Contested Terrains Of History
Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed
HISTORY AS A SITE OF STRUGGLE: ESSAYS ON HISTORY, CULTURE AND POLITICS by K.N. Panikkar Three Essays Collective, Gurgaon, 2015, 652 pp., 1200
July 2015, volume 39, No 7

This book’s review has been unduly de¬layed but it is fortuitous in a way as the main theme that the author dwells upon has become more relevant over the past year than in its year of publication. Since the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government came to power last year, a gradual attempt has been made to implement the Hindutva agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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