History, Critical Thinking & Autonomy: Decolonizing Romila Thapar 2/5

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  • @RajivMalhotraOfficial
    @RajivMalhotraOfficial  5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    This is part 2 of my "Decolonizing Romila Thapar" series. You can watch part one here: bit.ly/NationAndNationalism.
    To donate to Infinity Foundation’s projects including the continuation of such episodes and the research we do:
    infinityfoundation.com/donate-2/

    • @bharusiva477
      @bharusiva477 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sir, please shed some lights on shaiva siddhantam , and that these shaiva siddhantha noolhal (books) predates Vedas and are later taken and mixed and vedas produced by Aryans from Europe. And that shiva only belongs south actually, not mount kailash (yennaatavarkum iraiva potri, thennaatudaiya siva ne potri), If you have books or speech on this, pls kindly direct me to that. I don't believe in ARyan Invasion theory, but am confused about shaiva sithantham.

    • @VanarSenaAyodhya
      @VanarSenaAyodhya 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@bharusiva477 "Vedas produced by Aryans??"
      Are you serious?? After all 2500-3000 odd archaeological excavations, across Indo-Pak border, proved scientifically as well as historically that Aryan Dravidian theory was a false propaganda...u r still propagating it!!
      This is a REAL EXAMPLE OF "COLONISED MIND" !!!!!

    • @nikhilsivadas1827
      @nikhilsivadas1827 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At the region near 3:44 , you said she only applied logic and rationality to hinduism and not any other theology, like the Quran and Bible. But in the clip you showed, she did not mention Hinduism at all. The only phrase she used was "Mythology", which I think is a more general term. Was this a mistake from your part or was the part of the clip where she applies this this on Hinduism mistakenly removed?

    • @hangout4434
      @hangout4434 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Marxist may be politically weak but they hold key position in important institutions

    • @meenak3351
      @meenak3351 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bharusiva477 the word Aryan itself is tamil word. It is found in books like manimekkalai. Aryan means pious. Dravidian means geographical south. Aryan invasion is lie. The British propounded Aryan invasion theory to divide north and south. Today congress dmk dk doing the same job of British. That's why Rahul Gandhi always runs to UK. Rahul Gandhi's UK name =Raul vinc

  • @rajansingh375
    @rajansingh375 5 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    Romila Thapar has learnt histroy in Wahabi Islamic Madarsa of Saudi Arabia

    • @Shiva-pu8nb
      @Shiva-pu8nb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Rajeev Malhotra in rss vidya mandir

    • @abhinavsanjana
      @abhinavsanjana 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha Ha ...

    • @ashwaryp
      @ashwaryp 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Shiva-pu8nb Lol, RSS Vidya Mandirs provide education to poor kids. Not only basic education but along with moral teachings, patriotism, family values, the essence of Bharat etc. and not some imported colonial idea to look at this country from the perspective of an outsider colonist rather than a native. People who pass out from there live normal lives and not become a jehadi.

    • @S0S0ant1
      @S0S0ant1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Huvishka Οοηϸκι , this jihadi who calls himself Shiva, will not understand all this. A jihadi does not have any sense of nationhood, only muslim brotherhood, that’s what that warlord Muhammad taught them, and that’s what they are taught in madrassas.

    • @leftfront1224
      @leftfront1224 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ashwaryp RSS also spreads "Brahmanwad" by this Vidya Mandir. Create a caste system, suppress lower caste, women.

  • @rabinarayanswain3036
    @rabinarayanswain3036 5 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    This is an important work and will have huge impact. I request everyone to share it more and more.

    • @Baneshi186
      @Baneshi186 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Rabinarayan Swain i always share. rajiv sir's words can wake so many sleeping heads.

    • @Bharatwasi123
      @Bharatwasi123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes. Exactly. Viz-a-viz he must be supported financially too to make sustain his efforts .....

    • @sandeeptiwari7157
      @sandeeptiwari7157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I have already made 30+ my friends incline toward bjp and against anti Hindu rules.

    • @sandeeptiwari7157
      @sandeeptiwari7157 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not only that my idiot friends who don't know about polticics and keep talking about girls ,pubg,game of thrones .I manipulate them like Christian missinories do . atlast our people shouldn't go against our people and then self.

  • @s.sarkar83
    @s.sarkar83 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Just now donated Rs 1001/- and encourage everyone including middle class people like me to mass donate to this foundation. This movement of Indic Renaissance is a people's movement and we must support leaders and Icons like Shri Rajiv Malhotra Ji.
    Jai Hindutva🙏🕉🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

  • @nirmalyahazra5062
    @nirmalyahazra5062 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Superb as always....ppl like Romila Thapar should be exposed like this only ... hats off Rajeev jee

  • @VanarSenaAyodhya
    @VanarSenaAyodhya 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "English speaking ppl fascinated Nehru and hence they were given the responsibility to set the TONE in newly formed INDIA!!
    Hence we, as a nation, DEPARTED from BHARATVARSH!!

    • @rajendraprasadjoshi950
      @rajendraprasadjoshi950 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nehru himself was a jihadi and so had a vested interest in disinformation of Indian history so in the name of the correcting the historically anomalies jihadis supremacy could be established.

  • @harindersingh3706
    @harindersingh3706 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The problem is there is no intellectual Hindu base to counter Thapar and Habib.
    Works of Sitaram Goel ,Konrad Ekst and Ram Swarup can be used as reference to counter them

  • @manglamtripathi1228
    @manglamtripathi1228 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    We should thanks to God that we have Rajiv Malhotra, a renowned intellectual who is guiding us on the right path. I salute your work sir .

  • @jananigreens1409
    @jananigreens1409 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Everyone know Thapar is biased.
    All Nehruvian rationality to disunite Hindus and rule on majority forever with Italian lady at the helm.

    • @gopalarao99
      @gopalarao99 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Enough damage has already been done.not worth wasting our time.

    • @sargonofakkad860
      @sargonofakkad860 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I am doing history hons from du..trust me all they teach us is muslims were not bad..not invaders..they glorified..hindus had no past..not a single paper on shivaji..even rajputs in light of akbar..they portray rajputs as defeated warriors who lived at the mercy of akbar..and the overall course is structured in a way that justifies the entire muslim rule and specially aurangzeb

    • @thespecialone8631
      @thespecialone8631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Mira Z I am also a science student but distortion of books will cause problems in longer run.

  • @rohitspawar
    @rohitspawar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    She must answer your question on why haven't she analyzed other faith based religions?

  • @nandu9773
    @nandu9773 5 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    RM Sirji
    You are modern Swami Vivekananda

  • @GururajBN
    @GururajBN 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    The lady sitting opposite to Prof Romila Thapar and nodding is Teesta Setalwad, who is a converted Muslim going by Hindu name. She took lead in targeting Narendra Modi from 2002 onwards. Birds of same feather flock together.

  • @thrinethran2885
    @thrinethran2885 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Her jargon may have been revised , but Thapar 's vision of Indian history exactly conforms to that of the 19 th Century European Coloniser .That she still flies is proof that the Establishment mind is colonised .

  • @amtgpt2008
    @amtgpt2008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    RajivJi has brilliantly critiqued chartered "historian" Romila Thapar.

  • @martandverma6217
    @martandverma6217 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    When someone go through her books ....one can find various secular statements (pseudo secular)...and narration like fantasy stories. But what actually someone misses the most is credible proofs and references.
    Thank you RAJIV SIR ...for this effort...

  • @NileshOak
    @NileshOak 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    @5:16, Rajiv Ji says, "While personal bias is not there...". Even this is not true. We all know that we have our biases. This is precisely the reason why one should eagerly look for objectively testable data in proposing their claims and then of one's own initiative, encourage others to critique them (claims) - brutally and logically.

    • @thrinethran2885
      @thrinethran2885 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Definitely, that is the only rational way forward, from alternating political impositions.

  • @rx5241
    @rx5241 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Neitzsche's critique of mainstream intellectuals was incredible. No wonder he calls them a bunch of hypocrites and nothing else.

  • @TamilArjun4090
    @TamilArjun4090 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Romila Thapar "Curriculum should be designed by solid independent historians" means by Urban Naxal gangs.
    But same Romila Thapar interviewed by Teesta setalvad , is Teesta historian. Might be Romila wants yes Madam interviewer

    • @MrDillbud
      @MrDillbud 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Tamil Arjun, "Thappads" minds are so radicalized with pseudo se(x)cularism to hide their real ids as musal/kristus, that, no thappads=tamaches will de-radicalize them..They have fake claims of being historians and social scientists with their lies.

  • @dipankarkalita8936
    @dipankarkalita8936 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Great analysis. I hope students in JNU are also watching this series

  • @watchitonyou
    @watchitonyou 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Very good series. keep up the good work. God bless.

  • @mykverma
    @mykverma 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks for exposing this lady whose mind is colonized but she can’t see it herself. Great work Rajiv sir.

  • @rajeshjaiswal4048
    @rajeshjaiswal4048 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Exposed very wisely, intelligently ...and of course with discretion by Sir Rajiv Malhotra.💐👍👌😊☺.

  • @vanhannu
    @vanhannu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Romila, u have no strength to face the saccha Bhartiya desh bhakt adhunik Arjun ........he is armed with all the intellectuall arrows you would have not even dreamnt of even seeing them....good luck hiding lady ....there comes Shri Pandit Rajiv ji, a brahmin by wisdom, a kshatriya by weapons of knowledge, an ex- vaishaya who will prove you to be SHUDRA of all times

    • @vanhannu
      @vanhannu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Yogarishi SrīnivāsThe correct meaning of Shudra means a common man...with no expertise...its not any demeaning word or reference ....we all are Shudra by birth...and according to our skill n knowledge become one of the 4 varn..or many times mixed varn category. I am that kind of dharmic Hindu who is born in brahmin family but i will love to embrace the most downtrodden person on the earth if that person is dharmic....My kids are shudra now and are trying to become one of the other 3 varna or even mixed up varna..
      Shudra does not mean that you are thinking its meaning is...
      Ya I agree with you that she can be put into ASURA category as well....
      So I would say that she belongs to a Asura Shudra varna because even Ravana was a Brahmin Kshstriya Asura.......
      By the way we dont CASTE System at all. Its all made up myth....its not our word....we have varn and Jati thats it.....I hope you are not upset now and got my point.

  • @kritikaushik5499
    @kritikaushik5499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rajiv ji is a warrior leading the fight against these Breaking India Forces.
    Deeply grateful to you and your team for lifting the veil of lie that has been systematically forced upon us.

  • @kritikaushik5499
    @kritikaushik5499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Rajiv ji you impart courage in us young people to talk about these issues in our communities with much confidence. Deeply grateful

  • @vish2553
    @vish2553 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    History should be taught as it was from primary sources without bias, just the raw data. Interpretations should be left to the students. Great analysts Rajiv, once again 👍🏻

  • @sinara2
    @sinara2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Another great work from RM.. clearing some more cobwebs on how we were taught and exposed their agenda driven teaching of our own history.

  • @kaydee8044
    @kaydee8044 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    No wonder she is associated with university like JNU 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @MrHinglish
    @MrHinglish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Support by all means to cause of Rajiv Ji .... sooner the word mythology will be deleted in our system

  • @nanu6440
    @nanu6440 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    i shared this with all my friends ,ur an absolute inspiration sir .LOVE U

  • @vikrantmouar3368
    @vikrantmouar3368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    love u sir, keep exposing these hypocrite

  • @bhagat-e-ajam1192
    @bhagat-e-ajam1192 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    सुब्रमण्यम स्वामी ने भी इतिहास के पुनर्लेखन की जबर्दस्त विवेचना की है।इतना ही नहीं उन्होंने विद्यालयीय करिकुलम में इसे अविलम्ब लागू करने की चर्चा की है।राजीव सर मैं तो कहती हूँ, मौलिक इतिहास की हर घटना पर शोध कर फ़िल्म बननी चाहिए ताकि बच्चों में इतिहास के प्रति रुचि बढ़े।राष्ट्र में जो दो समानांतर एवं विरोधी गतिविधियां चल रही हैं उससे भी रूबरू होना हर भारतीय के लिए अनिवार्य है। आपकी हर वीडियो बहुत ध्यान से सुनती हूँ। मैं चाहती हूँ काश! आपकी हर वीडियो हिंदी में भी होती ताकि हिंदी भाषियों को यह भेज पाती।आपने संस्कृति की रक्षा के लिए जो योगदान किया है वह दुर्लभ है।कोटिशः नमन।वंदेमातरम।

  • @PawanKumar-hx5zi
    @PawanKumar-hx5zi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    10:02 this is the reason why I love listening to Mr. Malhotra I was thinking the exact point & he said it. And I believe if you can speak people inner voice you deserve challenging the likes of Romila thapar

  • @pinakinpatel5796
    @pinakinpatel5796 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Good to see this court historian getting exposed.

