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Linking the past and the present: Interview with the historian Romila Thapar (by Ranabir Chakravarti)

Linking the past and the present: Interview with the historian Romila Thapar (by Ranabir Chakravarti)

http://www.caravanmagazine.in/vantage/discipline-notion-particular-government-interview-romila-thapar

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/history-should-be-a-ground-of-contestation-david-washbrook/article6694849.ece

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