Left-leaning historians with pseudo-secular moorings distorted Indian history which even Western historians tampered with, said Union Minister for Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu here on Sunday.
The Minister was speaking at the release of a book on ancient Indian history, ‘The chronology of ancient India - Victim of concoctions and distortions’.
The history of ancient India was “erected on false foundations during the colonial period. Many scholars have attempted to expose the fallacy of this distorted Indian chronology with reference to Puranic chronology,” he said. Even India’s intellectual elite continue to promote this pre-colonial history by portraying India as feudalistic and pre-rational nation, Mr, Naidu added.
The country had ancient knowledge systems in the domain of mathematics, astronomy, pure science and medical sciences, he said. Indus valley civilisation had the world’s best planned cities with underground drainage, civil sanitation, hydraulic engineering and air-cooling architecture, he said. “Ornamental buttons were used by the Indus valley people and Indians had made high quality crucible steel about 2,500 years ago,” he said. Indians even used scales made of ivory 3,500 years ago, he added.
“This magnificent history does not figure in pseudo-secular historiography,” Naidu said. India was not a developing country, but a redeveloping country which was slowly waking up with the ruins of colonial invasion that destroyed a magnificent past.
