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This article takes a biased and one-sided view of the controversy regarding
re-writing of India's history. Kai Friese's article is based on the
assumption that the existing history taught in textbooks in India is 100%
accurate and anyone who attempts to change it is by default wrong. Whereas in
fact, the truth of the matter is that the history being taught in schools in
India was distorted by the educationalists, and at many instances, done
purposely due to ideological or political reasons. This has been very clearly
exposed by Mr. Arun Shourie, India's most famous journalist, known for his
integrity, in his book "Eminent Historians - Their Technology, Their Line,
Their Fraud". I am also providing a list of articles by renowned journalists
exposing this below
First of all, let me clarify that there is nothing wrong in re-writing
history. This has happened all over the world, especially in America. India's
history textbooks have been written during the times of Nehru and are heavily
biased by communism ideals. They tend to hide the gory details of the
destruction which happened during the centuries of Muslim rule, and at the
same time, they downlook upon the period where Hindus ruled the land, which
many consider to be the golden age of India.
The Aryan invasion theory has been scientifically, archealogically and
linguistically proven to be a myth by many historians, many of them American
and European (see links below), who cannot be blamed of any bias. Latest
satellite imagery have confirmed that there was a river Saraswati existing in
India in what is now the Thar desert of Rajasthan.
The author mentions the recent riots which took place in Gujarat, but
fails to mention that this an aberration and the tolerant Hindus have always
been at the receiving end of pogroms and ethnic cleansing. If such incidents
are to be mentioned in text books, then attrocities by Muslims on Hindus,
would far outnumber those done by Hindus. Just for example, the ethnic
cleansiing of Hindus in their own country in Kashmir has resulted in the mass
exodus of nearly a million people, who are now living in abject poverty in
shanty refugee camps.
Thus, the current efforts to correct history in India is not 'Hijacking
India's history', but actually 'Rescuing India's Hijacked History'.
Vivek Bakshi
USA
List of articles exposing the corruption of history by Historians in
India:
Historicide: Censoring the past... and the present - by Rajeev Srinivasan
http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/jan/03rajeev.htm
Towards Balkanisation - by Varsha Bhosle
http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/aug/12varsha.htm
Review of Arun Shourie's EMINENT HISTORIANS: Their Technology, Their Line,
Their Fraud
http://www.indiastar.com/wallia19.html
Review of Rewriting Indian History by Francois Gautier
http://www.indiastar.com/wallia10.htm
Links on the Myth of Aryan Invasion Theory:
The Myth of Aryan Invasion of India by David Frawley (American Institute of
Vedic Studies)
http://www.vedanet.com/booksol.htm
Demise of the Aryan Invasion Theory By Dr.Dinesh Agrawal
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_agrawal.html
Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate by Koenraad Elst
http://www.bharatvani.org/books/ait/
News article in major Indian newspapers
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/
uncomp/articleshow?artid=3196014&sType=1
http://www.indianexpress.com/ie20020321/ed3.html
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