Scripts of Indus Valley a mystery

The undeciphered script of Indus Valley people holds key to a question with sharp political overtones – were people of Indo-Pak  subcontinent’s earliest recorded civilisation Aryans or Dravidians? Or neither?  In 1946, a India’s archaeological survey team was at one of its favourite digs when it stumbled upon 37 skeletons. Two lay on steps of [...]

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Brahmanbad aka Nepal

The creation of civilization is Brahmanbad. Brahmanbad is guided by intellectualism and culturalism. The origin of human civilization is Himabatkhand of Nepal. The Himabatkhand covers the land of Brahmaputra in east, Hindukush in west, Kailash Mansarobar in north and Ganga River in south. In past, Nepal was greater than what it is today.
This region is [...]

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Hindutva, California Textbooks and a Smear Campaign

By Steve FarmerLast week this article in the Indian magazine Frontline reported that the Hindu Right’s attempts to rewrite California school textbooks on India and Hinduism were meeting with strong resistance from renowned historians and scholars in the U.S. and abroad. Steve Farmer is one of those scholars; he reported on that resistance and the [...]

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Yankee Hindutva: Indian Jim Crow in “Victim” Garb

2005 has been a terrible year for the human rights of African Americans in the United States. Facing assaults on livelihoods, falling incomes, rampant police violence and [...]

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I hate people who misrepresent history : Professor Michael Witzel

Professor Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University, shot off a letter to the California Board of Education on November 8 after coming to know what he described was US-based Hindu groups’s attempt to have sections of school textbooks relating to information on ancient India, [...]

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A scathing indictment

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Romila Thapar speaks about Indian History

Professor Romila Thapar, one of India’s finest historians, is in the news again — for refusing the Padma Bhushan. During the reign of the National Democratic Alliance government, she was in the news for a series of run-ins with the ideologues of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the largest party in the NDA coalition. The BJP [...]

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Environmental History : Interview with Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar … “Historical writing is not a free-for-all in which anyone can claim to be writing history.”Professor Romila Thapar was recently in Chennai at the invitation of the Prakriti Foundation, known to bring to the city the best among scholars and artists for an enlightened audience. She gave two lectures at the Museum Theatre [...]

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Historians shocked by Hindutva assault on Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

Monday, 05 January , 2004,
Pune: Internationally renowned Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) on Monday was vandalised and around 18,000 books and 30,000 rare manuscripts damaged by activists of the ‘Sambhaji Brigade’, a sister organisation of the Maratha Mahasangh.
Around 150 activists reached the institute at around 1115 hrs protesting the ‘objectionable’ reference to Shivaji given by [...]

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