From: bond@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Girish Bonde)
Subject: Re: NEWS : Distortion in history textbooks opposed
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:51:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep24.212051.1499@wuecl.wustl.edu> sp2@cec1.wustl.edu (Sundara Pandian) writes:
> * Source : Times of India
> * Dated  : September 17, 1992
>
>
>       Distortion in history textbooks opposed
>     -----------------------------------------


What distortion?? It is a correction of already distorted 
perverse version of our history.


>                By A Staff Reporter
>
> NEW DELHI, September 16
>    TEACHERS of history of three Central universi-
>ties  of Delhi have strongly objected to the large
>scale alteration of contents of history  textbooks
>of schools by the Uttar Pradesh government.
>    In a signed statement, over 50 history  teach-
>ers from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This proves that there is strange alliance between Marxists
and Muslims of India.


>and Delhi University, urged the Prime Minister, Mr
>Narasimha  Rao  and  the  Union Minister for human
>resource development, Mr Arjun Singh, to intervene
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not surprising. After the MP government's investigations against him,
Arjun Singh will always be ready to redirect the human resources
for BJP bashing.

>immediately. Their appeal came in the wake of mas-
>sive revision of  history  textbooks  on  communal
>lines.
>    The teachers said that at a time when vigorous
>efforts  are  being made to settle the Ayodhya is-
>sue, the BJP government of UP has altered the con-
>tents   of  the  school  textbooks  which  contain
>misleading and distorted facts.
>    According to the  revised  books,  Babar  des-
>troyed  the  Ram temple in Ayodhya and replaced it
>with a mosque. The teachers said there is no basis
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>whatsoever  for  such  a  supposition. They argued
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

ignoramus! ignoramus!!


>that the schoolchildren have impressionable  minds
>and  they should not be taught communal history.
>    The new textbooks also say the Aryans were the
>indigenous  inhabitants of India, contrary to what
>the historians of repute  have  written  in  their
>books.  According to historians, like R.C.Majumdar
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and K.A.Nilakanta Sastri,  the  Aryans  came  from
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ahha, I am amused. Typical Marxist characteristics!
The above gentlemen have been criticised by Marxist
historians for writing 'communal' and 'chauvinistic'
opinions in the past. And now these hypocrites are using
above names to further their opinions.

Similarly, in Ayodhya issue, the archaeological reports
published by Prof. B. B. Lal and Dr. S. P. Gupta were
used by these Marxist historians to support their claim
that Babar never destroyed a temple in Ayodhya. And when
Prof. Lal and Dr. Gupta asserted that the temple existed
on the Ram Janma Bhoomi site in Ayodhya, the same historians
started crying foul and shamelessly engaged in disgusting
character assasination of Prof. Lal and Dr. Gupta.


>outside  the  ancient  Indian  sub-continent.  The
>teachers protesting over this distortion felt  the
>Nazi  ideology  of  racial chauvinism in the young
>and  impressionable   minds   would   affect   the
>researches both in India and outside.  They said :
>" To impose an opposite view on the schoolchildren
>would  fly in the face of researchers in India and
>elsewhere. "


Yes, let the schoolchildren know the hypocracy and 
intellectual dishonesty of these researchers.


>    According to the teachers which  included  em-
>inent  historians,  like  Prof.Summit  Sarkar,  Dr
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Mushirul Hassan, Prof  Zahoor  Siddiqui  and  Prof
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>D.N.Jha, the elementary principles that the school
 ^^^^^^^^

Where were Romila Thapar, Bipan Chandra, Irfan Habib?


>textbooks should contain only such facts which are
>well  established,  generally acceptable and based
>on solid evidence, have been grossly  violated  by


In that case, the Aryan invasion theory should be removed
from the school syllabus.


>the state government.
>    They urged  the  Centre  to  persuade  the  UP
>government  to withdraw these books. Their plea is
>that education is a concurrent subject and any re-
>vision  of  the  contents of school textbooks must
>involve a participation of a cross-section of his-
>torians both at the state and all India levels.
>    They also appealed to all the  right  thinking
>citizens   of   the   country  to  oppose  the  UP
>government's  effort  to  inject  communalism  and
>chauvinism  in  school  textbooks so that it could
>see reason.
>---------------------------------------------------


The right thinking citizens are laughing at you, hypocrites!


- Girish.

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