അറംഗസേബിനു അനുകൂലമായ നിലപാട്: റട്ട്ഗേഴ്സ് പ്രൊഫസര്ക്കു പിന്തുണ
ന്യു ജെഴ്സി: മുഗള് ചക്രവര്ത്തി അറംഗസേബിനെ കുറിച്ച് പാരമ്പര്യമായി പറയുന്നത് മുഴുവന് ശരിയല്ലെന്നു സമര്ഥിച്ചു കൊണ്ട് പുസ്തകങ്ങള് പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച പ്രൊഫ. ഓഡ്രി ട്രഷ്കെയെ റട്ട്ഗേഴ്സ് യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി പിന്തുണക്കുന്നതിനെ ബുദ്ധിജീവികളും സംഘടനകളും ശ്ലാഘിച്ചു.
പ്രൊഫ. ട്രഷ്കെക്ക് എതിരെ ഹിന്ദുത്വ അനുകൂല സംഘടനകള് കടൂത്ത വിമര്ശനമാണ് അഴിച്ചു വിട്ടത്.
Intellectuals laud
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“This letter was originally written on behalf of the coalition, but has gathered support from other organizations and intellectuals outside the coalition, who have decided to rally around Dr. Truschke in the face of the brazen assault on her academic freedom, scholarship and integrity,” said Thenmozi Soundararajan, Executive Director of Equality Labs.
Dr. Audrey Truschke is assistant professor of history at Rutgers University, and author of two books on Aurangzeb, that largely challenge the caricature advanced by Hindu nationalist entities that reviles the Emperor as a Hindu hater, religious zealot and mass murderer. Since the publication of her books and articles, and her tenacity in upholding facts over ideologically driven revisionism of history, Dr. Truschke has been consistently attacked and threatened by these extremists.
Matters have taken a much more serious turn since Dr. Audrey
Truschke came out publicly citing Hindutva’s roots in Nazism and Fascism. Faced
with uncomfortable facts about the roots of their ideology, Hindutva entities
have adopted the same tactics of threats and intimidation used to silence
intellectuals and scholars in
“The intimidatory tactics used by Hindutva supremacists to
silence Dr. Truschke, is an indication that they are not averse to deploying
fascist methods in the US,” said Mr. Ahsan Khan, President of the Indian
American Muslim Council, an AJA constituent. “This is a wake up call for
The letter, addressed to Dr. Robert Barchi (President of Rutgers University), defends Dr. Truschke’s recent commentary on Hindutva, while reaffirming that its roots in Nazism and Fascism are “existential links” that are “well-known and openly acknowledged by the RSS’s founding members in their writings.”
“Dr. Truschke is a rare historian and academic whose public
facing scholarship is helping to challenge the narrative advanced by those
espousing unprecedented hate and bigotry in
“The letter is a demonstration of the wide support for Dr. Truschke from organizations, intellectuals and people of conscience,” said Sonia Joseph of South Asia Solidarity Initiative.
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