EMINENT HISTORIANS Paperback

Arun Shourie's "Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud" is a highly critical and controversial examination of what he argues is a cabal of prominent leftist historians in India and their influence on the country's historical narrative. Shourie meticulously documents what he perceives as the "techniques and frauds" employed by these academicians—including figures like Irfan Habib, Romila Thapar, and Bipan Chandra—to promote their careers, control academic institutions like the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), and allegedly distort Indian history. The book aims to expose how, in Shourie's view, these historians have deliberately perverted India's past, particularly by downplaying atrocities committed by Muslim invaders while fabricating or exaggerating Hindu misdeeds, thereby vitiating public discourse and misleading generations of students through doctored textbooks.