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Marxist historiography in India emerged alongside Muslim separatism and later became an intellectual framework for defending Muslim political concessions, recasting the history of medieval India, and shifting responsibility for Partition onto Hindu nationalist forces.

Romila Thapar being invited for CD Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at India International Centre has created quite a furore.

In December 2015, JNUSU displayed their intolerance over an invitation sent to Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev to the International Congress of Vedanta.

William Dalrymple said that history books written in the 1950s left sufficient room for questioning their authenticity. 

Not only is Romila's claim completely ignoring a few millennia between Mahabharata and Mauryan emperor Ashoka, but it also has many other flaws.

12 from Social Sciences and Humanities, 4 from Science, JNU rules changed to end this skew:

The JNU EC had amended the rules on Professor Emeritus in August 2018, but The Hindu reported it as August 2019

Several JNU Emeritus Professors has not visited the university in the last 3 years

In an article for the 'failing' New York Times (as POTUS Trump calls it), Romila Thapar, academia and approved fake news peddler, spreads rather dubious canards about Hindu Nationalism and Hindu history

Over 200 writers have come forward with a statement of their own against the incumbent government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi