We must keep in mind that there is no conflict or contradiction between the promotion of regional history and the pursuit of the history of our country as a whole. Indeed, the more we know about our regions, the more we enrich the history of the whole country. My first Master’s degree is in the subject of history. Kolkata, where I studied, has been home to some of our great historians like Sir Jadunath Sarkar, professor R C Majumdar, professor N K Sinha, professor D C Sircar, professor B N Mukherjee and others. They doubtless wrote on Bengal, but their
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