, 402 pp, £25.00, March 2011, ISBN 978 1 84614 273 4. ‘Civilisation’s going to pieces,’ Tom Buchanan, the Yale-educated millionaire, abruptly informs Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist (...)