Compare this with Shivaji Maharaj, who is only given a few lines in Indian history books – and sometimes even, called ‘a plunderer’

Shivaji Maharaj

Francois Gautier  : Yet, what is ignored, is the courageous, lone, daring, extraordinary side of Indian history, embodied by the outstanding Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja, who, with a handful of men, stood up against – and defeated – the most powerful army of the world then: that of #Aurangzeb Indian students need also to know the dark side of their history: there is no greater holocaust in the world than that of the #Hindus , not only at the hands of Muslim invaders, but also due to British or Portuguese colonists.

History remembers that 500,000 Hindus taken as slaves, died of cold on the Hindu Kush, or that Timur killed in one day 100,000 Hindus in Delhi – not a mean feat when they were no bullets then to finish a man quickly – or the 10 million Indians who died in the 19th and 20th century of British induced famines!

Conservative estimates say that at least 100 million Hindus lost their lives brutally, from the first Islamic invasion, to the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2011. No adolescent in India knows that plastic surgery was invented by ayurvedic doctors 4000 years ago, that Vedic mathematics could do in three operations what it took ten at the same time in the West; that democracy existed in India long before America…

That Kalidasa is one of the greatest poets ever, in the history of the world; that the Mahabharata or Ramayana, are as intricate and far-reaching in their stories, than the Greek Iliad & Odyssey, or Shakespeare’s immortal plays; or that the spirituality that props-up Hinduism from behind, is universal in its outlook; that India never invaded other countries to impose its religion; and that its wonderful tools, like Meditation, Pranayama or Hata yoga, are owed to Hindus.

After ten years of BJP power, young Indians are still clones good for export – and indeed the greatest brain drain in the world is that of Hindus going to study in the United States and eventually settling there and their children and grandchildren will become more American than the Americans, more British than the British, as Macaulay, the Pope of westernizing India, had wanted.

Whenever I give lectures in the United States on the urgent and absolute need to rewrite Indian History – and mind you, there are tens of thousands of Indian students in American universities – it evokes very little interest in them.

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