The distinguished archaeologist and scholar Dr. D.K. Chakrabarti provides an explanation of this episode: I find [Romila] Thapar’s emphasis on ‘freedom of expression’ very intriguing. The historical group of which Thapar is an eminent member came into being in the early 1970s “to give a national direction to an objective and scientific writing of history and to have rational presentation and interpretation of history”, as the [then] web-site of the Indian Council of Historical Research declared. To argue that there was no “objective and scientific writing of history” till this group moved
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