Perpetuating The Aryan Invasion Myth For Generations Let’s face it upfront, if after 20 years someone changes your identity, more so distorts it; and people around you begin to behave differently just because you have a blurred identity, it could be devastating and enraging at the same time. If the impotent fury seething inside finds no resolution and you can do nothing to reclaim your original identity, with time one will come to terms with the changed reality. The agony of a buried identity however, will continue to resurface and pinprick your conscience time and again. Going beyond an individual’s identity crisis, on a larger canvas, if a marginal group distorts historical contexts and alters the identity of an entire civilization to such an extent that whole generations grow up with an inherited inferiority complex, it can shake the foundations of a proud society. Marxist historians happen to be one such fringe group in India. This group has authored history and school text books, which generations have grown up with.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:01:59 +0000
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