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The Present Colonizes the Past: The Future Forsaken?

The Present Colonizes the Past: The Future Forsaken?

Thapar, Romila

Paperback

Series: Points of View

General Political ScienceHistoriography

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1803096616
ISBN13: 9781803096612
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: Aug 5 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.05
Height: 0.25 Width: 4.10 Depth: 6.86
Language: English

Short, rigorous intervention on history-writing in public life.

How does the present reshape what a society chooses to remember as its past? Recent interpretations of India's history have replaced careful inquiry with narratives that mirror contemporary anxieties and ambitions, sidelining the evidence, debate, and plurality that once characterized India's long intellectual tradition. At stake is a shift from understanding history as a method to treating it as a tool of identity and authority. In The Present Colonizes the Past, Romila Thapar asks: How have cultural and religious identities evolved through interaction rather than isolation? How have dissent and accommodation shaped social change? How have education and public discourse influenced what is accepted as knowledge? And, most urgently, how might weakened institutions and selective pasts redefine our heritage and citizenship?

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