Thread by @abhilegend000

So this thread will be on the topic of distortion in our history books. I'll be mainly going through NCERT books as of now as NCERT books are the most widespread read in India. Let's begin.

So a little bit of history is needed before I start. In 2002, NDA government changed the NCERT books. There was a lot of cries of "saffronisation" of the history books and thus UPA government, changed the history books in 2005. Read it here: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/NCE…

So, let's start with class 6 history. By none other than Romila Thapar.
1. Aryans came in 1500 BC, straight out of Max Mueller book. Also speculation that the cities were attacked despite no such finding ever taken place.
2. Aryans came from outside India. No discussion required

1. Aryans ate beef and it was served as a mark of honor (I'll let this excellent thread explain how it is incorrect :

https://twitter.com/VedicWisdom1/status/1260944286377533445?s=20

)
2. Aryans brought horses along with them (another lie which has been in contention for decades)

3. Aryas/Dasyus are two different races who fought with each others with aryans as white skinned race and Dasyus as dark skinned persons. This is blatant dishonesty as Thapar herself writes in her book history of Early India that Aryans were not a different race (pic 2).

1. Thapar outright denies that later that Dasyus were dark skinned.

1. Between the vedic age and the kingdom of Magadha, there is nothing to report in the history. Nothing at all happened in the 900 years as per her own chronology.
2. Buddhists and Jains are named as persons who did not want show of worship (Hinduism). Propaganda, huh?

1. Buddhism and Jainism are very simple religions as compared to Hinduism.
2. Ashoka is given prominence in the book (his main trait is conversion to Buddhism after Kalinga), what if I omitted the part that it was not an outright conversion.

There are contrarian narrative that Ashoka never changed his ways to non violence. @sanjeevsanyal notes in his book (Ocean of Churn) and this excellent article. Do have a read.

swarajyamag.com/culture/ashoka…

1. Christians came in India around 1st Century AD (Just look at the admiration of Christianity). This has been proven false by Richard Garbe. Pic courtesy of @TIinExile
2. Pushyamitra Sunga and Shunga dynasty is edited out entirely except for one line mention.

1. Prediction of future is a misuse of astronomy (Muh propaganda).
2. Ashvamdedha was horse sacrifice (It wasn't). Ramayana and Mahabharata became religious literature in Gupta period (What a load of bullshit)

1, 2. Read the admiration of Islam by Thapar.
3,4. The timeline according to Max Mueller, written verbatim by Thapar.

Important personalities. Recognize a pattern?

Now, we come to class 7 history books.

1. Mughals and Turks were Indian rulers despite being foreign invaders (Propaganda uncha rahe hamara).
2. Entire Chola Kingdom history is condensed in nine pages. Nine pages for a kingdom which ruled for 1500 years!!!!

1. Description for one of the greatest philosophers and humans to have ever walked on this earth, Adi Shankaracharya!!

That's it. Not even two paragraphs.
2. Mahmud Ghazani was only motivated by loot of wealth (Not conversion mind you, propaganda uncha rahe hamara)

1. Mahmud broke temples because they had money and gold (and he could claim it was religious merit, not that this was his primary reason mind you).
2. Mahmud was such a nice person yo!