History : Re-writing or Writing
I HAVE always been intrigued by issues concerning History. History, or rather historians, are today split into western, leftist, nationalist, subaltern etc. and such divisions among historians rid history of its truths. Chandragupta's was the golden period of Indian history or Akbar's? Aryans came from outside or not? etc. etc. I can write (& shall definitely write on these issues). Presently, I want to mention a basic question on Ancient Indian History : Is Rig Veda the earliest historical text? ALL our historians have been telling us so, because English historians wrote it. We must realise that all the history we are made to read has been written by British historians who deliberately avoided the original references to our history, including oral history. ACCORDING to historians, Vedic texts refer to only those places (including rivers and mountains) about which they knew. The fact is that they mentioned only those that were relevant with respect to those texts and o...