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While I am pleased to see international coverage of the strategic erasure of history in Indian textbooks, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Understanding how this happened holds lessons for historians everywhere. 🧵washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/…
Like most of its other social objectives, the RSS has an organization dedicated to the remaking of history to its own ends. The Akhil Bhartiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana (ABISY- lit. Plan for Indian history collection) was founded in 1973 by the pracharak Moropant Pingle. 2/
The aptly named Pingle was a founding member of the Viswa Hindu Parisad, which has a powerful US counterpart, VHP-A. He served as the intellectual head of the RSS for years, guided it through the Emergency and was vital to the Ramjamnabhumi movement. 3/
