Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi

"I have seen and felt the form, continuity and meaning of India’s past. History, as I see it, is being consciously lived by Indians. Attempts to complete what has happened in the past form no small par…"

"The modern historian of India must approach her as a living entity with a central continuous urge, of which the apparent life is a mere expression. Without such an outlook, it is impossible to underst…"

"How secularism sometimes becomes allergic to Hinduism will be apparent from certain episodes relating to the Somnath temple"

"In its name, anti-religious forces, sponsored by secular humanism or Communism, condemns religious piety, particularly in the majority community.."

"If however the misuse of this word 'secularism' continues...if every time there is an inter-communal conflict, the majority is blamed regardless of the merits of the questions; if our holy places of p…"

"In its name, again, politicians in power adopt a strange attitude which, while it condones the susceptibilities, religious and social, of the minority communities, is too ready to brand similar suscep…"

"These unfortunate postures have been creating a sense of frustration in the majority community."

"Readers were regaled with Alexander’s short-lived and unfructuous invasion of India; they were left in ignorance of the magnificent empire and still more enduring culture which the Gangetic Valley had…"