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Quotes from Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud — Arun Shourie

born 1941 India

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But they are the ones who have been distorting it in the first place – by suppressing the truth, by planting falsehoods.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

But ‘India is just a geographical expression!’

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

Objective whitewash for objective history. And today if anyone seeks to restore truth to these textbooks, the shout, ‘Communal rewriting of history’.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

The first major criticism of the ‘left-liberal’ or ‘progressive’ historians was made by Arun Shourie with special reference to the state of the ICHR in their control.”

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

And anyone who maintains anything to the contrary is a fascist out to insinuate a unity, indeed to impose a uniformity, where there has been none.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education had issued instructions in 1989 that ‘Muslim rule should never attract any criticism. Destruction of temples by Muslim rulers and invaders should not be mentioned.’

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

Thus, not just whitewash, hogwash too.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

The accompanying pages contain two columns: aushuddho – impurity, or error – and shuddho. One has just to glance through the changes to see the objective the progressives are trying to achieve through their ‘objective’, ‘rational’ approach to the writing of history.

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arun Shourie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.