Marxist historiography

"Sumanta Bannerjee lamented 'this habit of being taken in by internationalist postures and mouthing of Western liberal ideology has become almost a tradition in Marxist historiography in India'."

"This is in sharp opposition to the orthodox Marxist or non - Marxist historiography in India , which represents the subaltern , and particularly the peasantry , as mere ( unconscious or unaware ) objects to be integrated ...."

"The best representative of Marxist historiography in India is D.D. Kosambi."

"Nationalist and Marxist historiography in India have tended to assume that British colonial policies of land tenure, taxation and commercialization laid the preconditions for popular movements against the British."

"But the best representative of the Marxist historiography in India is D.D. Kosambi , the father of Indian feudalism ."

"Marxist historiography in India got off to a limping start in the hands of the political activists whose main purpose was to fit some half - baked data in a preconceived mould ."

"Since some ignorant dupes of these Marxists denounce as “McCarthyist” anyone who points out their ideological inspiration, it deserves to be emphasized that “eminent historians” like Romila Thapar, R.S. Sharma and Irfan Habib are certified as Marxists in standard Marxist sources like Tom Bottomore's Dictionary of Marxist Thought . During the official historians' Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute in 1991, the pro-mosque team's argumentation and several other anti-temple pamphlets were published by the People's Publishing House, a Communist Party outfit. One of the recent textbook innovations most furiously denounced as “saffronization” was the truism that Lenin's armed seizing of power in October/November 1917 was a “coup d'état”. And in early 2003, while they were unchaining all their devils against glasnost , the Marxists ruling West Bengal deleted from a textbook a passage in which Mahatma Gandhi's biographer Louis Fischer called Stalin “at least as ruthless as Hitler”. Such are the true concerns of the “secularists” warning the world against the attempts at glasnost in India's national history curriculum."