HISTORY forgotten

kuch trick mile to mujhe bhi btana sb kichdi ho jata haii

Starting from Delhi Sultanat & the slave dynasty started by Qutb ud-Din Aibak(one who got constructed the famous Qutub Minar in Delhi) the Delhi Sultanat always acted as a guard of the northern frontiers of India at least till Aurangzeb’s rule after which Mughal dynasty became weak resulting in infamous plunder & massacre in Delhi by Nader Shah who took the Kohinoor Diamond & Peacock throne from Mughals. Later Marathas tried to carry this role of protecting northern frontiers unsuccessfully in famous 3rd battle of Panipat where they lost miserably paving the way for the rise of British Empire in India. This is why a majority of Indian history is focused on Delhi Sultanat/Mughal Dynasty because it shaped the destiny of India as it is known today both by their successes & failures.

I don’t know which board you studied and when you studied the years I mean. Also I don’t know the syllabus of the current time.

But I would like to say that what we are thought in school is just a jest or would say the main events which atleast you should know . From that point of view I don’t think I missed anything in my school days.

If you say you missed what happened after 1947 I would agree because we are not taught that but before that I don’t think so.

Do you think that entire history can be taught to us in school and on top of that History is not liked by many. Most mug up for the exams and then don’t remember anything. So who is at fault here?

I would like to tell what I was taught in my school days to best of my ability as I remember.

I studied in Maharashtra state board , so a major portion was related to Maratha Empire as well.

If I go in chronological order , started with Evolution of Human- Neanderthal ,Cro-Magnon man, Homo Sapiens.

Then history of India during the BC period , major names I remember are Magadh,Pataliputra cities and Mauryan empire Ashoka, Bimbisara,Kanishka.Then there were some details of Alexander the great. Names of the major kings who ruled Delhi till Prithivraj Chauhan.

Also had some chapters about  Egyptian civilization, Greek civilization.

Some chapters on the south Indian empires Vijaynagara empire, Cholas.

For me I think the Delhi Sultanate and Mughals were covered in 2 chapters. give me benefit of doubt and lets say 3 chapters then about the start and rise of Maratha empire majorly about Shivaji Maharaj.

I do remember about American and French revolution but I think both were in a single chapter. French Revolution was important because the ideas of freedom and fraternity came from there,

Also something about the Renaissance period , don’t remember the details but. 

10th I remember , the first 4 chapters were related to world war 1 and 2 and then Indian history starting just before 1857 till 1947 and some events after that too like French giving up their territories and the liberation of Goa. Even the works of many social leaders like Mahtma Jyotirao Phule, Raja Ram Mohun Roy, Ishwar chandra vidyasagar and many others.

I think all the major events were mentioned and all freedom fighters even some foreigners who supported Indian independence movement, many names I too don’t remember now.

So according to me if you feel you don’t know something, please check online and read about it. Also now a days people are divided basis who wrote what and which are the correct history details. Thats upto you who you want to believe but please do read more sources if it is a controversial topic.

While writing this post , most names spelling had to google, others auto-correct helped; so I’ m sorry and please don’t get offended if you feel the spellings are not correct.

“History is written by the victors”. We know who were the victors from the past  500 years and they destroyed our previous history. Made sure only the history of them and their forefathers existed. Without written evidences we probably don’t have much to read from as to what existed before that. Since the mughals couldn’t make too much inroads into south India there are some sort of good content about south History (maybe I studied in karnataka so we had quite of lot of it to study). 

Out of all the history I was taught I only remember French revolution, ww1 and 2, 1857 revolt, independence struggle and some bits of akbar. 

I don’t think any other substantial topic was taught in history till 10th grade (that was the last year I read history in school) 

Had a compulsory elective in graduation about history and culture of punjab, read complete about Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism there. I remember this significantly because this is as fresh as it gets in the memory. 

Edit-Studied ancient harappa and stuff in both places too, but wasn’t really interested in that old things so mind automatically deleted it I think. 

