HOw many of you know aobut Vijayanagar, chola, chera, etc. No great Indian (regional) empire is given due in our history books. I am from Gujarat and learnt most of the above from my south indian friends. i didnt know that Chola controled most of South East Asia and that they conquered and had a federal system where the conquered king will still rule but pay homage to Chola for a common army, etc. Chola wasn't cruel to the conquered lands either, (unlike western civilization that pillaged and raped africa, india, etc).
If Mode wants to fight for MH history to be given due, he should rather fight for Indian history to be given due.
RE:HOw many of you know aobut Vijayanagar, chola, chera, etc
by Tom on Mar 13, 2008 01:54 AM Permalink
It seems you have skipped your primary school or you didn't show an interest in history when you were in school. Or possibly you had as worst an history teacher as mine. But still I had interest in history and so read the books.
RE:HOw many of you know aobut Vijayanagar, chola, chera, etc
by rak jag on Mar 13, 2008 03:17 AM Permalink
In Maharshtra we had history from 1 to 10 th standard for all students. It goes from local history to world history in progressive way. I remember that in 5 th to 7 th standard we have history of India which covers from Mhanjodaro to 1947. I think you are not studied that well during those years. By the way NCERT is national institution which set up all curriculams in India & all have to follow there rules about curriculums in India. If we have Indian history then you should have with technical differences like number of chapters & pages.
RE:HOw many of you know aobut Vijayanagar, chola, chera, etc
by spindoc on Mar 13, 2008 01:24 AM Permalink
One of the resons why there are lot of great Temples in Soth India..
RE:HOw many of you know aobut Vijayanagar, chola, chera, etc
by asdfg on Mar 13, 2008 01:22 AM Permalink
if u r from gujarat, you should have learnt in the Gujarat board history books about the cholas, pallavas etc. If you didn't heed to the books, I must say it is your drawback. There was no good mention about Shivaji in particular, but had a lot to do with all the 4 maratha kingdoms in Gujarati History books as well. Scindias (shinde), Gaekwads, Peshwas and holkars all were mentioned. Also I would like to point that there was a long list for the Mughal Dynasty rule at the same time very little mention about the Rajasthani Rajput History. I wonder why the congress govt never thot of including that.
