Historian Irfan Habib said today that history relies on the events of facts and any attempt to create facts will be considered as imaginative fantasy.

Marxist historian Irfan Habib said that the history of eminent historians Tarachand and Ishwari Prasad is not different from the history written by communist historians. His point was to these allegations that the history of India has been written from the leftist and communist perspective. Habib said on the occasion of Indian History Congress in Kolkata, "Knowledge has expanded, but the assessment is the same. They should know the history of India before speaking such a thing with us, where are we different from Tarachand and Ishwari Prasad."

He said, "I want to tell them that you read the history written by Tarachand and Ishwari Prasad and compare them with the history written by us. Where is the difference? You can not change history because history depends on facts. If you create facts, then it is not history, it is imagination. "

Habib's remarks have come at a time when opposition parties are accusing BJP and RSS to rewrite the history of India and present it as 'tampering' to further its Hindutva agenda. A section of RSS and Hindutva organizations have alleged that left and liberal historians are studying the distorted nature of history in India because these historians have captured the intellectual world since the independence of India.

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