This passage is from a book used as a textbook for Class 7 , ICSE.
Max nonsense in ten lines :
Meanwhile Namdev
Namdev lived from 1270 to 1350. Exactly the time Maharashtra got exposed to equality and brotherhood.
Hinduism faced a calamity due to Khilji invasion. Temples were broken, pilgrimage centres rendered desolate. The Bhakti movement, with its focus on simplicity kept people within the Hindu fold.
Ref : Shri Shiv Samarth Anonya Sambandh.
Here is the source of your simplicity.
One of Maharashtra's earliest and tallest historians
Justice Ranade on importance of Bhakti movement. This pertains to Maratha history, but the base theme of keeping Hindus within Hinduism holds everywhere.
" At a time when invaders had obliterated the open display of Hindu religion, the Bhakti movement, through its simplicity of worship, kirtans and Bhajans, kept the masses within the Hindu fold"
- VK Rajwade.
Now this is not my domain of knowledge, but surely, if you are going back to Original Hinduism .. you would go to the Vedas (Including Yajurveda) rather than Upanishads no ?
Attaching Bhakti movement solely to caste and calling it some neo liberal movement, bereft of the points described above, has been a common leftist theme for decades.
Romila Thapar from an article in NYT
There are 2,00,000 students in ICSE
Small number, but still sufficient to supply sufficient number of wokes to drive the Commie narrative.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Historians, much like Journalists, have eroded themselves over the past 70 years but indulging more in ideological bunkum than what their profession entails.
It is the reason why the "Professional Historian" gets no attention at best and his jeered at, at worst.
An invasion such as Somnath is also conveniently swept under some So Mannat fairy tale. Ghaznavi destroyed it because it protected the So Mannat idol from Arabia. Lulz.
Let me know if this was found anywhere in the textbooks :
The " Padarth" of the Jagannath Puri idols was chased by Kala Pahar all the way to Lake Chilka.
In fact there are many occasions that the murtis were moved.