Rewriting Indian History

Ravindra Jadeja is the fastest Indian to score 3000 runs and claim 300 wickets in Test cricket, beating R Ashwin and Kapil Dev.

Sam Curran was sold to PBKS for Rs 18.50 crore in IPL 2023 auction last year, making him the most expensive player in the league's history.

The Indian Council of Historical Research has not launched any project to "rewrite Indian history" but is working on incorporating all prominent figures and incidents that are not part of history books, the Union Education Minister said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked historians to rewrite history in the Indian context and assured them that the government will support their efforts.

In a veiled attack on the BJP, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said divisive ideologies anchored in hate and prejudice were making every effort to weaken the strong foundation of India.

Stressing on the need to rewrite history from India's point of view, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said had it not been for Veer Savarkar, the first war of Independence in 1857 would have been seen from Britain's point of view.

During the first week of January last year, a group of scholars gathered in a white bungalow on a leafy boulevard in central Delhi. The focus of their discussion: how to rewrite the history of the nation. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had quietly appointed the committee of scholars about six months earlier. Details of its existence...

Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor has alleged that BJP is trying to "hijack" Indian history for political purposes and said that the Congress will not let it reduce the country to a "Hindu Pakistan".

Congress leader and former Union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today dubbed as "rubbish" the BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's call for "rewriting" Indian history to celebrate its unity and said the country should instead celebrate its diversity.

Ravindra Jadeja is the fastest Indian to score 3000 runs and claim 300 wickets in Test cricket, beating R Ashwin and Kapil Dev.

Sam Curran was sold to PBKS for Rs 18.50 crore in IPL 2023 auction last year, making him the most expensive player in the league's history.

The Indian Council of Historical Research has not launched any project to "rewrite Indian history" but is working on incorporating all prominent figures and incidents that are not part of history books, the Union Education Minister said.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked historians to rewrite history in the Indian context and assured them that the government will support their efforts.

In a veiled attack on the BJP, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said divisive ideologies anchored in hate and prejudice were making every effort to weaken the strong foundation of India.

Stressing on the need to rewrite history from India's point of view, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said had it not been for Veer Savarkar, the first war of Independence in 1857 would have been seen from Britain's point of view.

During the first week of January last year, a group of scholars gathered in a white bungalow on a leafy boulevard in central Delhi. The focus of their discussion: how to rewrite the history of the nation. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had quietly appointed the committee of scholars about six months earlier. Details of its existence...

Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor has alleged that BJP is trying to "hijack" Indian history for political purposes and said that the Congress will not let it reduce the country to a "Hindu Pakistan".

Congress leader and former Union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar today dubbed as "rubbish" the BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's call for "rewriting" Indian history to celebrate its unity and said the country should instead celebrate its diversity.