Denial of Indian history

(By Prashant Kumar email:[email protected] 3rd Year M.C.A. Sikh Videos Gurbani Kirtan Reg. No.  010919053)

 

Be it the Nalanda University or any other center of knowledge destruction and deletion are the words which come to our mind.

 

Thanks to the internet we can now at least know that there was a case of deliberate deletion of our history by some forces. Considering the fact that our ancient mythological scriptures even had a manual on a pilot’s diet, leave alone their deep study on avionics. As we very well know Research and Development requires the bibliography of the topic which is being researched i.e. work done on that topic in the past (history). But the documentation of our ancient past itself has been whitewashed so the person and the society have not been able to mature and develop based on the knowledge of this ancient researchers and this deletion and denial continues to happen today.

 

Some body surely does not want us to learn from it, be self-respecting and mature as a nation, a society or a religion. Maturity would mean, with good knowledge and correct facts about a situation a consciences and unanimity in making a decision would be more likely , as people would be able to come down to specific inferences from the given facts which would help the community find the right direction. As the Hindu society is ignorant it does not recognize as a community that its self-respect is being hurt or certain political mileage is being taken out of a certain step. The politics is such that as Hindus are fragmented and ignorant. Parties use hook or crook to get the vote of a section of society. They then lure the Muslims as a community to vote for them by providing special incentives or—often—using Hindu bashing—literally and verbally—to acquire their votes in the name of ‘Secularism’. The word secular means an absence of concern with religion. We realize that this politics is anything but secular.

 

Some leaders in our country have been projected as gods. Their mistakes are never highlighted, but they are ignored and swept under the carpet in order to maintain the false image of their infallibility and intelligence.

 

Nehru’s incompetence and impractical philosophy came to the foreground in the 1962 Indo-China war with our rout Tens of thousands of our brave soldiers lost their lives, who were without food, proper clothing, by now obsolete First World War weapons of 1914. He once made a statement that displayed his foolishness succinctly for the entire world to see: he said that we did not need an army and that a police force was sufficient.

 

 At the time of the war the American magazine Time wrote “The Indian soldiers lacked every thing except guts”, without any kind of supplies they died fighting the Chinese with buts of their obsolete guns. More than a rout of India and its moral, it was more a rout of Nehru’s philosophy which he himself realized and cried a loud saying China had back stabbed us. As he could not recover from this trauma, soon after he died. Qualities in leaders required the most is more of competence, practicality to decide what is best for the country for a given situation and not bull headedly treading a path which satisfies their own philosophy. In other words a leader should mature enough to think rationally according to the circumstances at that moment and knows in which situations it is best to be bullheaded.

 

Nehru’s intense dislike for the men in uniform was evident when he declared that no person in uniform should join the ministry (this dislike was expressed in the form of hate and abuse). People with little knowledge of defense requirements and strategies ended up rendering the army as good as impotent. And at the time of the Chinese war statements were herd from Nehru, such as “Throw out the Chinese”, although he knew that India was being butchered and post after post being run over by the Chinese. An Indian POW in China wrote that the Chinese used to make fun of the Indian army saying that “you cut trees with shovels”. People in the ministry were good at executing this type of thinking. The then defense minister (Menon) had a great liking for abusing our uniformed patriots so much that files would be thrown back at their faces literally. The men in uniform would get so disgusted with this kind of behavior that they would walk out of the office without taking permission. At one point Nehru went to the extent to say that “The army can be scrapped; the police is good enough for our security needs”. This happens to be a small illustration of Nehru’s idiocy that India had to deal with. This man insulted   those men who had been in the INA (Indian National Army) by forbidding them from joining the army just because they did not subscribe to the philosophy being followed by Nehru.

 

Although this firmly confirmed that Nehru was an incompetent leader after eyebrows were raised on his incompetent handling of the Kashmir issue which he kept for himself (rest of the issues such as unification of smaller kingdoms after independence was taken up by Sardar Vallabhai Patel who showed us as to why his name contained the word Sardar by unifying the nation with competence and Forsyth) because of which India and Indian soldiers bleed till today.

 

If we look into our history books in schools today anything that is vaguely related to struggle against moguls or other Muslim rulers is deleted or given very little space. People, only after a certain level of maturity realize as to why the history in taught at school was so boring, uninspiring and demoralizing.

