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Voices of Dissent
Author: Romila Thapar
Publisher: Seagull Books
Pages: 168
Price: Rs 499
“The study of dissent is essential to understanding how civilizations evolved, for there cannot be any advance in knowledge without a questioning of the world we live in,” writes historian Romila Thapar in her new book Voices of Dissent . If the aim of critical enquiry is to illuminate our understanding of the continuities between past and present, why does dissent set off alarm bells? What kind of subversive potential does it hold? How is regulated, contained or quashed? Who orchestrates this threat to freedom of speech?
Before investigating these questions, Professor
