@DrRPNishank Don't be proud like @PrakashJavdekar that not a single word of text books on history has been altered. It is because India surrendered her education at school level to Xtian Convents and college level education,
https://twitter.com/Shrimaan/status/1045181323378229250
that Indians (from 1800s onwards) have developed an inferiority complex about India and everything Indian but lost their traditions and rich legacy. We are fighting a civilizational war here not just altering of text books.
Whatever little bit of Tamil that I know, the Tamil history, the Indian history that I have studied is because I read in a non-convent school - called the DTEA Higher Secondary School in Delhi. Am ever grateful to the teachers for having taught the above topics.
Otherwise, I would not have not learnt about Bharathiyar, Avvaiyaar, the Tamil Script, the Raja Raja Chozhas, Kannagi, Thiruvalluvar and like. Every region in India is rich with legacy.
One of the purpose of education is to make aware and teach young Indians about the rich legacy of India (and not just what the marauding mughals did and / or constructed).
When visits to taj mahal or other tombs can happen, why not to places that offer rich cultural legacy that we have? It should be a continual process.
Am upset that I came to know a person like Devi Ahilyabai Holkar once I came to Indore. When I spoke to a group of young ladies in Chennai, their reaction was, "Huh, who is that ?". Let us not allow that to happen.
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