| 词条 | Eminent Historians |
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| width = | name = Eminent Historians | title_orig = | translator = | image = Eminent Historians.jpg | image_size = | caption = | author =Arun Shourie | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = India | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = | publisher = ASA Publications | pub_date = 1998; others | english_pub_date = | media_type = | pages = 271 | isbn = | oclc = }} Eminent Historians: Their Techniques, Their Line, Their Fraud is Arun Shourie's fifteenth book and was published in 1998. SummaryIt discusses the NCERT controversy in Indian politics and attacks Marxist historiography. Shourie asserts that Marxist historians have controlled and misused important institutions like the Indian Council of Historical Research, the National Council of Educational Research Training (NCERT) and a large part of academia and the media. He criticizes well-known historians like Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib. Shourie argues that Marxist historians have white-washed the records of rulers like Mahmud of Ghazni and Aurangzeb. Shourie presents examples to further his argument of how many of these text books describe in great detail foreign personalities like Karl Marx or Joseph Stalin, while they often barely mention important figures of India or of the Indian states. Shourie writes that this is in contrast to Russian Marxist text books. The standard Soviet work, A History of India (1973), is according to Shourie much more objective and truthful than the history books written by Indian Marxists.[1] This book also talks about a circular which was issued by the Communist Government in West Bengal in 1989 in which it had asked the authors and the publishers of Class IX History textbooks to make sure that "Muslim rule should never attract any criticism. Destruction of temples by muslim rulers and invaders should not be mentioned." [2] The book states in the preface:
CommentariesP. Heehs cited the book as an example of "reactionary orientalists' reaction against a perceived attack on Indian spiritual values".[3] Edwin Bryant cites the book as an example of Hindu nationalist criticism of Marxist historiography.[4] The historian D.N. Jha, who is one of the scholars Shourie has attacked in his book, has refuted Shourie claiming Shourie has distorted his writings, made false allegations of plagiarism against him, and that Shourie's book contains errors and inaccuracies. The book, according to Jha, contains "slander" and "has nothing to do with history." Jha also claims that Shourie's book has been written out of political opportunism.[5][6][7] See also
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.indolink.com/Book/book64.html|title=INDOlink - Book Review - Eminent Historians|publisher=|accessdate=20 January 2015}} 2. ^Arun Shourie (2004). Eminent Historians; 3rd ed. New Delhi: Rupa Publications. p. 63. 3. ^{{cite journal|last1=Heehs|first1=Peter|title=Shades of Orientalism: Paradoxes and Problems in Indian Historiography|journal=History and Theory|volume=42|issue=2|year=2003|pages=169–195|doi=10.1111/1468-2303.00238|jstor=3590880}} 4. ^Edwin Bryant (2004), The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: the Indo-Aryan Migration Debate, New York: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-19-516947-8}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Grist to the reactionary mill|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/grist-to-the-reactionary-mill/|work = Indian Express|date=9 July 2014|accessdate=9 July 2015}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Votes do not guide intellectuals: D N Jha|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/votes-do-not-guide-intellectuals-d-n-jha-114112900682_1.html|work = Business Standard|date=9 November 2014|accessdate=9 July 2015}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=How History Was Unmade At Nalanda! D N Jha|url=http://kafila.org/2014/07/09/how-history-was-unmade-at-nalanda-d-n-jha/|work = Kafila|date=9 July 2014|accessdate=9 July 2015}} External links
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