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You are right, and one day, when my mood is right, I will take the time to explain that the Hindutva character and personality is constituted of two psychological syndromes, and what they are. Do you mean that temple destruction should have been an historical focus? Seriously? Every single...

It does not. Is it the fault of the historians that those who chose to learn a technical subject departed very early from a study of history and are ignorant of what information exists, until they wake up with a start and plunge into the Internet to catch up? It's all there. If you want to be...

Where is it even today? Can you name a single history of Assam, covering the 600 year rule of the Ahoms? I can. Those who read history all can. Extensively. If you want the classics, we all depended on Nilakanta Shastri. There was then no one to challenge him. Since then, he has been...

Read F. E. Pargiter, who reconciled the king lists of the Puranas, a diverse number of those, with the available chronology. Again, your inability to remember anything other than the Khalji and Tughlaq sultanates means nothing. Gujarat was covered in detail; Jaunpur was covered in detail...

If you can't remember, you shouldn't comment. I read for my honours degree in history the Advanced History of India, as a very basic text, with enormous additional materials, including advanced text books and specialised papers. Which period in history was uncovered, according to you? In...

The trouble is that other than a vague, background feeling of having been done down, there is nothing tangible that they can point to. The majority Hindu has never suffered any handicaps, except a reduction of their access to educational seats from 100% down to a lower figure. Not one single...

That is precisely the issue. Is a nation any more useful than a state? What is the object of forming a political entity, and what are the implications of it being either a state or a nation? More or less. You know your fundamentals, but the way you have used it puzzles me. Things that puzzle...

I have to think about this. Interesting, but has implications. More or less. You know your fundamentals, but the way you have used it puzzles me. Things that puzzle me make me uncomfortable. Perhaps we will talk again. If I live that long.

What an utterly enfuriating experience, to have a smart-arse kid denying the slaughter of thousands, the driving out of 10 million refugees, of a movement for equal rights that was bludgeoned into becoming a struggle for independence. How is it that there are still deniers of the events of 71...

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What an utterly enfuriating experience, to have a smart-arse kid denying the slaughter of thousands, the driving out of 10 million refugees, of a movement for equal rights that was bludgeoned into becoming a struggle for independence. How is it that there are still deniers of the events of 71...

Who came and whispered this in your ears? Have you a single shred of evidence, other than your fantasies and nightmares, that any Indian thought any such thing? If you are the kind of disgrace to your nation that calls these massacres an imagined story, ask your seniors on this forum. They...

Awesome. Now I remember where I heard those other bits. Question - localised and modified - Will the Tamils feel Tamil first or Indian first? Question - will the Telugus of Hyderabad and of Andhra feel Telugu first or Indian first? Also for the Malayali, the Santal, the Gond, the Maria, the...

Heard this before somewhere - now where was it? This is getting interesting. Have read and heard this one, too. Awesome. Now I remember where I heard those other bits. Question - localised and modified - Will the Tamils feel Tamil first or Indian first? Question - will the Telugus of...

You haven't either defined how history was used as a whore, or the truth, as you see it, other than throwing out dark hints about the truth not being cared for.

Isn't that a description, a precise and clinically correct description of the Sangh Parivar, using warped theories and histories written by anybody but an historian?

Fantastic. So the people arguing that there is no relevance of taking up the agenda of yesterday in today's world are the people perpetuating fissures in society; the people who scream at the street corners about the impossibility of living with the Muslim community are the peacemakers. Do you...

Can we have some examples? Are you talking about the fraud perpetrated on WhatsApp University and YouTube College scholars by physicists, doctorate holders in acupuncture, and electronics engineers turned savants in Indian culture? What is this reference to political expedience? Any clues? Or...

Did you see any difference between the early Muslim invaders, or the earlier Huns, who are thought to have given rise to the Gurjars and Rajputs, or the even earlier Kushanas, who had nothing to do with the existing India of their times, not in terms of language, not in terms of culture, and...

I am SICK AND TIRED of this stupid, uninformed comment. From you of all people. Which leftist Marxist historian are you referring to? and what proofs are excluded from books? We learnt our history from the books written by three conservative historians, including personally related people...