Is history a morality play about the struggle for survival?
(WorldNews Health)

For most people Indian history is Mughal history, ancient history is about the Mauryas. Modern history? British India of course, with the focus on the north, though all the European powers first established their home base in south India. If you drive down the Coromandel coast you will find (as I did), the old offices of the British and French East India companies in Cuddalore and Pondicherry, a Danish fort bang on the seashore in Tranquebar, a Dutch cemetery in Pulicat, a Portuguese flagpole in Nagapattinam. But even the south remains ignorant of its own history, while north Indians see everything south of the Vindhyas as “Madrasi”. The opportunity to have a conversation with Dr...