Liberalism and Study of Indian History Gyanendra Pandey I HAVE lead with care Amiya Bagchi's letter (EPW, December 3, 1983) regarding my review-article, 'Liberalism and .he Study of Indian History', and reread it together with his statement on 'Ideas, Ideologies and the Other Side of the Moon' (Frontier, October 23-Nov- ermber 6, 1982) to which this letter is very much of a companion piece.