History they teach in school is Fiction

history me hitler,  french revolution , Nationalism in Europe , ye sb bakwass padhaya jata h 

jiska hmare future job se b kuch lena dena nhi h 

kash hmari education ministry ispar dhyan deke isko change kre , Indian history hi pdhai jae sirf na ki bahar ki faltu bkwas

Nalanda university was ahead of its time and was burned down by raiders

After recovering khilji was shocked by the fact that an Indian scholar and teacher had more knowledge than his princes and countryman. After this, he decided to destroy the roots of Buddhism and Ayurveda. As a result, Khilji set fire to the great library of Nalanda and burned around 9 million manuscripts.

@guest_999 ; @playdime  ; @radhe786 I would still say that history taught to me was not focused on Delhi ;in my case maybe history related to Maharashtra was , as I was in state board but does that mean I don’t know other things.

Please read my post, https://www.desidime.com/discussions/history-fo...

I think it is what we remember and what is discussed more now a days..

 Nehru and his posse has tried hard to steer the real history of India to appease a few.  Just check our history after 1910 AD. Khilafat movement is celebrated as a national movement. People like Aurobindo are known as only monks. We dont know their involvement in independence of India. Veer Savarkar is portrayed as a terrorist. Real terrorists are given stature of freedom fighters. Only Gandhi and his posse are given importance. Only non violent movement gave independence to India! What about Subhas Bose, Bhagat Singh? Leftist Historians like Bipin Chandra are given priority. Indians are made to feel pity for their own sorrow. Surprisingly they feel very proud about it. It is a long long story. When you speak a lie 1000 times one is bound to take it as truth. A lot of people were sent to Kalapani. We read about The discovery of India by Nehru. What about other! I am so shameless that I don’t know about them. Gotta Google. 😭😭😭 At least I am admitting it. 

If the above statement is false then check the whereabouts of Indian Freedom Fighters. A lot of them perished in impoverished condition. India has treated her real heroes in a very very bad way.

My history teacher used to make me sit in her chair and tell me to teach the class.

Not because I was good in history, I used to make a lot of mischief in her class ..

If people crying here are really missing history, they should have majored in history and done a Ph.D.
If i have to be honest, i can’t read volumes and volumes of history for exams, just to satisfy my ego.
The syllabus doesn’t include all and sundry for an obvious reason, we were kids and can take only that much.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/don-t-...

Nobody killed my curiosity. As it was kept alive, I learnt many things. Curiosity is a software in a child installed by nature. We have seen kitten jumping over its mother’s tail. The kitten is not playing. Instead he is doing serious business as its mother cat teaches it to develop skills.”

To wrest initiative and take part when opportunity comes to your way. Action leads to experience and experience of doing something gives us confidence and leads to success.”

Children are often forced to maintain pin-drop silence in classroom by their teachers. By doing so all their energies, physical, spiritual, and emotional, are curbed in such a setting where he/she is bound to get demotivated. In the contrary children should be encouraged to ask questions.

To be honest I don’t see any benefit in learning about Maharajas and their stupid wars. which country does not have kings, on the other hand western history is fascinating, we get to learn about hitler n Nazi Germany, n how he brain washed millions of ppl,  heroshima n Nagasaki bombing, Marx and Lenin failures and concept of communism, Socrates, Aristotle, industrial revolution, violent french revolution, blacks fighting segregation, Spaniards bringing plagues to then native countries.compared to that India is pretty much uneventful, and hence ignored.

in order to be remembered,u have to be unique, here only Gandhi was, while american french got freedom through violence, Gandhi chose the   unconventional way, non violence which was never heard of before.

in the end it doesn’t matter if these ppl , win or lose, what matters is,  if their ideas or methods are unique. only then they will find place in history, like hitler or Lenin, although lost, but remembered studied forever

amazon gvs doge 20% off me to wo missing panne me batane ki soch skta hu.

history nahi hota to humko pata kaise chalta ki “chacha” nehru aur “mahatma” gandhi ne milke desh ki waat lagayi hai aur asli hero subhash chandra bose aur bhagat singh jaise shoor veer hain..