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'''Dwijendra Narayan Jha''' (1940{{spnd}}4 February 2021) was an Indian historian who studied and wrote on [[Iron Age India|ancient]] and [[medieval India]].<ref name=":6">{{Cite news|last=Roychowdhury|first=Adrija|title=Why the cow is worshipped in Hindutva politics|work=[[The Indian Express]]|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/research/cow-protection-hindutva-politics-bjp-india-5227382/|access-date=6 February 2021}}</ref> He was a professor of history at [[Delhi University]] and a member of the [[Indian Council of Historical Research]]. Some of his books include ''Ancient India: In Historical Outline'' (1997), ''The Myth of the Holy Cow'' (2001), and ''Early India: A Concise History'' (2004). For some of his critics, he has distorted history by ignoring facts and figures. Through his works he argued against the [[Communalism (South Asia)|communal]] distortions of history including challenging popular beliefs of the sanctity of cow and Indian beef eating tradition.His views always represented the theory of invasion proposed by British Historians, though he never independently done any research on the same.