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Richard Eaton: India’s self-destructive war on the deep roots of the Mughal Empire
In the pursuit of a historical fantasy, today’s rulers want to erase the reality that modern India would be unrecognisable ...
Authoritarian rulers aren’t new – here’s what Herodotus, an early Greek historian, wrote about them
Herodotus tended to put his political philosophies into the mouths of historical figures such as Miltiades. He condensed his thoughts about government into what historians call the “Constitutional ...