An open letter to Romila Thapar-II

Dear Prof. Thapar
Namaskar. Hope you are doing well.

With nearly five decades of dedicated service as a historian almost without a break, who can have better answers to the following questions than your good self?

1. Why is it that Indians produced great works of Art, Literature, Medicine, Mathematics, Linguistics etc but no such work in History (in the European sense of the term) till Kalhan's Rajatarangini?

2. Should we presume they had no history?

3. Or, they had no sense of history?

4. Is the SENSE of TIME in India same as that in Europe?

5. Is this,  the  sense of time, to explain the absence of  'HISTORY BOOKS' in India?

6. What are the sources of myths?
Do they -- myths-- also serve as Indian version of History which is European in it's spirit?

7. Are History, Purana and Itihas one and the same?

I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Prof. C P Singh

(PS: What made you ignore these questions? Lack of time, insignificance of the questions, your commitment to the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty or the Colonial Masters' Civilizing Role?)

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