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Unmasking the Motives Unmasking the motives of Aryan immigrationists -- BS Hari Shankar. To attack Indian traditions and cultural unity. There are striking similarities between eurocolonialism and euromarxism. Western Marxism is a body of various Marxist theoreticians based in Western and Central Europe. While György Lukács's History and Class Consciousness and Karl Korsch'sMarxism and Philosophy, first published in 1923, are often seen as the works that inaugurated this current, the phrase itself was coined much later by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, well known left ideologue and French phenomenological philosopher. Both eurocolonialism and euromarxism are united in the propogation of the Aryan invasion theory. Both are unanimous in targeting the scientific heritage of India . They exhibit strong unanimity in attacking Indian traditions and culture . Both eurocolonialism and euromarxism exhibit tremendous solidarity to oppose the idea of India’s cultural unity. According to J.M.Blaut, Professor of anthropology and geography at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has discussed issues of Marxism and Eurocentric diffusion, to most Marxist thinkers such as Bernstein, Bauer, Hilferding, and Kautsky, the European world was the edifice of historical changes, past and future, and non-Europe was the recipient of this diffusion. In 2005, Eric Sheppard, Professor of Economic Geography argued that contemporary Marxism has Eurocentric traits when it supposes that the third world must go through a stage of capitalism before "progressive social formations can be envisioned". In India, any trend unyielding to such conventional guidelines of Euromarxist historiography, and questions left historians who dominate established historical research is condemned as saffronisation. This is evident from the resolution of the Indian History Congress recently passed at JNU , New Delhi .The resolution claimed that it meant to oppose efforts to project Indian science as fact and establish myths as history .India did not witness any isolated or mass protests condemning science as anti religious, equivalent with Papal inquisition . No scientific institution was dissolved or premier research terminated for questioning orthodox religious norms and beliefs. Nor did we read any reports of science censured in educational institutions. But the resolution passed by Indian History Congress at JNU was questioned. Noted Indologist Michel Danino in an article published in ‘The Hindu,’ January 4, 2015 titled ‘Neglect of Knowledge Traditions’ accused that the kind of historiography that the authors of the Indian History Congress resolution represent is responsible for this situation. Danino further argued that mainstream historical books on classical India such as Professors D.N.Jha’s ‘Ancient India’, or Romila Thapars ‘Penguin History of Early India’ are totally silent on Indian scientific achievements. Danino pointed out that Jha briefly mention Aryabhata and Varahamihira. Simultaneously, Jha give wrong statements about Arya bhata and is virtually silent on Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya and their line of prestigious successors who survived till the 14^th century. Romila Thapar limits her discussion on Indian science with few sentences on Aryabhata and Varahamihira. Danino wrote as an indologist . He has nothing to do with saffronisation. But, Danino’s write up provoked the orthodox Euromarxist establishment. In his letters to editor column in ‘The Hindu’, Professor D.N.Jha, former Head of the Department of History, Delhi University accused Danino of being ignorant in ancient Indian science and technology and that his works lacked scientific vigour. Professor Jha claimed that his own work extended only upto 6^thcentury AD which could not include later events .He also charged Danino of being ignorant in chronology of ancient India. A rejoinder was written by Danino in letters to editor column in ‘The Hindu’, countering Jha’s assertions. Danino questioned Jha’ s claims that his work was limited to 600AD. If Jha can include various aspects of Post 600AD such as Hsuan Tsang of 7^th century, Sankaracharya of 8^th century, Kailasanath temple of 8^th century and Al-Biruni of 11^th century why not Brahmagupta who is considered the father of Algebra and who substantially influenced Arabic Mathematics. Danino charged that it was a clear attempt of circumventing Brahmagupta and Bhaskaracharya and their successors. There are no hard and fast rules that even the names of these towering scientists of ancient India should hardly be mentioned by Jha in his work. There were personalities from mathematics to medicine after 600AD such as Vateswara, Manjula, Aryabhata II, Sripati, Satananda, Mahavira, Sridhara, Narayana Pandita, Madhava and Chakrapani Datta. Marxist historians who sideline India’s history of science and traditional knowledge systems should look back how science was mutilated by their forefathers under Communist regimes. Professor Ethan Pollock has pointed out in 2006 that the most valuable repository for understanding Communism and science is the Central Party Archive which contains the Central Committee papers There are numerous events in erstwhile Communist Russia of imposing Marxist line on science from the institutes and universities to the presidium of the colossal Academy of Sciences, to deliberations in the Secretariat of the Central Committee, and finally to Stalin’s table which passed the final judgments .. Reputed Soviet physiologists such as L.A. Orbeli, P.K. Anokhin, A.D. Speransky and I.S. Beritashvily were assaulted for deviating from Marxist guidelines. Consequently, Soviet physiology self-excluded itself from the international scientific community for many years. The Chinese Academy of Sciences was also explicitly modeled on the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Scientists in china were subjected to communist party compulsions .The terminology of the period distinguished between "red" and "expert". The scientific establishments