Anti-Hindu Education and History in India

By JG Arora

Apart from de-Hinduising Hindus, Macaulayan education has distorted Hindu religion and history. As per this education, Hindus never resisted any foreign aggression, and they do not have any glorious history. This education suppresses how Hindus valiantly fought invaders for several centuries, and defended their religion and motherland.

Sanskrit which is the best, sweetest and divine language (bhashasu mukhya madhura divya geervaan bharati) has been driven out of Indian schools and colleges by Macaulay’s education. With the exception of Tirukkural which is in Tamil, almost all ancient Hindu scriptures like Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayan, Mahabharat are in Sanskrit.

The UPA has succeeded in persuading more state governments to accept the NCERT texts. A report on Monday (January 5, 2009) said 12 more state governments have accepted to teach NCERT texts in their schools.

For the last four weeks the Organiser is carrying a series of articles on the NCERT textbooks prescribed for students at the primary, secondary and higher secondary schools. We have found these books written with a peculiar mindset, to denationalise and deculturise the young Indian. These books fail to make the children aware of their true heritage. These books seem to distort even India's freedom struggle, Mahatma Gandhi's role and try to divide the society into different caste and class segments. Their idea is to convince the children that India as a nation came to exist only after August 15, 1947.

We request the parents, teachers, students and scholars to join this academic exercise to expose the shenanigans behind promotion of these books in Indian schools.—Editor

Though as per classical Indian tradition, “Sa vidya ya vimuktaye”, (that which liberates us is education), modern Indian education binds one to Macaulay’s anti-Hindu world.

Missionary-oriented colonial education (commonly known as Macaulay’s education) was introduced in India in 1835 by Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), a British national, who as a member of the Supreme Council of India was in India from 1834 to 1838. Macaulay’s ‘Minute on Education’ approved by Governor General William Bentinck on March 7, 1835 downgraded Indian languages including Sanskrit, and replaced them with English. Macaulayan education has no place for Hindu scriptures, Hindu heritage and Hindu history. It was introduced to de-Hinduise Hindus; and to make them respect British rule over India. Though education should generate self-discovery, Macaulay’s education generates self-alienation among Hindus.

How India’s cultural traditions were demolished by Macaulay is clear from Macaulay’s biographer GD Trevelyan’s observation, “A new India was born in 1835. The very foundations of her ancient civilisation began to rock and sway. Pillar after pillar in the edifice came crashing down.”

With the creation of Pakistan and Partition of India on religious lines in 1947, truncated Bharat was expected to re-assert its Hindu identity and liberate itself from Macaulay’s hold. But tragically in 1947, fake secularism (which in actual practice means anti-Hinduism) was foisted on Bharat because of which Macaulayan education is still de-shaping Bharat’s destiny long after the British left Indian shores.

DE-HINDUISING HINDUS
Macaulay had contempt for India’s native Hindu culture. He wanted to de-Hinduise Hindus as is evident in his following letter dated October 12, 1836 to his evangelist father:

“Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully; we find it difficult to provide instruction to all. The effect of this education on Hindus is prodigious. No Hindu who has received an English education ever remains sincerely attached to his religion. It is my firm belief that if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respected classes 30 years hence. And this will be effected without our efforts to proselytise; I heartily rejoice in the prospect.”

And how he wanted to proceed is seen from the following excerpt from his 1835 ‘Minute on Education’:-

“We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.”

Since Macaulayan education has no place either for Sanskrit or for Hindu scriptures like Vedas, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Tirukkural etc., it has de-Hinduised most of the Hindus and transformed them into brown English clones ignorant of Hindu religion, Hindu heritage and Hindu history. De-Hinduised by Macaulayan education, and brain washed by Macaulayan main stream media, most of Hindu intellectuals, bureaucrats, journalists, MBAs, business persons, doctors, lawyers, chartered accountants, engineers, teachers and the rest know nothing about Hindu religion; and do not know any Mantra of Vedas or any Shloka of Ramayana, Mahabharata or Tirukkural. Accordingly, most of the Hindus are self-alienated and indifferent to attacks being made on Hinduism by anti-Hindu forces.

