Thaparite Historians have reason to be afraid ! : Reshmi Dasgupta
Most professional historians in India have written history books only for their peers and hapless students !
Most professional historians in India have written history books only for their peers and hapless students !
It is not the job of a historian to write politically correct history. His obligation is to write factually correct history.
Erica Lopez Prater, Professor of Art History at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota has been fired for showing students a 14th-century painting of the Prophet Mohammad in class that irked the Muslim students.
BJP MP Sadhvi Pragya Singh said that ‘naming a place on some person automatically influences the place and people residing there. The queen’s children were killed at ‘Lal Ghati’ in Bhopal.
A IX standard science textbook in the State of Kerala states that the ‘father of surgery’ was Abu al-Qasim’s Al-Zahwari instead of Sushruta. In Indian history, a famous physician named Sushruta existed in the 8th century AD.
NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) 12th Standard History textbook ‘Themes of Indian History Part -2’ (page 234), mentions that Mughal Emperors Shahajahan and Aurangzeb provided financial grants to rebuild the Hindus temples which were destroyed by Mughal soldiers during wars.
Madhya Pradesh pro-tem speaker and BJP leader Rameshwar Sharma attacked Congress leader Digvijay Singh, and said that ‘Singh’s name is misleading, as his work and behaviour are more dangerous than Jinnah’s.
According to the study published in ‘Journal of Archeological Science’, the Indus Valley Civilisation, considered the oldest human civilisation, subsisted mainly on a diet of meat.
Former Chairman of the Shia Central Waqf Board Wasim Rizvi has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking repeal of The Places of Worship Act 1991.
The stubbornness of Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the main reason for the Partition of India. A scholar of political science Ishtiyaq Ahmad made this claim. This information is in his book: ‘Jinnah: His Success, Failure, and Role in History’.