I say this with confidence since the source of this disinformation is a sentence in my doctoral dissertation at Oxford University that someone doctored and then circulated widely. My research focused on pilgrimage traditions in West Bengal and is available on the internet in digital form from the Bodleian Library at Oxford. The altered page was circulated widely by Hindu supremacists as justification for ‘reviving’ a major Hindu pilgrimage at Tribeni. But the people with an agenda wanted to give it a higher level of sanctity and importance like a Kumbh Mela, which takes place at four sites in India and attracts millions of participants. The Oxford University research paper that they have circulated in my name says nothing about a Kumbh Mela at Tribeni because there never was one.

Source: The Telegraph May 18, 2023 15:50 UTC