For all those clamoring for "Indic" hands taking over history writing

This is what you will get

For every sensible "revisionist" voice, there are 10 other crazies spouting nonsense

There is a reason the likes of Romila Thapar or Irfan Habib enjoy the reputation they do https://twitter.com/Brahamvakya/status/1294229117378822147

Until the "right wing" establishment can figure out a way to separate wheat from chaff, and develop an ecosystem of intellectually rigorous academics, the alternative to the "status quo" will merely mean more egregious versions of the past replacing the present versions

The issue in India is -

Everyone has his own version of the past. And they think they are entitled to hold to that view.

E.g. In my own community (Sri-Vaishanvas), there are people who place Alwars 2-3 millennia before Common era, though the consensus is that these poets lived circa 7th-9th cen CE

There is a certain pig-headedness to stick to patently wrong notions

This is what passes for "conservative intellectual tradition" in this country

An environment that legitimizes every pig headed view that there is

I am no fan of Marxists or Marxist historiography

But the reason they are so deeply rooted in the system is because the alternatives are so bad