It is been almost 1000 days since the great professional historian #AudreyTruschke blocked me for just fact-check on #Hindutva.
& her audacity kept thickening.
Recently she made baseless allegations of plagiarism on @vikramsampath
Each charges made by her appeared so laughable & was exposed so well by @sanjeevsanyal
But then came the time to look at her own works. One would expect looking at her charges that her book would be full of citations way more than Dr Sampath in terms of % but...
I was taken aback. The size of her biography on Aurangzeb itself has total size= size of @vikramsampath ‘s citations.
Interestingly she quotes so many people but the book is devoid of any citation, footnotes, referencing. Check these pages
Look at more pages. Absolutely no footnotes, no citations
She calls it biography of one of the most hated man in Indian history.
She advocates the man who stood firmly for making kafir women sex-Slave. Identical to ISIS & Taliban ideology but she as women celebrated him.
Shame.
The professional historian #Audrey compares situation of Nirbhaya with that of Draupadi & talks in her article that India has been a place of atrocity on women since ages.
So now when people are claiming that @vikramsampath didn’t do “proper” citation, what do people have to say about #Audrey (sample in quoted tweet), who just doesn’t give any “citation” though she mentions people .
By that logic, Audrey is one of the biggest plagiarist.
AL Basham, the teacher of #RomilaThapar writes about India after talking of Inequality by birth:
"(...) Yet our overall impression is that in no other part of the ancient world were the relations of man and man, and of man and the state, so fair and humane. (...)"
He further showers glory to India saying:
"In no other early civilisation were slaves so few in number, and in no other ancient lawbook are their rights so well protected as in the Arthasastra."
Then he says, "No other ancient lawgiver proclaimed such noble ideals of fair play in battle as did Manu."
Imagine that the Teacher of #RomilaThapar is praising Manu for giving best world ideals of ancient times.
So audacious,appearing immortals, chanting the same Vaidik Ruchas composed millenniums back on the banks of #Saraswati, #Sindhu & many #Sindhus till today.
The Hindus(inhabitants of land beyond Sindhu), followers of Dharma, ie Sanatana,long way we have come.
2/n I always say that it impossible to give a date to Sanatana Dharma.
We need to decode both the words to understand meaning wisely.
Sanatana refers to "imperishable" & "eternal." (refer Śivapurāṇa 2.2.16, 2.2.42)
1/n Thread #Antisemitism of #USSR
Remember, once Nehru & his followers celebrated #USSR & followed it. Same followers are today throwing mud on #Netaji for alliance with Axis Powers.
Let's begin with 1919, when #Lenin brought rules of #Ukraine
2/n Two sources tell us that #Lenin said as below:
"#Jews and city dwellers on the Ukraine must be taken by hedgehog-skin gauntlets (ruled by iron fist) sent to fight on front lines and should never be allowed on any administrative positions."
3/n The sources for it are as below:
1)Time of Darkness - lit. "Dusk" by A. N. Yakovlev
2)The Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archive, Edited by Richard Pipes
#Aurobindo on #Gandhi:
June 22, 1926 1. "For instance Gandhi is a European-truly, a Russian Christian in an Indian body. And there are some Indians in European bodies! Gandhi a European!"
He is largely influenced by Tolstoy, the Bible, and has a strong Jain tinge in his teachings; at any rate more than by the Indian scriptures-the Upanishads or the Gita, which he interprets in the light of his own ideas.
Many educated Indians consider him a spiritual man. Yes, because the Europeans call spiritual. But what he preaches is not Indian spirituality but something derived from Russian Christianity, non-violence, suffering, etc (…)"
"Sri Aurobindo is one of the greatest thinkers of Modern India … the most complete synthesis achieved upto the present between the genius of the West and the East..."
More on Aurobindo @keshavbedi from "Review of Collected Poems and Plays in the Times Literary Supplement (London) (July 8,1944)
"Of all modern Indian writers Aurobindo — successively poet, critic, scholar, thinker, nationalist, humanist — is the most significant and perhaps
the most interesting … In fact, he is a new type of thinker, one who combines in his vision the alacrity of the West with the illumination of the East. To study his writings is to enlarge the boundaries of one's knowledge …
A) Communism today has no sympathy with Nationalism in any form & the Indian movement is a Nationalist movement –a movement for the national liberation of the Indian people.
B) Russia is now on her defensive and has little interest in provoking a world revolution though the Communist International may still endeavor to keep up appearances.
The recent pact between Russia and other capitalist countries and the written or unwritten conditions inherent in such pacts, as also her membership of the League of Nations, have seriously compromised the position of Russia as a revolutionary power.