<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@gwozniak" class="u-url mention">@<span>gwozniak</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@standefer" class="u-url mention">@<span>standefer</span></a></span> <br />This didn&#39;t even get much attention in MY education, and I was educated in the heart of the region the book is about!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@DrFart" class="u-url mention">@<span>DrFart</span></a></span> &quot;Formalizing the Ineffable&quot;.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@standefer" class="u-url mention">@<span>standefer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Seconded! I love getting recommendations for books about parts of the world that didn&#39;t get much attention in the media in my part of the world or in my education.</p>

<p>21/ Ultimately, I&#39;m glad this book exists, and I&#39;m glad I read it. I view it as an important salvo that should inspire many more people to write accessible, popular histories of South India. •</p>

<p>20/ One is also filled with dread that textbook writers will be forced by regional and linguistic partisans to include even more irrelevant names and dates and lineages: what Martin Gardner called the &quot;floatsam and jetsam of history&quot;. ↵</p>

<p>19/ Finally, he&#39;s exposed the critical need for social and other kinds of history to round out these tales. One can almost ask: Did any of this matter? Is the long silence in the high school texts actually…okay? ↵</p>

<p>18/ Second, he&#39;s pointed to the importance and lack of archeology. So many great capitals are now fly-specked towns or villages, but underneath lie great stories. Without the archeology, we can only tell the stories the kings left of their claimed glories. ↵</p>

<p>17/ What Kanisetti has really done is set the stage for three very important things. First, he&#39;s set down in great detail (and yet very accessible prose) the records of those kingdoms, a point of departure for future scholars. ↵</p>

<p>16/ But ultimately, there&#39;s way too little of these. We get a sentence here and there speculating about the lives of commoners. There&#39;s a page or two about the queens. And the rest is just one damned thing after another. ↵</p>