Reviews for Somantha: The Many Voices of a History

The average rating for Somantha: The Many Voices of a History based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-11 00:00:00 Cathy Parrish As always biased, distorted, bigoted, Marxist, whitewashing and Islamic sympathetic book by Romila Thapar. No wonder why we are tired of this Marxist writer and her entire cabal. And Oh yea! those who want to read and brainwashed themselves can read books from such writers. Manu Pillai is new branded leftist historian. You can already see how media and lit fest are portraying him. Congrats India! I don't think we will ever get to read rational and unbiased history books in this age. And when someone try to correct the history, these leftist cabal will shout that this is saffronising of history books. Read the following the review to know what exactly is wrong with this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-01 00:00:00 Richard Poirier Once upon a time there were no Hindus and Muslims in India but a rich and diverse culture with Turks, Persians, Arabs, Jains & Shivas. There was a temple in Somanatha dedicated to Shiva which was never actually destroyed by the Mahmud Ghazni, never once let alone seventeen times. The whole story is apocryphal, concatenated by the Colonists to foster their own take on history which was a pretty straight forward story, Muslims terrorised Hindus for centuries, forcibly converting them and destroying their temples, thus instilling a great hatred for their Muslim masters. The British finally came to the rescue of the pliant and slavish Hindu and saved them from the Muslim tyranny, thus Hindus should be thankful to their new masters. The author states that even after independence, modern historians have chosen to pick pieces from the British history without questioning its authenticity. The author has painstakingly researched Jain and other contemporary narratives and decided that the whole story was an probably a very elaborate hoax!! Wow.