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<b>For a national resurgence </b>

Naveed Tajammal

Under the present Act of Appeasement, which literally means, “An act or a policy of appeasing, especially by making concessions to a possible enemy in order to avoid war or for reasons related to a confrontation” , I feel we have gone overboard. This is in continuation to my earlier article, “Enlightenment for our youth”, in which I had very briefly highlighted the present English medium historical aspect being taught as a part of the syllabus. The conclusion drawn from it, unfortunately, leads us nowhere. It is like going in circles. It mystifies and misleads our young ones. At the age of seven years, they are stuck in a mental debate, whether their religion is correct or the theory of Darwin.

Parents, as stated earlier, are so much engrossed in their own world that they have so far failed to agitate this point — a point that affects the ideology of our state, nay, our very entity. As an Islamic Republic of Pakistan with reference to the “Act”, it stands on a trial. Our learned men, unwittingly, have been drawn into an arena that they do not comprehend, nor wish to even bother to get themselves enlightened with. Has our statecraft gone to sleep? In our English medium schools, that are a breeding ground for our future intelligentsia and subsequent leadership in them, a syllabus is being taught in which, what to speak of our national entity, our very faith is put on a pedestal to be ridiculed at.

If rectification of this error is not timely done after our generation is dead and buried, our upcoming generations will end up in an abyss that has no way out. When the basics are put in doubt, what next? Our faith is being ridiculed in the guise of science, what science? Is it the one that has yet to prove the actual so-called missing link? Besides science fiction in movies, conjecture and theories put aside, they have nothing to show getting down to the brass tacks. So, why is there an element of doubt in so young an age? It seems that to copy the West in our quest to become more liberal than the Westerners themselves, we from a population of now almost 170 million. We could not locate a single writer to write our historical perspective in its true form. It had to be a Peter Moss, a Teressa Crompton and a Beatrice Stimpson. One wonders why, on whose behest and on whose calling?

<b>We are a nation so rich in its past, a past that competes the world in the chronology of events, starting from the mists of time. The question is why our past governments did not spend money and failed to make efforts to realise our past glory? Our books have been rewritten in Deva Nagri script, our medicinal works are now called with Sanskrit names, i e, Ayur-Vedic — a work done in our Taxila University in the bygone times. The book on statecraft, the much acclaimed, Arthashastra, the book which supersedes Machiavelli’s The Prince in all aspects was also written in the Taxila University. In fact, all data was meticulously maintained by our Buddhist monks but has now been rewritten from our script into Deva Nagri script with new titles and new Hindi sounding names. A history in reverse is being taught to us. </b>

But such is the fate of nations that disassociate with their past. The governments since 1947 have failed to establish that beside our religion the key factor is that we have a separate entity called in the present Western term, “<b>The Indus Valley Civilization” , which did not end as propagated in our new history books in the year 1900 BC. It has continued till to date.</b> In various times and under different geographic names, it is a subject by itself. <b>The Hindu historians have tried to prove that the Indus people did not posses a horse till they came riding on the horses and destroyed us. </b>

We were an agrarian society till 1900 BC, meaning thereby a peaceful society. As is being propagated under the Appeasement Act what we should become in our present English syllabus. <b>To briefly give insight of our past, i e, the Buddhist past, the Hindus jointly with the Western historians changed the world chronology in the 18th century</b>. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Earlier, in the 15th and the 16th century the world chronology had also been changed during the European Renaissance. <b>It was for nothing that Sir William Jones was helped by a Hindu Brahman called Pundit Radha Kanta along with Edward Gibbons, who in the same epoch wrote an epic called the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. With such editions, the Western world bestowed on Jones the title of father of Indianology. The Pundit did his job. </b>

Gibbons got the Romans a place in the world chronology. The original Iranian Empire, and Turanian too, were swept under the carpet. The <b>same happened with our Gandhara Civilisation</b>. Brief times are allotted to them as one reads on. The old empires were broken into pieces and from the dismembered, geographic areas new entities were created. But the old Arabic and the Persian literature still stands testimony to their past and salutes the actual civilisations.

The past is now locked in the libraries of Saint Petersberg, Russia, the British Museum, the India Office Library, the Paris National library and the library of Royal Asiatic Society. All of our past is now gathering dust. The books were translated in the 18th and 19th centuries by scholars who faltered on the “nuqtah” or the “izafats” — the diacritical points placed above or below a written letter to indicate different sounds. <b>The learned men of our past who had written the books were products of two institutions called maktab and the madrassah.</b> <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo--> All manuscripts were handwritten. The “dals” were marked with diacritical points. A person familiar with the trend could and can give a true descriptive meaning of the works described above. What one can only lament at this moment is the callous attitude on the part of our past leaders for having failed to identify the actual reason for our Two Nation Theory on which I have very briefly touched upon above.

The story of the horse “The cause” attributed to our downfall in 1900 BC by the wise Hindu Nagar Brahman pundits of the Kathiawar region, the actual home and birthplace of a new religion, was based on the concepts of the three older religions of Buddha, Zartusht and Mahavira. To a reader, it may sound ridiculous who may have read the past chronology as taught to him by his teachers. But history never forgets the past, nor forgives those who distort it. <b>The new religion was called “Brahmanism”. Hind was a separate entity with reference to its geography. </b>So, it was since the 7th and the 8th century A D that the Arab geographers and historians started writing. Hence evolved two entities called “Sindh-wa-Hind” as the people of Hind had by now started professing a new religion. They were later called Hindus with reference to their geographic entity. <b>Brahmanism was hence termed Hinduism by the Arabs. </b> <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Referring back to the “horse” to highlight from the books of Hindus themselves, I will quote the History of Punjab, edition of 1891 by S.M. Latif. He states that in the Hindu Book of Law, Dham ma podam the mention of the noble Sindhi horses exists and also in the Ramayana of Hindus, the king of Kaikeyes occupying the Ravi-Beas region, Harappa to be precise, had the title of “Asvapti” or the lord of the Horses.

But our children, unfortunately, are not informed of such information. Even our learned educationists who must have pondered over the drafts of these books when they were allowed to be published, failed to realise that till the Sikh period. The dhani breed of our Salt Range was very famous. It is now almost extinct. The Sanghar breed of Sanghar Pass area now forms Dera Ghazi Khan. The third breed was the Roh-i-Sulemani breed of horses that was raised and trained to walk on pebbles from the start. Hence they could be used without horse shoes of iron and nails. The British had their horse depots all over the Punjab region on our side — the Trans-Sutlej region.

Later, the Roh-i-Sulemani breed came to be called the Balochi breed by the British in the Raj period. The other reason was that the bulk of its cavalry was from our regions post 1857. These horses lasted till the mechanised elements entered the cavalry regiments. But not to be forgotten, our Indus Valley horses through out the time were noted for their equable temperament and soundness of constitution. The hallmark of our horses was a very distinctive head with exceptionally mobile ears, which curved inward until tips were almost touching. “Kunooti” is a term designated for them. Their hooves were hard and well-shaped. Such is the past of our unfortunate horse.

<i>The writer has a 24-year experience in investigating the identity of the Indus-person in a historical context.</i>
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