'Defalsification of Indian history 
is the first step for our renaissance.' - Dr. Subramanian Swami

'In this falsified history, it is made out that Hindus capitulated to Islamic invaders. But on 

the contrary,unlike Iran, Iraq and Egypt where within decades the country capitulated to 

become 100 per cent Muslims. India despite 800 years of brutal Islamic rule, remained 80 

per cent Hindu.The fabrication of our History begins with the falsification of our chronology.

The accepted history of no country can be structured on foreign accounts of it. But Nehru

and his Leftist cronies did just that, and thus generations of Indians have been

brainwashed by this falsified history of India.

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 two 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

The identity of India is Hindustan, i.e., a nation of Hindus and those others who

acknowledge with pride that their ancestors were Hindus. Hindustan represents the

continuing history of culture of Hindus. One?s religion may change, 

but culture does not. Thus, on the agenda for a national renaissance should be the

dissemination of the correct perception of what we are. This perception has to be derived

from a defalsified history. However, the present history taught in our schools and colleges

is the British imperialist-sponsored one, with the intent to destroy our identity. India as 

a State is treated as a British-created entity and of only recent origin. The Indian people

are portrayed as a heterogeneous lot who are hopelessly divided against themselves.

Such a ?history? has been deliberately created by the British as a policy. Sir George

Hamilton, Secretary of State for India, wrote to the Home Office on March 26, 1888 

that ?I think the real danger to our rule is not now but say 50 years hence?.. We shall

(therefore) break Indians into two sections holding widely different views?.. 

We should so plan the educational text books that the differences between 

community and community are further strengthened?.After achieving Independence,

under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru and the implementing authority of the 

anglicized ICS, revision of our history was never done, in fact the very idea was

condemned as ?obscurantist? and Hindu chauvinist by Nehru and his ilk.The Imperialist

History of India .

What is the gist of this British imperialist-tailored Indian history? In this history, India is

portrayed as the land ?conquered? first by the ?Dravidians?, then by the ?Aryans?, later

by Muslims, and finally by the British. Otherwise, everything else is mythical. 

Our history books today exhibit this obsession with foreign rule. For example, even though 

the Mughal rule from Akbar to Aurangzeb is about 150 years, which is much shorter than

the 350 year rule of the Vijayanagaram empire, the history books of today hardly take

notice of the latter. In fact the territory under Krishna Devaraya?s rule was much larger

than Akbar?s, and yet it is the latter who is called ?the Great?. Such a version suited 

the British rules who had sought to create a legitimacy for their presence in India.

Furthermore, we were also made to see advantages accruing from British rule, the primary

one being that India was united by this colonialism, and that but for the British, India

would never have been one country. Thus, the concept of India itself is owed to the

plunder of colonialists.In this falsified history, it is made out that Hindus capitulated to

Islamic invaders. But on the contrary, unlike Iran, Iraq and Egypt where within decades the

country capitulated to become 100 per cent Muslims. India despite 800 years of brutal 

Islamic rule, remained 80 per cent Hindu.These totally false and pernicious ideas have

however permeated deep into our educational system. They have poisoned the minds of

our younger generations who have not had the benefit of the Freedom Struggle to awaken

their pride and nationalism. It has thus to be an essential part of the renaissance agenda

that these ideas of British-sponsored history of India, namely, (1) that India as a State was

a gift of the British and (2) that there is no such thing as a native Indian, and what we are

today is a by-product of the rape of the land by visiting conquerors and their hordesand 

(3) that India is a land that submitted meekly to invading hordes from Aryan to the English,


are discarded. Falsification of Chronology in India?s History The fabrication of our History

begins with the falsification of our chronology.The customary dates quoted for composition

of the Rig Veda (circa 1300 B.C.), Mahabharat (600 B.C.), Buddha?s Nirvana (483 B.C.),

Maurya Chandragupta?s coronation (324 B.C.), and Asoka (c.268 B.C.) are entirely wrong.

Those dates are directly or indirectly based on a selected reading of Megasthenes?

account of India. In fact, so much so that eminent historians have called if the ?sheet

anchor of Indian chronology?. The account of Megasthenes and the derived 

chronology of Indian history have also an important bearing on related derivations such as

the two-race (Aryan-Dravidian) theory, and on the pre-Vedic character of the so called

Indus Valley Civilization.

Megasthenes was the Greek ambassador sent by Seleucus Nicator in c. 302 B.C. to the


court of the Indian king whom he and the Greek called ?Sandrocottus?. He was stationed

in ?Palimbothra?, the capital city of the kingdom. It is not clear how many years

Megasthenes stayed in India, but he did write an account of his stay, titled Indika. The

manuscript Indika is lost, and there is no copy of it available. However, during the time it

was available, many other Greek writers quoted passages from it in their own works.

