If Culture Ministry doesn’t run knowindia.gov.in then who runs it and why is it nonetheless on-line

The love and the incessant urge to glorify the Mughal invaders and barbarians by the Indian authorities and its NCERT-fed officers have as soon as once more come out in its full glory. Reportedly, the KnowIndia.gov.in web site was discovered singing songs of praises for the Mughals whereas, shielding their atrocities, firming down their criticism and giving chilly shoulder to different rather more illustrious Indian rulers.In the ‘culture and heritage section of the subsection Medieval History, the website claims “India became united under one rule, and had very prosperous cultural and political years during the Mughal rule.” It doesn’t cease right here and additional claims, “In India, there were many Muslim and Hindu kingdoms split all throughout India until the Mughals came.”In nutshell, the web site and its authors imagine that the thought of India didn’t exist earlier than the Mughals and that the invaders solely introduced all the subcontinent collectively. They mentioned that the sections have since been worn out of the web site after the controversy reached the realms of social media platforms..@MinOfCultureGoI pic.twitter.com/78nTaD8lcr— Ratan Sharda 🇮🇳 रतन शारदा (@RatanSharda55) August 23, 2021As for Aurangzeb, one of many greatest anti-Hindu rulers of all time, the web site, not surprisingly, goes means too straightforward on him. It claims that Aurangzeb didn’t fulfil his ambition of bringing all the sub-continent below one rule, insinuating that he was benevolent and allowed all different non-Muslim religions to flourish.However, in actuality, non-Muslims didn’t have any rights in polity or administration. Non-Muslims had been known as jimmies and they didn’t have any rights a Muslim had throughout the time of Aurangzeb.Read More: Read glorification of Aurangzeb by HuffPost? Time to untangle their net of liesMuslims didn’t need to pay land income tax. But non-Muslims needed to pay a particular land revenue-oriented tax. They even needed to pay warfare taxes to maintain the troopers within the Mughal military. Only Muslims might change into a warrior. Non-Muslims had been forbidden from driving a horse. The solely place they might acquire within the Mughal military was that of a servant. Non-Muslims needed to exhibit humility in each behaviour and speech. Non-Muslims had been forbidden from carrying fancy garments. They weren’t allowed to hold weapons. In the courtroom of regulation, the proof offered by a Muslim citizen carried extra weight than that offered by a non-Muslim.There shouldn’t be a single point out, even when passing, of the brutal atrocities, inflicted by international barbarians like Aurangzeb on the cultural, archaeological and non secular wealth of India. There is not any point out of how they destroyed a whole lot of Hindu temples, together with the holiest of Hindu shrines and transformed them to mosques.Reported extensively by TFI, in 1669, Aurangzeb issued a ‘farman’ to destroy the Kashi Vishwanath temple. Fortunately, the temple clergymen hid the linga deep inside the bottom which was later used to reconstruct the temple in 1742. In the unique website of the Kashi Vishwanath temple, now stands the Gyanvapi Masjid. Mathura- the birthplace of Lord Krishna is one other such holy place the place Aurangzeb unleashed his hatred for Hindus. Aurangzeb destroyed the temple in 1669 which had been constructed by Veer Singh Bundela.For Jehangir, the web site claims, “He strived to reform society and was tolerant towards Hindus, Christians and Jews.” Rajput and Maratha rulers, or the Ahoms who fought for hundreds of years with Mughals, and restricted the unfold of their empire has no point out within the mentioned part of the web site.The web site claims that Guru Arjan Dev (the web site refers to him as Arjun Dev which is wrong) was killed by Mughal emperor Jehangir as a result of he offered help and help to the Jehangir’s stranded son Khusrau. However, the fifth Sikh Guru was killed as he refused to pay a effective for preaching Sikhism and in addition refused to take away sure hymns from Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s Vaani, which Jehangir based offensive.After being thrashed by the netizens for butchering the historic details, the Ministry of Culture got here up with a timid response, claiming that the Ministry didn’t run the web site. Even if the Ministry didn’t run the web site, wasn’t it the job of Ministry officers to maintain a detailed eye on what goes stay on the web site? The brazen means by means of which Ministry tried to clean its fingers off the controversy explains how the historical past books have been replete with such distortion.The Ministry tweeted, “It has been brought to the Ministry’s notice about content in Know India website (http://KnowIndia.gov.in) that misrepresents India’s history. The Ministry of Culture does not run this website and is working with the concerned entities to accurately portray the events.”It has been dropped at the Ministry’s discover about content material in Know India web site (https://t.co/sbX72H5yHJ) that misrepresents India’s historical past. The Ministry of Culture doesn’t run this web site and is working with the involved entities to precisely painting the occasions.— Ministry of Culture (@MinOfCultureGoI) August 23, 2021The Know India web site making an absolute hash of Indian historical past shouldn’t come as a shock to anybody. As reported by TFI earlier this yr, regardless of being questioned repeated instances, NCERT failed to provide a supply for the declare, “All Mughal emperors gave grants to support the building and maintenance of places of worship. Even when temples were destroyed during the war, grants were later issued for their repair – as we know from the reigns of Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb,” made in a historical past textbook for sophistication 12, titled ‘Themes of Indian History’.To compound NCERTs distress, one RTI question and its reply revealed the NCERT didn’t have any supply to again the declare that Delhi’s well-known Qutub Minar was constructed by Qutubuddin Aibak and Iltutmish, the Muslim ruler of town.The declare, the query and the reply aboutQutubMinar @Sanjay_Dixit @SureshChavhanke @madhukishwar @TimesNow @republic @Republic_Bharat @OpIndia_com @ShefVaidya @missionkaali pic.twitter.com/xOL9MHWIYQ— Neeraj Atri (@AtriNeeraj) January 18, 2021 Read More: Like Aurangzeb, NCERT is clueless about Qutub Minar as nicely. And time has come to analyze and penalise the DistoriansMost of the NCERT textbooks, particularly of Humanities and Social Sciences like History, Geography, Civics, Economics, and so on have been written by the professors of JNU below the tutelage of ‘distorians’ like Romila Thapar, Irfan Habib, Satish Chandra, Bipin Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee- most of whom are self-professed “Marxist historians”.It’s been seven years for the reason that Modi authorities assumed energy on the centre and but the historical past books and web sites stay adulterated with historic hogwash. In July, the GoI after being put below the pump lastly invited options by way of e mail from the general public for eradicating distortions in Indian History from the college textbooks. It must be seen what’s the final result of the train however with the KnowIndia web site controversy, the general public’s anger is anticipated to rise solely.