- Origins of Indus Valley Civilisation
- The position of Sanskrit in ancient Indian history
- The Aryan question - is Aryan a language or a people?
- Did anyone 'invade' India and bring the Rg Veda with them?
- Did Indo-Aryan, as a language of the Proto-Indo-European language family, come into India or was it always in India, and served as the root for all the other Indo-European languages?
- Are the Ramayana and the Mahabharat real narratives, or imaginary poems?
- Did Buddhism displace Hinduism?
- Were Hindus, and Buddhists, pacifist? Is that the reason why India suffered invasions?
- Was India a country completely at peace in matters of religion, until the Muslims invaded?
- Indo-Greek Invasion and Rule in the Punjab, and the Doab
- Saka-Pahlava Invasion and Rule
- The Northern Satraps
- The Western Satraps
- The Kushanas
- The Huna
- Islam in India before Mohammed bin Qasim
- Was Mahmud of Ghazni the first Turkish chieftain who invaded India?
- Mahmud of Ghazni's 17 raids into India
- Mohammed of Ghor and Prithviraj Chohan
- The Slave Dynasty
- Destruction of Hindu temples to build Muslim mosques and monuments
- Forced conversions
- The Khaljis
- The Tughlaqs
- The Sayyids
- The Lodis
- The Mughals
- Were the Mughals, after Babur and Humayun, foreigners?
- Aurangzeb and controversies
I don't want to go beyond Aurangzeb as things get very tense from that point on and it will need very careful consideration about the wording. However, this is a list of topics where many of the distortions sold by the RSS can and should be corrected.
Your comments, please.
It is not. Please ask someone to help you with statistical analysis.
a) If I read *most* of the above points during my primary school, then I *completely* forgot them........
b) I already received 2 warning points from moderator for writing somethings they don't like to see [even though, the points I made during both times are correct and recent]. So, I am careful on what I write.
c) Indian history (used to) depresses me a lot....hence, I have previously read good amount of European history and American history [although I focus mostly on great leaders of the past of those continents].
d) Sometime in my future, I want to read about Indian history.
e) I can not imagine how RSS bought toxicity into history books, as they are never in power and were hounded for the most part of independent India.
f) There is a reason why people are voting for Modi and is so popular - those reasons, I am sure many people including yourself will never accept. Hence, no point in writing them here. Also, this forum has extreme blind hatred for Modi + RSS. I believe - some of such extreme feelings from Pakistanis is owing to their own helplessness.
g) Some of my close friends are hard-core anti-Modi people, but their entire reason for such hatred is the caste my friends are born into. i.e. Blinded by caste. Not sure how much to blame them, as (unfortunately) political economy has become so strong in India and everyone wants someone they know to be in power. Caste politics are one way to have someone your know occupying a chair.
h) Many years ago, I read in a pakistani newspaper that the seed of pakistan is born the day Aurangzeb defeated Dara Shikoh. (In my opinion) Indian intelligentia do not have the courage to dissect the reasons behind partition of India, and come to such conclusions, whether they are correct or wrong.
i) Many years ago, during my first visit to USA, there was a pakistani in my project, I told him that Pakistan is formed due to power struggle between Nehru and Jinnah. My reason is - I wanted to be popular, and took the easy approach on that topic (which by the way, many people I know still hold. Could be general opinion in India, although not sure).