International Conference On Indian History

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>‘Purge history books of bias’ </b>

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The former Union Minister, Subramanian Swamy, has charged that wilful distortions in writing Indian history have been occurring solely due to state support since the British times.

“The British rulers wrote our history to divide and rule us. But what is the excuse of Indian governments after Independence to continue with the same policy?”

He was delivering the valedictory address at a three-day international conference on “Indian History, Civilisation and Geopolitics” here on Sunday.

Dr. Swamy said myths spread by biased historians overtook Indian history, while actual events and places had been declared myths.

He demanded a reorientation of the state policy to purge history books of a false chronology of ancient India and myths such as Aryan invasion and racial divide of north and south Indians. colonial biases.”

<b>Vicious myth </b>

Quoting dozens of slokas, scholar S. Ram Mohan said: “[That] women had no rights in ancient India is a vicious myth spread by colonial historians.

“The reality is that all the three ancient code books of Hindus — Manu Smriti, Narad Smriti and Yajnavalkya Smriti — have a common theme of social welfare and an egalitarian society, with a very high status assigned to women and the deprived sections.”<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

http://www.hindu.com/2009/01/13/stories/...360900.htm