  • @uttamshakahar3173
    @uttamshakahar3173 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is GOLD. Excellent analysis, breakdown & counterpointing by you, Sir. Thank you for this!

  • @conecounison
    @conecounison 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How are you so amazing sir? Omg! Extremely lucky to have you. Amazing work!

  • @rajeshjaiswal4048
    @rajeshjaiswal4048 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Anti Hindu Congress Teesta Setalvad meeting urban naxalite Romila Thapar.

  • @raghavarvoltore6517
    @raghavarvoltore6517 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Nice work sir

  • @rameshnandurkar9714
    @rameshnandurkar9714 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    History is written by winners and that what we have been taught since 1919 and after 1947. Your efforts are appreciable and every Indian has to evolve in the process

  • @ramkrishnadas4230
    @ramkrishnadas4230 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If possible please do a short segment on twitter banning of TrueIndology, he has been your fervent supporter. His accounts have been suspended for no reason. Latest account suspended as well.

  • @amittripathi9519
    @amittripathi9519 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rajiv ji great work

  • @rajeshjaiswal4048
    @rajeshjaiswal4048 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Anti-Modi & urban naxalite Romila Thapar speaks & talks about freedom?.....really!!!?

  • @sachinkulkarni1945
    @sachinkulkarni1945 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rajiv ji great job in dissecting every word and evry sentence. Just because Ms Romila speaks good english she throws in few jurgens and tries to prove a point. But, we need more people like you to counter such fascist self proclaimed intellectuals. Jai Hind. Bharat Mata Ki Jai. 🙏💐🙏

  • @AswathNarayanan92
    @AswathNarayanan92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THANK YOU for using English to explain. There are nationalists who do not know Hindi.

  • @mna5484
    @mna5484 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Romila has a very shallow understanding of the Indic history .
    She understands and glorify Mughal history only
    Very disappointing to know that Congress allowed such people to write history textbooks

    • @fortune4302
      @fortune4302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      COMMUNISTS CONGRESS PARTY IS ITSELF A LEFTIST PARTY,,FULL OF WESTERN COLONIZED COMMUNIST SUBVERTED MENTAL SLAVES BASTARDS,, HIDDEN CONSPIRATORS & HATERS OF DHARMIC TRADITIONS CULTURE CIVILIZATION & HINDUS PEOPLE,, HINDUISM...

  • @SureshK-hi7ii
    @SureshK-hi7ii 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superb deconstruction of Romila Thapar's views in easily understandable language by Shri Rajiv Malhotra and pointing out the inaccuracies such as the dating of the Vedas and subtly equating it with Aryan myth.

  • @sorrybuddy4460
    @sorrybuddy4460 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Am 15 years old and wanna be a historian but the distorted history which i had been studying in school days makes me very sad.!
    Thank you rajiv sir for enlighten me and all indians.

  • @praveenchandra4352
    @praveenchandra4352 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superb Sir, not just because you are laudably unbiased, and extremely crystal clear, but my sense of admiration for you is in the back drop of the fact that I have all along been a history student of Delhi university, having thoroughly read madam Thapar and all that left liberal bibliography, during my short stint in JNU too. I have even attended classes of Romil Thapar there in PG.But now that your remarkable clarity has shattered my misunderstanding of history for good. I am a fan of yours. Shall love to have your DARSHANA. Regards.

  • @aniruddhasarkar2409
    @aniruddhasarkar2409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Here Mr. Malhotra is basically critiquing Thapad on the ground that her methodologies are western and contain certain aspects that very closely related to western ideologies. Now, none of these are valid critiques, in the sense that, there is no case by case analysis of how they are inappropriate to situations where they are being used. Just because an ideology is western doesn't particularly mean that it is wrong and can't be used in an Indian context. I just think that the critique is highly unsubstantive and isn't worth the attention it is getting. And also the way he critiques somebody else's bias is by pushing his own political bias in the arena.

  • @rajul678
    @rajul678 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Teesta Setalvad also sat on board to decide ICSE curriculum.
    In what "professional capacity" , one may ask???

