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A 'historian's' judgement - a letter - Organiser

M S Kilpady ()
12 January 1997

Title : A 'history's' judgement - a letter
Author : M S Kilpady
Publication : Organiser
Date : January 12, 1997

"A liar needs a good memory" but the memory gets punctured when a secular JNU
historian practising Bolshevik philosophy starts maligning the Sangh Parivar
at the drop of a hat and this has become a Congenital habit with self-styled
breast-beating secularists. A JNU historian, while speaking On his Pet
subject "communalism" at a meeting arranged by the Indian School of Social
Sciences in Mumbai in the recent past found, not unusually fault with a
history textbook currently used in some schools in Rajasthan stating : "I
have read the book and it gives the brothers far more importance than Mahatma
Gandhi." The book in question refers to the death of two brothers from
Calcutta during the movement demanding reconstruction of Ram temple al
Ayodhya. If the book were prescribed in Kerala, or Tripura or West Bengal, we
would have found his lips sealed and he would have been seen opening his
mouth only to justify it. At the same time, we "communalists" should feel
overjoyed to note that at 'least we have one historian among the secularists
who has a change of heart regarding the Father of the Nation, who was,
without any let-up, abusively branded as "traitor", "decadent", "culture" by
People's War, the mouth-piece of the desi reds during the freedom struggle
and further branded as "the running dog of British imperialism". It is a pity
that the JNU historian has not read the Urdu history textbook Hindustan ki
Tareekh by Muhammed Yakub prescribed in schools by the West Bengal
Government, and if he has read it, he must be closing his eyes with his lips
sealed to this blasphemy for fear of getting reached. It is said that if an
Islamic historian joins hands with a Marxist historian of the JNU variety,
one can easily forget history and take to fiction. The Master Theory
professed by the Marxists would not convince the JNU historians that the book
refers to the Aryans as "Nordic race", people in the hilly regions of
Travancore and Naga Hills in Assam as "Negritoes". It asserts that the word
"Cholas" is derived from chal meaning wandering tribes and ultimately came to
be known as "Cholas" According to it, "King Akbar had become temporarily
popular with the non-Muslim subjects, but this popularity caused immense harm
to the cause of Islam". The National Steering Committee evaluating textbooks
has reportedly observed that the book is replete with factual inaccuracies,
smacking of communal frame-work. Have the JNU historians who are worried
about the rising Hindu revivalism read this book? And further, how will they
react to the horrendous truth of "deletion of any reference to the valiant
freedom fighter, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose" in the history syllabus
prescribed for the Madhyamik course by the West Bengal Board of Secondary
Education? It is, of course. a national shame that the chapters dealing with
Netaji, his Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army), formation of Forward Bloc
(FB) and the naval mutiny have been arbitrarily deleted from the textbooks.
That the Forward Bloc is still clinging to the coat-hanger of the Leftist
parivar speaks eloquently of expediency becoming the keystone of political
opportunism. It is high time the JNU historians desisted from rushing where
others fear to tread! It is clearly said that "sin has many tools, but a lie
is the handle which fits them all". It is, therefore, necessary in the
interest of unity and integrity of the country that the books The Only
Fatherland by Arun Shourie, Quit India Revolution-The Ethos of its Central
Direction by Dr K.K. Choudhary, and Quit India-The American Response to the
1942 Struggle by M.S. Venkataraman and B.K. Shrivastava, exposing the
traitorous role played by the Communists during the Quit India Movement must
be prescribed in all schools and colleges.



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