New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that ‘history is not created by governments but it’s the outcome of events’ that have potential to transform society. He also urged the learned members & luminaries of the society to come forward and ‘rewrite’ the glorious past of Indian empires.
He lamented that many battles fought by valiant Indian rulers against invaders were ‘forgotten’ because historians concentrated mostly on Mughals. The Home Minister said that reference books should be written on the Indian emperors and if this is done “the history which we believe wrong will gradually fade away and truth will emerge”.
The Home Minister said this during the unveiling of book ‘Maharana: Sahastra Varsha Ka Dharma Yuddha’.
“I want to tell something to the historians. We have many empires but historians have concentrated only on the Mughals and wrote mostly about them. The Pandya empire ruled for 800 years. The Ahom empire ruled Assam for 650 years. They (Ahoms) had even defeated Bakhtiyar Khalji, Aurangzeb and kept Assam sovereign. The Pallava empire ruled for 600 years. The Cholas ruled for 600 years. The Mauryas ruled the whole country — from Afghanistan to Lanka for 550 years. The Satvahanas ruled for 500 years. The Guptas ruled for 400 years and (Gupta emperor) Samudragupta had for the first time visioned a united India and established an empire with the whole country. But there is no reference book on them,” Amit Shah said.
The Home Minister said that there was a need to revive India’s glorious past and many people will have to take initiative for this.
He said that the current history of the country is written in such a way that it creates disapppointment but this won’t survive for long.
“It may be decades, 50 years or a hundred year but at the end it is the truth which will emerge victorious,” he said.
The Home Minister said that the Centre is also taking initiatives but when government takes the initiatives for writing history, many stumbling blocks appear.
“When independent historians write history, only truth comes up and that is why our people should write book with facts and without making any comments,” he said.
