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Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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Sanjay Subrahmanyam (born 21 May 1961) is a historian of the early modern period.
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With the rise to prominence of the sangh parivar, an interesting new alliance emerged in the 1980s. Right-wing (at times neo-fascist) European writers had long railed against the migration of Muslims to that continent as ‘guest workers’. Their rabid Islamophobia was at times paired with an ostensible admiration for Hinduism, or at least for certain of its ersatz manifestations.
“Bad time to be Muslim” (Times of India, 22 August 2006), quoted from Islam and Immigration in Europe, ch 7, in : Return of the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu sanity -- Koenraad Elst -- 2015
Quotes about
So, practically every word in Subrahmanyam’s evaluation is malicious and untrue. […] All it demonstrates is the bullying rhetoric so common in the debate between the scientific and the secularist school of history.
Elst, K. Ayodhya: The Case against the Temple. Chapter Harsha of Kashmir, a Hindu iconoclast? Also quoted in "Islam and Immigration in Europe", chapter 7 in : Return of the Swastika : Hate and Hysteria versus Hindu Sanity (2007)
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