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

M.M.Ninan<br />

questioning the exercise." Prof. B.D. Chatopadhyay of the<br />

Centre for Historical Studies at JNU. It is obvious that this<br />

is the real s<strong>it</strong>uation because any reconstruction of Krishna<br />

of 3100 BC is known only through stories and fables wr<strong>it</strong>ten<br />

later than 300 AD.<br />

Some discerning scientists were quick to find the dating<br />

issue serious. Thus in an article called 'MISMATCH<br />

BETWEEN ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MAHABHARATA':<br />

N.S. Rajaram tries to deal w<strong>it</strong>h this issue and in “Search for<br />

the Historical Krishna” Prof. N.S. Rajaram<br />

(www.swor<strong>do</strong>ftruth.com September 4th, 1999) concludes<br />

that<br />

“The one arguable issue is the discovery of an ancient<br />

submerged c<strong>it</strong>y at the island of Bet Dwaraka by the<br />

renowned archaeologist S.R. Rao. Rao, who identifies <strong>it</strong><br />

w<strong>it</strong>h Krishna's Dwaraka dates <strong>it</strong> to about 1500 BC. But his<br />

identification rests on insufficient grounds based on<br />

ambiguous l<strong>it</strong>erary interpretations. In any event, the<br />

historical references in the deciphered Harappan seals,<br />

some of which are over a thousand years older than 1500<br />

BC make <strong>it</strong> impossible that the s<strong>it</strong>e found by Rao is<br />

Krishna's Dwaraka. We can next look at Krishna's date,<br />

from two different directions.”<br />

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