"I am at the moment a Fellow in the History department at a famous US University. And there are historians of colonialism who know more about this stuff than I could know in two lifetimes. But all through this year, the thing that have fell most strongly and have said, to general embarrassment, is that it is almost as if we didn't exist...."
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Chakravorty-Spivak, 1991,quoted in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. page 5
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