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N. S. Rajaram Quotes

1943–2019 India

Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram (22 September 1943 – 11 December 2019) was an Indian academic.

India
Academics
Mathematicians

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“fabricating astronomical data going back thousands of years calls for knowledge of Newton’s Law of Gravitation and the ability to solve differential equations.”

“Indian Marxists in particular are singularly touchy about the whole thing and hate to be reminded that their pet dogma of the non-indigenous origin of the Vedic Aryan civilization is an offshoot of the same race theories that gave rise to Nazism.”

“what the history establishment has done through the models it has proposed for both the ancient and the medieval periods is to exactly reverse the historical picture”.

"English translations of the Rigveda . . . represent a massive misinterpretation built on the preconception that the Vedas are the primitive poetry of nomadic barbarians. Nothing could be further from the truth" (Rajaram 1995, xvi).

"For all its monopoly of the Indian history establishment, this influential group calling itself Marxists has made no contribution to history. The central theme of their work is that Hindus have contributed nothing to Indian civilisation: Everything from the Vedas and Sanskrit to science and mathematics is a foreign import."

Thapar's comments are portrayed as "vintage Marxist rhetoric," which has "gratuitously drag[ed] in the bogey of the 'Aryan nation' . . . [as] a blatant attempt aimed at divert- ing attention away from the real issue" (Rajaram 1993, 33).

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: N. S. Rajaram (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.