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Rewriting Indian history

Posted on March 17, 2023 by V.Isvarmurti

We need to relook at the history given to us by British scholars. But we should not do it recklessly.

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Nationalism debate

Posted on March 28, 2016 by V.Isvarmurti

There is a past history! The current controversy on what is nationalism and patriotism is taking communal overtones. There is a history to the rise of nationalism in the modern world. The First World War (1914-1919) sharpened nationalism with the fall of Ottoman Empire and the birth of new nations. The second war, again, led…

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Bengali Entrepreneurship

Posted on November 28, 2015November 28, 2015 by V.Isvarmurti

Guest Post GLORIOUS BENGALI ‘SWADESHI’ ENTREPRENEURSHIP – TIME FOR REVIVAL! By – Dr. Kaustav Bhattacharyya The word ‘Bengali Entrepreneur’ was perceived as a contradiction in terms in the past, while growing up during the heady days of Leftist ideology one could sense the disdain and apathy expressed towards commerce and trade. Today the expression ‘Bengali Entrepreneur’…

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How much Indians are attached to their own individual freedoms?

Posted on January 11, 2014 by V.Isvarmurti

Why such a question now? There are a few books that have come out in England about the British nostalgia for their bygone days. They, the Brits, now realise that their own imperial glory had gone, their country has sunk into a small island, its economy battered and there is no growth and also not…

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How to teach history of our times?

Posted on December 11, 2013January 11, 2014 by V.Isvarmurti

How to teach Indian history? How to teach the sciences? From whose points of view? British written Indian history texts no more suit an Independent India, right? So too an India -centric and why even a South East Asia centric world view is what we in India must focus on. It is India, China, Japan…

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Tariq Ali, you know

Posted on August 24, 2013August 24, 2013 by V.Isvarmurti

The enfant terrible of the Sixties England A Romantic hero of the youth of that European period He continues to play that role, that of keeping up that radical, even a sort of anarchist role in our times. He was in India recently. He spoke on the contemporary world he knows best. Tariq Ali is…

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Travel, history and part-autobiography

Posted on March 27, 2013 by V.Isvarmurti

Some days in Rome and Italy Why we should study Roman history? What lessons for the Indian people? There are lessons even now! Roman history, the rise and evolution of the Roman Empire, some 2,000 years of continuous success story, so to say, is because of the Romans’ victory over their rival empire, Carthage in…

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The 69th Indian History Congress

Posted on January 8, 2009October 7, 2010 by V.Isvarmurti

Thoughts on history and history writing Can historians take the role of political activists? Indian academic historians just did this type of roles! One school of historians passed resolutions against the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi. They very same school also opposed the Babri Masjid demolition case referred to the Supreme Court. The so-called other…

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V. Isvarmurti is a leading public figure from south of India. He is a former member of the then Madras Legislative Council. He had his education at such reputed institutions like Tagore’s Santiniketan and Oxford University. Read More

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