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Distortion of History
How history was made up at Nalanda
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“The mine of learning, honoured Nalanda” — that is how the 16th-17th century Tibetan historian, Taranath, referred to the university at Nalanda. At the time...
The Aryan Invasion Myth: How 21st Century Science Debunks 19th Century Indology
The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) needs no introduction. It is the bedrock upon which Bharat's history has been written. Its central thesis has three...
The KGB papers – ‘It seemed like the entire country was for sale’
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Neither (Jawaharlal) Nehru nor the IB (Intelligence Bureau), however, realised how thoroughly the Bharatiya embassy in Moscow was being penetrated by the KGB, using...
‘Objective whitewash for objective history’ – how communist historians negated the record of Islam
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"This is an old charge which keeps surfacing now and then," wrote one of those "eminent historians", K. N. Panikkar, in an vituperative response...
Colonial myths and battered narratives in Bharatiya history
Surrounded by landless, limitless vast expansions of ocean on three sides and crowned by the sky-dwarfing magnificence of the Himalayas in the north, is...
The crisis of the Muslim narrative in Bharat
The difference between Mongol rulers and the rest of the empires that existed is that their incredible cruelty to their own citizens. For millennia,...
Dimensions of Hindu Sati Pratha
The Hindus revere Shakti. She is prakriti, the pure energy that manifests purusha, the pure being, or consciousness. Mata Sati, one such revered form...
The troubled history of the Aryan Invasion Theory
Ever since the rise of the internet, Hindus have been able to dispute the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) with greater and greater success. It...
Colonizers were monsters in their own time
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The nine-year-olds taken as sex slaves by Christopher Columbus were not like ‘this is a great guy’. While they were being raped or beaten and thrown overboard, they...
The Big Scandal of Indology
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Imagine this: While traveling through a foreign land, you find an announcement of a public lecture about your country at your hotel. Being free...