Sumit Sarker News Today

Western historians like the French doyen, Fernand Braudel, and British historians including Arnold Toynbee had lots of negativities about India. Indian historians like Romila Thapar and Sumit Sarker who saw Indian history through British and Marxist eyes had written history in a manner which had the effect of distorting the truth about India. It is A. L. Basham, a British-Australian Sanskritist historian of India, who dispelled the negativities spread by Western historians and proved how great I...

One of the most important but undervalued events of India’s independence movement was the naval revolt of 1946, about which Indian historian Sumit Sarker wrote,