'When facts are taught, they should also be given history. One learns the trajectory of thinking, how a concept is developed,' said Mathematician Manjul Bhargava.
The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.
At the lecture, titled Beyond Boundaries, historian Romila Thapar revealed that the pepper tree travelled from India’s west coast all the way to Rome, and attracted many Romans.
Kaushambi was forgotten after its excavation by GR Sharma. Then, in 2017, archaeologist BB Lal and a group of scholars returned to the site—not with shovels, but with questions.
The title of the new fellowship grant is itself an important signalling—named after historian Jadunath Sarkar, who was marginalised by mainstream academia post-Independence.
Historians are responsible for promoting peace as well as truth through what they teach and write, but they cannot be effective unless they are supported.
Rather than an all-encompassing treatise, Dhruva Jaishankar considers his book, ‘Vishwa Shastra’, a jump-off point for those interested in India’s strategic thinking.
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Speaking at Pakistan Military Academy in Abbottabad’s Kakul, Field Marshal Munir said it is ‘disconcerting that Afghan soil is being used for terrorism in Pakistan’.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
It’s also history of thought itself. For instance, deductive logic over abstract objects divorced from facts vs empirical, scientific method (and funnily, it is the former worldview that prevailed).
Can you change the image of the timeline to one that can be zoomed into please. Its blurred and not readable.
It’s also history of thought itself. For instance, deductive logic over abstract objects divorced from facts vs empirical, scientific method (and funnily, it is the former worldview that prevailed).