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  • Accidental tweet by Irfan Habib shows his true Islamist colors

    Accidental tweet by Irfan Habib shows his true Islamist colors

    In a rare Twitter exchange between Irfan Habib and a fellow twitteratti exposed the real side of the Indian historian. There was a tweet by a twitterati on how Islam is a religion of violence and their holy month of Ramzan represents the time most sacred for Muslims to kill non-Muslims.

    But the notorious historian commented on how Ramazan is also a month where Muslims were also killed by Jihadists in large numbers and that it’s not just kafirs who are getting killed.

    The article argues that this was a rare display of the historian’s underlying Islamist bias, usually obscured beneath Marxist terminology in history writing.

    It then criticizes the disproportionate coverage of Islamic dynasties in Indian history textbooks while the Cholas, Marathas, Vijayanagara and other Hindu empires receive less attention.

    The article concludes by asking what the BJP government is doing to correct what it sees as an injustice against Hindus in the education system.

    Image Source:
    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Babri-not-Hindu-Muslim-fight-Irfan-Habib/articleshow/45403692.cms

  • L’affair Audrey Truschke and Indian RW

    L’affair Audrey Truschke and Indian RW

    Yugaparivartan carried out a big expose on evangelist roots of Audrey Truschke and how it explains anti-Hindu bias in her studies. After all one needs some ulterior motives to whitewash crimes of a religious bigot like Aurangzeb, something that Truschke has been happily doing for the past some time.

    The Indian history written by Marxists for the past 70 years should leave no doubts in the mind of any sane reader that the whole field of history writing is wide open for pushing political agendas.

    The article cites the Ayodhya dispute as an example of historians suppressing or dismissing archaeological evidence and argues that entrenched scholars can evade accountability for decades.

    While it was expected that Truschke would receive support from her ideological allies, the article criticizes some Indian right-wing commentators who insisted that only a formal scholarly rebuttal was legitimate.

    It argues that “writing a scholarly rebuttal” can become an endless trap when institutions and peer-review structures are controlled by hostile academic networks.

    The article also raises conflict-of-interest questions about scholars whose family or institutional networks are involved in evangelical activity in India.

    The way forward proposed is for internet Hindus to investigate the backgrounds and institutional affiliations of academics and media figures who denigrate Hindu civilization.

    Image Source:
    http://asianlite.com/its-a-dangerous-activityaudrey-truschke/