Historian Audrey Truschke's talk in the city scheduled for Saturday was cancelled, with the American author claiming that right-wing outfits were behind the cancellation.
A representative of Krishnakriti Foundation, one of the organisers of the event, confirmed that the lecture titled "Unpopular Stories: Narrating the Indo-Islamic Past and Navigating Present-day Prejudices" was cancelled but did not elaborate.
"I deeply regret that my presentation and the subsequent exchange of ideas will not occur.
"Today is a sad day for the pursuit of knowledge and academic freedom, and it is a happy day for proponents of the Hindu Rashtra," Truschke wrote in a Facebook post.
The assistant professor at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, tweeted that her lecture in Hyderabad was cancelled.
"The subject of 'Unpopular Stories', proved a bit too true, perhaps, when the Hindu Right protested to the police."
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