3 – A history cast in a mould
The shoddiness and incompetence visible in history books written by the
so-called eminent historians are not due to individual carelessness or lack of
information. For communists, the use of any history is to prove their dogma.
The moving power of communism is a deep-rooted self-alienation and its main
ally is cultural and spiritual illiteracy. The Leftist writers have done their
best to propagate these ‘values’ through their books on history.
Their histories are set to a formula: Ancient India must be presented as
a land of discord, a land in the grip of a social and political system marked
by injustice, extreme inequalities and oppression leading to perpetual social
tensions.