“The kinds of things that are happening, where, for example, chunks of history are being thrown out of the syllabus, or we are told we don’t need to study them, are nonsense. History is a continuous process. It is an evolution of people and cultures, of ways of behaviour and ways of thinking," says Ms. Thapar
Removing Mughals from textbooks is nonsense, history must be continuous: Historian Romila Thapar
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Source: thehindu.com

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