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Bhatkal & Sen Writing Indian History: A View from Below

Name: Writing Indian History: A View from Below
Brand: Bhatkal & Sen
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This comprehensive history of India, from ancient to modern times, presents an alternative, even iconoclastic, view. Arguing that the history written by professional historians has been strongly influenced by their concept of Hinduism, caste and its implications, or by an over-dependence on Marxism, and their upper caste status, Kandyil urges that it is time that the counter view of the lower castes be considered. Declaring that he is not a historian, the author also states that he has not used primary sources. A major reason for the perpetuation of the caste system, he suggests, was identified by the Mandal Commission Report, 1987: the unquestioning adherence to irrational, anachronistic ideas and beliefs that conditioned 'the consciousness of the lower castes in accepting their inferior status in the ritual hierarchy as a part of the natural order of things'. He sets out to lay bare historical truths in an accessible way for those who have acquiesced in this discrimination. Achuthan deconstructs the intellectual labour of iconic scholars and personalities like S Radhakrishnan, M N Srinivas, Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi, among others, to show how they supported the caste system, albeit condemning its excesses. Arguing against the prevalent distortions, the author talks of how the destruction of non-Brahminic literatures has been the key to wrongful interpretations of ancient India, and to the way Dravidian culture was undervalued until the discovery of the Indus Valley civilisation in the early twentieth century. Similarly, Buddhism had flourished for a millennium, BC 250-AD 800, bringing forth astonishing cultural achievements that travelled beyond India to the rest of the world. Yet this has not received its due; instead the glories of a golden age that mirrored Buddhism's decline at the hands of a violent resurgent Brahminism were emphasised. The latter with its rigid caste system and orthodoxy maintained by the Dharmashastras, reinterpreted extremely n

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Brand: Bhatkal & Sen
Model: July 2008
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 818560472X
Category: Books > Subjects > History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 February 2006
Listed Since: 16 August 2007

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