An Outline of History and Culture of India (Set of 2 Volumes)

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This is a narration intended for general reading for those who are interested in knowing the history and culture of India.

The material analyzed in this work gathered from various sources that are already available. However the material was presented with new analysis. New angles were brought into focus. The work is free from ideological shackles and biases.

Recent strides in imaging through satellite technology and nuclear physics resolved many riddles of history. Serious attention has been paid to this aspect. For example, images of the NASA's Landsat, and of ISRO have shown the remains of a buried river in between Yamuna and Sutlej, agreeing with the description of the Sarasvati River of Vedic times.

Though chronology was scrupulously followed, nevertheless, un- eventful periods were skipped. A lot of information and facts were placed in the notes to maintain readability of the text.

Born in 1936 at Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, Sarve- palli Venkata Seshagiri Rao had his post- graduation in mathematics in Osmania University and did re- search in applied mathematics in I IT, Delhi.

For over three decades, he taught mathematics and geophysics, supervised research in these and allied fields in Osmania University.

He was guest scientist in Data Processing at the Geological Prospecting Institute, Moscow and in Physics of Earth at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics of UNESCO, Trieste, Italy, in mid 1970s.

He had the distinction of authoring research papers and books with reputed Russian scientists, Prof A.G.Tarkhov, Dr.A.A.Nikitin and Dr.G.A.Solivev. He had published about 50 research papers in mathematics and geophysics in reputed international and national journals.

Presently he is Chancellor, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod.

This is not a textbook on history. This is also not a source material useful for researchers, though they may find interesting areas for future research. This is a narration intended for general reading for those who are interested in knowing the history and culture of India in brief.

The material analyzed in this work was not original but secondary, gathered from various sources already available. However, the arguments imbedded in those sources mostly were left behind.

Most of the literature on history, invariably reflects the Oxford and Cambridge line of colonial era. Though camouflaged as objective and unbiased, nevertheless, it was a preposterous line intended to perpetuate the British rule in India. The source material for the Oxford and Cambridge scholars was provided by the civil and military officers of the British administration, such as William Jones, John Strachy, Alexander Cunningham etc. Their bias was too obvious. They ignored the Hindu sources and depended upon Muslim chroniclers.

Though eminent scholars like R.G.Bhandarkar, Jadunath Sarkar, Radha Kumud Mukherji, R.C. Mazumdar, K.A.Nilakanta Sastry, M.Venkatarangaiah and others had put in monumental efforts to bring out true history, they were constrained by the Aryan invasion theory which distorted, contaminated every page of Indian history. Yet under severe limitations and negligible resources, their efforts certainly laudable.

The political leadership of free India did not evince any interest right from the bringing to bring out true history after the British left. On the other hand they felt that true history would be a great impediment to their political ideology. They even gone to the extent of removing history as a separate subject and merged it in the so called 'Social Studies'- a jargon of 'Socialist ideology.'

Since 1970s, the role played by the colonial historians was actively pursued by the Marxists. Imperialism was replaced by 'Ideology.' Suppression of truth continued with greater vigour. The Oxford and Cambridge had changed gears and solidly stood behind these new alleys.