Romila Thapar's new book sheds light on Ghazni's Invasion of Somanatha

[Rasheed Ahmed]

KSB, it was not my summary. I merely forwarded an article on the website of Business Standards written by C.P. Bhambhri. It would be intellectually honest to refrain from knee-jerk reactions and spoon-fed responses developed with an agenda to blur the truth. Do you subscribe to the phenomenon that anyone who has different point of view than Hindutva preachers is neither a Hindu nor an Indian?   http://www.business-standard.com/today/story.asp?Menu=34&story=34407   Ahmed       -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mona Mehta Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Romila Thapar's new book sheds light on Ghazni's Invasion of Somanatha   There is no silence KSB. It is precisely knee-jerk reactions like “Double Standard” (as Khelan SB argues) that Romila Thapar is tying to argue against. Thapar is attempting to challenge the “football view of history” propagated by the Hindu Right in which Hindus and Muslims are always pitted against each other and trying to score points. South Asian history is so much more complicated than that and I think it would be a terrible misreading of Thapar’s work to see it as a justification of the destruction of Hindu temples by Mhd. Ghazni.     Mona Mehta   >From: "Khelan S. B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Romila Thapar's new book sheds light on Ghazni's Invasion of Somanatha >Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:35:17 -0600 > > >It seems that Ahmed's summary of Thapar's book justifies the >destruction of Hindu temples by Mhd. Ghizni and the invading Muslims >since 'other Hindus were doing it too.'  I would like to echo a bit >of logic every 3rd grader has heard at least once or twice, 'if ___ >jumped off a bridge would you do it too?' > >What if, in the aftermath of WWII and the Holocaust, the Nazi's >argued that they should be given leniency since 'Stalin killed his >own people too' or 'some Catholics looked the other way while we >were gassing Jews' ???  How DARE anyone even suggest such a thing? > >Why the silence now?  Where are the voices of objection on this >board? > >Two words: Double Standard. > >-KSB > >_________________________________________________________________ >Check out the great features of the new MSN 9 Dial-up, with the MSN >Dial-up Accelerator. >http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ > >------------------------------------------------ >visit http://www.geocities.com/sapacchicago >email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >"unsubscribe sapac" in msg body to unsubscribe > Post Classifieds on MSN classifieds. Buy and Sell on MSN Classifieds. ------------------------------------------------ visit http://www.geocities.com/sapacchicago email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe sapac" in msg body to unsubscribe