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Glad to note. Given the aggressive schedule, suspect changes are in math+science curriculum, & NOT in history where bigotry, propaganda & distortion are fortified by special interests. Who are the scholars entrusted with history corrections? @HRDministry@DrRPNishank , @PMOIndia
2. If social studies texts are also not merely "framework"-revised, but the *content* also corrected, then I strongly recommend Prof. Meenakshi Jain to be on the panel.
4. This is 2020: ideological leanings of committee members is clear.
Chairman of Social Studies cmte should ensure 50-50 panel of "old ideological" members and new crop of Indic researchers, so that "old school" does not enforce its "majoritarianism" on Indic researchers.
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Data on British impoverishment of India abounds in colonial literature. Here is one more data point about sugar. in the early 1900s, Indian annual consumption of Gur + country sugar was a few million tons, with about 25% imported. 1/6
Ancient Greeks & Romans who used honey as sweetener, knew about sugar as a rare imported luxury (sakcharon from India).
Records show colonial import of Indian sugar was increasing and high in pre-industrial Britain.
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By late 1920s, the imports from India practically vanished.
The story is vast & complex, linking slavery, indentured-labor, industrialization, colonial plantations, & British profiteering as hinted in the next few posts.
AP World History taught in Maryland schools in USA is filled with horrendous disinformation, errors, erasures and more, designed to make the Indian student reject their heritage. The criminal culprits who wrote the devious content are shown in this image.
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They have 4 pages in this chapter to discuss "South Asia". Let us see what they choose to highlight.
2/9
In the few lines that discuss the Zoroastrianism & Abrahamic beliefs, notice how they choose to use respectful words for the Abrahamics.
Notice the choice of words and what they choose to highlight on Sanatan Dharma.
Imagine now a teen's mind and the impressions made 3/9
Dear @SrBachchan, a video snippet from your talk below (time-tagged) is doing the rounds on WA & caught my attention 'coz this issue keeps surfacing on SM & by critics of my talks, commenting on my pronunciation of these words.
As a worldwide celebrity who many look up to, you have a responsibility to communicate correct information. If you agree with the contents of this thread, I hope you will correct what you asserted in the video, if you haven't already done so (video is from 2019).
You conflate two separate issues as the same, attributing them to the colonials.
Yes, colonials/invaders distorted Indian names & they should revert to original names in Thiruvananthapuram, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Bhagyanagar, Prayagraj & more. You are right on this issue.
And if any Karnataka voter who stayed at home on voting day or voted for the congress sings ABBA's "My, my! How can I resist you?" (congress), they deserve shaming for the unforgivable crime of allowing a nation-destroying force to take power in KN.
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To their minor credit, the BJP in Karnataka protected the rights of Hindus when they were in power, calling out the criminality of conversions. And again, to their credit they instituted school lessons that provided a rounded picture of the freedom struggle.
2/8
In the first month in office, the congress moved with an ideological killer instinct, going for the jugular vein - popular among its constituents - to kill these BJP-mandated Hindu safety and rights with extreme prejudice.
1/ Colonial era missionaries introduced the horrendous false equation that "Brahmins = Evil" after finding it impossible to convert them. This is the root of Western hatred of the Hindu civilization. Here is missionary Abbe Dubois from 1820s:
2/ Hatred of Hindus has been institutionalized by the West thru its many agencies over the years. Today we see its fetid, toxic tentacles express itself in Seattle, Toronto and elsewhere under the fig-leaf of "anti-Caste" legislation.
Here is more hatred from Abbe Dubois:
3/ Hindus who seek to fight back against this institutionalization of hatred against them in India or elsewhere have no choice but to go to the roots of this hatred. Abbe Dubois's sick work on "Letters on State of Christianity in India" offers a good starting point.
Curious to know what Romila Thapar spoke at the C.D Deshmukh Memorial Lecture at New Delhi last week?
Much against my better judgment I listened to her talk, none the wiser, but poorer by the hour or so spent on this irredeemable miasma.
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True to their failed research methodology, she privileges a bizarre opinion from a "highly respected historian", sneers at the masses interest in history, nationalism & creates a strained false-equivalence with drug-abuse. Who cares for evidence when a random opinion fits!
2/15
All her Marxist career, she excelled in demonizing counter-view points.
This talk shows that her age - 91 years - has done nothing to blunt those fangs of venom, unleashed to discredit dissenting viewpoints.