: ‘There is a great hunger to see ourselves reflected in history, to hear our stories’: Ira Mukhoty #IndiaNEWS Ira Mukhoty is the author of three non-fiction books on Indian history and a fictional

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‘There is a great hunger to see ourselves reflected in history, to hear our stories’: Ira Mukhoty #IndiaNEWS
Ira Mukhoty is the author of three non-fiction books on Indian history and a fictional retelling of the Mahabharata. Her non-fiction works are Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History (2017), Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire (2019), and Akbar: The Great Mughal (2020). Her latest book, Song of Draupadi (2021), is also her first work of fiction. She is currently researching for her first book on Awadh. At the Jaipur Literature Festival, 2022, Mukhoty spoke to Scroll.in about her books and the roles of women in history. Excerpts from the interview:What is lacking in the way history is documented in India? Do you think popular history as a genre is filling the gaps, or at least creating an interest towards knowing our past?We have a desperate situation on our hands where popular history is having to fill in the gaps. Our history is told in a very monotonous and unidimensional manner. As a country and a society, we are very complex – we are huge, we are multilayered, and our culture has developed over centuries with many inputs from different religions and languages.To show that complexity, we cannot rely on history textbooks alone. They often show a very simple narrative. To push back against a narrow viewpoint,...Read more

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