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ment was almost arrived in late nine-
ties, but the then RSS chief rejected the
initiative of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad,
claims Shitla Singh , a veteran journalist
from Ayodhya. Unfortunately, the RSS
decided to follow the colonial narrative of
the history of Indian sub-continent
that promoted an idea that the Hindus
suffered Muslim repression for 900
years. Similarly, Muslims fed with the
theme that Holy Koran inspired them to
conquer Hindus, the infidels.
In this era of competitive politics,
where the rivals are pitted against with
each other, have adopted no-holds
bar approach, but in this process they
are endorsing the colonial narrative
that the Hindus were tormented dur-
ing the reigns of Muslims kings and
emperors, and it also fed the Mus-
lim masses that they have been rul-
ing India for a millennium and Hin-
dus are just cowards. The colonial
narrative of the Indian past has been
presented as the British restored the
Hindu honour, which suffered and
violated by the Muslim invaders. There-
fore, Hindus must realize that the British
have emancipated them from the Mus-
lim tyranny. On the other hand, Islam
was used in such a conspiring agenda
that the civil society among Muslims suc-
cumbed to the much pronounced logic
that Islam is in danger.
The twin strategy of colonial era, thus
convincing Hindus that they suffered
Muslim tyranny, and also projecting fol-
lowers of Islam as an aggressive group,
which got partitioned India in 1947,
and will reassert when its population is
adequate to oust Hindus. Both journal- • Political game BJP recently suffered political Initiative endorsement
ists and practicing politicians must trace debacle in three key states India’s two epics, Ramayana and
India’s social-political challenges to the Mahabharata, were telecast on the
British historiography. Charles Napier, that the company was there to counter national television channel Doordar-
the British General, deposed the Talpur the Muslim tyranny. He even claimed shan, during the Rajiv Gandhi reign.
Mirs, in Sind in 1843. He described the that the return of the spoiled remains of They received worldwide attention,
Sindh rulers as great ruffians and imbe- the temple to India has avenged the in- but the BJP-led NDA governments
ciles, who possessed zennanas filled with sult of Hindus”. Even today, a large num- headed by Atal Bihari Vajpeyi and
young girls torn from their friends and ber of the Hindu intellectuals, including Narendra Modi, could not produce
treated the women with revolting bar- RSS and BJP leaders subscribe to this any such television serial based on
baric insult of 800 years…”. theory. Unfortunately, the Indian histo- Indian mythology, though Vajpeyi ruled
Further, Edward Ellenborough, the rians trained at the Universities of Cal- for six years and Modi is now at the
then Governor General of India, dra- cutta, Aligarh, Baroda and Osmania have verge of completing his five-year tenure.
matically brought back the “gates of not cared to expose this mischief of the A section of academia having science
Somnath temple” from Kabul to show colonial rulers. and technology backgrounds has of-

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