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"How history was cooked up for Nalanda University": Story behind a Marxist historian accounts of its destruction by ‘Hindu fanatics’, and why no self-respecting Marxist could have rested this on just one miracle of acquiring 'sidhis' and 'raining fire'
| Satyaagrah | Arun Shourie
With its high wall, its large buildings, Nalanda seemed like a well-endowed fortress to Ikhtiyar-ud-din and his force. He advanced upon it with two hundred horsemen “and suddenly attacked the place