To Goanet - >Speaking to introduce Thapar, who has worked on the decline of the >Mauryas and early India among other topics, businessman-social >campaigner Datta Naik said she was an impressive thinker to interprete >South Asia's past along with the Goan-origin Kosambi and Debiprasad >Chattopadhyaya. > >Naik stressed that Thapar played a key role in shifting the study of >Indian hstory away from the "communal interpretation". It was she who >had point out that there was a 'selective memory' and 'selective >forgetting' of history.
This is priceless. One fraud certifying another. Datta Damodar Naik should first come clean about the history of his own construction activities. Details about his meetings (if any) with the then-TCP Minister Mr Monseratte during Manohar P's govt could throw historical light on just how and why D D Naik discovered the ill effects of "communalism" and the virtues of "secularism." Now on to Romila Thapar, the high priestess of the Marxist historian brigade at JNU, also known as the "Kremlin by the Jamuna." Romila is an adept in the art of whitewashing Islamic atrocities against ancient Hindus and Hindu civilization. Indian historiography has long been held hostage, first by its hijacking and capture by Marxist historians, and then recently by the pathetic attempts of the Hindutvavadis to provide a corrective under the aegis of Murli Manohar Joshi during the BJP reign at the Centre. Romila and her ilk thrive by wrapping themselves in the 'secular' saree and the idiotic Hindutvavadis provide the Marxists the excuse and the cover needed for their academic skulduggery. For more on Romila Thapar, see - http://www.indiastar.com/venkat1.html The Marxist modus operandi is best summarised by Kalavai Venkat: "This "eminent historian" adduces no references for such claims. This is the usual trick in the Marxist trade. They start their hypotheses with uncertainty, using the word perhaps, but conclude the statement quite assertively, as if their uncertain speculation in itself has metamorphosed into evidence as well." Sidelight: At her lecture in Berkeley some years ago, Kalavai Venkat asked Thapar directly if she knew the classical languages Sanskrit or Tamil (knowledge of which is critical to anyone writing on ancient Indian history, since the primary sources are in those languages). IIRC, she refused to answer him, and made the absurd retort that she took questions only from "professional historians." Regards, r ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