![]() So, I read academic journals, scholarly books which show the state-of-the-art thinking of contemporary historians, sociologists and others on this issue. One, the contemporary scholarship in the field because even if I am not a professional, I am not supposed to be unaware of what professional historians have been doing. The other thing I had to do was keep up with two kinds of writing. Everything I said at Oxford barring one figure was 100 per cent accurate. Touch-wood, my memory turned out be alright. ![]() I had to do a lot more research to substantiate facts, figures and dates, most of which I knew but could have been coloured by my own prejudice. I sort of rationally said yes not knowing how much I had bitten off because obviously the kind of preparation that you do for a 15-minute speech is not the same for a 330-page book. ![]()
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