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Truschke’s lecture cancelled in Hyderabad By Tariq Hasan, Aligarh: An American scholar has expressed concern over the present trend in India of deliberate distortions in the writing of history, which she says further the agenda of manufacturing hatred against different sections of peoples. Historian Audrey Truschke, author of the bestselling book Aurangzeb – The Man and the Myth, teaches South Asian history at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She has emphasised the need for a reappraisal of Aurangzeb's role in Indian history. Truschke told The Citizen that she was drawn to the...