How India’s history was rewritten
It is not known who found the basic intention of agent provocateurs whose mission is to destroy and demolish a nation or civilization. They follow the dictum “History is always written by winners”. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes history. This is what has been happening to India. The real history of this great nation lies buried thousands of fathoms deep in the Indian Ocean. At the same time, the new generation is forced to learn a manufactured, manipulated, and distorted ideology which is marketed as history.
What has happened is that slogans like Bharat Mata Ki Jai, Vande Mataram, and Hindu Nationalism, and patriots like Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and hundreds like them who sacrificed to liberate the country from external elements, remain unknown to the present generation. The fabrication and falsification of Indian history started on the day Jawaharlal Nehru took over the governance of the country. It would be ideal to describe his ascension to office as a coup d’etat by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and a cartel of Congress leaders because he was not the people’s choice. It was only in 1952 that the country went to a General Election for the first time! A person who occupies the prime minister’s gaddi without getting elected by the people is not at all a democrat but a despot and manipulator. What Gandhi did was to get appointed a person rejected by even Congressmen as the Prime Minister.
Nehru had an evil design in his mind, and that was to destroy Sanatana Dharma and usher in the Western ideology of socialism and communism. He himself was an anarchist of the worst kind, whose obsession with wine and women knew no bounds. (Those who do not like this fact are advised to read JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, The CIA, And The Sino Indian War, authored by Bruce Riedel, director, Brookings Intelligence Project, and an intelligence professional with three decades of experience in the CIA). I do not want to destroy the “thrilling experience” offered by the author, as readers themselves should feel and experience the same.
What Nehru did was to entrust the writing of India’s history to all and sundry with some historical background. The “workers” labelled as eminent historians did not let their master down, and they came out with manufactured history. These court jesters contended that there was no civilization in this subcontinent, and Indians became educated and civilized only because of Islamic invaders like Mahmud Ghazni, who plundered the Somnath Temple 17 times. The cruelty perpetrated by Mughal ruler Aurangzeb has been portrayed as humanitarian acts by a US evangelist masquerading as a historian.
The ploy of Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi came out in the open thanks to two individuals who, through their dedication and selfless work, exposed the evil designs of the powers that be in making use of history to promote a family dynasty and to appease the vote bank. Arun Shourie, leading journalist, wrote “Eminent Historians-Their Technology, Their Line and Their Fraud,” which jolted the likes of Habib and Thapar, who were caught with their trousers down!
The periods 1947-1977, 1980-1989, 1991-1998 and 2004-2014 were the golden days of these “eminent historians”. They jampacked the history books with lies, blatant lies, and falsehoods, fooling Indians. Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, and a lot of their sidekicks played havoc with Indian history. Habib dared to tell the world that there never existed a river by the name Saraswati, despite scientists of ISRO and DAE (Department of Atomic Energy) furnishing scientific data about its course of flow. A tectonic shift in Earth’s layer caused the Saraswathi River to get buried, but remote sensing satellites and carbon dating processes proved Habib, who is ignorant of even basic sciences, wrong.
Since 1969, the then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi constituted a committee of Left historians to alter the history of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple to suit the convenience of the Islamic zealots. S L Bhyrappa, a humble and frail-looking scholar from Mysore, was the next one who exposed the real intentions of Indira Gandhi. She constituted a committee of scholars and asked them to rewrite history by wiping out the cruelty and innumerable sins perpetrated by the Mughal emperors on Hindus. The explanation she gave was that, let the past be past, the younger generation should not be told about the harassment faced by the Hindus whose temples were desecrated and demolished by the Islamic invaders and Mughals. Since Bhyrappa objected to these proposals, he was shown the door and replaced by a hardcore Leftist who acted as HMV (His Madam’s Voice). The rest is here to see.
While writing about how historians rewrote India’s past and present (1870-2020), one should have mentioned the efforts undertaken by Kulapati K M Munshi, who was the chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, and industrialist G D Birla, who were shocked by the way the Congress government was distorting history. Munshi, under orders from Birla, asked the legend R C Majumdar to write the history of India from the Vedic Period to Independence. Majumdar, who hired the services of contemporary historians, scientists, and archaeologists, produced the History and Culture of Indian People, an 11-volume mammoth work which reminds one of the “History of English-Speaking Peoples,” the 4-volume series authored by Sir Winston Churchill.
