“History-phobia of Audrey Truschke: Denial of Islamic invaders and the hara-kiri of credibility”, First Post, December 3, 2022:
“Following up on the last article on history-phobia, in this essay I provide a rejoinder to a set of non-scholarly apologetic defence for Islamic invaders, especially Bakhtiyar Khalji, by ‘eminent’ historian Audrey Truschke.
Unlike a scholarly rejoinder, she began with mudslinging against Anand Ranganathan and Vikram Sampath. She calls the latter ‘plagiarist’ yet again even though the honourable High Court of Delhi had found her allegations holding no water and instructed her not to tweet anything defamatory on such lines.
In her long narration through a thread of tweets, she begins by saying, “There seems to be a claim of a single Islamic conquest of India. That’s wrong.
“Real story — There were many Indo-Muslim dynasties who ruled parts of South Asia over the centuries. Some came from outside the subcontinent, and others did not. Nobody ever conquered all of India….”
Read the full article at Firstpost.com
