Spat With BJP Government
Irfan Habib was among the historians who opposed the rewriting of history by the BJP led NDA government. He criticised the Human Resources Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi for making "absurd statements" regarding the Sanskrit language and accused the Union government of trying to "invent" history. He was among the historians at the Indian History Congress in 1998 when they moved a resolution against the saffronisation of history. To counter Irfan Habib, Murli Manohar Joshi had released a book to rebuts the history of ‘‘Habib & Co’’.
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