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#Thread There is a lot of hubris among some ‘trained’ historians and archeologists in India that they alone are the custodians of India’s history, and no one else knows anything because they do not have a Ph. D! This is nothing but #IntellectualApartheid
I have interacted with some of these ‘historians’ in Maharashtra with Ph.Ds. Very few of them have done any original research by studying primary sources. Their doctorate degrees are acquired by studying the work of great historians like Shejwalkar, Khare, Sardessai.
Most of their research work consists of cut n paste of the work of great historians. Unfortunately, many of these Ph.D holders are now professors in institutes like Deccan college n Savitribhai Phule Pune University and teaching their version of Marxist history to students.
