In his textbook for schoolchildren titled 'Ancient India,' Marxist historian Ram Sharan Sharma claims that ancient Hindus loved beef and proceeds to inject a taste for beef-eating on young, impressionable minds
In 1992, Arjun Singh, the Human Resources Minister, ordered the Archeological Survey of India to halt the excavations at the site of the disputed structure in Ayodhya in order to appease the Muslim vote bank. This is a story that has received little attention.
A lowdown on the sordid history of the cultural vandals who tried to block the construction of the Sri Rama Mandir and why we need to keep this memory alive
Concluding part of the series tracing the career, scholarship and the destructive role played by Irfan Habib in the Indian cultural and historical discourse