were attacked during the Cultural Revolution, causing major damage to China's science and technology. Most scientific research ceased. In extreme cases, individual scientists were singled out as "counter-revolutionaries" and were subject to public criticism and persecution, and the research work of prestigious institutes were frozen. The entire staffs of research institutes commonly were dispatched to distant regions for political training under Communist comrades. Instead of getting provoked by Michel Danino, the Marxist historians in India should have gone through the encyclopedic work on History of Indian Science published in 1971 by the Indian National Science Academy .The Indian National Science Academy, through its History of Science Board of 1958 and the National Commission for the Compilation of History of Sciences in India formed in 1967 which was renamed in 1989 as the Indian National Commission for History of Science, has published meticulous works on India’s scientific heritage. Professors B.V.Subbarayappa, D.M.Bose, S.N.Sen, S.P.Raychaudhari, R.C.Majumdar, K.A.Chowdhury, J.L.Bhaduri are few of the eminent scholars associated with this work since more than four decades..There are also encyclopedic works on Indian medicine especially Charaka, Susruta and Vagbhata by Professor M.S.Valiathan, currently, National Research Professor at Manipal University. These eminent personalities in science and medicine are not saffron idealogues. . As a means to challenge the hegemony of Eurocentric knowledge, indigenous universities have been founded in various Latin American countries. They demand that multiple ways of knowing be recognized as valid, and suggest that indigenous knowledge can inspire new methodologies. The Marxist historians should be aware of two events that invited global attention in 2004 and 2008. On June 18, 2004, an unusual event took place at CERN, the European Center for Research in Particle Physics in Geneva . A 2m tall statue of Shiva -Nataraja, the Lord of Cosmic Dance was unveiled at CERN. The statue, symbolizing Shiva's cosmic dance of evolution and dissolution , was given to CERN by the Indian government to celebrate the research center's long association with India. On the pedestal are etched two quotes. One is from physicist Capra: "In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics." The other is from the distinguished India-born art historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, who called the Nataraja "the clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of." It was an appropriate metaphor of East-West symbiosis . Speaking at the unveiling ceremony, Dr Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India, expressed his satisfaction that “the Indian scientific community is part of the quest for understanding the Universe”. Can we separate myth and science in this context ? Dr.Kakodkar does not belong to the saffron brigade. The other incident occurred in 2008. Professor George Gheeverghese Joseph of Manchester University delivered a lecture on the ‘Transmission to Europe of Non-European Mathematics’ on September, 2008 at the Mathematical Association of America(MAA) . He focused on Indian School of Mathematics of the 14^th century, in Kerala. It was founded by Madhava of Sangamagrama, which included personalities such as Parameshvara, Neelakanta Somayaji,Jyeshtadeva, Achyuta Pisharati, Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri andAchyuta Panikkar . Melpathur Narayana Bhattathiri authored the famous ‘Narayaneeyam’ the abridged form of Srimad Bhagavatha in one thousand Sanskit verses. At the MAA's Carriage House Conference Center, he spoke about "The Politics of Writing Histories of Non-Western Mathematics." In a provocative address, this Indian Professor cited the example of the discovery of infinite series as one instance in which possible Indian and other Asian influences on European mathematics have been neglected in the past. Professor Joseph questioned on the trend of non-Western contributions generally neglected in histories of science and the difficulty for new evidence on non-Western contributions to become accepted and then percolate into standard histories of science and technology. Among Professor Joseph’s major works, the most acclaimed is ‘Crest of the Pea**:Non European Roots of Mathematics’ published in 1992 by Penguin . Even, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, has contemplated Indian science, especially Mathematics , in his work “The Discovery of India”.Nehru elucidates quite unambiguously: “Highly intellectual and given to abstract thinking as they were, one would expect the ancient Indians to excel in mathematics.Europe got its early arithmetic and algebra from the Arabs—hence the Arabic numerals—but the Arabs themselves had previously taken them from India.The astonishing progress that the Indians had made in mathematics is now well known and it is recognized that the foundations of modern arithmetic and algebra were laid long ago in India.” On January 2010, the Department of Sociology of Delhi University formally inaugurated a new European Study Centre at its premises funded by the European Union and aimed at restructuring the curriculum of the existing postgraduate and M. Phil programmes in consultation with European scholars. What was the need for Delhi University to teach European sociology since the days it was first set up? As Professor Kapil Kapoor former pro-Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University rightly remarked : “All this knowledge has been marginalized by and excluded from the mainstream education system.Efforts to incorporate it or teach it have been politically opposed and condemned as revivalism.Europe’s thirteenth century onwards successful venture of relocating the European mind in its classical Greek roots is lauded and expounded in the Indian universities as ‘revival of learning’ and as ‘renaissance’.But when it comes to India, the political intellectuals dismiss exactly the same venture as ‘revivalism’ and ‘obscurantism’….It is these people wearing various garbs—liberal ,left, secular modern—who oppose, more often than not from sheer ignorance, any attempt to introduce Indian traditions of thought in the mainstream education system—a classic case of self-hate taking the form of mother hate.” The other face of Marxist historians should be understood by our civil society. Talking high on secular and scientific history during daylight, the Marxist historians, especially at Jawaharlal Nehru University , New Delhi has entered into a flagrant pact with churches in India and abroad for excavating the site at Pattanam in Kerala and proving it as the holy place where Apostle Thomas landed in India for conversions in the first century AD. The excavations are conducted by Marxist historians who specialized in Modern India under Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) dominated by left historians. The KCHR director, Dr. P.J.Cherian a modern historian who specialized his research on Communist agitations of Central Kerala is directing Pattanam excavations.. Professor D.N.Jha has unambiguously stated in his two works Ancient India --In Historical Outline (Reprint 2007) and Early India –A Concise History(2004) about the arrival of Apostle Thomas in India. The only difference is that instead of Muziris, Jha articulates the court of Gondophornes at Parthia as the place where the apostle arrived , from where he moved to Kerala and was finally assassinated at Mylapore in Tamil Nadu. In 2011 March, The British Museum organized a seminar on Ancient Afghanistan in which Pattanam excavations director P.J.Cherian and Dr.Roberta Tomber a Research Associate of the Museum jointly presented a paper lending credibility to travel of Apostle Thomas at the court of Gondophornes, ruler of Parthia. The paper indirectly vindicated the position of Pope Benedict XVI that Apostle Thomas reached India through Parthia. Simultaneously it also corroborated Professor Jha’s stand of Apostle Thomas entry in Pathia. . In other words , Jha was supporting the Catholic church in Vatican which vehemently upheld its stand that Apostle Thomas reached India exclusively through Parthia . But there was another issue to be settled. The Syro-Malabar Church in Kerala has for a long time upheld and propogated the view that Apostle Thomas landed exclusively in Kerala, converted the natives to Christianity and was finally assassinated by Shaivaite saints at Mylapore.The very existence of the Syro-Malabar church depended on this belief of Apostle Thomas landing in Kerala. Finally, Vatican officials agreed to acknowledge the stand of Syro-Malabar church .It send a letter on 2006, November 25, to Cardinal Mar Varkey Vithayathil of the Syro-Malabar church (N47.367) accepting their belief and acknowledging their stand that Apostle Thomas landed in Kerala. This acknowledgement was in par with the progress of excavations at Pattanam. Simultaneously Dr. Roberta Tomber who has been associated with Pattanam excavations from the beginning presented another paper on 2006 October titled ‘Bishops and Traders: The Role of Christianity in the Indian Ocean during the Roman Period’** at British Museum .She pointed out that only recently the landing spot of Apostle Thomas has been identified by P.J.Cherian the director of Pattanam excavations. Dr.Tomber argued that it was here that Apostle Thomas established seven churches.Once the path was cleared, on March 2011, P.J.Cherian declared in the official bulletin of the Assyrian Church of the East, that Pattanam has been identified as ancient Muziris, where Apostle Thomas landed in Kerala 2000 years back, for propogating Christianity. Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus Professor of JNU had already articulated the myth of Apostle Thomas as an outcome of Mediterranean trade with India in her work --The Penguin History of Early India-- published in 2002. The real face of Marxist history constructs is much more shocking. Dr.C.I.Issac, a former Professor of History has put forward documents on how the archaeological value of Pattanam has been enhanced. The site of Pattanam was subjected to trial trenching in 1998 by Shajan K.Paul a Ph.D student in Faculty of Marine Sciences, of Cochin University .He transferred unknown antiquities from the site to Union Christian College in Aluva where P.J.Cherian was in teaching faculty. What antiquities have been transferred from Pattanam is still unknown. The Centre for Heritage Studies in Kochi was granted license by ASI in 2004 (File No—1/ 36/ 97 E.E ) This license was allegedly hijacked from them by the Kerala Council for Historical Research to excavate Pattanam. It is also alleged that select antiquities might have been removed and required antiquities deposited at the site before beginning the excavations. Although these allegations came up in 2012, the former KCHR chairman who is a JNU luminary and Marxist historian, Professor K.N.Panikkar is virtually silent. He has not countered these allegations. The reason is that it was under the inspiration of K.N.Panikkar that in 2002, left historians such as Prof. R.S. Sharma Prof. Irfan Habib Prof. Satish Chandra, Prof. K.M. Shrimali, Prof. D.N. Jha, Prof. Sumit Sarkar, Prof. Tanika Sarkar, Prof. Mushirul Hasan, Prof. Arjun Dev, Prof. Shireen Moosvi, Prof. R.L. Shukla, Prof. B.P. Sahu, Prof. R.C. Thakran, Prof. G.P. Sharma, Prof. Iqtidar Alam Khan, Dr. Neeladri Bhattacharya, Dr. D.N. Gupta, Dr. V.M. Jha, Dr. Biswamoy Pati, Dr. Amar Farooqui and Dr. Lata Singh under SAHMAT argued for retaining KCHR for implementing the Pattanam excavations. Myths are thus conveniently transformed into history by Euromarxists as part of a global agenda in association with international religious denominations . The constant allegation of saffronisation on anything and everything in India is nothing beyond a ceaseless strategy to divert academic contemplation and public awareness from this global game plan which is diabolic for euromarxists and eurocolonialists in India . http://epaper.organiser.org/stepaper.aspx?lang=4&spage=Mpage&NB=2015-02-07#Mpage_25 __________________

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