Vikram Sampath

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Vikram Sampath is an Indian popular historian, columnist, and biographer. His work is considered Hindutva revisionist history by professional scholars. Sampath started his career in finance. He published a history of the Wadiyar Dynasty of Mysore in 2008, and a biography of Gauhar Jaan in 2012. In 2013, Sampath left his job at Hewlett-Packard to obtain a PhD in ethnomusicology and history at the University of Queensland, Australia. He wrote a two-part biography of V. D. Savarkar that received praise for its thorough detail but was criticised for its uncritical treatment of the subject. In September 2021, Sampath was selected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2022, some academics accused Sampath of plagiarism, providing examples of near-identical reproduction of other authors' works in his corpus. Sampath denied the allegations and initiated a lawsuit.

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