NEW DELHI, Feb. 10 -- Eric Hobswam famously stated that history is as important to (sectarian) nationalism as poppy is to an opium addict. The right wing is surging with great speed; its ideologues keep a matching pace to construct the history which suits their political agenda of exclusion of some and glorification of their past. In this direction, medieval Indian history was the major one to be mauled by showing particularly that the medieval period of Indian history was an era of Islamic imperialism and by projecting the Muslim kings in a bad light, which helped them create hate against today's Muslims.

Even ancient Indian history, a golden period for them, was manipulated to show that the Aryans, their ancestors, were the indigenous ...