  • @mituls20001
    @mituls20001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She brought up lord Mahavir... I mean, why? When did lord Mahavir said Veda s r not good? He took his own path to moksha and he taught people what's the right way to achieve moksha. He / Jainism never criticised any Dharm.

  • @sonilthakkar3222
    @sonilthakkar3222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    11:08 she is not saying that Vedas are texts belong to 500-400 BCE
    But in 500-400 BCE there are strong opposition towards the supreme authority of Vedas...

  • @yka2395
    @yka2395 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Rajivji .Great analysis and rebuttal to these so called defunct pro colonial intellectuals wishing and talking hard against the concept of Bharat that is not India. You may not decolonize her but at least the one way dialogue is over.

  • @va5795
    @va5795 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Agreed, in fact we had been taught crap in the name of history in our schools.Today i feel i read all wrong stuff, actual history is something else

  • @ravithejanalamary3326
    @ravithejanalamary3326 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rajiv sir has put in lot of effort to cut open the truth and answer point to point
    Which is very helpful to understand the truth
    Its so humble of Rajiv to come down multiple steps to expose Romila Thapar who is nobody compared to what you have achieved and your merit

  • @Arun-mh7br
    @Arun-mh7br 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love to watch your lectures, Sir.

  • @manojtime8443
    @manojtime8443 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you Sir😎

  • @quantumenigma5083
    @quantumenigma5083 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Excellent analysis...

  • @renu2009
    @renu2009 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Sir, for enlightening the nation.

  • @ravindrababu7231
    @ravindrababu7231 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Romila Thapar and Rajiv Malhotra observations on History is apt and appropriate at this hour. History is under enquiry or rethinking in a very serious way. Modern Ideologies and political institutions can not constrain or influence History as History has a great role in Human Relations and behaviour.

  • @rnd9331
    @rnd9331 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loving the series,,dispellsso much confusion. Next thought thatch could decide things such as history for myself! Wow

  • @premprasad3511
    @premprasad3511 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You have thrown her credibility to where it belongs - rubbish bin !! Hats off to you Rajivji..

  • @arkapratimchatterjee1052
    @arkapratimchatterjee1052 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rajiv Sir, I am currently binge-reading Indra's Net and Being Different simultaneously. The ignorance/cunning with which Prof Thapar is juxtaposing Veda with Hindu Arya, along with opposition by Buddhists and Charvaks is all the more frustrating, because these very pages lie bookmarked next to me. Her timeline is seriously messed up. How are Vedic texts originating in 4th century BCE? According to her "logic and rationality" , she wants to say that the late-Mahajanapad time gave rise to Vedas??? She's just gathering an ignorant and dumb audience, who she knows will never question her, and pretends to be a reservoir of historical "understanding". These are fantastic points you are exposing sir. Eagerly waiting for the next part!!

  • @udalram8924
    @udalram8924 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstading analysis. Rajiv ji you have demolished her theorie and understading of history. I have myself been a student of history and sociology... and you are right, our understanding of social sciences has been purely of Western origin and most of the historians in India had been agenda based.. love your critique 🙏🙏

  • @sasdasbd
    @sasdasbd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When will Modi Govt. utilize such talents for creating new Indian indigenous ecosystem of history, universities, media, and judicial system? If you cannot make it in 10 years, then don't complain about Nehru and leftists. It's your fault and Hindus will suffer immensely in the future.

  • @florida143
    @florida143 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Multiple Indian generations have suffered tremendously and have been victims of Romila Thapar and people like her. BUCK STOPS HERE - NOT ANY MORE

  • @Aashi_82
    @Aashi_82 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Rajeev Sir, I am waiting the day You will have debate with her.

  • @bprmel
    @bprmel 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great work Rajiv, your age has not held you back to really correct the persuasive thinkers who are interpreting to distort Hinduism [and you were spot on that Bible and Koran ].

  • @vishalshetty3109
    @vishalshetty3109 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rajiv ji,this the best you did, to break the topic in short multiple episodes.This will encourage more people to watch it.

