There is need to
rewrite our cultural history
The history of Indian culture is immortal. It is extremely rich and highly developed. The history of our past acts like a lighthouse for our future. It constantly shows us new directions of progress and saves us from straying off along the numerous wrong paths. The progressive steps we take today inevitably emerge through the happenings of the past. So the impression of happiness and sorrows we experienced in the past is clearly visible on the perspective of the future. Our cultural heritage is so pure and illumined that it can help us in overcoming our problems and tribulations of today. For this we need to rescue our history from the burdens and conspiracies of falsehood that have been cast upon it.
Historians believe that a nation that has no cultural heritage cannot remain unconquered. Culture is the life force that flows through the veins of a nation and culture alone can keep a nation alive and awake. It provides the nation with vitality and energy. A nation with a rich and vibrant culture briskly moves on the path of development adopting novel plans. Historians believe that a rich cultural heritage is the most distinctive feature of Indian history. This is the element that had made India the crown jewel among all the nations. Indian spirit has remained unconquered from ancient times due to this rich cultural heritage, while elsewhere several other civilizations have risen and fallen in the abyss of time. This nation alone has been standing with complete steadfastness from before the rise of human civilizations till today. This is the result of its long history of traditions of extreme sacrifices.
Indian history is a history that is enriched with rare jewels of virtues like truth, service, acceptance, generosity, valour, sacrifice and so on. It is a history of forgiveness to cowards who have backstabbed. It is a history of sacrifices of the brave for the good of others. Indian history is not a history of invasions. This nation has never inflicted war upon others nor invaded any other country, but yes it has decimated the evil intentions of several of its invaders. Today’s tragedy is that we have been burdened with a history that ignores our glorious past. A history that is not ours but of our invaders and we have been shackled in this conspiracy. This is the reason why we are moving away from the golden heritage of our past. Due to a lack of alertness and awareness, and due to our suicidal tendency of copying others, we are being denied the historic knowledge that was ours. We get enamored by our own knowledge only when it is presented in a veneer of western brand name, and so we have lost our history.
The tradition of writing Indian history was quite unique. It always concentrated upon the superiority of tasks and their execution and was not biased by the writers’ mentality. But history writing today is primarily based upon western tradition. Colonial Britishers who ruled India had adopted a mentality that was highly self-centered and malicious; this suited their interests well. They despised the uniqueness, richness and freedom in Indian history. If they accepted this they could not have fulfilled their ambitions here. So they had to establish that Indian history is nothing but a series of invasions by marauders. Since they were filled with this attitude they considered it appropriate in their selfish interests to describe the cultured and superior Aryans too as invaders who entered India from Central Asia. Using wrong facts they tried to prove that Aryans first attacked the Harappan civilization of Indus Valley and that they were not the original residents of India. Unfortunately Indian historians have also based their writings upon this deep conspiracy and the tradition of our grand history has got polluted from there.
Britishers who established their colonies all over the world, conspired hard to establish the supremacy of their civilization over others and they twisted history to suit their liking. They faced great difficulty in doing this for the Indian history because they had to put in a lot of effort to alter the facts. They carried out many inhuman acts also. Earlier too, Britishers had left no stones unturned to decimate Red Indians who were the original residents of America by carrying out mass massacres and destroying their ancient civilization. Historians proclaim that arrival and expansion of the so-called civilized and developed European civilization into America was in no way decent or peaceful. According to American history, Britishers used to trap hoards of black residents of Africa in nets, carry them in ships to the huge American continent and release them there. History describes how Europeans used to throw blankets that were used by patients suffering from fatal diseases like smallpox upon Red Indians so that their entire breed was eradicated.
In this light it can be imagined how blasphemous could the Indian history propounded by Britishers be. In fact the conception that Aryans attacked and entered India has been established to be completely baseless. This conception cannot be justified from either archeological or literary point of view. There are several facts that prove this conception wrong and four among them are listed here. The first fact is that Harappan civilization was none other than the famed Vedic civilization which flourished on the banks of river Saraswati. While only three dozen Harappan remains have been located on the banks of Sindhu River, about 500 remains have been located on the banks of erstwhile Saraswati River. The destruction of Harappan or Sindhu Valley civilization was not due to the so-called attacks by Aryans, but in fact due to the sudden disappearance of Saraswati River around 1900 BC. The historians now describe this civilization as the Saraswati valley civilization in place of Harappan Civilization.
The second fact in this regard is that nowhere in ancient India have any remains of towns been found that indicate attacks made by Aryans, nor any signs of widespread massacres have been located. The mass massacre of Mohanjodaro as described by Wheeler has been proven to be a complete flight of imagination. It has now been established that these areas had to be vacated due to environmental reasons and drying up of Saraswati riverbed.
The third fact is – all the special animals, objects and symbols etc. which were claimed to have been got from outside by Aryans were present in these areas even before the Harappan civilization. No evidences have been found that would indicate of any Aryan traditions different from the locally utilized objects and local customs.
The last fact is that in the most ancient and grand achievement of human history – the Vedic literature, a clear and vivid picture of Harappan civilization can be found. In fact the immense spiritual and scientific knowledge formulated within the Vedic literature is sufficient to prove that Aryans were highly advanced and superior. The divine revelation of this all-encompassing knowledge was possible only through a suitable medium and Aryans who were ascetic and enlightened were the perfect medium.
Based on these facts, and taking into account the archeological discoveries and geographical, mathematical, literary and linguistic evidences, several intellectuals and litterateurs from India and abroad have concurred that Indian history is extremely developed, subtle and widespread. These include historians like – Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, James Sheffer, K. D. Sethna, K. D. Abhyankar, P. V. Pathak, A. Jaiswal, Shrikant Talgeri, S. Kalyan Raman, B. B. Chakravarthy, S. P. Gupta, B. G. Siddharth, Bhagwan Singh etc. A treatise named ‘Chronologies in Old World Archaeology’ edited by Robert W. Ehrich and published by University of Chicago Press, USA clearly states that there is a serious need to completely rewrite the history based on attacks by Aryans on Indian subcontinent. According to this famous treatise right from 6500 BC there is a continuity of culture and civilization in India which is based upon regional and authentic grounds. In this cultural flow there is no discontinuity and there is no possibility of this in future as well. The ancient glow of India’s culture has been illumining the world in the history and would continue illumining it in future as well.
Among the old world civilizations the Vedic civilization and culture is the most ancient. The knowledge that was acquired in this ancient civilization is very profound, superior and highly advanced. It has influenced all other civilizations with its torch of knowledge. So in a country that is bestowed with such a grand inheritance to read and believe in history written by invaders is abominable. Rishis of yore who directed the human destiny gave us methods to develop all the aspects of life and took humanity to highest accomplishments. By including such events in the old history our history must be re-written. It is time to present the Vedic knowledge in a new form, which can become a field of research for researchers in history. This research would provide a lot of courage and support to life and society in general to progress on the path of development.
We need to present a model today that defines the Indian history in an objective manner and explains its practical utility. Thus the history of India would become interesting and accessible to all and would attain the role of a guide. History would then no longer be boring like a burden, nor would we be burdened with false history. Indian history has always enriched the world with great gifts of wisdom and knowledge and it is still equally capable and competent; what is missing is our dedicated and sincere mentality. In fact, we need to awaken to our great and true heritage.
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what you want…
It is not that He forgets your Dreams & Prayers;
But He loves to check your passion towards your desire..!
That’s why he wants you to have your “Quiet Time”
which we call as prayer time with Him every day.
Our HOPES should be like Hair & Nails.
No matter how many times they get cut, But they never stop growing.
That’s why it has been said – “Always hope for the best”.