{"id":14838,"date":"2016-01-31T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/01\/31\/isn-t-it-time-for-left-historians-to-apologise-to-the-nation-for-their-dishonesty\/"},"modified":"2016-01-31T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T12:00:00","slug":"isn-t-it-time-for-left-historians-to-apologise-to-the-nation-for-their-dishonesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/01\/31\/isn-t-it-time-for-left-historians-to-apologise-to-the-nation-for-their-dishonesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t It Time for Left Historians to Apologise to the Nation for Their Dishonesty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/ideas\/isnt-it-time-for-left-historians-to-apologise-to-the-nation-for-their-dishonesty\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, January 25, 2016 (Swaraja Magazine by R. Jagannathan): The autobiography of a former Regional Director of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), K.K. Muhammed, shreds the last fig leaf of legitimacy from India&#8217;s &#8220;Eminent&#8221; Leftist historians, and even the broader Indian Left ecosystem, which includes most mainstream political parties and large sections of the old media in print and TV.<\/p>\n<p>In his book titled Njan Enna Bharatiyan (I, an Indian), Muhammed clearly indicts Left historians for actually preventing a rapprochement between Hindus and Muslims over the building of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, by making the Muslim side adopt intransigent positions. <\/p>\n<p>Firstpost quotes him as saying this: &#8220;The Babri issue would have been settled long ago if the Muslim intelligentsia had not fallen prey to the brain-washing by the Leftist historians. A set of historians, including Romila Thapar, Bipin Chandra and S. Gopal argued that there was no mention of the dismantling of the temple before 19th century and Ayodhya is a Buddhist-Jain centre. They were supported by historians Irfan Habib, R.S. Sharma, D.N. Jha, Suraj Bhan and Akthar Ali.&#8221; This was later disproved conclusively by archeologist B.B. Lal in a court-ordered investigation.<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source INDIA, January 25, 2016 (Swaraja Magazine by R. Jagannathan): The autobiography of a former Regional Director of the Archaeological,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}