DISTORTION OF HINDU RELIGION AND HISTORY
Apart from de-Hinduising Hindus, Macaulayan education has distorted Hindu religion and history. As per this education, Hindus never resisted any foreign aggression, and they do not have any glorious history. This education suppresses how Hindus valiantly fought invaders for several centuries, and defended their religion and motherland.

Hinduism is based on Vedas which are all embracing and permit no caste system or birth-based caste system. But to divide Hindu society, missionaries proclaim that Hindus follow a discriminatory birth-based caste system. Macaulayan education and Marxist historians encourage such anti-Hindu misconceptions.

In 1986, some attempts were made to modify Macaulay-ism. And during 1999 to 2004, HRD Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi tried his best to dislodge Macaulay’s education. But after regaining power in 2004, Congress-led government has reinforced this education.

Though the Supreme Court approved ‘National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2000’ was already in place, after regaining power in 2004, Congress-led government got NCF 2005 prepared. And though the National Policy on Education, 1986 emphasised spiritual development, value based education, Indology, Yoga and Sanskrit, NCF 2005 rejects all these sentiments.

Entire curriculum is guided by Karl Marx who had declared, “Indian society has no history at all, at least no known history”.

GLORIFICATION OF INVADERS
In his book The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Will Durant (1885-1981), the American historian, calls Muslim rule in India as the bloodiest story in history.

As against this, history books issued by National Council of Educational Research and Training, and written by Marxists, glorify Muslim rule in Hindu Bharat; and downgrade Hindu heroes like Prithviraj Chauhan, Maharana Pratap and Chhatrapati Shivaji. These books falsify history and denigrate Hinduism. As per these books, Ramayana and Mahabharat are mere fictions; and Ram and Krishna did not exist.

Apart from acting as academic cheerleaders for terrorists, many leftist historians are deliberately distorting history to make it compatible with Marxism. They support the discredited Aryan Invasion Theory, and deny the existence of ancient river Saraswati.

Marxists’ interpretation of Indian history is motivated, fictional, anti-Hindu, self-righteous and objectionable. Inspired by their anti-Hindu agenda, these sham historians fabricate history to defend the actions of Muslim invaders and rulers like Muhammad bin Qasim, Mahmud Ghazni, Mohammad Gouri, Feroz Tughlak, Allauddin Khilji, Taimur, Bahmanis, Babar, Aurangzeb, Nadir Shah, and Ahmadshah Abdali. They suppress the killings of millions of Hindus, and destruction of thousands of Hindu temples by Muslim invaders over the centuries.

They reject the existence of glorious Hindu past. They dub their detractors as communal, and downgrade genuine historians. And for presenting anti-Hindu fiction as history, these fake historians are rewarded with national and international awards, honours and acclamations.

BANISHMENT OF SANSKRIT
Sanskrit which is the best, sweetest and divine language (bhashasu mukhya madhura divya geervaan bharati) has been driven out of Indian schools and colleges by Macaulay’s education. With the exception of Tirukkural which is in Tamil, almost all ancient Hindu scriptures like Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayan, Mahabharat are in Sanskrit. After banishing Sanskrit from education, Macaulayists call Sanskrit ‘the dead language’. That shows their attitude towards Hinduism.

Ignorance of Sanskrit has made Hindus ignorant of their Sanskriti (culture), their religion, their heritage and their identity.

WAY OUT
Ever since 1947, Macaulay’s legacy has strengthened fake secularism. And fake secularism has brought disaster for Hindus in the shape of genocide and eviction of Hindus from Kashmir, Pak-Bangla combine’s terrorist and demographic invasion to plant more Pakistans and Bangladeshs on Bharat’s soil, and foreign-funded Christian missionary evangelisation by fraud and inducement. Moreover, Macaulayan curriculum has produced self-alienated Hindus who are indifferent to attacks on Hindus and Hinduism.

Accordingly, Hindus have to be liberated from Macaulayan education and spurious secularism. And to achieve this goal, ‘secular India’ has to be transformed into ‘Hindu Bharat’.

