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3 days, 19 hours ago

It is for historians to dig for tell-tale remains, not bigots

Normally, digging at historic sites is done by an archaeologist and historians in search of a lost civilisation or an ancient city or some signs of mythological events. It declares that the religious character of a place of worship existing on the 15th day of August 1947, shall continue to be the same as it existed on that day. The …

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4 days, 14 hours ago

CM Revanth Reddy exhorts writers to sharpen pen against social evils

New Indian Express

HYDERABAD: In an indirect jibe at BRS leaders, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy alleged that certain forces have been spreading the notion that the history written in their favour was the real history of the last 10 years. The chief minister asserted that the state government would give due respect to the book exhibition organised to convey the real history. …

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2 weeks ago

'Nonsense': Historians balk at Trump ending birthright citizenship with executive order

Raw Story

Since winning the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump has doubled down on his promise to end birthright citizenship. During the interview, Trump described birthright citizenship as "ridiculous," telling Welker, "We have to end it." Welker explained how birthright citizenship works, telling Trump that some families have "mixed immigration status" — and while a parent "might be here illegally," the "kids …

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3 weeks ago

William Dalrymple among controversial 'historians' invited at Ahmedabad International Book Festival 2024, outrage ensues

Op India

On 1st December, social media users expressed their disappointment upon noticing the guest list for the Ahmedabad International Book Festival 2024. @ShefVaidya @UdayMahurkar pic.twitter.com/IIcbQR7FH6 — Harshil December 1, 2024 Noted writer and speaker Shefali Vaidya echoed these sentiments on X, sharing Harshil’s post and writing, “I am SO tired of fighting this. However, she is also widely recognised for her …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Was centuries-old Kalki temple in Sambhal razed? What 1879 ASI report, historians say

India Today

Sunday morning brought chaos in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal. WHY COURT ORDERED SURVEY AT SAMBHAL SHAHI JAMA MASJID The Sambhal court-mandated survey was the second following a petition filed on November 19, that claimed the Shahi Jama Masjid stood on the remains of an ancient Kalki temple. Vishnu Jain, the advocate of the Hindu side, citing Babur's autobiography Baburnama, has claimed …

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1 month ago

Dalrymple Is Right: India’s Academic Retreat Has Given Birth to WhatsApp History

The Hindu

Published : Nov 22, 2024 12:25 IST - 7 MINS READ The recent debate around the state of academic history in India provoked by William Dalrymple’s comment has sparked off an insightful exchange of ideas by various writers. Dalrymple contends that the emergence of “WhatsApp history” in India directly springs from the failure of academic historians to present history in …

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1 month ago

‘Gladiator II’ exaggerates, but historians say the real-life Colosseum was plenty wild

LA Times

Like its predecessor, “Gladiator II” is inspired by history. Much like its predecessor, “Gladiator II” centers on spectacular gladiatorial games held at the Colosseum, which pits captive warriors like Lucius against other men as well as animals in combat. According to the book “The Colosseum,” by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard, historian Cassius Dio wrote that “horses and bulls and …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Dalrymple is Wrong. Don't Blame Historians for the Rise of WhatsApp History

The Quint

One of the earliest attempts at taking history to the masses was switching the medium of these publications from English to Hindi and multiple other languages for a wider reception. Historians like Irfan Habib published his popular book in Hindi, Madhyakalin Bharat, in order to bridge this gap between English and Hindi reading audiences. These historians also aligned themselves with …

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The true history of the South China Sea requires a commitment to revealing facts rather than tailoring narrative

China Daily

This photo taken on May 16, 2024 shows a view at dusk in the South China Sea. Rather than tailoring the history, Chinese historians have made significant efforts to collect and compile the historical materials related to the South China Sea since the early twentieth century, recognizing the importance of these historical sources in revealing historical facts. A growing number …

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The true history of the South China Sea requires a commitment to revealing facts rather than tailoring narrative

China Daily

This photo taken on May 16, 2024 shows a view at dusk in the South China Sea. Rather than tailoring the history, Chinese historians have made significant efforts to collect and compile the historical materials related to the South China Sea since the early twentieth century, recognizing the importance of these historical sources in revealing historical facts. A growing number …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

'Cemetery tourism' on rise as photographers, amateur historians unearth towns' hidden stories

ABC

There is a weather-beaten gravestone among a thousand others at Ballarat's Old Cemetery. Every grave marker tells a personal story, even the laconic "Mother 1.2.1864 — 9.8 1933; Father 3.10.1862 — 22.10.1935". Organised "ghost tours" are popular at some of the country's larger burial centres but even the smallest, most-remote cemeteries attract visitors keen to explore another side of a …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

WhatsApp history is a hydra but don’t blame Indian academics

Times of India

Author William Dalrymple’s recent comments about a generation of Indian academic historians failing to engage with the public has sparked controversy. What has irked many academic historians is the charge that a certain kind of ‘WhatsApp history’, as Dalrymple calls it, has been on the ascendant because of Indian historians who never wrote for the public. By the book: To …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Interview: Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee, authors, The Moral Contagion

Hindustan Times

You write that the idea for your book came during the onset of Covid-19. It was liberating to not have to work on footnotes or refer much to other people’s research, though I do add a list of the works I consulted at the book’s end. I also included characters I couldn’t find in sources because the sources don’t touch …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Dame Janet Nelson, historian acclaimed for her biography of the elusive Charlemagne

The Telegraph

To write a biography of a man who lived more than 1,200 years ago, and who subsequently attained a status of almost mythical proportions in the West, was a tall order. Jinty Nelson spent much of her career studying every scrap of documentary evidence, as well as surviving physical remains, to build up a picture of her subject, rejecting another …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Who is the one 'tailoring' South China Sea history for propaganda?

