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In this talk, the speaker throws light upon the following questions:- 1. What is the indigenous conception of Indian history? 2. What was the state of Indian scholarship between the mid-nineteenth century and mid-twentieth century? 3. What led to the decline of historical scholarship in India? The speaker asserts that any honest history of India must take into account the all-encompassing nature and philosophical unity of Hinduism. While ‘History’ is limited to the reporting of historical events, Itihasas like Ramayana and Mahabharata contain a large amount of historical data. These works are both history and contemporary at the same time. Hindus ‘live’ these epics everyday at various places. These epics are constant guides of a living tradition. Therefore, history, as Hindus see it, is consciously being lived by Hindus. The speaker dwells upon the purpose of history writing in India? Here, attention is drawn to the former Indian politician K.M. Munshi who opined that the central purpose of history must be “to investigate and unfold the values which age after age have inspired the inhabitants of a country to develop their collective will.” Such history writing was practiced by a number of scholars between the mid-19th and mid-20th century, a period which was a ‘golden age of Hindu renaissance’ being characterized by the work of P V Kane, M Hiriyanna, Jadunath Sarkar, R C Majumdar, R.K. Mukherjee and so on. Most importantly, Sandeep Balakrishna also tells us how the leftists in cahoots with the Congress party hounded out greatest historians of India, slandered them, ignored them and rewrote the history of India with a biased, jaundiced ‘secular’ lens which has led to many problems in modern India. For related Indic Talks and Indic Courses, see https://india.cisindus.org/indic-stud...   / cisindusuniversity   #IndicTalks #SandeepBalakrishna #History #IndianNationalPsyche