India, March 9 -- If war is too important to be left to the Generals so also history is too important to be left to the Historians. That was the mistake post-independent India's first Congress government made when it decided to write the history of India. It chose mostly Leftist and Vote-Bank historians out to discredit the Indian (Hindu) rulers and heroes who shaped the ancient Hindu India.

Post-partition India got a fractured freedom in 1947. There were many brave-hearts, who got martyred fighting the mlecchas and Muslim invaders, but scarcely found a place in our history books. During Congress rule, immediately after independence, the emphasis was on writing and teaching Mughal and British history of India with a political purpose in ...