Itihas Nirman O Arya Samasya by Samir Karmakar , Sunandan Kumar Sen [Hardcover]

"Understanding the nature of humanity through history is essential—especially in times when the political and socio-economic spaces of the nation are being torn apart by conflicting forces. In this perpetually fragile country and era, we are repeatedly confronted with certain questions. We search for the foundation of our soul’s identity, which is captured in history, through the lens of language. The language of history and the history of language—seemingly separate subjects, are actually driven by a single inquiry into construction and construct. What is history? How do we judge historical truth? How is historicity determined? In search of answers to these convoluted questions, a not-too-long collective effort has been organized—an effort that has taken two distinct paths. On one hand, it seeks to understand the language of historical construction, and on the other, it seeks to understand the historical constructs related to language. Hence, in the context of ‘Historical Construction and the Aryan Problem’, this book becomes an account of that search. In the flow of continuous time, language, body, memory, and tombs become subjects in the revelation of human nature. At some deep abyss in the galaxy, the multifaceted historicity of human nature resonates in social and individual life."