12-08-2005, 09:09 PM
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Just saw this thread.. A good one!
My 2 quick cents..
Indian scholars, historians, and archeologists generally owe their allegiance <b>not to India or the truth</b>, but to their preceptors and founders, the British, who did their best to belittle our history and culture.
Modern history books and researches are based on two hypotheses, viz. the <b>Aryan Invasion/Migration/Hallucinations of India and the Alexander-Sandrocottus synchronism</b>. Accepted by all modern historians as a gospel truth. <b>But this has no acceptance anywhere in Indian literature, tradition or authority. It runs counter to all.</b> Based on the above two, for example, the historicity of post- Mahabharatha kings has been doubted by so-called historians as they are not corroborated by any foreign source or inscriptions. But the same is true of the Greek history or history based on bible, which is not supported by any foreign authority (and the inscriptions are useless for reconstructing the same).
The real History of India is yet to be written based on indigenous sources and supplemented by all other resources, wherever available.
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> Just saw this thread.. A good one!My 2 quick cents..
Indian scholars, historians, and archeologists generally owe their allegiance <b>not to India or the truth</b>, but to their preceptors and founders, the British, who did their best to belittle our history and culture.
Modern history books and researches are based on two hypotheses, viz. the <b>Aryan Invasion/Migration/Hallucinations of India and the Alexander-Sandrocottus synchronism</b>. Accepted by all modern historians as a gospel truth. <b>But this has no acceptance anywhere in Indian literature, tradition or authority. It runs counter to all.</b> Based on the above two, for example, the historicity of post- Mahabharatha kings has been doubted by so-called historians as they are not corroborated by any foreign source or inscriptions. But the same is true of the Greek history or history based on bible, which is not supported by any foreign authority (and the inscriptions are useless for reconstructing the same).
The real History of India is yet to be written based on indigenous sources and supplemented by all other resources, wherever available.