 

Prithviraj Chauhan who is supposed to be our hero and a martyr is mentioned in a similar way mentioned in mogul writings as though he was a militant and the enemy of the system. Even the great Shivaji finds a very small mention; he is portrayed in the way Prithviraj Chauhan has been portrayed. We must thank our culture we are still told a few things about our history at home (and now the internet). This kind of history is neither nationalistic nor neutral and is aimed at appeasing a particular section of the society for political gains which again confirms the politics of Muslim appeasement in India.

Culture is something with which we should connect with, swear by and be proud of, unfortunately so much pollution and deletion of our past has been done that in our base has been weakened tremendously and continues to be weakened till today.

 

Guru Tegh Bahadur’s martyrdom should be ‘the sacrifice’  to come out of a Hindu’s mouth if asked about greatest sacrifices in history, instead no one knows who is Guru Tegh Bahadur leave alone what he had done for us. The Sikh community has always worked for uplifting the human spirit be it Guru Nanak or the great Guru Gobind Singh. Although it faced inhuman treatment for not accepting Islam which was being forced upon them it remained committed strongly to its faith. It reveres the sacrifices made by its people and takes inspiration from history which strengthens its faith.

Aurangzeb’s dream was to convert whole of India to Islam in his life time (clear India of infidels). His aim was to convert the hard core followers of the Hindu religion, which would serve as a lesson for other Hindus to convert to Islam. Kashmiri Hindus were well known to be the most faithful Hindus in the empire. An ultimatum was given to the Hindu religious leader to convert to Islam or face death. The Hindu community had become very weak by then and could not take up arms to fight the strong mogul empire. The Sikhs were known to help the week and so the help of the then guru of the Sikhs Guru Tegh Bahadur’s was begged for.

 

The Guru asked the hindu leader to inform the tormentors that they would be willing to accept Islam if Guru Tegh Bahadur could first be persuaded to do so.

The Guru along with his aides was arrested at Ropar and taken to Delhi. There were temptations offered as well as threats of torture and death. His companions were persecuted. Bhai Mati Das was sawed into two alive. Bhai Dyala was made to sit in a boiling cauldron. Bhai Satidas was enveloped in cotton pad and then set on fire like a torch. He was roasted before the eyes of his mentor. The Guru witnessed all this but did not flinch. Then the inevitable happened. The Qazi gave his fatwa. Jalaluddin, the executioner, sharpened his sword. Word went around the whole town and on 11^th November 1675, the Guru was beheaded in presence of thousands of people.

Guru Gobind Singh wrote about Guru Tegh Bahadur’s death thus:

 

He broke his potsherd on the Delhi King’s head

And he left for paradise

None else in this world can match Tegh Bahadur’s sacrifice.

The people mourned Tegh Bahadur’s passing away.

There was wailing in the world but rejoicing in heaven.

 

It was a strange irony of history. Two hundred years before Guru Nanak, at the age of nine, had rejected the sacred thread and admonished the bhramins who insisted in his wearing it. And now when he was thirteen years old, the tenth Guru suggested that his own father should go and give his life so that right of a community to wear the sacred thread and practice its faith was protected. This makes Guru Tegh Bahadur’s martyrdom unique in history. People give their lives for principles dear to them, ideals cherished by them and faiths they hold. There is hardely is hardely anyone who stakes his life for other people’s faith. (Reference: Sikh Gurus Their Lives and Teachings by K.S. Duggal)

 

 

 

 

Biggest holocaust

With the invasion of India by Mahmud Ghazni about 1000 A.D., began the Muslim invasions into the Indian subcontinent and they lasted for several centuries. The Muslim invasions continued even when the Muslims were ruling India, like the invasion of the Mongols during the reign of the Khiljis or the invasion of the Mughals in the early sixteenth Century when the Lodis were ruling Delhi. The last notable invasion of the Muslims from outside was the invasion of Nadir Shah in 1739, during which he unleashed a great horror on the native population

 

According to Prof. K.S. Lal, the author of the Growth of Muslim population in India, the Hindu population decreased by 80 million between 1000 AD, the year Mahmud Ghazni invaded India and 1525 AD, a year before the battle of Panipat.

