Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History by Romila Thapar

Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History

Romila Thapar

265 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 Hi...

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