Hinduism: What Really Happenned in India (PDF) - Oration

Hinduism: What Really Happened in India – M. M. Ninan
Class XI, Ancient India by R.S.Sharma
To the second category ( where historians were guided by a rationalist and
objective approach) belongs Rajendra Lal Mitra (1822 – 1891) who published
some Vedic texts and wrote a book entitled Indo-Aryans. …
The maximum deletions are from the chapter titles ‘Climax and Disintegration’ of
the Mogul Empire, which deals with the history of Sikhs and their clashes with
the Moguls. The NCERT says it has received objections from the Sikh
community, following which the decision to delete certain sections was taken.
India Abroad, December 7, 2001”
The point here simply is that none of the claims of antiquity of neither
Hindu Scriptures nor the Hindu Puranas has any valid archeological,
documentary or linguistic evidence.
“Mahabharata as given to us could not have been written before
A.D fourth Centaury. Panini, who is the famous grammarian, has
mentioned several important personalities of the epics of that period.
While the reprints published later have made several errors, variations
and exaggerations, the main characters and the imports of the stories
remain in tact. There is no doubt that Geetha came into existence only
during the period of Gupta Empire.”
K.M.Panicker ( A Survey of Indian History p.67)
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