My Thesis Was Doctored to Suit the Goals of Hindu Supremacists, Says Canadian Researcher
Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta | 22 May 2023 | The Wire
Alan Morinis. Photo: Screengrab via YouTube/The Mussar Institute
On May 18, 2023, the Indian daily The Telegraph published an op-ed by Canadian anthropologist Alan Morinis who alleged that the Hindu supremacists had doctored a part of his 1979 PhD thesis to claim that a Hindu temple was destroyed to build an Islamic shrine at Tribeni in Hooghly district of West Bengal. Morinis said that the morphing of his thesis was intended to carry out a communal campaign against Muslims, even as the morphed part was circulated widely as a justification for “reviving” a major Hindu pilgrimage at Tribeni.
“Someone with an agenda got hold of my dissertation and reworded the page where I discuss Tribeni to say what they wanted to say, not what I had written based on my years of research,” Morinis said in his article.