 

One can safely add another 20 million Hindus to this list to account for the number that were killed during the Mughal rule or the rule of the Muslim rulers in the Deccan plateau. By all known accounts of world history, as pointed out by Koenard Elst in his book the Negationism in India, destruction of about 100 million Hindus is perhaps the biggest holocaust in the whole world history

Nadir Shah made a mountain of the skulls of the Hindus he killed in Delhi alone. Babur raised towers of Hindu skulls at Khanua when he defeated Rana Sanga in 1527, and later, he repeated the same horrors after capturing the fort of Chanderi. Akbar ordered a general massacre of 30000 Rajputs after he captured Chithor in 1568. The Bahamani Sultans had an annual agenda of killing a minimum of 100000 Hindus every year. The history of medieval India is full of such instances. 

We have films like Mugal-e-Azam, Anarkali, or Taj Mahal which romanticize the Mughal rulers, depicting them as great heroes of noble virtues oozing with kindness and love for the humanity! The characters of  Anarkali and Taj Mahal were next to Aurangazeb in their persecution of Hindus and Sikhs. But people are made to see them as romantic heroes and remember songs from these movies with great nostalgia! How would it sound to make a romantic film on Hitler where he runs around trees and sings romantic songs? (Reference: The biggest holocaust in world history   By V Jayaram)

 

Anyone who speaks for Hindus is deemed an incarnation of Hitler or is in the process of being made one, and any group which speaks for Hindus are called Neo-Nazis or are in the process of being branded Neo-Nazis!

 

We know that Hindus are in majority in India. The Hindu community is the giant who has been kept sick by constant poisoning in small amounts—what a step mother does to a child to make her own son the eventual Heir—in order to make it fade away without others noticing.

Mongol general, Timur-i-Lang (Tamerlane) who invaded the Indian subcontinent in 1399. He starts his chronicle quoting scriptural inspiration in the form of the following Qu'ranic verse:"9.73:   "O, Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is their
destination."

At a later stage, he boasts that he had 100,000 Hindu slaves in his
custody. When the battle with the Tughlaq king of Delhi became
imminent, his commanders advised him that "that on the great day of
battle these 100,000 prisoners could not be left with the baggage, and
that it would be entirely against the rules of war to set these
idolators and enemies of Islam at liberty." Therefore, "no other course
remained but that of making them all food for the sword." And so, Timur
writes with charming candour: "I proclaimed throughout the camp that
every man who had infidel prisoners should put them to death, and
whoever neglected to do so should himself be executed and his property
given to the informer. When this order became known to the ghazis of
Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death. One
hundred thousand infidels, impious idolators, were on that day slain.
Maulana Nasiruddin Umar, a counselor and man of learning, who, in all
his life, had never killed a sparrow, now, in execution of my order,
slew with his sword fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives."
And thus did the obliging faithful acquire the coveted title of "Ghazi"
--slayer of the infidel. That we Hindus havve survived a thousand—year pogrom
into modern times is in spite of Islam, not because of it (if someone feels greatful to the rulers for their love showered upon us). (By S.Ramakrishnan)

If a person after reading this article feels that this article preaches hatred against other particular communities and that the heinous crimes mentioned could not have been committed just because we are still alive as a religion is using a flawed logic. This is quite like denying the reality of Auschwitz on grounds that Jews still survive. Mr. Steven Speilberg should be ordered to abstain from screening "Schindler's List" on the ground that it might perpetuate hatred of Germans among Jews.

Hinduism, bases its spiritual vision on a Unity underlying visible plurality.
Hinduism emphasizes the fundamental Unity of all existence. Hindus owe our civilizational survival in no small measure to the heroic
efforts of the oft-reviled HINDU ANCESTORS of the modern Pakistanis and
Afghans.

                                                           

(By Prashant Kumar  3rd Year M.C.A.  Reg. No.  010919053)

 

Hindus were kept ignorant in the past Do we know that millions of Hindus have been killed in Bangladesh itself, leave alone the wipeout of Hindus from Kashmir valley .We must Today we often here from politicians in there speeches that people of India are very intelligent (sounds like playing a game with a kid (Hindus) where a lollypop (self-respect) is the reward)