Watching History Unfold

It is interesting to recall that well before the recent spat between writer William Dalrymple and journalist Hartosh Singh Bal, on whether the Jaipur lit fest was one that reeled under a colonial shadow, stripped of any real appreciation of Indian literature by Indians, and was just about craving attention from Anglo-Saxons, Dalrymple, at the time of the release of his book The Last Mughal, had got into another bitter argument with Indian historians about there not being enough literature on the Revolt of 1857 or historical narratives by Indians. 

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