"For all its monopoly of the Indian history establishment, this influential group calling itself Marxists has made no contribution to history. The central theme of their work is that Hindus have contributed nothing to Indian civilisation: Everything from the Vedas and Sanskrit to science and mathematics is a foreign import."
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Decline and fall of historians, The Pioneer, 19 January 2014
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N. S. Rajaram
Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram (22 September 1943 – 11 December 2019) was an Indian academic.
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