Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History

Paperback • 2015 • English

Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History

By Romila Thapar

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About the book

In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reverberated in Indian history, but largely during the raj. It was first depicted as a trauma for the Hindu population not in India, but in the House of Commons. The triumphalist accounts of the event in Turko-Persian chronicles became the main source for most eighteenth-century historians. It suited everyone and helped the British to divide and rule a mu...Show more

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9781784780654

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VERSO

Published year

2015

Language

English

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Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History

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Paperback

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