Author: Koenraad Elst
Publisher: Voice of India
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 243
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788185990958
Description
Negationism in Europe usually means the denial of the Nazi genocide on the Jews and Gypsies in World War2. Less well-known is that India has its won brand of negationism. A section of the Indian intelligentsia is trying to erase from the Hindus memory the history of their persecution by the swordsmen of Islam. The number of victims of this persecution matches that of the Nazi crimes.
The Islamic campaign to wipe out Paganism could not be equally thorough, but it has continued for centuries, without any moral doubts arising in the minds of the persecutors and their chroniclers. The Islamic reports on the massacres of Hindus, the abduction of Hindu women and children to salve-markets, the destruction of temples and the forced conversions, invariably express great glee and pride. They leave no doubt that the destruction of Paganism by every means was considered the God-ordained duty of the Muslim community.
Yet, today many Indian historians, journalists and politicians deny that there ever was a Hindu-Muslim conflict. They shamelessly rewrite history and conjure up centuries of Hindu-Muslim amity, and a growing section of the public in India and in the West only knows their negations version of history. It is not a pleasant task to rudely shake people out of their delusions, especially if these have been willfully created, but this essay does just that.
Contents
FOREWORD
I NEGATIONISM IN GENERAL
Bonafide re-interpretation of history
Denying the holocaust
Leftist negationism
Islamic negotionism
II NEGATIONISM IN INDIA
Hindu vs. Muslim
Negationism and the Indian National Congress
The Aligarh School