The creation of civilization is Brahmanbad. Brahmanbad is guided by intellectualism and culturalism. The origin of human civilization is Himabatkhand of Nepal. The Himabatkhand covers the land of Brahmaputra in east, Hindukush in west, Kailash Mansarobar in north and Ganga River in south. In past, Nepal was greater than what it is today. This region [...]
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Brahmanbad aka Nepal
Posted in Indus Valley, tagged brahman, brahmin, Hindutva, History, ib, Indology, nepal, raw on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hindutva, California Textbooks and a Smear Campaign
Posted in California Text Books, tagged Aryans, California, Farmer, Harvard University, Hindu, Hindutva, History, India, Indian History, Indology, Witzel on December 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
By Steve FarmerLast week this article in the Indian magazine Frontline reported that the Hindu Right’s attempts to rewrite California school textbooks on India and Hinduism were meeting with strong resistance from renowned historians and scholars in the U.S. and abroad. Steve Farmer is one of those scholars; he reported on that resistance and the [...]
Yankee Hindutva: Indian Jim Crow in “Victim” Garb
Posted in California Text Books, tagged Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, RSS, Yankee on February 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
2005 has been a terrible year for the human rights of African Americans in the United States. Facing assaults on livelihoods, falling incomes, rampant police violence and brutality, cuts in social spending and a generally cruel and undisguised contempt from the reactionary Bush administration, African Americans will remember 2005 as the year that saw the [...]
I hate people who misrepresent history : Professor Michael Witzel
Posted in California Text Books, tagged Harvard, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, Michael Witzel, RSS on December 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Professor Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University, shot off a letter to the California Board of Education on November 8 after coming to know what he described was US-based Hindu groups’s attempt to have sections of school textbooks relating to information on ancient India, [...]
A scathing indictment
Posted in Hindutva, tagged Aryans, Hindu, Hindutva, History, India, Indian History, Indology, RSS on March 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in New Delhi The exoneration of the historians involved with the “Towards Freedom Project” in the interim report of the Bandopadhyay Committee is evidence of the BJP-led government’s communal agenda. S.Gopal THE interim report submitted by D. Bandopadhyay, a former Secretary to the Government of India inquiring into the affairs of [...]
Romila Thapar speaks about Indian History
Posted in Romila Thapar, tagged Hindu, Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, Romial Thapar, RSS on February 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Professor Romila Thapar, one of India’s finest historians, is in the news again — for refusing the Padma Bhushan. During the reign of the National Democratic Alliance government, she was in the news for a series of run-ins with the ideologues of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the largest party in the NDA coalition. The BJP [...]
Environmental History : Interview with Romila Thapar
Posted in Romila Thapar, tagged Forestry, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, Romial Thapar, RSS on December 28, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Romila Thapar … “Historical writing is not a free-for-all in which anyone can claim to be writing history.”Professor Romila Thapar was recently in Chennai at the invitation of the Prakriti Foundation, known to bring to the city the best among scholars and artists for an enlightened audience. She gave two lectures at the Museum Theatre [...]
Historians shocked by Hindutva assault on Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Posted in Hindutva, tagged Bhandarkar, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Indian History, Indology, Maratha, Romial Thapar, RSS, Shivsena on January 6, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, 05 January , 2004, Pune: Internationally renowned Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) on Monday was vandalised and around 18,000 books and 30,000 rare manuscripts damaged by activists of the ‘Sambhaji Brigade’, a sister organisation of the Maratha Mahasangh. Around 150 activists reached the institute at around 1115 hrs protesting the ‘objectionable’ reference to Shivaji [...]
