ASSAULT ON SCIENCE AND HISTORY !
What the sangh parivar forces propagate is substituting "belief"in place of evidence.Myths and fantasy then become the "real"past, based exclusively on belief.This is what the current Head of the Indian council of Historical research [ICHR], Y S Rao advocates-that only Vedas,Ramayan,Mahabharat should be exclusively used as evidence and all other evidence of linguistics,archaeology and other texts are to be disregarded , if they contradict these divine texts.
For a scientific understanding of History,it is an exercise of carefully sifting through evidence,building coherent narrative of how people lived and how society developed.Text-written or oral must be validated by other evidence.History is as such a subject of scientific enquiry as any other discipline.It is not glorification of the mythological past but a critical examination of all the developments-negative as well as positive.This is anathema to a Dinanath Batra or a Y S Rao [both blue eyed boys of sangh parivar]-in whose scheme of things,reason has no purpose unless it endorses belief. And belief is only for the glory of a mythological Hindu past.Nothing else matters.
What the sangh parivar forces propagate is substituting "belief"in place of evidence.Myths and fantasy then become the "real"past, based exclusively on belief.This is what the current Head of the Indian council of Historical research [ICHR], Y S Rao advocates-that only Vedas,Ramayan,Mahabharat should be exclusively used as evidence and all other evidence of linguistics,archaeology and other texts are to be disregarded , if they contradict these divine texts.
For a scientific understanding of History,it is an exercise of carefully sifting through evidence,building coherent narrative of how people lived and how society developed.Text-written or oral must be validated by other evidence.History is as such a subject of scientific enquiry as any other discipline.It is not glorification of the mythological past but a critical examination of all the developments-negative as well as positive.This is anathema to a Dinanath Batra or a Y S Rao [both blue eyed boys of sangh parivar]-in whose scheme of things,reason has no purpose unless it endorses belief. And belief is only for the glory of a mythological Hindu past.Nothing else matters.
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