Joining the bandwagon of writes and filmmakers, the academic historians of the country have now raised “serious concerns and anguish” about the prevailing conditions. The list which includes prominent historian Romila Thapar alleged that “differences of opinion are being sought to be settled by using physical violence.”
The joint statement was issued by 53 academic historians, several of them from institutions like the Aligarh Muslim University, Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Calcutta University and Hyderabad university in which they have strongly condemned incidents from the Dadri lynching case to the ink attack on Jammu and Kashmir MLA Engineer Rashid.
