Koenraad Elst: Quotes about history (page 2)

Koenraad Elst is orientalist, writer. Explore interesting quotes on history.

Koenraad Elst: 288 quotes 3 likes

“It seems that white people on average are quite silly, for most of us have lapped up the version of Indian history propagated by India's "eminent historians" whose eminence results from their toeing the hegemonic party-line rather than from a respect for the data in the primary sources.”

Koenraad Elst

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2010s, The argumentative Hindu (2012)

People , History

“All it demonstrates is the bullying rhetoric so common in the debate between the scientific and the secularist schools of Indian history.”

Koenraad Elst

2000s, Ayodhya: The Case Against the Temple (2002)

School , History