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Marxist Historians with Stalinist Mindsets
by rawemotions Thu Jan 01, 2015 3:40 pm
http://www.niticentral.com/2015/01/01/marxist-historians-stalinist-mindsets-294274.html
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Let us see how intolerance is second nature of the likes such as Habib. When the Allahabad High Court, in a fair spirit, ordered excavations at Ayodhya “with a view to determining what lay beneath the Babri structure”, Irfan Habib opposed the move. So emotionally involved was Habib, that, throwing to winds all semblances of rationality, civility and scientific temper, he began to “cast serious aspersions on the integrity of academicians and institutions in disagreement with his views.” At a talk he delivered from his perch at AMU on “Ayodhya: the National Stake” in February 1991, Habib attacked “senior archeologists and historians associated with the Ayodhya Movement with a passion seldom seen in Indian academic circles.” Everyone who differed from him was showered with intense vitriol, thus the late Dr SP Gupta, former Director of the Allahabad Museum, himself an archeologist of great standing was “always regarded as being on the ‘lunatic fringe’ or BR Grover, former Chairperson of the ICHR “thinks that the VHP is the coming regime [and] is a better astrologer than historian.”
For the veteran and internationally respected archaeologist Professor BB Lal, who had no known or ever displayed political affiliations, Habib had reserved his “special ire.” Just because Professor Lal was the “first to point to architectural remnants below the Babri Masjid”, Habib accused Lal of “professional dishonesty and in a signed article in his parent political party’s ideological rag, “People’s Democracy”, he derisively “described Lal as “the creator of ‘Mahabharata archaeology.’ When the ASI archaeological excavations proved Lal’s thesis, Habib went a step further to cast aspersions on the entire ASI team and questioned the team’s competency and vilified them. True to his intolerant spirit and denigration of Constitutional institutions Habib also “faulted the Allahabad High Court for accepting” the ASI report which was according to him “drawn up by two little-known officials” and attacked Justice Aggarwal for his “easy acquiescence.” Habib’s spirit of intolerance and name-calling is but symptomatic of the larger spirit displayed by the Left historians now dominating the Indian History Congress (IHC).
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Let us see how intolerance is second nature of the likes such as Habib. When the Allahabad High Court, in a fair spirit, ordered excavations at Ayodhya “with a view to determining what lay beneath the Babri structure”, Irfan Habib opposed the move. So emotionally involved was Habib, that, throwing to winds all semblances of rationality, civility and scientific temper, he began to “cast serious aspersions on the integrity of academicians and institutions in disagreement with his views.” At a talk he delivered from his perch at AMU on “Ayodhya: the National Stake” in February 1991, Habib attacked “senior archeologists and historians associated with the Ayodhya Movement with a passion seldom seen in Indian academic circles.” Everyone who differed from him was showered with intense vitriol, thus the late Dr SP Gupta, former Director of the Allahabad Museum, himself an archeologist of great standing was “always regarded as being on the ‘lunatic fringe’ or BR Grover, former Chairperson of the ICHR “thinks that the VHP is the coming regime [and] is a better astrologer than historian.”
For the veteran and internationally respected archaeologist Professor BB Lal, who had no known or ever displayed political affiliations, Habib had reserved his “special ire.” Just because Professor Lal was the “first to point to architectural remnants below the Babri Masjid”, Habib accused Lal of “professional dishonesty and in a signed article in his parent political party’s ideological rag, “People’s Democracy”, he derisively “described Lal as “the creator of ‘Mahabharata archaeology.’ When the ASI archaeological excavations proved Lal’s thesis, Habib went a step further to cast aspersions on the entire ASI team and questioned the team’s competency and vilified them. True to his intolerant spirit and denigration of Constitutional institutions Habib also “faulted the Allahabad High Court for accepting” the ASI report which was according to him “drawn up by two little-known officials” and attacked Justice Aggarwal for his “easy acquiescence.” Habib’s spirit of intolerance and name-calling is but symptomatic of the larger spirit displayed by the Left historians now dominating the Indian History Congress (IHC).
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