
EI Weekly Listen — The fake history of civilisational states by Christopher Coker
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In Mode's Indian History Is Being Rewritten in Pursuit of a Distinctive Political Project
In mode's ind history is not only being revised and re interpreted, it is also being rewritten in pursuit of a distinctive political project. This is made all the easier by the fact that so much of the country's history has been forgotten. What it did leave behind was unique literature, which allows it to live on in the indian imagination through the vedes. Unfortunately, the vedic era has no rameses the second and no cecil b de mill has managed to film it. There are no ruined cities or temples which you can visit and admire. The west is infinitely more fortunate than india, which has lost so much of its literature.
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