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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