Review: Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
British historian, GM Trevelyan, once wrote, “There is nothing that more divides civilised from semi-savage man than to be conscious of our forefathers as they really were, and bit by bit to reconstruct the mosaic of the long forgotten past… How far can we know the real life of men in each successive age of the past?” It is for this reason that we treasure such works as A Short History of the World by HG Wells or A Study of History by Arnold Toynbee. Historians are quite a brave lot of people because they scour for the…