Having purchased and read James Laine’s Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India only after it was officially withdrawn by the publishers, I cannot view the events at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) as totally unjustified. Certainly, attacks on centres of learning have no place in Hindu ethos and must … Read More
A wag once complained that whereas history repeats itself, historians repeat each other! We may thus be destined to see adherents of the sidelined Marxist school of historiography reproduce the old discredited dogmas in ‘parallel’ textbooks aimed at competing with NCERT’s new course books. A fresh round of bloodletting amongst … Read More
The BJP has done well to slam the US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report 2003, which dubs the party as a Hindu nationalist party and links it with militant organizations that indulge in violence against religious minorities. Pointing out that the BJP membership embraces all minority groups, spokesman VK … Read More
