Renowned historian and academic Richard Fox Young alleges that Indian research scholar and writer Rajeev Malhotra has plagiarized his works

Renowned historian and academic Richard Fox Young had alleged that Indian research scholar and writer Rajeev Malhotra has plagiarised his works.

This led to a Twitter spat between the two, which soon turned into a full-blown war between their fans and supporters.

Young, first brought to light the fact that Malhotra had taken chunks off his works to include in his own books Breaking India and Indra's Net. Following are some tweets that Young put out to back his claims:

#Message4Rajiv 42 | @RajivMessage | 4 the nay-sayers out there, I provide the originals: Nicholson (L) & Malhotra (R) pic.twitter.com/8sYY7UQQl3

— Richard Fox Young (@RichardFoxYoung) July 7, 2015

Malhotra was also not far behind. Following are a few tweets he put out to defend himself:

What a bunch on nonsense against my work - even after I gave clear responses. Mischief? http://t.co/0Lk3EMZDYy

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) July 6, 2015

True. In fact this RichardFox is a close chamcha of Pollock & leading the hit job to mobilize Indian sepoys https://t.co/8kKRmFHmtm

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) July 6, 2015

This is one of 50+ errata pending w publisher for 1.5 years. BD publisher (different) eventually did fix 100+ items https://t.co/bocfiUCeqV

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) July 7, 2015