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Post by Mosquito Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:30 pm

I am not familiar with her work. I know she is controversial. But why?
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Post by Propagandhi711 Fri Apr 05, 2013 12:37 pm

answers found on the onion

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Post by Idéfix Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:08 pm

She is controversial because she opposed right-wing revisionism of Indian history, and because she is from JNU, that bastion of left-wing thought. Her book A History of India is on my reading list.
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