You go to school and read one author, one regime's version of history. Centuries of events squeezed into a tiny book overflowing with dates and rather specific, meaningless facts that you're supposed to remember and regurgitate.

And in all this tamasha you assume that you know who you are. You know where you come from.

But the study of history never stops. There are so many perspectives. So many versions. You read the victor's version, but what about the loser? You read the oppressor's version, but who was writing the history of the oppressed?

The first part of the 20th century was a time of great social upheaval in India. But what if the people that manipulated themselves into power after the British left, were too afraid to tell you all about it. Afraid, not ashamed.

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