The problem now is that of a void of 40-odd years. One, the Modi government does not seem to want to get embroiled in the sort of debate on history that the Vajpayee government had got into by putting Murli Manohar Joshi in the saddle. Two, if you now throw out Marxist history, what do you replace it with? If science education demands constant research and development, history calls for ever-new methods of exploring the past. A rival school of thought has not been allowed to develop for four decades and now even the works of the venerable R.C. Majumdar and Jadunath Sarkar may be outdated. You could perhaps hire unaffiliated Indologists from all over the world, but that does not appear to be among the priorities of the present government.