Author Kanchan Banerjee feels that current history textbooks in schools have a lot of content glorifying Mughal rulers who invaded India, while sparsely mentioning the role of Indian rulers. He mentioned this during the launch of his book titled ‘The Crash of a Civilization’. He added that Indian history needs to be revisited and read in a holistic nature. “We need to glorify our national heroes and give proportionate references to all periods of Indian history” said Banerjee. Eminent dignitaries like National Award Winning Actress Indrani Halder, Padmashri Bipin Ganatra, the Fire Champion of Kolkata,Vinay Kumar, Regional Director, Regional Directorate of NSS, Kolkata,Swami Sanyuktanand – Co-Ordinator – Fiji Sevashram Sangha and others were present at the book launch.
With a computer science back- ground, Kanchan Banerjee makes this remarkable and significant contribution, attempting to depict the current era with unique and lively storytelling using carefully studied evidence, logical deduction, and analysis. He has given detailed and comprehensive descriptions and assessments from pre-Islamic Arabia’s history, foreign attacks and invasions of the Huns, the Turks to the Islamic rule and occupation in Delhi, and the British colonial and imperial atrocities.
The history of India taught in schools and colleges has been written in “an erroneous way by the invaders” and bears untruths that need to be rectified as soon as possible.
