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No other developed nation makes such a hue and cry about vilifying and denigrating its own history. The British openly claimed that “the key to subjugating India was to subjugate her self-pride and traditional systems of governance, economy and faith”. Funny that is never even brought up to national attention. Makes it abundantly clear where the funding for our ‘secular’ journalism comes from.
In the author’s opinion the British version of India’s culture and religion is the right one because he seems to hate India and its culture. The British, al most all authors and historians came to India to study its religion and philosophy as masters. For them casual comments of Indian culture were the Gospel.
“Reuters says his culture ministry has an annual budget of $400 million”, that doesn’t mean that the ministry is spending all that money only on this team and its work. Is it not on the part of author deliberately trying to mislead by inferring that this team got tons of money to dispose at will to come up with some crazy stuff. This is kind of attitude that the Right wing in India trying to fight. Even the history as it is written today was thoroughly funded by the left wing. Please done mention that also.
I am not sure if BJP is being desperate to rewrite the history, but I can see that the authors desperation in trying to suppress any new evidence that can be found by this team since it may not fit his view of a secular India. India’s cultural past be very much a Hindu culture and India can still be secular (secular: gov equidistance from all religions and caste, not appeasing all religions and caste). I can believe the intelligentsia of this country are worried when a team of Archeologist, DNA Expert, Geology Expert and Sanskrit expert working scientifically trying to find the facts. Does it mean that they are purposefully hiding the facts from the common people since it does not suite their world view. Could the team be biased, possibly, but the current history is also biased or a orientalist history which need to be questioned.
Kudos to Modi and team for challenging the biased history. Its time the invasions and migration theories based solely on linguistics (as per my it is not science) be question with the full force of modern day scientific technics.
I am not to sure what stories your grandmother has told you but here I have two quiz questions for you: Can you name all the Mughal kings from Babur to Aurangzeb? I am sure you can. Now can you name any six Chola kings without doing a Google search? Be honest. The history that has been taught to us is basically Delhi centric and of one family, Nehru/ Gandhi, one person Mohandas Gandhi, one path to freedom, Ahimsa etc. There is no harm in relooking if what has been force fed to us, is all that there is to it. And yes, honest journalism requires credible points from both side, not a one sided, biased version.
“honest journalism requires credible points from both side, not a one sided, biased version.” Which is why the author has attempted to understand why people like yourself and the culture minister etc are in the process of rewriting history by speaking with other politicians and theological authors and understanding the opposite perspective. And yes, the Chola Dynasty is quite prominently covered in our history books. When has the right wing attempted to understand the centrists or the left wing on the other hand? The right wings answer is to basically delete the mention of anything other than its icons from history. Any social reformer who has attempted to reform the religion and make it more egalitarian would in the future be deleted as well.
No other developed nation makes such a hue and cry about vilifying and denigrating its own history. The British openly claimed that “the key to subjugating India was to subjugate her self-pride and traditional systems of governance, economy and faith”. Funny that is never even brought up to national attention. Makes it abundantly clear where the funding for our ‘secular’ journalism comes from.
In the author’s opinion the British version of India’s culture and religion is the right one because he seems to hate India and its culture. The British, al most all authors and historians came to India to study its religion and philosophy as masters. For them casual comments of Indian culture were the Gospel.
“Reuters says his culture ministry has an annual budget of $400 million”, that doesn’t mean that the ministry is spending all that money only on this team and its work. Is it not on the part of author deliberately trying to mislead by inferring that this team got tons of money to dispose at will to come up with some crazy stuff. This is kind of attitude that the Right wing in India trying to fight. Even the history as it is written today was thoroughly funded by the left wing. Please done mention that also.
I am not sure if BJP is being desperate to rewrite the history, but I can see that the authors desperation in trying to suppress any new evidence that can be found by this team since it may not fit his view of a secular India. India’s cultural past be very much a Hindu culture and India can still be secular (secular: gov equidistance from all religions and caste, not appeasing all religions and caste). I can believe the intelligentsia of this country are worried when a team of Archeologist, DNA Expert, Geology Expert and Sanskrit expert working scientifically trying to find the facts. Does it mean that they are purposefully hiding the facts from the common people since it does not suite their world view. Could the team be biased, possibly, but the current history is also biased or a orientalist history which need to be questioned.
Kudos to Modi and team for challenging the biased history. Its time the invasions and migration theories based solely on linguistics (as per my it is not science) be question with the full force of modern day scientific technics.
I am not to sure what stories your grandmother has told you but here I have two quiz questions for you: Can you name all the Mughal kings from Babur to Aurangzeb? I am sure you can. Now can you name any six Chola kings without doing a Google search? Be honest. The history that has been taught to us is basically Delhi centric and of one family, Nehru/ Gandhi, one person Mohandas Gandhi, one path to freedom, Ahimsa etc. There is no harm in relooking if what has been force fed to us, is all that there is to it. And yes, honest journalism requires credible points from both side, not a one sided, biased version.
“honest journalism requires credible points from both side, not a one sided, biased version.” Which is why the author has attempted to understand why people like yourself and the culture minister etc are in the process of rewriting history by speaking with other politicians and theological authors and understanding the opposite perspective. And yes, the Chola Dynasty is quite prominently covered in our history books. When has the right wing attempted to understand the centrists or the left wing on the other hand? The right wings answer is to basically delete the mention of anything other than its icons from history. Any social reformer who has attempted to reform the religion and make it more egalitarian would in the future be deleted as well.