Tarnish every person, Institution, Period, Confidence...
Ascribe tolerance, magnanimity to the intolerant...
Portray the inclusive, Open tradition as the one out to swallow others, and the exclusivist, totalitarian ideology as the ideology of broad-mindedness, of peace, tolerance...
Denounce as 'communal' anyone who demands proof...
Blame victims for the consequence of the ideology of the oppressors...
Suppress the role of comrades in aiding imperial rulers...
Tarnish leaders, reformers who led the nationalist movement...
All the while control institutions, hog patronage, exercise power, and have a good time...wrote Arun Shourie in the introduction to his book Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. Well, he was absolutely right in his observation about the history writers in India.
History writing in India is very difficult unlike history writing in say Europe. Writing of Indian history in a large scale happened at the time of the British. The Indian history writing is in near absolute control of the writers with Marxist ideology. The underlying tone of Marxist approach towards history can be summed as: ancient societies are primitive, all kinds of social evolutions are class struggle, and India absorbed great things from invaders rather than producing great things on its own. In Marxist version of history, Hindu society is always portrayed as regressive, many Islamic rulers (who were actually religious fanatics) are portrayed as tolerant, a great lie of Aryan-Dravidian division theory is invented to create divide amongst Indians, a great warrior-saint like Guru Tegh Bahadur is called a bandit, freedom fighters are called as terrorists (I clearly remember studying this), great patriots like Aurobindo Ghosh, Swami Vivekananda are touted communal.
Marxists never had scantest respect for the spiritual heritage of India which is actually its core strength. If it did not process that strength, it could never have attracted the greatest minds like Albert Einstein or Mark Twain. Students never study India’s contribution to the world in art, science, metallurgy or various other technologies. Students who receive this kind of education can never know the great heritage of India and they will grow devoid of pride in their country and some of them have contempt for it as well. All the ‘great’ historians that can be listed from the present day India like Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, R.S.Sharma, Bipin Chandra are heavily inclined towards leftist ideologies. Anyone who tries to correct some gross errors is termed ‘communal’. The Marxist historians are doing such a great harm to the country that it can put Macaulay’s dream to shame!
When someone tries to mend these mistakes (as it happened when Murali Manohar Joshi was HRD minister and the attempt was a failure), and present history as it is, then there will be a big hue and cry of ‘saffronization’. When did saffron enter the scene! The lobby of Marxists is very strong that they will make such attempts to fail. They enjoy a strong patronage from the government and support from media as well. This is a hard nexus which may take many decades to break. It may be true that the history writing should not have hold of any ideologies but if an ideology is inevitable, let it be a nationalistic one rather than the putrid communist one.
You may build a magnanimous building. But if it is built on quick sand, the glory is transient. Sooner or later, the building has to fall & will fall. As the old saying goes: truth ultimately triumphs.
Ascribe tolerance, magnanimity to the intolerant...
Portray the inclusive, Open tradition as the one out to swallow others, and the exclusivist, totalitarian ideology as the ideology of broad-mindedness, of peace, tolerance...
Denounce as 'communal' anyone who demands proof...
Blame victims for the consequence of the ideology of the oppressors...
Suppress the role of comrades in aiding imperial rulers...
Tarnish leaders, reformers who led the nationalist movement...
All the while control institutions, hog patronage, exercise power, and have a good time...wrote Arun Shourie in the introduction to his book Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud. Well, he was absolutely right in his observation about the history writers in India.
History writing in India is very difficult unlike history writing in say Europe. Writing of Indian history in a large scale happened at the time of the British. The Indian history writing is in near absolute control of the writers with Marxist ideology. The underlying tone of Marxist approach towards history can be summed as: ancient societies are primitive, all kinds of social evolutions are class struggle, and India absorbed great things from invaders rather than producing great things on its own. In Marxist version of history, Hindu society is always portrayed as regressive, many Islamic rulers (who were actually religious fanatics) are portrayed as tolerant, a great lie of Aryan-Dravidian division theory is invented to create divide amongst Indians, a great warrior-saint like Guru Tegh Bahadur is called a bandit, freedom fighters are called as terrorists (I clearly remember studying this), great patriots like Aurobindo Ghosh, Swami Vivekananda are touted communal.
Marxists never had scantest respect for the spiritual heritage of India which is actually its core strength. If it did not process that strength, it could never have attracted the greatest minds like Albert Einstein or Mark Twain. Students never study India’s contribution to the world in art, science, metallurgy or various other technologies. Students who receive this kind of education can never know the great heritage of India and they will grow devoid of pride in their country and some of them have contempt for it as well. All the ‘great’ historians that can be listed from the present day India like Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, R.S.Sharma, Bipin Chandra are heavily inclined towards leftist ideologies. Anyone who tries to correct some gross errors is termed ‘communal’. The Marxist historians are doing such a great harm to the country that it can put Macaulay’s dream to shame!
When someone tries to mend these mistakes (as it happened when Murali Manohar Joshi was HRD minister and the attempt was a failure), and present history as it is, then there will be a big hue and cry of ‘saffronization’. When did saffron enter the scene! The lobby of Marxists is very strong that they will make such attempts to fail. They enjoy a strong patronage from the government and support from media as well. This is a hard nexus which may take many decades to break. It may be true that the history writing should not have hold of any ideologies but if an ideology is inevitable, let it be a nationalistic one rather than the putrid communist one.
You may build a magnanimous building. But if it is built on quick sand, the glory is transient. Sooner or later, the building has to fall & will fall. As the old saying goes: truth ultimately triumphs.
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