  •  5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Her scientific causation would shatter one religion into innumerable pieces when it is asked to prove 1)flying horse 2) travelling to heaven back n forth in a night 3)stamina of 30 men packed into one man etc..,

  • @AronAroniteOnlineTV
    @AronAroniteOnlineTV 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely bunkum. Marxist historians use not Objective Criticism but Dialectical Criticism which means its basically a subjective choice of what you would criticize and what you wouldnt and apologize. Malhotra's Infinity can easily highlight that Selective critique not only in her own but all the ' autonomy' appointed scholars's works. For example , Thappar and her 'autonomous' scholars would bend facts to do a apologia of the Sacking of Somnath Temple by Mohammad Gazhini not because that lacks objective Chronicles as to motive of the invader which was Islamic Expansionism and Iconoclasm. The invasion could also be contextually connected to a historical continium in say Isis atrocities and sacking at Nineveh Iraq
    Romilla and her comrades would instead call that straight read of history as Binary. Or Edward's Orientalism..
    But Marxist historians of her kind like Irfan Habib would go to absurd lengths of Negationism and white washing of this very straight scientific reading of that history. The autonomous Marxists would try fit a square peg into a round hole of explaining everything within four walls of Class Struggle and then conflate that with Caste struggle. They are indoctrinated and political historians, not scientific historians.

    • @AronAroniteOnlineTV
      @AronAroniteOnlineTV 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ROmilla and her comrades would instead call that straight read of history as Binary. Or Edward's Orientalism.

  • @Vishvaksenah
    @Vishvaksenah 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kudos to Rajiv Malhotra.
    He has clinically exposed Dr.Romila Thapar who is an authentic "Macaulay-putri- Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect”.
    She and her cousin Karan Thapar have inherited the bad genes from their paternal grandfather - Kunj Behari Thapar - who sided with the English colonial forces and supported the Jallianwala bagh massacre. For this loyalty , Kunj Behari Thapar was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1920

  • @gartaulabros4937
    @gartaulabros4937 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Namaste rajiv ji I think there should be episode for decolonization of hindu temples also.

  • @binoydey1592
    @binoydey1592 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great work sir...

  • @CHAITHANYAkitta
    @CHAITHANYAkitta 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    each of these should be viewed in billions.. everyone concerned should see these videos..

  • @manishapande6266
    @manishapande6266 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    No wonder history never inspired majority indian students to pursue this subject further. We barely felt proud of it! These folks (being critiqued here) are culprit of the way history was presented to Indians. What else explains why we are not proud of our long rich historical past?

  • @shreeshashank4610
    @shreeshashank4610 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello sir I know you due to true Indology and lots of thanks for this meeting.

  • @mbhatt820
    @mbhatt820 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    No wonder Indian history is distorted by this lady who has obtained her doctorate from the UK based university which will never give actual evidential facts about India and ancient Indian history. Great talk/work by Shree Rajiv Malhotra to unveil the facts about her work.

  • @arunjetli7909
    @arunjetli7909 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thapar applies the western categories of relying on doxa or personal bias that is not accepted as truth. The Aristotelian logic never questiona the premises. No Ms Thapar you have no know;edge
    of Indian philosophica;l thinking and thus is totally incompetent.

  • @AshokJayanthi
    @AshokJayanthi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    RT has good language and position. Lacks sincerity and honesty.... serious bias in her understanding of hindustans history

  • @adityatyagi4009
    @adityatyagi4009 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good to expose Thapar's hypocrisy.

  • @nitinvaibhav
    @nitinvaibhav 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Agreeing on "understanding of history" and stretching that argument to say that it should "my understanding" of history from the most authentic text is a very valid argument. The only issue is how far can we stretch this as not everyone can do his/her own research to "understand" history

  • @binoyhalder3718
    @binoyhalder3718 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Prof Thapar shall answer: how she can be both biased and rational at a time? Is it at all possible? A rational creature is always ready to change and accept better and higher ideas, but will a biased, like her, be ready to do these things?

