Reddit reviews Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud [Jun 01, 2014] Shourie, Arun

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[Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/9351365913/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_CdEfub07C3J4F)

Arun Shourie took an entire book to refute this notion of rewriting history, instead pointing out how Marxist historians have bastardised history since independence. I wish I could TLDR it, but I simply can't, because unlike the Marxists opinions, its a fact based line by line takedown of how Romila Thapar and her ilk and how they have taken upon themselves the roles of hard selling leftist ideologies by selectively ignoring, modifying and reinterpreting history as suits them. For those who are interested, the link

One of the more interesting things that I recall is how the marxist historians created history by quoting each other in a circle jerk fashion. A writes something based on what B has written, who himself writes it based on C's writings, which if you search cites A as the harbinger of the historical fact. What remains missing are primary sources, and even when they do exist in forms of write ups made by travelling courtesans of the various invaders, they are simply refuted as exaggerations.

A quick example would the Nalanda debate which was going on some weeks back.

This is what Arun Shourie wrote - http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/how-history-was-made-up-at-nalanda/

Which was followed by DN Jha defending the marxist position - http://kafila.org/2014/07/09/how-history-was-unmade-at-nalanda-d-n-jha/

Which was followed by Koenraad Elsdrat further refuting Jha - http://www.indiafacts.co.in/eminent-historian-attacks-arun-shourie/

For an hour, leave aside your political leanings (and ignore those of the authors), read the 3 articles in order of publication and see what you can make of it. Would be interesting to have a discussion on the same here. Either way, its a slow news day today.