K. S. Lal

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K. S. Lal
किशोरी शरण लाल
Born
Kishori Saran Lal

1920
Died2002
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Allahabad
Occupation(s)Historian, Academic
Known forAuthoring books about Indian history

Kishori Saran Lal (1920–2002), किशोरी शरण लाल, was an eminent Indian historian.[1] He wrote many historical books, mainly on medieval India. Many of his books, such as History of the Khaljis and Twilight of the Sultanate, are regarded as standard works.[2][3][4]

Career

He obtained his master's degree in 1941 at the University of Allahabad. In 1945 he obtained his D.Phil. with a dissertation on the history of the Khaljis. This dissertation formed the basis for his book History of the Khaljis. He started his career as a Lecturer of History in the Allahabad University, though he served in this position only for a brief period.

From 1945 to 1963 he was with Madhya Pradesh Educational Service and taught at the Government Colleges at Nagpur, Jabalpur, and Bhopal. In 1963, he joined University of Delhi as a reader and taught Medieval Indian history in its History Department.

For the next ten years, starting 1973, he was the Professor and Head of the Department of History, first at the University of Jodhpur (1973–79), and then at the Central University of Hyderabad (1979–83).

Besides his mother tongue Hindi, he was fluent in Persian, Old Persian, Urdu, and other languages.

In 2001 he was appointed chairman of the Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR) and also placed on the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Committee to draft the model school syllabus on Indian History.[5]

Some of his books, such as History of the Khaljis and Twilight of the Sultanate, have been called "standard works."[6][7][8][9]

Historian Jeremy Black in his book Contesting History: Narratives of Public History (2014), referenced his book The Muslim Slave System in Medieval India as a "good modern work"; he also comments that K. S. Lal " is regarded as right-wing by Indian Muslim Marxist scholars".[10] Lal also noted: "As usual [my books] have been reviewed in journals in India and abroad, bestowing both praise and blame as per the custom of the reviewers. However, during the last fifteen years or so, some of my books have received special attention of a certain brand of scholars for adverse criticism."[11]

Works

Other
  • Muslim state in India (1950)
  • Studies in Asian History (edited – 1969)
  • Indian Culture. (1965) (Article)
  • Lal, K.S., “The Ghaznavids in India”, in Bengal Past and Present, Sir Jadunath Sarkar Birth Centenary Number, July-December, 1970.
  • Lal, K.S., “Striking Power of the Army of the Sultanate' in the Journal of Indian History, Vol. LV, Pt. III, December, 1977.
  • Shri Ram Janmabhoomi : historical notes & views, 1988
  • The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (2005) Ed. by Andrew Bostom ISBN 1-59102-307-6. Chapters by K. S. Lal: 'Muslims Invade India', 'Jihad Under The Turks and Jihad under the Mughals', 'The Origins of Muslim Slave System', 'Enslavement of Hindus by Arab and Turkish Invaders', 'Slave Taking During Muslim Rule'.

See also

Wikipedia bias and censorship

User:StuffandTruth wants to delete (see his later edits):
It has been estimated that over 80 million Hindus were killed by Muslims alone, during the Muslim rule of parts of the Indian Subcontinent. The persecution included the demolition of temples, genocides, conversion of worship places, and others.[17] [18] [19]

The Times Report

The following section seems to be causing some problems:

  • The Times published a report on radical Muslims being accused of blackmailing young Hindu and Sikh women into changing religion in "groomed conversions" on campuses. The article pointed out that such abuses were rarely reported to the police since "the stigma of a child converting to Islam often silences Sikh and Hindu parents". Young Hindu and Sikh women were often "drugged and photographed in compromising positions" then blackmailed into converting to Islam. "Many comply because they are so afraid of shaming their parents or being rejected by their communities."[9][10] In 2007 a Sikh girl's family claimed that she had been forcibly converted to Islam, and they received a police guard after being attacked by an armed gang.[11]
  • The link for one is dead, to The Times article, and it cannot be found anywhere else, and the second citation seems unreliable since it says it was actually published in "The Sikh Times" and not the Times article. According to an archive [4] the Sikh Times is an unreliable source. It appears that the Times article in fact doesn't exist (unless someone can find it in a an archive depository). StuffandTruth (talk) 17:43, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • I see now that the paragraph has been removed. Thank you for seeing sense. StuffandTruth (talk) 17:44, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • I was just about to post here, I think this source has been made up, I have now checked both The Times & Times on Sunday, Nicola Woolcock only had one story published in the month given in our article, [5] and the date itself is wrong. This is why I removed that content. Darkness Shines (talk) 17:49, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
  • I'm not so sure the source "has been made up". Part of the confusion is that the wrong publication date was listed in the citation (my fault - probably due to my overtyping another citation link I'd copied for format, and forgetting to change this either due to tiredness or distraction): in fact it was originally published (if this source is to be believed) on 3 March 2007. And no, I must admit I now can't find it on Times on-line either. Even so, the appearance of the story is not only widespread, but many of its reposts in 2007 provided a plausible link to the Times website, which is now dead. I suspect the story has since not simply been re-filed but has been conveniently lost, possibly because it was seen as too controversial and insufficiently sound to be kept on-line by The Times. My apologies for any concern caused. Alfietucker (talk) 18:08, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia editors have been blocked and banned merely for writing positively about K.S. Lal on wikipedia [11] [archive]:

