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A case for re-writing Bharat’s history
Oscar Wilde famously said- “The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.” I have always been intrigued by this quote. What...
एनसीईआरटी की “इतिहास” की पुस्तक है या नमाज की गाइडलाइन?
“माँ, मुस्लिम लोग मक्का की ओर मुंह करके नमाज क्यों पढ़ते हैं?” बेटे ने जब यह प्रश्न किया तो मैं चौंक गयी। यह चौंकना...
Historical fiction gives unencumbered access to art of storytelling
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As of a bygone era that asks to be kept alive in our collective consciousness, says the multi-faceted Shivani Singh of her captivating historical...
Busting the myth of Mughal economic superiority
Indian Marxist and Liberal historians and intellectuals alike have long fantasised about the apparent “glories” of the Mughal Empire and how “prosperous” it was,...
Aurangzeb destroyed 1000s of Hindu temples; No he never rebuilt any
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A one-sided and distorted narrative has been part of academic history textbooks since several decades. An NCERT History textbook of Standard XII, titled Themes of...
Presenting the true history of Bharat a torturous process
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Ever since I began taking a serious interest in history from the time I was in the eighth grade and had yet to turn...
Propagandizing the Aryan Invasion Debate: A Rebuttal to Tony Joseph
On 16 June 2017, an article appeared on the Hindu titled “How genetics is settling the Aryan migration debate” by Tony Joseph. This article claims that...
The Aryan Invasion Myth: How 21st Century Science Debunks 19th Century Indology
The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) needs no introduction. It is the bedrock upon which Bharat's history has been written. Its central thesis has three...
‘Objective whitewash for objective history’ – how communist historians negated the record of Islam
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"This is an old charge which keeps surfacing now and then," wrote one of those "eminent historians", K. N. Panikkar, in an vituperative response...
Non-violent Bhartiya freedom struggle- An unjust misnomer
History consists of bare fact presented to the contemporary for objectively analyzing the same and deriving a conclusion. But it is unfortunate that history...