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Its way to easy for a individual to disagree with another in the educational community. Not all agreed with einstein, everybody thought the world was flat at one time etc.
It is just as easy to find Romalia Thapar accolades as well.

Romila Thapar is Professor Emeritus of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?i...0674725232
Her book is used at Harvard university

"It’s only to be expected that a Narendra Modi government will not mean acchey din for historians like Romila Thapar.Thapar butted heads with the previous NDA regime as well about changes made to her textbook on ancient India. She has complained about “an attempt to replace mainstream history with a Hindutva version of history.” It’s only natural that when an ideological shift happens in government, its reverberations will be felt within the intellectual class. Different think-tanks, different intellectuals, even different artists will come to the fore and enjoy newfound clout."

"But for some reason, it is the 80-plus Romila Thapar who has emerged as the whipping girl of the sins of the old order. First Subramanian Swamy, in a moment of fiery hyperbole, and hopefully no more than hyperbole, suggested her books should be set on fire. Now Swapan Dasgupta sniggers in The Telegraph that the “real complaint” of Thapar was the “grim reality of change” that has left her feeling irrelevant. Dasgupta writes that “(f)or the first time in their living memory, the privileged ‘progressives’ of Delhi find themselves cut out.”What Dasgupta is implying is when Romila Thapar warns in a lecture about the “narrowing of liberal space in the last couple of decades” or the dangers of “organisations and institutions that claim a religious intention but use their authority for non-religious purposes” or the pusillanimity of intellectuals who “prefer not to confront authority even if it disbars the path of free thinking” -- what she is really upset about is that she is out in the cold. All her anxieties and worries and warnings are nothing more than the pique of a maharani who has suddenly lost not just her crown but also her privy purse."http://www.firstpost.com/india/whipping-girl-of-the-right-attack-romila-thapars-ideas-not-her-integrity-1792173.html


She is only attacked because hindu fundmentalism feels threatned.

There is much more on her major accomplishments and how highly reveared she is. You could of easily found this but chose to simply post one side to try and discredit somebody who is far more educated in the matters than any of us, spent her entire life studying and more knowledge in this area than any of us will ever have. 


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