China Daily

Global Times-History, especially which is anchored in countless documents, is largely woven from the fabric of undeniable truth. On Monday, the Australia-based think tank Lowy Institute published an article titled "China and the South China Sea: Tailoring history for propaganda." It introduced a seminar of Chinese historians and legal experts gathered in Hainan Province at the end of June, and …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

"The Apprentice" is an accurate origin story of Donald Trump's "wannabe fascism": historians

Salon

"The Apprentice" is the movie that Donald Trump does not want you to see, and it is easy to understand why. It is the first of many political issues that Cohn and his acolytes discuss with Trump, always from the vantage point of the far right: "Welfare queens," trade deficits, fighting Communists, avoiding business regulations "Even though myself I'm not …

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3 months ago

Northeastern View | Is Northeast India in Southeast Asia?

Hindustan Times

Angshuman Choudhury is a researcher and writer from Assam and is currently a joint PhD candidate in Comparative Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore and King’s College London. The Kunming Initiative and the BCIM represented a profound moment of scholarly-cum-policy consensus over the need to restore the ancient connections between Northeast and East India, southwestern China and Western …

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4 months ago

In Baghpat, Historians Discover World's Oldest Natural-coloured Map

News 18

Since ancient times, maps have been created to provide geographical information about the world. Historian Amit Rai Jain explained that Jainism possesses a world map which is known as the ‘Aḍhai Dvīp’. The colours used were extracted from the plants, fruits, and vegetables available at that time, making the map a unique example of India’s traditional art style. Historians and …

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4 months ago

The unlikely origins of some of the world’s favourite foods

Al Jazeera

You might have heard the story about pasta originating in China due to Marco Polo’s accounts of eating Chinese noodles in one edition of Marvels of the World, the book documenting his travel experiences from 1271 to 1295. That myth has been debunked by food historians who, like Italian TV chef and food historian Anna Maria Pellegrino, have pointed out …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Navy exonerates Black sailors punished after 1944 Port Chicago explosion

LA Times

This image provided by Naval History and Heritage Command shows African American sailors of a naval ordnance battalion unloading aerial bombs from a rail car, circa 1943/44, in Port Chicago, Calif. The U.S. Navy has exonerated 258 Black sailors who were found to be unjustly punished in 1944 following a horrific port explosion that killed hundreds of service members and …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

The 14th Amendment has been used to dismantle race-based programs. Historians say there are clashing interpretations

CNN

CNN — The Supreme Court’s decision to gut affirmative action in college admissions one year ago has opened the door for numerous legal challenges against race-based grant programs, internships and scholarships across the country. The 14th amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868, to grant citizenship and equal protection of the law to anyone “born or naturalized in the United …

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6 months ago

Youth historians explore civilization development and innovation at Beijing event

China Daily

Chinese and foreign scholars discuss at the International Dialogue of Young Historians event, organized by the Chinese Academy of History, in Beijing on Wednesday on topics around the inheritance and innovation of world civilizations. A group of Chinese and foreign young historians, from Russia, Italy, Greece, Brazil, among others, discussed on development and innovation of world civilizations at the Chinese …

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7 months ago

How accurate is the sex in Bridgerton season three? Historians react

The Independent

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7 months ago

‘Not an accident’: Trump’s ‘Unified Reich’ video alarms historians and fascism experts

Raw Story

Political experts, historians, and scholars of fascism are sounding the alarm after Donald Trump posted video Monday afternoon that promised a "unified Reich," once again echoing language used by Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. It asks, "What's Next for America," and promotes “the creation of a unified Reich.” "The 30-second video, which Mr. Trump posted on his social media site, …

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It is for historians to dig for tell-tale remains, not bigots

CM Revanth Reddy exhorts writers to sharpen pen against social evils

'Nonsense': Historians balk at Trump ending birthright citizenship with executive order

William Dalrymple among controversial 'historians' invited at Ahmedabad International Book Festival 2024, outrage ensues

Was centuries-old Kalki temple in Sambhal razed? What 1879 ASI report, historians say

Dalrymple Is Right: India’s Academic Retreat Has Given Birth to WhatsApp History

‘Gladiator II’ exaggerates, but historians say the real-life Colosseum was plenty wild

Dalrymple is Wrong. Don't Blame Historians for the Rise of WhatsApp History

The true history of the South China Sea requires a commitment to revealing facts rather than tailoring narrative

The true history of the South China Sea requires a commitment to revealing facts rather than tailoring narrative

'Cemetery tourism' on rise as photographers, amateur historians unearth towns' hidden stories

WhatsApp history is a hydra but don’t blame Indian academics

Interview: Julia Hauser and Sarnath Banerjee, authors, The Moral Contagion

Dame Janet Nelson, historian acclaimed for her biography of the elusive Charlemagne

Who is the one 'tailoring' South China Sea history for propaganda?

"The Apprentice" is an accurate origin story of Donald Trump's "wannabe fascism": historians

Northeastern View | Is Northeast India in Southeast Asia?

In Baghpat, Historians Discover World's Oldest Natural-coloured Map

The unlikely origins of some of the world’s favourite foods

Navy exonerates Black sailors punished after 1944 Port Chicago explosion

The 14th Amendment has been used to dismantle race-based programs. Historians say there are clashing interpretations

Youth historians explore civilization development and innovation at Beijing event

How accurate is the sex in Bridgerton season three? Historians react

‘Not an accident’: Trump’s ‘Unified Reich’ video alarms historians and fascism experts