These quotations were meticulously collected by Dr. Schwanbeck in the nineteenth

century, and this compilation is also available to us in English (J.M. McCrindle: Ancient

India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian).The founder of the Mauryas, however, is

not the only Chandragupta in Indian history, who was a king of Magadh and founder of a

dynasty. In particular, there is Gupta Chandragupta, a Magadh king and founder of the

Gupta dynasty at Patliputra. Chandragupta Gupta was also not of ?noble? birth and, in

fact, came to power by deposing the Andhra king Chandrasri. That is, Megasthenes?

Sandrocottus may well be Gupta Chandragupta instead of Maurya Chandgragupta 

(and Xandremes the same as Chandrasri, and Sandrocryptus as Samudragupta).

In order to determine which Chandragupta it is, we need to look further. It is, of course, a


trifle silly to build one?s history on this kind of tongue-gymnastics, but I am afraid we have

no choice but to pursue the Megasthenes evidence to its end, since the currently

acceptable history is based on it.In order to determine at which Chandragupta?s court

Megasthenes was ambassador, we have to look further into his account of India. We find

he was at Pataliputra (i.e. Palimbothra in Megasthenes? account). We know from the

Puranas (which are unanimous on this point) that all the Chandravamsa king of Magadh

(including the Mauryas) prior to the Guptas, had their capital at Girivraja (or equivalently

Rajgrha) and not at Pataliputra. Gupta Chandragupta was the first 

king to have his capital in Patliputra. This alone should identify Sandrocottos with Gupta

Chandragupta. However some 6-11th century A.D. sources call Pataliputra the Maurya

capital, e.g., Vishakdatta in Mudrarakshasa, but these are based on secondary sources

and not on the Puranas.Pursuing Megasthenes? account further, we find most of it

impossible to believe. He appears to be quite vague about details and is obviously given to

the Greek writers? weakness in letting his imagination get out of control. For example, ?

Near a mountain which is called Nulo there live men whose feet are turned back-wards

and have eight toes on each foot.? (Solinus 52.36-30 XXX.B.) ?Megasthenes says a race

of men (exist in India) who neither eat or drink, and in fact have not even mouths, set on

fire and burn like incense in order to sustain their existence with odorous fumes?..? 

(Plutarch, Frag. XXXI). However, Megasthenes appears to have made one precise

statement of possible application which was picked up later by Pliny, Solinus, and Arrian.

As summarized by Professor K.D. Sethna of Pondicherry, it reads:?Dionysus was the first

who invaded India and was the first of all who triumphed over the vanished Indians. From

the days of Dionysus to Alexander the Great, 6451 years reckoned with 3 months

additional. From the time of Dionysus to Sandrocottus the Indians reckoned 6452 years,

the calculation being made by counting the kings who reigned in the intermediate period

to number 153 or 154 years. But among these a republic was thrice established, one 

extending?..years, another to 300 and another to 120. The Indians also tell us that

Dionysus was earlier than Heracles by fifteen generations, and that except for him no one

made a hostile invasion of India but that Alexander indeed came 

and overthrew in war all whom he attacked.?While there a number of issues raised by this

statement including the concoction that Alexander was victorious in battle across the

Indus, the exactness with which he states his numbers should lead us to believe that

Megasthenes could have received his chronological matters from none else than the 

Puranic pundits of his time. To be conclusive, we need to determine who are the ?

Dionysus? and ?Heracles? of Megasthenes? account.Traditionally, Dionysus (or Father

Bachhus) was a Greek God of wine who was created from Zeus?s thigh. Dionysus was

also a great king, and was recognised as the first among all kings, a conqueror and

constructive leader. Could there be an Indian equivalent of Dionysus whom Megasthenes

quickly equated with his God of wine? Looking through the Puranas, one does indeed find

such a person. His name is Prithu.Prithu was the son of King Vena. The latter was

considered a wicked man whom the great sages could not tolerate, especially after he told

them that the elixir soma should be offered to him in prayer and not to the gods

(Bhagavata Purana IV.14.28). The great sages thereafter performed certain rites and killed

Vena. But since this could lead immediately to lawlessness and chaos, the rshis decided

to rectify it by coronating a strong and honest person. The rshis therefore churned the right

arm (or thigh; descriptions vary) of the dead body (of Vena) to give birth to a fully grown 

Prithu. It was Prithu, under counsel from rshi Atri (father of Soma), who reconstructed

society and brought about economic prosperity. Since he became such a great ruler, the

Puranas have called him adi-raja (first king) of the world. So did the Satpatha Brahmana

