For more than 25 centuries the Western historians and later left historians of India have propagated and documented the distorted versions of Alexander’s Indian invasion. It was believed and taught in our classrooms that Alexander’s forces defeated the Indians. Greek and Roman accounts say that the Indians were bested by
Category: Triumph of Hindus
Political and military asceticism – a part of Hinduism
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote Anand Math showing the Sanyasi Rebellion against the British Army. The Sanyasi song, ‘Vande Matram’ became the unofficial song of Swadeshi movement; and after India’s independence, our national song. Anandmath was not all fiction. The history of Indian nationalism during the British rule can’t be complete