"Most of us worshipped at this altar of ‘progress’. We denigrated historians like R.C. Majumdar who spent their lives …"

"Unfortunately some archaeologists seem to have no eyes to see anything but what the spade digs up from the bowels of …"

"It is my belief…that the end of British rule has led to a steady deterioration in the critical method of historical s…"

"This world tendency to make history the vehicle of certain definite political, social and economic ideas, which reign…"

"Indians of old were keenly alive to the expansion of dominions, acquisition of wealth, and the development of trade, …"

"I have approached the subject from a strictly historical point of view. It is an ominous sign of the time that Indian…"

"The official history of the freedom movement starts with the premises that India lost independence only in the eighte…"

"There are some obvious difficulties in writing a history of the movement for freedom in India only fifteen years afte…"

"For, in any discussion of the question whether the revolt of 1857 was the first national war of independence or not, …"

"To sum up this subject of synthesis, assimilation, and composite culture, I would better quote Dr. R.C. Majumdar, one…"