Indian Culture & History: Whose Narrative Should It Be- 2

[contextly_sidebar id=”cehr5yAKWI4dX2h76yWEGL5QqxyDyCEZ”] In Part 1, I discussed the Indigenous and Ambedkar’s views of our culture and history. The Indigenous view covered how the sages viewed our More...

Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Numbers Don’t Lie

[contextly_sidebar id=”CtlbqfVD2njARe6J7u2rYBPdUrsRRT4n”] Numbers Kosambi goes on to question the veracity of the Mahabharata’s claim on the numbers: “If a Mahabharata war had actually been fought More...

Deconstructing D D Kosambi: Myth and Reality

This is the first part of a series deconstructing Marxist historian and scholar D D Kosambi’s work, “Myth and Reality.” In 1962, the Marxist historian D D Kosambi published a work titled Myth and Reality: More...