'Ten Heads of Ravana' exposes Michael Witzel, Romila Thapar
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Michael Witzel is an important scholar discussed in the book 'Ten Heads of Ravana' and Manogna Sastry analyzes his work in her cogent essay. Sastry discusses one of the major themes of Witzel’s academic work, consisting of his championing the Aryan Invasion/Migration into India theories, to the point of disregarding evidence and denigrating through ad hominem attacks, the works which challenge and have negated several of his central points. His proof and methodology have included “creating” evidence when none exists, through mistranslations and grammatical errors, to the point of distorting verses to suit his whims. When his claims have been discredited by others, Witzel has gone on to offer farcical explanations, even as the lack of academic ethics in his work stands tall. The essay highlights how such, instances demonstrate the poor scholarship that accompanies Witzel’s work in a theme as crucial as the Aryan issue, for it has direct implications on the temporal and spatial origins of the Vedas and Sanskrit heritage. Witzel has been a vociferous critic of Indians wherever they are fighting for a fair and just representation of their history. He played a role, along with Marxist historians such as Romila Thapar, in trying to thwart the attempts made by Hindus in North America to correct the history textbooks of Grade VI taught in California Public Schools. Witzel’s writings, laden under the garb of trying to protect “historical accuracy”, lays bare much of what is fallacious about his scholarship. The essay considers several such instances of Witzel’s work to demonstrate why his work qualifies him as one of today’s Intellectual Ravanas. Romila Thapar has been one of India’s foremost historians, having held control of premier national educational and research institutions to influence academic discourse and government policies over decades. Anurag Sharma, in his brilliant essay, refutes Thapar’s historiographical assumptions by providing strong counterexamples from Indian history. In the first section, he critically examines her views on the Islamic period of Indian history; in the second, her theories related to Hindu Dharma and the sacred texts such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Puranas; and in the third, her views on India as a nation and Hindu nationalism. Using evidence from fields of numismatics, archaeology, epigraphy, art and traditional texts to debunk many of the claims, Sharma makes a compelling case as to why Thapar’s work is unreliable and cannot be assumed as the mainstream narrative if we wish to return to scientific, objective and fact-based representations of history.
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Nice work- need more of these to counter the anti-Hindu narrative of biased Indologists
I heard that Sitaram goyal had challanged Mrs thapar for debate, but she didnt accepted.
@arunmishra8842
8 ай бұрын
You are right She never replied
@kantavaria3107
8 ай бұрын
Romilla thapar would have lose the debate: she knows it also.
बहुत सुन्दर भाषण प्रसतूत किया है माननीय जी डी बक्षी जी ने भारत के इतिहास के बारे में।
Great papers ❤❤❤❤ Thanks to all scholars presenting papers
glad to see indians calling out these commies.
These Lutiyens gang of left and Muslim historians have tarnished Indian history
Brilliant presentations..kudos to the researchers
Will read the book.Will reinforce my thoughts of my religion.
Put Romilla Thapar in dustbin. Why u are giving importance to her.
@abhia1311
8 ай бұрын
What do you think they are doing here ?? Get smart.. this is how you put fake historians to dust bin. Not by simply abusing with a couple of troll lines and then ignoring. Who do you think a foreigner reads from about India at the moment ?? Same leftist historians. To put them to dustbin is by countering them with better research and writing arguments and better books
Did Romilla Thapar ever studied Indian History? What makes her the authority on Indian history?
NAMASTE EVERYONE...JAY SHRI RAM
Good work
Great talk.
Namaskar from Bangladesh 🙏
Thank you sir
I have not read any books of romilla thapar, but I do know that somnath temple was attacked by Muslim rulers. This fact should be embedded in our history and be part of history education. Shame on romilla thapar.
@onlytruth308
7 ай бұрын
NCERT books on history are written by Romila Thaper, entire nation educated by those books.
Thappar needed some good THAPPADH.
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If a lot of thappars history is proven to be false, then why is she still a professor at JNU ? She should be fired from her job!
@ashokbraroo8845
8 ай бұрын
She is not in JNU
@MrPharu500
8 ай бұрын
@@ashokbraroo8845 She is professor emerita, at JNU. Look it up before you write!
@MrPharu500
8 ай бұрын
@@ashokbraroo8845 Professor Emeritus. Ashok, look up the meaning of emeritus. You'll learn something!
@onlytruth308
7 ай бұрын
😂
Please write a book with references.
Kudos
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The Bch...
Romilaa Thappar should be jailed for deliberately falsify history.
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One more question to be asked - if akbar were great then why thousands of women committed jouhar when he occupied forts ruled by erstwhile Hindu rulers ?
I am surprised to see that a Harvard professor can be so ignorant and with a closed mind.
Is there a way to make these books stamped as fiction or just a point of view of this person?
Ten years on bakwas joota party didn't change anything 😮😮😮😮
@arunmishra8842
8 ай бұрын
Your legacy will be history of this party loses
They are रावण not head of ravan
Bakshi Pa ji, i think you meant to say east to west migration not west to east 😂
Took the gods from Buddhism and claimed as those are Hindus. Panini ashtadyaya had not written in single peeiod
Witzal is gay...!
Don’t label Roma’s Thapar and Irfan habib Historian instead start calling them Distorian…😅😅
Its reality that hinduism and all hinduism cincept copied from buddhism and some from janism. Before that no hindu dharam ,, tum kuch bhi kar lo sachai nhi badl paoge, bcs there is no evidance that vedas is old as from BCE 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