February 22nd
thanks to sulekha.
this story of negationism has been told by others, eg. koenraad elst.
the marxist 'eminent historians' have keenly upheld the white-guy tradition of sweeping all these atrocities under the carpet. this is a crime against humanity: the forcible extinction of truth.
no wonder hindus suffer from a collective stockholm syndrome. hindus have been forced into amnesia by the nehruvian stalinist establishment. if anybody tries to bring these facts out, they are immediately labeled 'divisive, communalist, fundamentalists'. which is rather bizarre, considering the facts are endorsed emphatically by court historians during the muslim period.
during the christian period, the white guys used this as indirect proof of the aryan invasion theory: that is, it is india's fate to be oppressed by invaders from the west. first, 'aryans', then greeks, then muslims, and finally christians. quite a nice pattern, isn't it?
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This was a very good article. I use to wonder why, despite being rich im minerals and resources, Africa was always part of the 'Third World'. I guess I was so naive. Now I understand how these colonial powers robbed Africa of its culture, heritage & identity. (To quote Shachi Rairikar's www.indpride.com) Zomo Kenyatta (first president of independent Kenya) rightly said:When the Europeans came, we had the land and they had the Bible. They said that this was the book of God and asked us to meditate. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the Bible!
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