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Why is Napoleon not known as France’s Samudragupta, instead of the other way round? Why is Chanakya doomed to bear the label of India’s Machiavelli, instead of swapping the honour? When other ‘swords’ (notably the sword of Tipu Sultan) have become the staple of legend, why did it need Bollywood to unsheath to Indians the ‘dandapatta’ carried by Peshwa Bajirao as he sallied forth against the Mughals? Why is Vivekananda relegated to a ‘brief’ in India’s history texts while Karl Marx gets “acres of space”?
These questions were debated over two days at a conclave that drew around 700 academics,
