Romila Thapar on the Colonial Scholarship Behind HIndu Rastra
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2015
- “Hindu Rastra is Drawn from the Scholarship of Colonial Historians”
Romila Thapar, at the launch of the two websites of the Indian Writers' Forum Trust, speaks on the recent attempts at the rewriting of history to suit the purposes of a Hindu India. The proponents of this theory claim that history must not only be rewritten, but corrected - a more dangerous proposition than rewriting. She does not find the approach - inspite of its absurdity -, the working of some fantasy, but a very systematic approach to suit history for the argument of a Hindu state. Most of these claims are based on the work of colonial scholarship such as the historians James Mill, Max Mueller, and Colonel Olcott. The irony of the fact remains that those who oppose the secular history as Western must fall back on colonial scholarship of Indian history done by - to borrow the vocabulary of the Hindu Right - Westerners. “It is colonial scholarship which is at the foundation of this new so-called indigenous history”, says Thapar. She concludes by say that there may be various versions of history, but pleads for a space where these versions can be debated and discussed in public or in institutions. What must be opposed is the reduction of all knowledge to a single narrative and the grounding of that knowledge on a single ideology.
you have shown your authority for long. you are now too old to show your submission to the family of Nehru, a loyalty for long shown, in the writing Indian history. all other people of India are from this land but converts, only acting as foreigners, but not all, who are sensible.it is time to dig again the past without prejudice and compare the existing one. for the sake of future generation. particularly about Indians, not the aggressors who left their legacy to destroy the nation in future in their name which should be shown in contrast. if any one has shown his love for his mother land, is projected as bigotry, this should be beaten down. dont allow any more colonial support. let us hold our head high, to support this thinking for the future. this will not put others down, but will emulate and appreciate our pride as a nation.
Well said! The 2 Nation Theory divided India and BJP/RSS follows the same idealogy!
ABe saale who did the divide pak nd india
@@subbareddy9954 Gandhi tried to keep India united to last of his breath.
But
It was people like Savarkar & Jinna never wished to live harmoniously.
There British played d game of devide & rule.Naturally any who r in powers try to strengthen their political stregnth.
British tried all their best to create opposition to Gandhian freedom movements by instigating both Hindu & Muslim fanatics against Gandhi.
Even they tried Dalits to go against Gandhi.
Upper caste were d natural allies of Britishers because upper caste & upper class & all religious fanatics mentality is more similar to European racist.
@@sridharbhatk3510
Gandhi was a hypocrite, racist, orthodox, politician and never a Mahatma.
1- he made Nehru PM and went against everyone, even threatingn them to sit on a fast.
2- he went against Ambedkar for demand for a separate electorate and threatened him for a fast.
3- he never threaten muslims for a fast, let alone sit on one when they demanded a Nation.
Ambedkar himself never considered Gandhi a Mahatma further he also called him orthodox and a politician.
Proof:--ruclips.net/video/omGcgEstVIE/видео.html
The father of Pakistan is Muhammad Ali Jinnah, while father of India is Mahatma Gandhi but the father of two-nation theory is Veer Savarkar😬
Her view on 2 nation theory is opposite to what Bipin chandra writes in his book, and they both belong to the same marxist category 😂
She is not a historian. But a Distorian
Spiegel was the first to say that the Aryans have their origin in India. That is also supported by the Russian archaeologists. Romila Thapar still insists on the Aryan invasion.
Its 21st century people have access to technology and therefore have the power to independent research, by doing so they can see there your mask . People of this country will not support Marist historian like who are the main between tension between Hindu and Muslim. Now all you can do is sit and watch the hard work you done to separate our country go to waste. 😢
Corrupt, dirty, filthy and mind full of hate topped up with personal greed ... !!!
What about the thesis of Dr Rossiter of the University of Texas that you and your tribe had copied from the Pakistani text books?
She had got her problems back to beginning that was predicted by herself.😆
Shame on her, she used term terrorist on a community named BODO in her book. She should apologize to Bodoes and re edit her book.
Muslim separatism is a global and historical phenomenon
Yes, I can understand your grief and trauma .
Your lobby is in danger isn't it.
You are free to run propaganda try your level best.
Fascinating
Seed of two nation theory in 20th century was sown by Gandhi when he joined and supported Caliphate movement. But historically, first Christianity divided the world in two- believers' and and non-believers, assimilated by Muslims later as Darul-Islam and Darul-herb
Calling Hinduism a 'monolith' says more about the depth of knowledge of thapar? And no mention of evidence(primary, secondary etc)in writing about history? More statements and bs.
