{"title":"Namit Arora","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"speaking-of-history-conversations-about-indias-past-and-present-paperback","title":"Speaking of History: Conversations about India's Past and Present - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpeaking of History\u003c\/i\u003e brings India's past into sharp, urgent focus. In these wide-ranging conversations, Romila Thapar, the distinguished historian, joins Namit Arora, incisive writer and social critic, to explore how history is written, remembered and fought over.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTogether, they pull back the curtain on the historian's craft: how evidence is weighed, how interpretations are made, and why the past has become a battleground of politics and identity. From caste and gender to religion, mythology and nationalism, they revisit much contested terrain and ask the vital questions-what can we really know about our past, and why does it matter so much today?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is both erudite and refreshingly accessible: a book that challenges distortion and mythmaking, while celebrating history as an act of curiosity, argument and critical inquiry. At a time when the discipline is under siege, \u003ci\u003eSpeaking of History\u003c\/i\u003e is both a defence of rigorous scholarship and a lively reminder that to engage with history in all its complexity is to undertake a profound journey-an inquiry not just into the past, but into ourselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Published in the Indian subcontinent by Penguin Random House India, elsewhere by Three Essays Collective.)\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51368730591455,"sku":"9789383968473","price":18.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/D8onxeq_em9789383968473.webp?v=1789132304"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/namit-arora.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}