“We assert that the N. C E. R. T. books have met their fate because of the studied bias and fantastic theories and interpretations of writers like Habib and his friends, and their communal approach in deliberately glossing over the misdeeds of one section of medieval Indian society and repeatedly hammering on the failings of the other…..”

— K. S. Lal

Bias in Indian historiography (1980)

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