Every Indian child who goes to school soon meets with that special moment when he is told about his early ancestors, their origin, their story,their achievements. A window suddenly opens,his small horizon tries to grasp those far away and mysterious times.
And what is he/she...
And what is he/she...
taught? If anything, it will be that some 1,500 years before the Christian era, large groups of uncivilized, Sanskrit-speaking pastoral nomads (rural wanderers), the “Aryans,” entered into North-west India from Central Asia, where they came upon the highly developed Indus.....
saraswati (or Harappan) civilization, which had been flourishing there for over a millennium and whose inhabitants were Dravidians. The invading “Aryans” destroyed this civilization and pushed the Dravidians south, then over a few centuries composed the Vedas, got Sanskrit to...
spread all over India, and built the great Ganges civilization. That, in a nutshell, is what most educated Indians know of their distant past, and is still today presented as solid knowledge. It is there not only in textbooks, but in “authoritative” reference books and in..
the best dictionaries.
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