Does Indian history need to be rewritten?

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[bJP News]: Does Indian history need to be rewritten?Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:59:17 -0500

> >Title: Does Indian history need to be rewritten? >Author: Tarun Vijay

>Publication: Times of India >Dec. 5, 2001 > >Yes. A history that is

biased, insults national heroes, communalises events and downgrades a community

is a dangerous recipe for the future and needs to be corrected > >British wrote

history to suit their empire and the leftists distorted it to further their

ism‚. It's time now to correct these wrongs in a transparent and objective

manner so that India gains, which is above any ism‚ or party. Hence, Prime

Minister Vajpayee is right in saying that distortions in history have to go. A

history that is biased and insults national heroes, communalises events and

downgrades a community is a dangerous recipe to dwarf the future and needs to

be corrected. > >It is indeed ironic that unless we go on learning faithfully

that Guru Tegh Bahadur had resorted to "plunder and raping", Shivaji's

victories were merely "growth of Maratha national sentiment", the "execution"

(not martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur)" was due to the intrigues of some members

of his family " and Jats were"plunderers", we are sure to be condemned

as"agents of saffronisation." > >To be secular and a decently de-saffronised

Indian citizen, it is necessary to learn that Savarkar, Khudi Ram Bose,

Prafulla Chaki and Hardayal were terrorists and not freedom fighters and the

oaths before Goddess Kali by Bengal revolutionaries were oaths of the

terrorists. Aurangzeb was a "jinda pir or a living saint". In ancient India

„people ate beef but did not take pork on any considerable scale,‚‚ and

Alauddin‚s attack on Chittor to get Padmini is a"popular legend" unacceptable

to"many modern historians". > >These are some of the secular gems quoted from

the books of honourable historians like Prof. Satish Chandra, Arjun Dev, Romila

Thapar and R.S. Sharma. >Our children should read what the West Bengal"s leftist

government is teaching kids. > >See an extract from the textbook for Class

V:"...Islam and Christianity are the only religions which treated man with

honour and equality..." A job well done to please the party masters and

neo-colonialists of the Marxist hue. Half-truths, half-lies, hypotheses

presented as facts and facts obscured. > > >The arrogance of power and paisa

make them use the word "saffron" abusively. It hardly matters to them that it

is the colour of Bharatvarsha that is India since time immemorial and it

denotes renunciation, devotion, victories and strength. If the sky is expressed

through blue and the nature by green, India is expressed through saffron. If

anti-saffronisation campaigners have their way, even the name of the nation

would not be Bharat or Hindusthan. One smacks of "Sanskrit" and the other has

"Hindu" word in it ! The hate and hostility for a different viewpoint, and

especially for anything Hindu is so evident that Taliban would find their real

comrades here. The basic idea is to reduce the burden, provide value-based

education and implement the S.B. Chavan Committee report submitted to

Parliament. The curriculum commits itself to "scientific temper characterised

by the spirit of enquiry, problem-solving, courage to question and objectivity

leading to elimination of obscurantism, ! >superstition and fatalism..."(Page

40). > >There is no reference to astrology but the government simply tried to

take forward what previous Congress regimes were doing in regard to education

about astrology in many mainstream universities like Rajasthan and Ujjain. If

you don‚t teach and respect the Vedas in India, would you have it in Saudi

Arab? Talibanised minds indeed. They destroyed Bamiyan. These are destroying

the spirit of Bharat. Wrong history needs to be set right otherwise the nation

would stand wronged

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