Page 141 : Aushuddho -- The logical, philosophical,
materialist Mutazilla disappeared. On the one hand, the
fundamentalist thinking based on the Quran and the
Hadis...." Shuddho -- "Delete, 'On the one hand, the
fundamentalist thinking based on the Quran and the
Hadis'...."
Book : Bharatvarsher Itihash, by Dr. Narendranath
Bhattacharya, published by Chakravarty and Son....
Page 89 : Aushuddho -- "Sultan Mahmud used force
for widespread murder, loot, destruction and conversion."
Shuddho -- "There was widespread loot and destruction by
Mahmud." That is, no reference to killing, no reference to
forcible conversions.
Page 89 : Aushuddho -- "He looted valuables worth 2
crore dirham from the Somnath temple and used the
Shivling as a step leading up to the masjid in Ghazni."
Shuddho -- "Delete 'and used the Shivling as a step leading
up to the masjid in Ghazni.'"
Page 112 : Aushuddho -- "Hindu-Muslim relations of
the medieval ages is a very sensitive issue. The non-
believers had to embrace Islam or death." Shuddho -- All
matter on pages 112-13 to be deleted.
Page 113 : Aushuddho -- "According to Islamic law
non-Muslims will have to choose between death and Islam.
Only the Hanafis allow non-Muslims to pay jaziya in
exchange for their lives." Shuddho -- Rewrite this as
follows : "By paying jaziya to Allauddin Khilji, Hindus
could lead normal lives." Moreover, all the subsequent
sentences "Qazi....", "Taimur's arrival in India...." to be
deleted.
Page 113 : Aushuddho -- "Mahmud was a believer in
the rule of Islam whose core was 'Either Islam or death'.
Shuddho -- Delete.
Book : Bharuter Itihash, by Shobhankar
Chattopadhyaya, published by Narmada Publishers.
Page 181 : Aushuddho -- "To prevent Hindu women
>from being seen by Muslims, they were directed to remain
indoors." Shuddho -- Delete.
Book : Itihasher Kahini, by Nalini Bhushan Dasgupta,
published by B. B. Kumar.
Page 132 : Aushuddho -- According to Todd [the
famous chronicler of Rajasthan annals] the purpose behind
Allauddin's Chittor expedition was to secure Rana Rattan
Singh's beautiful wife, Padmini." Shuddho -- Delete.
Page 154 : Aushuddho -- "As dictated by Islam, there
were three options for non-Muslims : get yourself converted
to Islam; pay jaziya; accept death. In an Islamic State non-
Muslims had to accept one of these three options."
Shuddho -- Delete.
Page 161 : Aushuddho -- "The early Sultans were
eager to expand the sway of Islam by forcibly converting
Hindus into Islam." Shuddho -- Delete.
Book : Bharuter Itihash, by P. Maiti, Sreedhar
Prakashini.
Page 117 : Aushuddho -- "There is an account that
Allauddin attacked the capital of Mewar, Chittorgarh, to
get Padmini, the beautiful wife of Rana Rattan Singh."
Shuddho -- Delete.
Page 139 : Ashuddho -- "There was a sense of
aristocratic superiority in the purdah system. That is why
upper-class Hindus adopted this system from upper-class
Muslims. Another opinion has it that purdah came into
practice to save Hindu women from Muslims. Most
probably, purdah came into vogue because of both factors."
Shuddho -- delete.
The most extensive deletions are ordered in regard to
the chapter on "Aurangezebe's policy on religion". Every
allusion to what he actually did to the Hindus, to their
temples, to the very leitmotif of his rule -- to spread the
sway of Islam -- are directed to be excised from the book.
He is to be presented as one who had an aversion -- an
ordinary sort of aversion, almost a secular one -- to music
and dancing, to the presence of prostitutes in the Court, and
that it is these things he banished. The only allusion to his
having done anything in regard to Islam which is allowed
to remain is that "By distancing himself from Akbar's
policy of religious tolerance and policy of equal treatment,
Aurangzebe caused damage to Mughal rule."
Book : Swadesho Shobhyota, by Dr. P. K. Basu and S.
B. Ghatak, Abhinav Prakashan.
Page 126 : Ashuddho -- "Some people believe that
Allauddin's Mewar expedition was to get hold of Padmini,
the wife of Rana Rattan Singh." Shuddho -- Delete.
Page 145 : Ashuddho -- "Apart from this, because
Islam used extreme inhuman means to establish itself in
India, this became an obstacle for the coming together of
Indian and Islamic cultures." Shuddho -- Delete.
Book : Bharat Katha, by G. Bhattacharya, Bulbul
Prakashan.
Page 40 : Ashuddho -- "Muslims used to take recourse
to torture and inhuman means to force their religious
beliefs and practices on Indians." Shuddho -- Delete.
Page 41 : Ashuddho -- "The liberal, humane elements
in Islam held out hope for oppressed Hindus." Shuddho --
The entire paragraph beginning with "the caste system
among Hindus.... was attacked" is to be deleted. Instead
write, "There was no place for casteism in Islam.
Understandably, the influence of Islam created an
awakening among Hindus against caste discrimination.
Lower caste oppressed Hindus embraced Islam."
Page 77 : Ashuddho -- "His main task was to oppress
non-believers, especially Hindus." Shuddho -- This and the
preceding sentence to be deleted.
Book : Bharuter Itihash, by A. C. Roy, published by
Prantik.
Page 102 : Ashuddho -- "There is an account that
Allauddin attacked Chittor to get the beautiful wife of Rana
Rattan Singh, Padmini." Shuddho -- Delete.
Page 164 : Ashuddho -- "It was his commitment to
Islam which made him a fundamentalist." Shuddho --
Delete.
Book : Bharut Kahini, by G. C. Rowchoudhury,
published by A. K. Sarkar and Co.
Page 130 : Ashuddho -- "That is why he adopted the
policy of converting Hindus to Islam -- so as to increase the
number of Muslims. Those Hindus who refused to discard
their religion were indiscriminately massacred by him or
his generals." Shuddho -- Delete.
In a word, no forcible conversions, no massacres, no
destruction of temples. Just that Hinduism had created an
exploitative, casteist society. Islam was egalitarian. Hence
the oppressed Hindus embraced Islam !
Muslim historians of those times are in raptures at the
heap of Kafirs who have been dispatched to hell. Muslim
historians are forever lavishing praise on the ruler for the
temples he has destroyed, for the hundreds of thousands he
has got to see the light of Islam. Law books like The
Hedaya prescribe exactly the options to which these little
textbooks alluded. All whitewashed away.
Objective whitewash for objective history. And today
if anyone seeks to restore truth to these textbooks, the
scream, "Communal rewriting of history."
But there isn't just whitewash of Islam. For after Islam
came another great emancipatory ideology -- Marxism-
Leninism.
The teachers furnish extracts from the textbook for
Class V.
".... in Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba and in other
East European countries, the workers and peasants are
ruling the country after capturing power, whereas in
U.S.A., England, France and Germany the owners of mills
and factories are ruling the country."
".... after the Revolution in Russia the first
exploitation-free society was established."
".... Islam and Christianity are the only religions
which treated man with honour and equality...."
Thus, not just whitewash, there is hogwash too.