Logically, in 1947, on India’s Partition on religious basis and creation of Pakistan as demanded by Muslims, Bharat should have been declared a Hindu nation. But the problem can be solved even now by declaring Bharat a Hindu country. No one can object to Bharat being declared a Hindu nation when all the 57 Muslim-majority countries are declared as Islamic countries.

Hindu Bharat will have no place for anti-Hindu education as also for fake secularism.

Hindu Bharat will replace the current anti-Hindu education with a system that honours Hindu heritage, history and ethos. Besides, it will restore the dignity of Bharat’s native languages. And since survival of Sanskrit is a must for survival of Hinduism, Hindu Bharat will revive Sanskrit and make it a regular subject in schools and colleges. And Hindu Bharat will ensure that its heritage and civilization survive.

Hindu Bharat will give justice to all and appease none. In Hindu Bharat, there will be one law and one nation; no distinction of majority and minority; and no discrimination, whatsoever, against any community.

Besides protecting Bharat’s Hindu identity, Hindu Bharat will crush Pak-Bangla terrorist and demographic invasion, as also foreign-funded conversions.

Therefore, for the very survival of Hindus and Hinduism, all pro-Hindu individuals and organisations must work to transform India into a Hindu nation by all peaceful, constitutional and lawful means.

This is the only way to undo the colossal damage done by Macaulay to Hindus and Bharat.

(The writer is former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax. His e-mail address is: jgarora@gmail.com)

Public Platform: Speak up openly

Falsifying history for political gain (Organiser, 18-1-2009); “Politics is a dirty game”, so is often said, but politicising history is far more dangerous and ominous for the nation. I would like to share my experiences with the readers in this context through this letter. In 1976, during the days of Emergency, I was directed by the Haryana government to go through the NCERT textbooks on History meant for classes VI to VIII, namely Ancient India, Medieval India and Modern India, written by Romila Thapar and one or two others and procure their publishing copyrights from the NCERT for introduction of these books in schools in Haryana. I read these books and pointed out a number of sentences needed to be modified in the books. It was purely an apolitical professionally academic exercise done by me. At this time, I do not remember all the objections I raised with the NCERT authorities, but I do remember three objections, I raised with them. The one was on beef-eating by Aryans, the second was their distortion against the facts of slaughter of Guru Tegh Bahadur and the third was their branding of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as a fascist. At the first instance, the NCERT authorities were adamant and refused to change even a single word in the texts. I met the NCERT authorities several times in this connection. I was told that the authors, Romila Thapar, Bipin Chandra & Co., were not willing to change a single word. I never got a chance to discuss my points with the authors of the books. At the end, I told them bluntly that I would not recommend these books to my department unless you make these modifications and would send my report to my department and leave it to the discretion of the department. Thank God, the better sense prevailed and the NCERT and the authors concerned relented to make some modifications in the texts to be published by Haryana Education Department in 1977 and 1978. However, as an erstwhile teacher, I appeal to the authorities concerned in the states, NCERT and MHRD, not to impose doctored and politically motivated history or their political isms on small innocent children in schools and free the school system from the strangulating grip of the academic mafia, presently masquerading as progressive educationists and intellectuals.

—SUDARSHAN KUMAR KAPUR,
Gurgaon, Haryana

A Matter Of Economics (Organiser, 18-1-2009); January 7, 2009 will go down as a black day in corporate India for this was the day India was hit by its first major market/corporate scandal leading to the collapse of the stock of a major Indian IT corporate house. Ramlinga Raju, founder and Chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd, India’s fourth largest IT services company, admitted to fraud and inflating the revenue and costs and resigned from the company and the board. Raju admitted that he falsified the account books at Satyam. The $1.04 billion listed in assets is non-existent according to Raju reports The New York Times. Raju’s claim that neither he nor his family benefitted and got any “rupee” from Satyam in all these years is not lost on those who are reporting and reading about the scandal. The irony of the meaning of Satyam has been highlighted by many media reports. Satyam is derived from the Sanskrit word for truth and honesty.

