DEAR FELLOW INDIANS:-CHECK YOUR HISTORY ABOUT OUR GREAT INDIA

*Check your history*

Can you name One king from any of these Indian kingdoms?

Mauryas
Satavahanas
Guptas
Pandyas
Cholas
Pallavas
Chalukyas
Ahoms

Can you name the capital of these kingdoms? How long do you think they ruled? How vast were there empires? Had you even heard all these names?

Ask any average educated Indian to name the kings of Mughal period (ONLY 250 years). 99 out of 100 will name them in the sequence - Babar, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb.

Now, ask them to name the kings of the dynasties which ruled India for much larger period of time and during whose period(s) India was the most prosperous country in the world. For instance-
Mauryas (ruled for 550 years)
Satavahanas (ruled for 500 years)
Guptas (ruled for 400 years)
Pandyas (ruled for 800 years)
Cholas (ruled for 1000 years)
Pallavas (ruled for 600 years)
Chalukyas (ruled for 600 years)
Ahom Dynasty of Northeast (ruled for 650 years).

Most cant tell you the name of even 1 great king from each dynasty.... Forget the entire list of kings in chronological order.

That is how ill-informed almost everyone is on India. Someone said Hindus created the present day caste system. Someone said the British got us civilisation, industry, unification. Someone said India did not have scientific thinking. Some say India may have been rich in parts more then a millennia ago, but was the poorest country for over a millennia.

And, isn't it strange we want to solve India's problems without even understanding India one bit?

I still remember while there was one chapter on each of these dynasties in class 6 history book, the entire class 7 history book consisted only of Mughals and had one chapter on each of the Mughals from Babar to Aurangzeb - sometimes even multiple chapters on just one Mughal king, all glorifying them.

Such is the total skewness in our understanding of India. Let's get educated about our rich heritage and also educate our children. So that they can be the proud ambassadors of this great nation INDIA.