Misuse of History: Assault on Democracy in India. An interview with Aditya Mukherjee.

In the interview with Aditya Mukherjee, various issues related to Communalism in India are addressed. The attempts of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), currently ruling the country, to change history textbooks to introduce the manipulated view of India’s past expressed by Hindu nationalism. Mukherjee also talks about the current Indian government’s attacks on historians’ freedom of research: the public accusations of terrorism levelled at dissident scholars and also the professional marginalisation of those who refuse to bend historical discourse to the demands of the establishment linked to Hindu nationalism. Muckerjee inform us about the strong resistance against attempts to erase Muslim culture from India’s official history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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