Not 'Hijacking Indian History" but "Rescuing India's Hijacked History"

It is not 'Hijacking Indian History" but "Rescuing India's Hijacked History"

By Vivek Bakshi, USA
January 03, 2003

Letter to NYTimes on article : Hijacking India's History http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/30/opinion/30FRIE.html

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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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