Brigandage of the secular Taliban! By Col (retd) Anil Athale |
Col. (retd) Anil A Athale is a Fellow at the Centre for Armed Forces
Historical Research. A former Joint Director (History Division) and
infantryman, he has been running an NGO, Peace and Disarmament, based in Pune
for the past 10 years. As a military historian he specialises in insurgency and
peace process. The roots of slavish mentality of our so-called intellectuals
goes deeper to the British days. On December 1, 1783, while speaking on the
India Bill in British Parliament, the British liberal, Edmund Burke, launched a
scathing attack on the English rule in India. Virtually saying that we are
trying to enslave people who are far more civilised than us. As the British
empire in India expanded, the English became aware of the rich Indian cultural
heritage and its ancient past. Any memory of that past was an obstacle for the
British to spread and sustain their rule. There began a
systematic campaign to deny Indian antiquity.
Lord Macaulay once famously stated that the entire literature of India
cannot fill but a single shelf in a respectable European library. Either
uneducated or devious, Macaulay thus rubbished Indian heritage from vedas to
astronomy to ayurveda to mathematics (algebra, calculus and the numbers). Since
then the vast Indian middle class intellectuals have been groomed in the
Macaulay tradition of being good clerks with no independent thinking faculties.
It is this that enabled the handful of British to rule millions of Indians.
Indian historians deny any credit to the great Indian oral tradition. They
ignore folklore, physical evidence and available Indian sources. Most Indian
histories are written based on foreign sources.
The organised Semitic faiths proclaim monopoly of truth and have labelled all
pre-history (that is all that existed before the time of their favourite
Prophet) as mythology. It would interest the readers to know that right till
1990 when existence of the city of Troy was decisively proved (Times News
Network, June 24, 2004). Homers Iliad was regarded as pure mythology with no
proof! Valmikis Ramayan and later Raghuvansh by Kalidas seems to be meeting
the same fate as Iliad at the hands of grandchildren of Macaulay and Marx. It
would interest readers that in the Bible belt of the US, historicity of
Buddha is not accepted so Ram stands no chance in our Anglophile community of
historians.
The project to deny the existence of Ram and his historicity began way back
even before 1992 (Ayodhya demolition). As usual the eminent historians of JNU
were in the forefront. There is a very close parallel with the Afghan Taliban
and our home-grown Taliban (secularists). The Afghan variety deny any other
past except Islamic and demolished the Bamiyan Buddha while the Indian variety
wants to deny Rams historicity and demolish Ram Sethu. There is of course much
in common between the two, blind faith in a book (the Das Capital), prophet
Marx and his close followers (kind of companions of the Prophet) like Engels,
Lenin, Stalin the mass murderer and Mao Ze Dong. There is very little to choose
between them and religious fundamentalists. Indian rich heritage is an
inconvenient obstacle in their path of ushering in Marxist utopia and must be
fought at all times. Unlike their Chinese counterparts, they have no knowledge
of Indian past and are not only proud of the Indian
heritage but are ashamed of it. Even practice of yoga or ayurveda is anathema
to them. Some time ago the yoga guru, Baba Ramdev, was the target of their ire
and an attempt was made to fix him by instigating some workers in his
establishment.
It is undoubtedly true that the original story of Ram and his times has seen
many interpolations and mythification, like the tribal army being described as
vanar (monkeys). But any historian with an open mind can find enough evidence
to prove the essential historicity of Ramayana. In the year 1992, a surgeon,
late Dr. SV Bhave of Pune, flew over the entire path of Rams journey from
Lanka to Ayodhya as described by Rishi Valmiki and Kalidas. He was no historian
but far more innovative than our bookish historians. He found every single
place described in Ramayana. Finally one wishes to ask a simple question, did
Valmiki and countless others merely conjured up a fiction! If that is so then
he was possibly the greatest fiction writer of all times, since his book has
survived over two thousand years.
When our Supreme Court deliberates on this issue (I really pity our
honourable judges who have to decide on issues ranging from whether Ram existed
to cricket team selection) they would consult a wide body of persons from
diverse fields and not the JNU mafia.
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