She is shadow boxing with an imaginary enemy. This is called the "straw man" argument. Create a "straw man" and then proceed to destroy it.
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Ehm, heard of a terrorist organisation called RSS?
@@adityasringesh4360 name 5 legit terror activity that rss was involved it.....
by the way, I can name you 100 legit philanthropic work of RSS
This old lady has ruined our indian history. she has presented ALL wrong history to the people of india. Must be punished for it
if pakistan can be a muslim nation, israel can be a jewish nation and saudis can rule with shariah law and be a monarchy, if the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand can exist on the basis of genocide then why cant India be a hindu rashtra?
These things should have been done at the time of independence. For that first Hindus should be converted to Hinduism who are colonised with works of people like Romila
Forget about Hindu Rashtra, can this country be fair to Hindus? The Congi bastards have taken control of our temples and are using their assets to support missionary activities. This Jihadi worm is silent on all the atrocities committed against Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and right here in India.
Ours was hindu rashtra at the time of independence see this given link ruclips.net/video/BXREqLbRYy4/видео.html
You need to define what kind of Hinduism you will impose.
had she discussed it before writing her communist inspired history today we would not have to write history again.
now she want to discuss every thing with her.who is she to discuss with
Akhand Bharat It was the communists who were writing the world history and those Nationalist or other real historians were sitting ideal or were sidelined by those communist historian who are mightier with their numbers, well, still they are, that's why most of us are in confused state and thinking hearing the same old communism way of history making
She must be afraid of BJP govt. n increasing alertness in public that now no one here to protect her lies
Prof Thapar advocates elitist ideas of what makes a good public intellectual. Criticizes gimmickry, lack of integrity, Social Media, too much ideology being propagated now.
must watch @
This is 2021. This is not elitism of Mao era. A chaiwala is a PM. And Zoho along with 200 other mighty ones r delivering to US via cloud. AI doesnt understand secularism.
Romila Thapar is the viceroy of COLONIAL BHAKTS....😂😂😂
I'm sorry but there's a protest against this lady because she didn't do proper research and actually listed an indigenous Indian community as Extremists. Why is the lady trying to educate the mass to look at the Bodos as militants or terrorists? In page number 378 of her book Ancient Indian Social History: Some Interpretation she referred to the Bodo community as a militant group.
Thapar wrote, "Few in India pause to count the number of militant groups, that are terrorising the areas of the sub-continent and are not concerned with matters of Islam, such as the PW, the Naxalites, the Bodo, the Ulfa, a variety of groups in the Northeast, some of whom go back 50 years, and various mafias acting like private militias." Doesn't she know that Bodo is one of the scheduled languages of India? It's listed 3rd alphabetically in the 8th Schedule of the Indian Constitution. Please refer to the news article here, www.telegraphindia.com/states/north-east/students-protest-slur-on-bodos-234034. Here's also a video link (Ignore the accent but concentrate on the content): ruclips.net/video/ykiT4NlhUpA/видео.html
Boros and Bengalis are the real indigenous people of Assam before the arrival of the Ahom tribe from China.
She was promoted by Nehru to dismantle hinduism. She can be challenged. She cannot claim that only her view is truth. Make way
As long as we have intelligent people like her, even few crore idiotic BJP walkahs will fail in their sinister mission.
Bravo, Romilla.
Please elaborate about Sinister mission of BJP...
Romila under Maulana Adul our first education minister wrote those books 📚 all wounds of partition was fresh in our hearts. She writes all the kindless of Muslim invaders.
mujhe laga tha kuch to baat hogi isme phir pata chala ki bas angreji achha bolti hai
24K views after 6 years.
24K views too many...
Ma'am I have read 4/5 books of yours ❤and they are best❤
Reading garbage is haram brother😂😂
@@iitnakanpur.. 😂 koi students of history and social sciences Know it clearly that what's garbage and what's not, so free gyan mat dijiye🙏❤️
@@unartisticaryan You're clearly not a history student because you're consuming garbage in the name of history... Ofcourse you can read it for fun/timepass but not to gain knowledge🤣🤣
This R thapar is a member of tukde gangs of antinationals? She has falsified the indian history to suit her personal and anti national agenda????she should apologize to the Nation and people of India. Or she should be stripped of her citizenship of India. Govt should stop all pension and other benefits she got illegally from govt. If necessary her properties movable and immovable should be attached and distributed among poor people!!
