About the Book: History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G.S. Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh
History Men is the story of the intersecting lives of three deeply committed
historians: Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958), who was an expert on the Mughal
period; G.S. Sardesai (1865-1959), whose works were on the Marathas; and
Raghubir Sinh (1908-1991), who studied the Rajputs. How the three became close
friends and joint workers; how they wrote about the great confrontations between
the Mughals, Rajputs and Marathas; how their long association exposed continuing
conflicts of interpretation and explanation; and how, together, they illuminated
a historical moment make for a story worth telling. A narrative built from
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