Why you need JNU historians to document the role of Marathas in the national history? Maharashtra has a distinguished tradition of historians but the two most distinguished of this tradition, V K Rajvade and Y D Phadke chose to write in Marathi thereby denying non-marathi audiences an opportunity to understand the Maharashtrian perspective on Indian history. Why Mumbai, Pune university history departments become vibrant centres of historical research. Instead, why the extremist who claim to champion Marathi culture ransack an institute in the name of R G Bhandarkar, himself a distinguished Marathi scholar of British era?