There are number of religions and cultures in India if the country of India must be hindu then let the Sikhs have their own country let the dalits have their own country and finally let the muslims of India have their own country and wherever country is left let it be hindustan. The dalits and Sikhs along with majority of muslims in India are not outsiders they are the indigenous people that were hindus converted to different religions by choice.
COWists wont like this
Two nations theory actually was rejected by the authorities like Mr.Jinna and similarly Mr Gandhi or congress. pakistan also adopted a pattern of democracy like India.Thus two nations theory namely Hindu rashtra and Muslim rashtra propagated falsely.
Please upload full video
The best one author
Ashoka. S history she took in front of india
ahahah yeah because maharana pratap, maharaja ranjit singh, the marathas and bappa rawal etc were "colonial historians"....
With her great scholarship, she very efficiently is telling only truth !!!
What an elitist woman! Unfit to live in India.
Mam please speak Hindi please request
Your narrative is quite evident 😅
lier lier pants on fire... 😂
Thapar's academic works themselves are derived from colonial scholarship !
We want to know the facts not your interpretations. Thanks for fooling the youth for decades.
she is the villain which many of us still don't recognize
Stfu gandu. Learn history
Only you don't realise go read
Well, instead of rational arguments, Prof. Romila Thapar seems to have presented only personal opinions & misreadings laced with copious sarcasm against the "other" side. Curiously, she has ended with a "call to dialogue", which---despite repeated requests from the "other" side for the same---she has not followed through. I wonder why...
Good to see Sachidanandan nestled at the corner
Why are the likes of Romila Thapar allowed to syphon our planet's oxygen?
Pakistan ..59muslim jehadi country......
I want Hindu Rashtra only.We don't need Secularism.
A great Distorian
Great discussion.thanks prof.Romila Thapar.
My 10 year old daughter asked me why this lady speaks like an english woman. I told her that she believes that from the inside that she is indeed an english lady and will dictate how we indians should live.the british left and left their identity in people like romila. Romila, you go girl. You represent everything that is wrong with india.
It's ironic you say that, Romila Thapar and historians like her are responsible for the decolonization of history which happened under BRITISH rule. It's the british version of history that the right-wing continually cites. Which is what she is showing here how they effectively increased divisions in communities to rule. I am not saying everything was perfect before, it wasn't perfect, but it was exacerbated a lot by the British. India before British rule had 25% of the world's GDP and after it had only 2%, they effectively prevented industrialization and development and had a compliant population which they controlled through distorting history.
funny since she has contributed immensely to counter Orientalist historiography of India. But of course seething right wingers dont like that. Your so called decoloniality is the same as Sorry Savarkar's mercy petitions.
Colonial residue
You are on the same level as your ten year old daughter.... Keep it up
Please
Don't throw your WhatsApp University knowledge to your daughter.
Yes u r wrong bcoz u r misguiding people.
Reveling truth is not misguiding people you are misguided by the bigoted Hindutva Lobby
Romila thaper. Enemy. Of. Sanatanism
Reading through the comments suggests that Bakhts don't want to hear history from actual academics. They want to hear revisionist history and legends from a tea seller and extract political guidance from guru ji ka gyaan. Muppets
Can you speak in Hindi for starters, and stop speaking in British accent. Second of all, stop acting like a custodian of Indian history.
She is a fiction writer
Instead of illiterately and ignorantly spewed hatred on her and her theory, why don't you people (if you really have reasons and evidence) refute her on per statement basis.
The two nation was demand of Islam not Hindus. History is too complicated for you to get it.
It is already done bro. Link is given in my comment
@@swamivardana9911 Laughs in Sorry Savarkar
blabber blabber blabber.
we are back,
we will fight Romalia history.
Pl see the link given in my comment
Repected Professor Thaper --They are NOT pushing it to 7000 BCE --The way History was Learned in in your period -1950s --and it is learned to day in 2015 differ. They Use Most Modern "Planetarium Software" to fix the Dates in (the most Imperfect ) Gregorian Calendar,of what was said in RIG VEDAM (Vedic Calendar)
Their Approach is SCIENTIFIC --They are NOT "Hindu Raashtraa" people
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Amazing facts about Ancient India => BLOG (Blog is available in
Internet)
Blog-Maintained by Dr.Saroj Bala and Dr.Kulbushan Mishra
AGE OF HINDUISM
Using Planetarium software, "WE" find that the Winter Solstice occurred on
19 December, 7000 BC at 0735 hrs as shown in Figure 1. This is the earliest
reference to Vedic calendar with year beginning at Winter Solstice, found in
Rigveda (5-77-1/2; 1-46-14; 7-69-3/2). Heliacal rising of Ashwini Nakshatra (=> β and γ Arietis) can be seen to occur on 5th January, 7000 BC, marking the year beginning (Fig. 1).
