Amader Itihas? Na Oder Itihas? by Romila Thapar [Hardcover]

"Which books and which historians' writings have been thus erased? The first set of history textbooks by NCERT was written in the 1960s and 70s. The authors were Romila Thapar, Arjun Dev, R.S. Sharma, Satish Chandra, and Bipin Chandra. The Morarji Desai government attempted to ban these books, but that government fell before succeeding. However, the saffron brigade has never hidden their adverse attitude towards these historians and has clearly expressed it. They have been accused of being Marxists, leftists, academic and intellectual terrorists, and writers of distorted history. Now we need to understand whether a lesson in history is evaluated as reliable history in the hands of professional historians or is the work of someone engrossed in creating political fiction? Is it our history, or their history? Whose history is it?"

This passage brings to light significant questions about the interpretation and presentation of history.