title: Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
author:  Idries Shah 
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  INTRODUCTION
  
  “I would not care whether truth is pleasant or unpleasant, and in consonance
  with or opposed to current views. I would not mind in the least whether truth
  is, or is not, a blow to the glory of my country. If necessary, I shall bear
  in patience the ridicule and slander of friends and society for the sake of
  preaching truth. But still I shall seek truth, understand truth, and accept
  truth. This should be the firm resolve of a historian.”
  
  \- Sir Jadunath Sarkar
  
  With hindsight, it must be conceded that the NCERT’s decision to discontinue
  textbooks authored by stalwarts of the Marxist school of historiography has
  triggered a veritable shift in the country’s intellectual template. And it was
  probably apprehending precisely such a fallout that leftist scho