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Sumit Sarkar

How to write history the way it should be written: A historian muses on forty years of scholarship

Sumit Sarkar, one of India’s most reputed historians of modern times, talks of breaking the mould.

Sumit Sarkar
· Dec 19, 2017 · 05:30 pm
A legal basis for communalism? Law and the creation of religious domains

The colonial system imposed on India provided a legal framework for customising the law for different religions and castes, contends a pre-eminent historian.

Sumit Sarkar
· Nov 10, 2014 · 02:30 am