On Friday 21 August 2009 11:16 AM, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
> The only thing I had to complain about in that book was not bias but that
> the attempt to cover four thousand years of history in a paperback made the
> book a quick skim through facts and slightly short on analysis/ narrative.
> That actu
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Suresh
Ramasubramanian wrote:
> If you want that sort of stuff - there's yet another interesting historical
> novel about india. This is the first of a 5 part series about the Mughals,
> Alex Rutherford's "Empire of the Moghul". The first volume is about Babur,
> "R
If you want that sort of stuff - there's yet another interesting historical
novel about india. This is the first of a 5 part series about the Mughals,
Alex Rutherford's "Empire of the Moghul". The first volume is about Babur,
"Raiders from the North" - and looks reasonably authentic.
sankarshan [
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> I'm currently reading $SUBJECT. I've never actually studied Indian
> history or read much Indian history so I can't tell if it has any
> biases. It's fairly interesting though. Can anyone comment it's slant
> or lack thereof?
Haven't yet read
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> I'm currently reading $SUBJECT. I've never actually studied Indian
> history or read much Indian history so I can't tell if it has any
> biases. It's fairly interesting though. Can anyone comment it's slant
> or lack thereof?
>
I absolutely
Tangentially, has anyone read Keay's China history, and would you recommend
it to a lay reader?
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Aadisht Khanna
wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Indrajit Gupta >wrote:
>
> >
> > Dalrymple as historian?
> >
> > Well, perhaps, in the sense that Barbara Tu
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Indrajit Gupta wrote:
>
> Dalrymple as historian?
>
> Well, perhaps, in the sense that Barbara Tuchman was an historian, or Alan
> Bullock was an historian.
>
> There was a dividing line between historians and writers of popular
> historical pieces. Admittedly it
--- On Fri, 21/8/09, Aadisht Khanna wrote:
From: Aadisht Khanna
Subject: Re: [silk] India: A History by John Keay
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 21 August, 2009, 11:16 AM
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> I'm currently reading $SUBJECT. I've n
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Biju Chacko wrote:
> I'm currently reading $SUBJECT. I've never actually studied Indian
> history or read much Indian history so I can't tell if it has any
> biases. It's fairly interesting though. Can anyone comment it's slant
> or lack thereof?
>
I didn't noti
I'm currently reading $SUBJECT. I've never actually studied Indian
history or read much Indian history so I can't tell if it has any
biases. It's fairly interesting though. Can anyone comment it's slant
or lack thereof?
-- b
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