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It is true that the early Nehruvian textbooks were written by Romila Thapar and so on, many of whom were Marxists and it is true that those textbooks did sort of emphasize a slightly rose-tinted vision of Hindu-Muslim unity ... which left room for the right to say this isn't history. ... I'd say that the Nehruvian history books written in the 1950s were sufficiently rose-tinted to leave room for complaint.
— William Dalrymple (historian)