Another Viceroy, Lord Dufferin (1884-88), was advised by the Secretary of State in London that the 'division of religious feelings is greatly to our advantage', and that he expected 'some good as a result of your committee of inquiry on Indian education and on teaching material'.
'We have maintained our power in India by playing-off one part against the other,' the Secretary of State for India reminded yet another Viceroy, Lord Elgin (1862-63), 'and we must continue to do so. Do all you can, therefore, to prevent all having a common feeling.'
In his famous Khuda Bakhsh Annual Lecture (1985) Dr Pande said: 'Thus under a definite policy the Indian history books text-books were so falsified and distorted as to give an impression that the medieval [i.e. Muslim] period of Indian history was full of atrocities committed by Muslim rulers on their Hindu subjects and the Hindus had to suffer terrible indignities under Muslim rule. And there were no common factors [between Hindus and Muslims] in social, political and economic life.'
Therefore, Dr Pande was extra careful. Whenever he came across a 'fact' that looked odd to him, he would try to check and verify rather than adopt it uncritically.
RE:THE GREAT EMPEROR - SHAHENSHAH AURANGZEB
by JATIN HALDANKAR on Mar 21, 2007 07:03 PM Permalink
mike ...you have already posted this one week back ..all of your messages are wonderfully answered then ...why are you spaming the board with same message?? no matter how much you
shout with your lies they wont be considered as truth...
RE:RE:THE GREAT EMPEROR - SHAHENSHAH AURANGZEB
by Mike Gandhi on Mar 22, 2007 06:51 PM Permalink
You people are lost intelligence case. I know you forget the last week message. So I am refreshing you again the true history of Great Emperor Aurangzeb