Fig.2.Sky on January ,05,7000 BCE.06.49 hours shows heliacal rising of
of Aswini Nakshathira after Winter Solstice, marking thethe New Year beginning
(rig Veda 5-77-1/2-1-46-14:7-69-3 /2
A thousand year later, Winter Solstice, no longer occurred near Aswini (Ashvinii=β and γ Arietis) due to precession of Equinox -As a result Aswinis were no longer rising heliacally as before .they were still below the horizon at sun rise around Winter Solstice time.The winter Soltice has moved to REVATHI (Greek=>Zeta Piscium ) by 6000 BCE.-Thus precession of
Equinoxes and Winter Solstices were observed by Rig Vedic Scholars
The sky of 19 th Deceber 6000 BCE at Sun-Rise on the Winter Solstice day
shows that Aswini gave way to bright star Chitra (Spica) on opposite side
(western Horizon) -a full moon in chitra Nakshathira provided a new time marker
in the sky and heralded the Lunar month (naming) system -chitra vaisakha
etc.(Rig Vedam-5-74-1,2 and Taitth Sam 7-4-8) -see fig -2
Winter Solstice opposite Citra - Sky of 19 Dec 6000 BC at sunrise shows that Asvini gave way to bright star Citra on opposite side (western horizon). It began to be used for determining the year beginning. A full Moon occurring in Citra heralded the lunar month naming System-Caitra, Vaisakha etc (Taitriya. Samh. 7-4-8).-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Un-fortunately I am Not Able to show those Excellent Night Sky Pictures Figure-1 and Figure-2
Unfortunately there is a Trend among The Indian Elite --Any Noun that is Qualified by the adjective "HINDU" is "DANGEROUS"--RURAL--RUSTIC--PRIMITIVE---worth to be dumped in Garbage.--"VAASCANA OF THE COLONIAL RULE OF > 200 YEARS.
She's just bitter that her and her colleagues' parochial narratives are being challenged, and rightfully so. Also, the facade called the Aryan-Dravidian Myth has been debunked by numerous scientific proofs.
Don't worry, maam. I'm sure you'll love our "Hindu Rashtra"!
please cite said scientific proofs that debunk the Aryan migration theory. I expect peer reviewed genetic studies, historiography, archeological discoveries of the horse, and more. Please cite your sources here.
Kutian re Kutian
She is a gem❣
This lady clearly exhibits the colonized mindset with very little understanding of Indian civilization and is actively pushing the agenda of her foreign masters. More she speaks more she exposes herself.
Kapil Verma you said it, she is talking about history writing ? It is HERSTORRY which is getting circulated here..
Troll spotted
I can gurantee that many sanghis here havent read any of her books but belive that mahabharta and ramayan were history and not mythology
Why waste time reading a Jihadi propaganda?
you bet wrong. I can challenge Romelia to a debate anytime today or tomorrow. and I am an ordinary Hindu.
Watch the reality of Romila Thapar Shi is bloody lier n misguided children studying in CBSE ruclips.net/video/S9F8LbmpCNY/видео.html
Ms Thaper calls Arya race but it is term for respected enlightened person!
Is she historically correct?
In Muslim period great Sanskrit work was done,
Was it in mohameden mohameden ,ruled region or in
Hindu ruled pockets?
What contribution is of muslim s
in indian culture except forcing conversion s & building mosque &
Makaberas by destroying temple
Romila Thapar is an internationally recognized Historian and Academic. The Bhakts now believe in their version of history like the Christians who believe in the Biblical history and Muslims in Koranic history.
Rohit Gupta a communist historian, and all knows how polluted is world history by the Marxist Historians like this woman.... not a lady for sure
Shahla Farooqui she is an idiot commie... who has more damage to this country .... this old hag should kicked out of academics
She is internationally recognized because during the Nehru Gandhi Jihadi rule, the mafia FAMILY ruling us supported and promoted her. She is internationally recognized same as Joseph Goebbels.
She is the paid mouthpiece of Gandhis.
U be the fan of this lady without knowing the facts. I v given link in my comment which may open ur eyes. But being muslim u may not be able to digest facts.
Big name with a narrow mind
Donkeyass talking shit* secularism. She's sonia'S sister in terms of corrupted mindset.
Romila is paid up historian
ROMILA THAPAR RAAANDDDDDIII HAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yani teri maa?