  • Admin Vanamonde [archive] says that writing an article about a K.S. Lal books is "appaling" and the editor should be sanctioned for it [12] [archive].
  • Admin Bishonen finds it " eye-popping" that somebody would write an article about a K.S. Lal book and because the article does not contain enough negative criticism, the article must be "crude pro-Hindutva POV" and the editor must be blocked [13] [archive]

Notes

  1. ↑ https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111522/page/n283/mode/2up [archive]
  2. ↑ Comment by Muhammad Habib on the jacket of the book "History of the Khaljis AD 1290–1320" by K.S. Lal. K.S. Lal: Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India
  3. ↑ Times Literary Supplement, London, 19 December 1968. A.A. Powell, Review of The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 58, No.2, (1995), pp. 397–8. Peter Jackson in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, Third Series, Vol. 4, Part 3, November 1994, pp. 421–23.
  4. ↑ Meenkakshi Jain 2002 Medieval India
  5. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named delhi1
  6. ↑ Times Literary Supplement, London, 19 December 1968.
  7. ↑ A.A. Powell, Review of The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 58, No.2, (1995), pp. 397–8.
  8. ↑ Peter Jackson in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain, Third Series, Vol. 4, Part 3, November 1994, pp. 421–23.
  9. ↑ Meenkakshi Jain 2002 Medieval India
  10. ↑ Jeremy Black. Contesting History: Narratives of Public History [archive]. Bloomsbury Publishing; 13 March 2014. ISBN 978-1-4725-1953-5. p. 235.
  11. ↑ Lal, K.S. Theory and Practice of Muslim State
  12. ↑ (Reviews: The Journal of Asian Studies, v27 n4 (19680801): 901-903 by Philip B Calkins
  13. ↑ (Reviews: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, v27 n1 (19640101): 192-193 by Riazul Islam)
  14. ↑ "The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India" [archive]. Bharatvani.org. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  15. ↑ "Muslim Slave System in Medieval India" [archive]. Bharatvani.org. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  16. ↑ "Indian Muslims - Who Are They" [archive]. Bharatvani.org. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  17. ↑ Lal, K S (1973). Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India (1000-1800). p. 211-217. Prof. K.S. Lal, suggests a calculation in his book Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India which estimates that between the years 1000 AD and 1500 AD the population of Hindus decreased by 80 million.
  18. ↑ Lal, K. S. (1979). Bias in Indian Historiography.
  19. ↑ Gilbert Pollet (1995). Indian Epic Values: Rāmāyaṇa and Its Impact. Peeters Publishers. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)

References

https://www.firstpost.com/opinion-news-expert-views-news-analysis-firstpost-viewpoint/whitewashing-genocides-and-history-phobia-why-ks-lals-claims-of-80-mn-hindus-killed-by-islamic-barbarism-hold-water-11618501.html [archive]

https://www.firstpost.com/india/whitewashing-genocides-and-history-phobia-why-ks-lals-claims-of-80-mn-hindus-killed-by-islamic-barbarism-hold-water-11618501.html [archive]

https://www.firstpost.com/opinion-news-expert-views-news-analysis-firstpost-viewpoint/whitewashing-genocides-and-history-phobia-why-ks-lals-claims-of-80-mn-hindus-killed-by-islamic-barbarism-hold-water-11618501.html [archive]

  1. ↑ Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas, p.79
  2. ↑ The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, p.281, Oxford University Press, 30 March 1995
  3. ↑ Studies in archaeology and history: commemoration volume of Prof.S. Nurul Hasan, p. 116
  4. ↑ Defending the West: a critique of Edward Said's Orientalism, 2007
  5. ↑ Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy, p. 116
  6. ↑ A Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't, p.226, Regnery Publishing, 8 August 2007
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