More by Arun Shourie
Clearly, what our newsmen call 'hard-liners' have been vindicated.
Indian controversies: Essays on religion in politics (1993)
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 forfeiture is exactly the sort of thing which has landed us where we are : where intellectual inquiry is shut out ; where our tradition are not examined and reassessed and where as a consequence there is no dialogue."
The view that he disapproves is always unbalanced; or stuck in the past; or stuck in the cold war mould; or subjective and emotional...
Self-Deception : India's China Policies; Origins, Premises, Lessons (2008)
To rely on these fellows to save us from the impending fascist avalanche is to rely on superannuated buffaloes to see us across a minefield.
Symptoms of Fascism (1978)
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)
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