—KP DESHMUKH,
Vadner, Nashik

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I do agree with whatever you said in your column. If we (India) want to project to the world as clean and really serious about handling corruption, it is high time our officials acted and framed strict rules from hereafter and put an end to the chalta hai attitude. And our politicians and other higher officials will keep on going back to corruption until and unless there comes a force, out of the common man’s world, which instils fear into wrong-doers. I hope there comes a movement in our country, one day, which will put an end to the corruption and strive towards the progress with unity, integrity and honesty. Then, I predict that India will be respected not only by its people but by the entire world.

—SHEKHAR BURRA
by e-mail

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It is very sad to see a well-regarded company fall because of one individual’s quest for fame. Wall Street Journal mentioned that Mr. Raju always felt that he was not given the same respect as the other majors and I have a feeling that it drove him to overstate revenues, profits and thereby cash flows. I feel sadder for all those hard-working and loyal employees. Satyam is known to have the lowest attrition rate and this will definitely impact employee loyalty even more and across all Indian companies. Employees will trust less and less their employers. I only hope things are cleaned up fast. Having seen how companies like Enron and many others have unravelled, it may be wishful thinking on my part.

—P THAMMINENI,
Padmnabh Nagar, Bangalore

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This was not the first corporate scandal in India. What is different about Satyam is the magnitude and scale and the fact that accounting and other errors went undetected for so long. India has one of the most complex legal landscapes to do business. Then there is the fact Satyam listed on the US and European stock exchanges to. How could there be failures at so many levels? Satyam will not be the first corporate scandal if you go by what has happened in the business history of other free-market economies and the scandal skeletons that are strewn in their landscape. Scandals are symptoms that something is wrong with the system and the system needs to get fixed. The system consists of people, who are politicians, bureaucrats, business people, lawyers etc. They are the one who come up with a set of rules and procedures etc. It is also important to instil a value of ethics and trust. When greed takes over, you will notice that the first casualty is your ethics and integrity. Once you have lost your ethical compass it is very difficult to regain, I suspect, but hopefully I am wrong.

—P MALLESHWARAN,
Raghvendra Nagar, Karim Nagar, Andhra Pradesh

Don’t be blind to Hamas terror while commenting on Gaza strike (Organiser, 18-1-2009); Israel has won all its unprovoked wars so far, but it has not been permitted to win the peace. The other world powers restrained Israel from completing the victory and, therefore, the peace. Traditionally, when a country is victorious, it occupies the defeated country until a regime, friendly to the victor, is installed. In World War II, Germany, Japan and Italy were neutralised and now exist in peace with the Allies. Israel was never given that privilege, and so the conflict will continue. Israel will never accept defeat; its enemies call for its nonexistence. It will resort to the ultimate weapon instead.

—P BHASKAR,
Kukapalli Colony, Hyderabad

Join madrasa, why sit for tough CBSE board exams? (Organiser, 11-1-2009); You have traced all loopholes in your editorial. The need of the hour is to provide education to all citizens, irrespective of caste, creed, sex, religion, etc. By doing so unity of the nation and society is possible. There should not be majority or minority system as tool of catching votes only. If the rulings parties are not serious, then the opposition should discharge their duties in the national interest. In foreign countries, such type of only minority education is not prevalent. It is only in India where divide and rule policy, inherited from British government, is still prevalent. In the long run, heavy cost will have to be paid for such disparity.

—LAKSHMI CHAND,
Bandh, Bhangari, Solan

Jammu win boosts BJP (Organiser, 11-1-2009); The BJP emerged as a major political force in Jammu and Kashmir, winning 11 of the 87 seats. The party had only one seat in the outgoing assembly. Its best-ever performance had been in the 1996 polls, when it bagged eight seats. All 11 seats were obtained out of the Jammu region’s tally of 37, since it has no presence in the Valley. It won 7 seats in Jammu, three in Kathua and one in Reasi district. For a party that lost the elections in Rajasthan and Delhi earlier this month, the Jammu results have come as a great consolation. Ten of the 11 seats were wrested from the Congress, while one seat was taken from the National Conference.

