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Auditing India: What, why, who are we?
- Nilanjana S Roy
- But with that, he joins a grand tradition of arguing over India. Historian Irfan Habib has pointed out that it wasn’t until the late 14th century that the Hindus began calling India ‘Hindustan’ — Ind or Sindh-stan was a chiefly Greek and Persian construct before this time. Much before that, though, Alberuni (973-1078 CE) and other travellers would comfortably refer to the inhabitants as Hindus: “The Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs.” And many centuries later, Veer Savarkar would take this to an extreme, demanding that India must be a Hindu land, “reserved for the Hindus”. “India is such a huge concept, like Europe,” observes the historian and writer William Dalrymple, “It’s something you encounter only when actually thinking about it.”
- TEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE IDEA OF INDIA
THE MAHABHARATA
THE INDICA: Alberuni
THE IDEA OF INDIA: Sunil Khilnani
THE ARGUMENTATIVE INDIAN: Amartya Sen
INDIA AFTER GANDHI: Ramachandra Guha
THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH: M K Gandhi
INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILISATION, INDIA: A MILLION MUTINIES NOW: V S Naipaul
HINDUTVA: Veer Savarkar
INDIAN STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA: Edited by Irfan Habib
THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA: J Nehru
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