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Yogi Adityanath became the first chief minister from the state of Uttar Pradesh to visit the Taj Mahal – three weeks after his government ignored the monument in a travel guide that it had published. The CM, accompanied by his security personnel and BJP party workers, also swept a parking lot in the vicinity, as part of the Swacch Bharat campaign. The visit came in the wake of remarks made by his party members, BJP leader Sangeet Som where he denounced the Taj Mahal as being built by a traitor, and Bajrang Dal’s Vinay Katiyar who claimed that the Taj Mahal is actually a Shiva temple over which a mausoleum was built.

This is not the first time that organisations and parties have been attempting to present a different side of history for various reasons – ideological or otherwise. From altering textbooks to change aspects of the past that the government does not wish to highlight, to changing names of roads, places of historical significance and cities, history has been altered over the past many years to promote a nationalised and ‘Indianised’ version of what has happened.

When the past gets re-written

In his book, ‘Nationalism and Distortions in Indian History,’ Dr N.S Rajaram, a Mathematician known for his publications which focus on the ‘Indigenous Aryan’ theory that states that speakers of the Indo Aryan languages are indigenous to the country, talks about the need to rewrite the history of India, as the current one is a colonial version. “Thanks to the domination of the Indian political scene by the Congress, Communist intellectuals and fellow travellers were able to dominate the intellectual scene as well. As a result, the colonial version of history continues to be taught in Indian schools and colleges. This has led to gross distortions in the history being taught in Indian schools and colleges,” he writes.

In , the Modi Government released a book titled ‘Turning the Tide: How India Won the War’ commemorating the 50 anniversary of the Indian Army,

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