Historian Irfan Habib sees Pakistan-like Cherry-Picking of History in India
Piyush Srivastava | 15 April 2024 | The Telegraph
Historian Irfan Habib, 93, believes that history should be studied and taught “as it was, not as it should have been”.
“Unfortunately, the current dispensation is not only removing important parts of our history but also trying to prove that Indians are Aryans. How does it affect India whether we are Tamil or Aryan?” the professor emeritus with Aligarh Muslim University told The Telegraph in an interview on Friday.
“The Bharatiya Janata Party is dying to prove that the Indus Valley Civilisation belonged to them — the Aryans. Don’t they understand that we would remain Indian even if we are Dravidian?”
Habib believes that India has taken a leaf out of Pakistan’s book in the matter of educational policy.
“We are becoming Pakistan. There was the Indus Valley Civilisation and Mohenjodaro in Pakistan. There was art in Taxila, about which (Sir John Hubert) Marshall (director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928) said that even Greek art cannot compete with it,” he said….