—ANEEK PARMAR,
Station Road, Bhavnagar, Gujarat

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The BJP rode the crest of a wave of resentment against the previous Congress-PDP coalition, which was perceived by Jammu-dwellers as being biased in favour of the Kashmir Valley in the protracted dispute earlier last year over the allotment of land to the Sri Amarnath Shrine Board. Many of its local leaders played key roles in the land-related agitation. However, BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley, who handled the party’s Jammu agitation, insisted that the Amarnath issue was not the sole factor behind the BJP’s win. The BJP is seen as representing the aspirations of the people of Jammu, who have suffered years of discrimination. The credit for this performance of BJP goes to party’s cadres and the people of Jammu.

—SK JINDAL,
Mandi Road, Hisar

Doing good: The limits of appeasement (Organiser, 11-1-2009); Unless we successfully reorient our misguided policy of appeasement, India will lose the soul of the nation. Congress has swallowed Hindus by hypnotism of minorityism. To combat it, proactive-majorityism is the weapon. Hindus should be inspired by highlighting the heroic deeds of Ranapratap, Rana Sanga, Shivaji Maharaj, Subhas Chandra Bose, Veer Savarkar, etc, in the media.

—KALIDAS DE,
Dewanpara, Sunhat, Balasore, Orissa

A strategy to deter terrorism (Organiser, 4-1-2009); Dr Subramanian Swamy has very correctly mentioned in his article that core countries of our strategic planning have to be those, who have been identified by Osama bin Laden as the enemies of Islam:- US, Israel and India. The basic problem with our secular rulers of India is that they have been allergic to USA and Israel, and are all along working for the benefit of Islamic and Communist countries, with complete disregard for national interests. In fact the definition of secularism in India is appeasement of Muslims and hatred for Hindus.

—ANAND PRAKASH,
72/Sector-8, Panchkula

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The article is highly educative and timely but which political party is today ready to sacrifice power for the sake of saving this country from pan-Islamic forces financing terrorism? Specially when it is the case of Congress, which divided the nation purely to come into power, and left parties that supported this tragic partition. UPA is an alliance of wilful traitors who took no concrete action against terrorists or those who are promoting terrorism. The only way out is to politically liquidate the paid agents of anti-India forces.

—PRAMOD PRABHAKAR VALSANGKAR,
Dwarakapuram, Dilsukh Nagar, Hyderabad

Islamic largesse on media in eastern India (Organiser 18-1- 2009); I am surprised at the myopic tendency of the writer to dub the words Islamic and Muslim depicting some sense, which is opposed to national interest. If about twenty per cent population of the country is looked down in such a manner, it would actually lead to anti-national phobia among the non-Muslims only.

—ATM ANWAR,
22-7-499, Purani Haveli, Hyderabad

Indo-Pak animosity: A way out (Organiser, 4-1-2009); The terror attacks cast a long shadow over a spate of confidence-building measures taken by the two sides to thaw a long freeze in bilateral ties. The Mumbai terror attack drew international ire against Pakistan-based terror groups and India asked Pakistan to shut down the entire terrorist network operating on its soil. Relations between India and Pakistan, which appeared to be on course towards normalisation after return of civilian rule in Islamabad, almost touched a nadir at the year end in the aftermath of Pakistani terrorists carrying out a carnage in Mumbai.

—RAMESH TOMAR,
Kali Bari, Tarapur, Silchar

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In spite of setbacks such as the recent Mumbai terror attack we need to continue with the peace process, as this will benefit both countries. The London blasts have shown us that terrorists can attack anywhere and at any time. So cooperation among all political parties and media support is important. There have been hiccups in the Pakistan-India peace process in the past and we will overcome the current problems too though it may take a little bit longer.

—S SRIDHAR,
Vardharaja Puram, Chennai

Porous Bangla border, a security threat (Organiser, 4-1-2009); The north-eastern region of the country is sitting on a powder keg as Pakistan’s ISI has been able to make substantial inroads into the region by covertly using the Bangladesh territory for carrying out its operation. The illustrated portrait of widened Bangladesh border and inexplicably increasing population of border India massively by Bangladeshi infiltrators in the north-east, is reason enough for being construed as ‘cancer’! The intelligence, which has been sent in to the Home Ministry, said the situation continues to be grim, as the region falls in ISI’s top priority.

—AYAN PRAMANIK,
27/1B, Bidhan Sarani, Swastika