10 Facts About Meenakshi Jain

Meenakshi Jain is an Indian political scientist and historian who served as an associate professor of history at Gargi College, Delhi.

Meenakshi Jain is the daughter of journalist Girilal Jain, a former editor of The Times of India.

Meenakshi Jain is an associate professor of history at Gargi College, affiliated to the University of Delhi.

Meenakshi Jain similarly faulted and criticized multiple aspects of Jain's review of Romila Thapar's Somanatha: Many Voices of a History and noted that the heavy dose of "dogmatic ideology" contained in it, made her serious points less convincing.

Nussbaum noted that Meenakshi Jain's rebut to the criticisms of her works had integrity.

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Whilst she often skipped the broader issues, Meenakshi Jain admitted to some of her errors and often produced secondary scholarly source that had supported her writing, though the merit of the latter as an argument was debatable.

Meenakshi Jain concluded that whilst Jain remained intellectually ahead of other right-wing historians and had genuine scholarly passions, she was inserted into the wrong domain by political forces and was compelled to produce a sub-standard work in a short time span.

Meenakshi Jain saw this as part of a broader pattern of state-induced historical negationism to suit the need of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

Meenakshi Jain noted that a majority of the book was devoted to attacking left-leaning anti-Hindutva historians and by cherry-picking random content from random sources coupled with stray extrapolations, she had managed to produce a useful compilation but not an authentic history.

Meenakshi Jain deemed Jain's Medieval India to be the sole face-saving volume in the entire NCERT history series, that was published by the newly elected NDA government.