“No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.”
― Johan Huizinga
“Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact assembly (the making of archives); the moment of fact retrieval (the making of narratives); and the moment of retrospective significance (the making of history in the final instance).”“
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The Oval Room, The National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France, BnF), architects Jean-Louis Pascal and his successor, Alfred Recoura. Photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Background Image: The Old Building of Connemara Public Library, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India by Dr. Narayanan Hariharan. Source: Wikimedia Commons (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International)
Chella Vaidyanathan 