  • @bassbites2204
    @bassbites2204 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    *Wow....seriously, if history is understanding the past then new history can be created every day*

  • @ramesh_iyer
    @ramesh_iyer 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good interpretation by Mr. Rajiv Malhotra of what historians like Romila Thapar actually got wrong or misinterpreted. I too believe that aside from distortions in history due to it being written from the victor's viewpoint, historians add their distorted view in the name of "understanding" of historical events, to suit / promote their narrative. The classic example of how historians like Romila Thapar and Ramachandra Guha painted an exalted image of Mohandas Gandhi and his protege Jawaharlal Nehru at the expense of everyone else, including equally tall leaders like Sardar Patel or Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. This was to pander to Congress regimes which (like Mr. Malhotra rightly says) patronized such historians to further their own agenda and narrative about history. History written by such 'historians' is like propaganda. No wonder we don't have a single foreign historian's work available in India of what controversial leaders like Mohandas Gandhi or J Nehru were. Some such books remain banned in India since Congress' regime decades ago. Ironically, Congress and its cronies like Romila Thapar and R-Guha who whitewashed much of modern Indian history to suit Congress' narrative, have been of late complaining about biased works in Indian education system since BJP has been in governance since 2014. As Mr. Malhotra says, the biases and distortions existed earlier and exist today. Nothing has materially changed.

  • @jyotirmoybose129
    @jyotirmoybose129 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sir i am one of your many admirers...but as you gave your opinion about history. Its understanding and the interpretation....you didn't mention your opinion on whether or not elitist universities should have autonomy or not...what would your stance be on this subject matter?..

  • @pratyushmandal9252
    @pratyushmandal9252 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sir, very proud of you.

  • @vardaan96
    @vardaan96 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Desperately waiting for your critique on Hegel.

  • @ramcrao818
    @ramcrao818 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Work sir Rajivji, the way you taken point by point of Bullshit history of Romilla Thapar so called historian self made and by Irfan Habib another such historian shame on them all concocted history we have been hearing this since Indian Independence. Entire India is with you this country need a rational critique like you. God bless you.

  • @jagdishchandrapant1605
    @jagdishchandrapant1605 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Critiquing Romila Thapar by Rajiv Malhotra (RM) is important because she wields influence far exceeding her merit, and may be that is the reason she has carefully avoided debating RM.

  • @praveenkirsur
    @praveenkirsur 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    You could have just said
    *KARAN THAPAR = ROMILA THAPAR.*
    Hindus are smart to understand

  • @nibhjain
    @nibhjain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are no less biased...go and refer to Jain texts ...Jain also believe to be Aryan race...they also talk about arya khand...jain religion is as much Indian and sanatan as hindu religion..

  • @_Sunil.M
    @_Sunil.M 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She needs to defend her credibility or else her books that have been prescribed in the academic curriculum would be termed as fiction. Life gone waste.

  • @whileStillhere
    @whileStillhere 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank You very much!

  • @vengeancecreed217
    @vengeancecreed217 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a sikh hearing her say this really pissed me off. My gurus were treated wrongfully by the mughals. With respect to my gurus not gonna say what they did. Hindus were oppressed. They came to one of my gurus to help save the Hindu dharm. She's a sell out like gandhi. She probably supports the 1984 incident agansit sikhs. Bharat has been under attack for 1000 years.

  • @vaibhavpattadur4654
    @vaibhavpattadur4654 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's a great channel.with precise research

  • @ksanjib
    @ksanjib 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sir,
    I follow you on TH-cam and learnt a lot from your VIDEOs.
    Recent marriage of Sakshi & Ajitesh in UP and Sakshi’s father UP BJP MLA Sri Rajesh Mishra’s act against this inter cast marriage shocked the nation. Surprisingly leading newspapers and BJP leadership has not taken any action against MLA till now. I strongly believe person like Rajesh Mishra is also part of breaking India forces. Because of this kind of people conversion in Hindus are more. Though cast in Hinduism is not berth based, but even then why this discrimination!
    Please be vocal against this incident and host an episode to destroy the cast system in our religion.
    Good wishes.

  • @td-dt4bt
    @td-dt4bt 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rajiv Ji,
    I think you have made a slight mistake around 11:00 where you say that Mrs Romila Thapar said that Vedas are dated to around 4th-5th century BCE but that's not what she said. She simply said that around 4th-5th centuries BCE, there were people like Buddha , Mahavira and groups like Ajivikas who were opposed to the vedas. The dates of 4th-5th centuries BCE is given for such Nastika/heterodox sects.

  • @Nikhilsharma-es9wo
    @Nikhilsharma-es9wo 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rajiv ji living in USA for many decades and his accent is still sounds Indian.
    But Romila ji already sounds like a British lady just living there for her study.
    Romila ji is elite.

  • @abhinandan071
    @abhinandan071 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    If sure if not now in future she will be remembered and dark evil of this land