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1884–1980 India

Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (4 December 1884 – 11 February 1980) was an Indian historian and professor of Indian history at the Banaras Hindu University.

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Also known as: Majumdar R. C., R.C. Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra Majumdar

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Unfortunately some archaeologists seem to have no eyes to see anything but what the spade digs up from the bowels of the earth, and no ears to hear anything that is not echoed from excavated ruins.

After all, history is no respecter of the feelings of persons and communities, and one cannot alter the facts of history. (xviii)

The official history of the freedom movement starts with the premises that India lost independence only in the eighteenth century and had thus an experience of subjection to a foreign power for only two centuries. Real history, on the other hand, teaches us that the major part of India lost independence about five centuries before, and merely changed masters in the eighteenth century. (xxii-xxiii)

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