DesiPundit

During the NDA regime, accusations of rewriting history books to suit ideology  constantly made and people who pointed out that Marxist historians have been doing the same were labeled instantly. R. Nandakumar finds that “manipulative rewriting of history for ideological reasons” is not new and explains his experience with doctored histories.

A most telling instance of such selective historiography was a biography of Dr. Ambedkar which we studied in 10th class. After decades of trying to make ‘Savarnas’ see reason, Ambedkar gives up (”but despite all his efforts, Hindus (sic) did not want to change, their minds had been totally corrupted by caste”) and declares his decision to leave Hinduism.
As far as I know, Ambedkar decided against joining Islam or Christianity *not* because of their (very dubious) ‘foreign’ status but because of the less than exemplary Human Rights record of practitioners of these faiths (White Christians were arguably the worst practitioners of slavery and imperialism; and Arab Muslims were among the biggest slave traders). Our textbook probably did not *dare* to quote Ambedkar fully.