Well this is one of the most interesting and worthy article I came across by Kush Tripathi via Quora. It is very lengthy thats why I am breaking it into parts, first one starting in this post, posting everyday. Worth reading if you want to know about the actual Indian History. So here it goes - What are the wrong things taught in Indian schools about history Part I: In our academic pecking order, Maths and Science always figured at the top, subjects that we had to master. History mostly figured somewhere at the bottom of this list, lower than drawing, craft, value education and even Aayo Naga perhaps. Has our monumental indifference towards History enabled our educationists and academicians to disfigure, hell mutilate..our own history and actually get away with it? Let me begin this by recalling a small conversation with a tenth grader relative of mine. This is India’s history from that persons point of view 1. Harappans were the first people in India, and they had a fetish for building abnormally large bath-tubs. 2. Their asses were then kicked by the some unknown invading Aryans. 3. Somewhere down the line, Alexander and his badass gang of Greeks came calling. 4. Chandragupta Maurya with his adviser Chanakya, did some awesome 420giri to take over from the Greeks. 5. They were then succeeded by the Guptas who brought the ‘Golden Age’ with them. 6. Mahmud of Ghazni, however, looted all that gold. He needed a sum total of 17 visits to complete his gold quest. 7. Mohammad Ghauri followed him with similar intentions, but decided to avoid the trouble and simply stay back. And then he died. 8. He left his slave Qutub-ud-din Aibak to do all the ruling. His most significant achievement was to build one pointless tower. 9. Then came a Muslim queen, underlining our credentials in female liberation. 10. It was then the turn of Tughlaq and his gang of idiots. They moved national capitals around because they hated the weather. 11. From somewhere, Babar, a descendant of a lame, one eyed king from Central Asia landed in India. 12. He and his sons, calling themselves Mughals, ruled India for the next 350 years. 13. Their party came to an end when Englishmen arrived, redcoats and all, and took a strong fancy to our country. I am not making the above stuff up. Of course, I might have taken liberties with some of the descriptions, but then this was more-or-less what a tenth grader summarized about pre-British Indian history. I would have appreciated this individuals grasp of Indian history if not for the fact that this version is completely and utterly bullshit. To be continued...
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 05:40:00 +0000
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