Leading Indian historians, including Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib, join writers and film-makers in protest against a ‘climate of intolerance’
More than 50 Indian historians have detailed their collective “anguish” at the “highly vitiated atmosphere prevailing in the country”, just weeks after dozens of Indian writers returned their literary awards in protest over what they called India’s “climate of intolerance”.
The historians, who include eminent scholars Romila Thapar and Irfan Habib, write in a joint statement published in full on the Indian news website Scroll that, in India today, “differences of opinion are being sought to be settled by using physical violence”, and that “arguments are met not with counter arguments but with bullets”.
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