History written by the victors, the colonialists, who stayed for 200+years,in this land of sanatana dharma,but never imbibed the essence of it. Their aim was to subjugate, command & loot. History the brits wrote was a adapted, modified, manipulated history to suit their presence.
https://twitter.com/t_d_h_nair/status/1447554275970674707
After independence the Congress govt headed by Nehru, was quite comfortable in pushing the colonial narrative to integrate the socialist thought into education. Non violence & Congress freedom struggle is now entrenched into our minds.
The revolutionaries, put to death by hanging or shooting, or dumped into kaala paani were just a line in our books. Even as a democracy we need to amplify their stories. It is for the ppl to decide in favour or analyse further.
@vikramsampath has written an epic book on the great revolutionary leader, Veer Savarkar, incarcerated in the Andaman jail by the brits for 11 long years,and was tortured by them.Our true history penned by a historian with a degree.Even without wd not make him less of one.
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