FARHAT NASREEN is a Professor of History at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her work Kashful Baghaavat Gorakhpur presents an extremely rare eyewitness account of the Revolt of 1857.
If History Has Taught Us Anything sifts through the rubble of time to tell some classic stories from History—the master storyteller. The idea of A’maal or Karma—that deeds have repercussions for the doer—is used as a silent leitmotif throughout, bringing home a larger lesson to the reader.
