Meenakshi Jain vs. Koenraad Elst
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Meenakshi Jain
2000 – present
Meenakshi Jain is an Indian political scientist and historian who served as an associate professor of history at Gargi College, Delhi. Her areas of research include cultural and religious developments in medieval and early modern India. In 2014, she was nominated as a member of the Indian Council of Historical Research by the Government of India.
"In an astonishing act of daring, a handful of Left historians attempted to counter a centuries old belief, and vociferously assert that Babri Masjid was built o…"
Koenraad Elst
1959 – present
Koenraad Elst is a Belgian author, known primarily for his adherence to the Hindutva ideology and support of the Out of India theory, which is regarded as pseudohistorical by mainstream scholarship. Scholars accuse him of harboring Islamophobia.
"I have been disinvited at several conferences because, though my abstract was judged interesting enough, someone up there was briefed about my views and associa…"