Written by S Nagarajan
Date: 4 February 2019
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Post No. 6029
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The history needs to be rewritten so that young generation gets rid of their low self- esteem imposed through distorted history, if India has to emerge as powerful nation in the next couple of decades. The process has to begin from removing the distortions in history- books, which have been deliberately foisted on the students. India could emerge as a strong economy since 70 per cent of its population is under 35 years of age. If the Government invested in their education and health, apart from making them mentally strong, India could emerge as a strong nation.
The Indian State instead of the encouraging objective rendering of the history have encouraged few vested interests to hijack the historical narrative. This has resulted in present situation where the history, which is taught in our schools and colleges, is the British imperialist-sponsored one, with the intent to destroy our history.
The defalsified history would record that Hindustan was one nation in the art of governance, in the style of royal courts, in the methods of warfare, in the maintenance of its agrarian base, and in the dissemination of information. Sanskrit was the language of national communication and discourse. But under the leadership of Jawahar Lal Nehru, after achieving independence, the corrections in history were never done and I have mentioned this in details in my book “Hindus Under Siege: The Way Out”.
The gist of this British imperialist-tailored Indian history is that India is portrayed as the land “conquered” first by the ‘Dravidians’ , then by the ‘Aryans’, later by Muslims, and finally by the British. Otherwise, everything else is mythical. Our history books today exhibit this obsession with foreign rule. For example, even though the Mughal rule from Akbar to Aurangzeb is about 150 years, which is much shorter than the 350 year rule of the Vijayanagaram empire, the history books of today hardly take notice of the latter. In fact the territory under Krishna Devaraya’s rule was much larger than Akbar’s, and yet it is the latter who is called “the Great”. Such a version suited the British rulers who had sought to create a legitimacy for their presence in India.
Furthermore, we were also made to see advantages accruing from British rule, the primary one being that India was united by this colonialism, and that but for the British, India would never have been one country. Thus, the concept of India itself is owed to the plunder of colonists.
The Hindus capitulated to Islamic invaders, has been mentioned in the falsified history. But on the contrary, unlike Iran, Iraq and Egypt where within decades the country capitulated to become 100% Muslims. India despite 800 years of brutal Islamic rule, remained 80% Hindu.
The agenda for National Renaissance has to be a new factual account of our history, focusing on the continuous and unbroken endeavours of a people united as a nation.
The factual account of our past is essential to the agenda, because we have to objectively disgorge and discard the foreign versions of our history. It is this foreign version that makes us out to be foreigners in our own land. The Aryan-Dravidian divide in the history taught in schools and universities is purely a conception of foreign historians like Max Mueller and has no basis in Indian historical records or in any genetic studies of Indian DNA.
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நன்றி: ட்ரூத் ஆங்கில வார இதழ் – தொகுதி -86- இதழ் 35 ; 28-12-2018 இதழ்
Soruce Truth, Kolkata weekly vol 86 issue 35 dated 28-12-2018
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