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Rewriting Hindu History-How do they do it

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HOW DO THEY DO IT? CONTROVERSIES IN HINDU HISTORY<br />

M.M.Ninan<br />

l<strong>it</strong>erature but matches perfectly w<strong>it</strong>h the images of satell<strong>it</strong>e<br />

which was taken of Junagadh district, Thakker added.<br />

He said the available l<strong>it</strong>erature indicates existence of two<br />

different Dwarkas at two different periods. One Dwarka was<br />

that of Vasudeva and the other was that of Krishna's.<br />

Vasudev's Dwarka, which was submerged in the Arabian<br />

Sea about 3500 years ago, and Krishna's Dwarka were<br />

both located in Junagadh district near Prabhash Kshetra,<br />

according to Thakker.<br />

………<strong>How</strong>ever, Thakker claims this unknown feature of a<br />

c<strong>it</strong>y discovered by Rao could be any other c<strong>it</strong>y settled after<br />

1 AD other than Krishna's Dwarka.”<br />

http://www.mahabharataonline.com/articles/mahabharata_<br />

article.php?id=32<br />

"No individual character like Krishna or Rama can be<br />

found through archaeology, Archaeology can reconstruct<br />

the material culture of a people. Krishna is known from<br />

legends, epics and puranas. Interpolating archaeology w<strong>it</strong>h<br />

l<strong>it</strong>erature is fraught w<strong>it</strong>h difficulties. The efforts of some<br />

historians and archaeologists to correlate textual evidence<br />

w<strong>it</strong>h archaeological finds have not found a consensus even<br />

among themselves, and serious archaeologists are<br />

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