WhatsApp History is a Hydra But Don’t Blame Indian Academics

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“Author William Dalrymple’s recent comments about a generation of Indian academic historians failing to engage with the public has sparked controversy. What has irked many academic historians is the charge that a certain kind of ‘WhatsApp history’, as Dalrymple calls it, has been on the ascendant because of Indian historians who never wrote for the public. Dalrymple might have his reasons to frame it as a binary of academic historians versus popular historians in his efforts to find the culprit. However, this is misleading for a number of reasons.”

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