Fwd: International meet on Indian history - Michael Witzel Plagiarizes

[Guest guest]

Dear sandhya,

 

I am posting here what has been written by MW in his schoar group IER

very dishonestly.

 

Quote:

 

" For your weekend amusement, though the repeated insistence on

" rewriting " of Indian history is really ... boring:

 

See: <http://tinyurl.com/8mofml>

" US-based engineer turned historian, Dr Vepa " says it all...

 

Like our long time friends mathematician Rajaram, bank employees Dr.

K. and Talageri, electric engineering Prof. S. Kak, medical

technician V. Agarwal (M.Sc.), astrologers like David Fawley

( " Vamedeva " ) etc. etc. Likewise, K. Vepa: he has a PhD of the

University of Waterloo in Engineering Sciences & applied mechanics,

studied there 1968 †" 1972.

 

*Anybody* in the Indian orbit can turn historian overnight, at the

drop of a hat.

Preferably, after retirement...

 

Yesterday a conference on this topic has begun in Delhi:

<http://www.thestatesman.org/page.arcview.php?clid=2 & id=265809 & usrsess=1

39258>

 

tiny URL: <http://tinyurl.com/8mofml>

 

Interestingly, even IER/Westerner-baiter Sandhya Jain (rabid

columnist in the chauvinistic paper, the Organizer), had to comment:

" NONE of the persons mentioned is a historian! "

 

Sure, it is a *political* event that she should actually welcome :^) "

 

Unquote

 

 

, " Sandhya Jain " <sandhya206

wrote:

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> NONE of the persons mentioned is a historian!

>

> -

> Raghu Rao

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> Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:44 PM

> Fwd: International meet on Indian history

>

>

> religious-freedom , " Raghu Rao " <raoraghus@>

> wrote:

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http://www.thestatesman.org/page.news.php?clid=2 & theme= & usrsess=1 & id=239258

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> International meet on Indian history

>

> Statesman News Service

>

> NEW DELHI, Jan. 7: A three-day international conference on Indian

> history, civilization and geopolitics is set to begin here on Friday.

> The executive director of the Indic Studies Foundation, Dr Kosla Vepa,

> said the aim of the conference was " to decolonise various aspects of

> ancient Indian history and its chronology which were deliberately

> distorted and mis-dated during the British Raj with a view to causing

> confusion and a sense of inferiority among Indians " .

>

> He said the conference is expected to be a landmark event in the

> interpretation of ancient Indian history since the " current version of

> history is not accurate and distorted. There is need to rewrite the

> history of India. History as we see it " .

>

> The US-based engineer turned historian, Dr Vepa said the conference

> " aims at increasing awareness of strategic thinking in India and to

> show that a strategic approach based on long-term objectives is

> essential to ensure a safe and secure future for the ancient Indian

> civilisation and lead it to still greater heights " .

>

> Dr Vepa who has been studying history for over a decade now said it

> was a forensic science and depends on numerous other subjects and was

> not just the study of dates or mere guess work. Asked whether

> institutions like Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and

> NCERT have been invited for the conference, he said: " They have not

> given their consent to attending it. " However, historians and scholars

> who are expected to attend the conference include Mr Bharat Karnad, Mr

> Kanwal Sibal, Mr Uday Bhaskar, Mr JS Rajput and Mr Vikram Sood.

>

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