(v.3.5 4.).In the absence of a cult of soma in India, it is perhaps inevitable that

Megasthenes and the other Greeks, in translating Indian experiences for Greek audiences,

should pick on adi-raja Prithu who is ?tinged with Soma? in a number of ways 

and bears such a close resemblance to Dionysus in the circumstances of his birth, and

identify him as Dionysus. If we accept identifying Dionysus with Prithu, then indeed by a

calculation based on the Puranas (done by DR Mankad, Koti Venkatachelam, KD Sethna,

and others), it can be conclusively shown that indeed 6,451 years had elapsed between 

Prithu and a famous Chandragupta. This calculation exactly identifies Sandrocottus with

Gupta Chandragupta and not with Maurya Chandragupta. The calculation also identifies

Heracles with Hari Krishna (Srikrishna) of Dwarka.This calculation must be necessarily

long and tedious to counter the uninformed general feeling first sponsored by Western

scholars, that the Puranas spin only fair tales and are therefore quite unreliable.However,

most of these people do not realise that most Puranas have six parts, and the

Vamsanucharita sections(especially of Vishnu, Matsya, and Vagu) are a systematic

presentation of Indian history especially of the Chandravansa kings of Magadha.In order to 

establish these dates, I would have to discuss in detail the cycle of lunar asterisms, the

concept of time according to Aryabhatta, and various other systems, and also the

reconciliation of various minor discrepancies that occur in the 

Puranas. Constraints of space and time however, prevent me from presenting these

calculations here.However, on the basis of these calculations we can say that Gupta

Chandragupta was ?Sandrocottus? c.327 B.C. His son, Samudragupta, was the great king

who established a unified kingdom all over India,and obtained from the Cholas, Pandyas, 

and Cheras their recognition of him. He also had defeated Seleucus Nicator,while his

father Chandragupta was king. On this calculation we can also place Prithu at 6777 B.C.

and Lord Rama before that. Derivation of other dates without discussion may also be

briefly mentioned here: Buddha?s Nirvana 1807 BC,Maurya Chandragupta c. 1534 BC,

Harsha Vikramaditya (Parmar) c. 82 BC.The European scholars have thus constructed an

enormous edifice of contemporary foreign dates to suit their dating. A number of them

are based on misidentification. For instance, the Rock Edict XIII, the famous Kalinga edict,

is identified as Asoka?s. It was, however, Samudragupta?s (Samudragupta was a great

conqueror and a devout admirer of Asoka. 

He imitated Asoka in many ways and also took the name Asokaditya. In his later life, he

became a sanyasi). Some other facts, which directly contradict their theories, they have

rather flippantly cast aside. We state here only a few examples ? 

such facts as (1) Fa-hsien was in India and at Patliputra c. 410 AD. He mentions a number

of kings, but makes not even a fleeting reference to the Gupta, even though according to

European scholars he came during the height of their reign. 

He also dates Buddha at 1100 BC. (2) A number of Tibetan documents place Buddha at

2100 BC. (3) The Ceylonese Pali traditions leave out the Cholas, Pandyas, and Cheras

from the list of Asoka?s kingdoms, whereas Rock Edict XIII includes them. In fact, as many

scholars have noted, the character of Asoka from Ceylonese and other traditions is 

precisely (as RK Mukherjee has said) what does not appear in the principal edicts.

The accepted history of no country can be structured on foreign accounts of it. But Nehru

and his Leftist cronies did just that, and thus generations of Indians have been

brainwashed by this falsified history of India.

The time has come for us to take seriously our Puranic sources and to re-construct a

realistic well-founded history of ancient India, a history written by Indians about Indians.

Such a history should bring out the amazing continuity of a Hindu nation which asserts its

identity again and again. It should focus on the fact that at the centre of our political

thought is the concept of the Chakravartian ideal ? to defend the nation from external

aggression while giving maximum internal autonomy to the janapadas. A correct,

defalsified history would record that Hindustan was one nation in the art of governance, in

the style of royal courts, in the methods of warfare, in the maintenance of its agrarian

base, and in the dissemination of information. Sanskrit was the language of national

communication and discourse. An accurate history should not only record the periods of

glory but the moments of degeneration, of the missed opportunities, and of the failure to

forge national unity at crucial junctures in time. It should draw lessons for the future

generations from costly errors in the past. In particular, it was not Hindu submission as

alleged by JNU historians that was responsible for our subjugation but lack of unity and

effective military strategy.Without an accurate history, Hindustan cannot develop on its

correct identity. And without a clearly defined identity, Indians will continue to flounder.

Defalsification of Indian history is the first step for our renaissance.