Generation after generation, during their school or college career, were told about the successive foreign invasions of the country, but little about how we resisted them, and less about our victories. They were taught to decry the Hindu social system, but they were not told how this system came into existence as a synthesis of political, social, economic, and cultural forces…. Readers were regaled with Alexander’s short-lived and unfructuous invasion of India; they were left in ignorance of the magnificent empire and still more enduring culture which the Gangetic Valley had built up at the time,” writes Dr Munshi in the foreword to the series.
Recently, I happened to read the book Who Owns the Past? How historians Rewrote India’s Past & Present, authored by Shaan Kashyap. The author has tried to draw a picture of Indian historiography. History is a chronicle of events, and it is unfair on the part of the eminent historians to misinterpret and distort facts like most of our mainstream journalists. Kashyap has chosen to leave many areas unfulfilled and empty. Since he has mentioned Vikram Sampath’s book on Tipu Sultan, who was nothing more than a mercenary out to destroy Sanatana Dharma, I am sure he has read the foreword written by S L Bhyrappa. Had he read the same, I am sure he would not have opted for this misadventure in history.
The author quotes Syed Ahmad Khan, for whom modern education was quite alien, as he was trained in the Quran in the luxury of his home, in opposition to the description of the gruesome murder of Sardar Banda Singh Bahadur, the Sikh revolutionary who fought against the cruelty of the Mughals. The true story is that Banda, who challenged the atrocities committed by the Mughal emperors, was cheated and trapped by the Islamic extremists and subjected to torture of the highest order before beheading him. Readers who are not familiar with Banda Singh’s story should know the truth.
After he was defeated in December 1715, the Mughal Army put Banda Singh Bahadur into an iron cage, and the remaining Sikhs were chained. The Sikhs were brought to Delhi in a procession with the 780 Sikh prisoners, 2,000 Sikh heads hung on spears, and 700 cartloads of heads of slaughtered Sikhs used to terrorize the population. They were put in the Red Fort and pressured to give up their faith and become Muslims.
The prisoners remained unmoved. On their firm refusal, these non-converters were ordered to be executed. Every day, 100 Sikh soldiers were brought out of the fort and executed in public. This continued for approximately seven days. Banda was told to kill his four-year-old son, Ajai Singh, which he refused to do. So, Ajai was executed, his heart was cut out, and thrust into Banda’s mouth. However, his resolution did not break under torture, and so he was martyred. After three months of confinement, on 9 June 1716, Banda’s eyes were gouged out, his limbs were severed, his skin was removed, and then he was beheaded.
The execution of Banda Singh Bahadur and 700 of his followers by the Mughals in the spring of 1716 at Delhi was observed by a European visitor to the city on official business, who was a British East India Company diplomat to the Mughal Empire. This European recorded his thoughts on the execution of the Sikhs in a letter he sent to the Governor of Fort William in Calcutta. It is one of the earliest accounts of the Sikhs from the perspective of a Westerner. Shouldn’t this be told to the public?
The same is the case with the 1921 Moplah Rebellion in Malabar of Kerala. Thousands of Hindus who refused to convert to Islam were massacred by jihadis led by Variankunnath Kunjahammad Haji and Aali Musliyar and hundreds of others. The Kerala historians distorted the entire episode and portrayed it as a Freedom Struggle held against the British colonial masters. But they forgot the fact that the Britishers maintained unambiguous reports sent by their intelligence agencies from Malabar in which the Moplah Rebellion was labelled as a genocide, the first ever mass slaughter of human beings in modern times. Still, the GOP and the Communists dared to ask the Union Home Ministry to label the rebellion as a freedom struggle and pay a monthly pension to the jihadis of Malabar!
This is an abstract of the modus operandi of India’s eminent historians. Arun Shourie and Bhyrappa demolished their arguments and discoveries, thereby saving the nation from falsehoods and lies churned out by them from the assembly line facility in the Indian History Congress. Though the name ends in Congress, the IHC is full of Communists and liberals. Readers are not going to lose anything by not reading this book.
WHO OWNS THE PAST?
By SHAAN KASHYAP
Published by Penguin
Price Rs 799/-
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