| Let us rewrite our history | | | | no more in this world, the historians are at |
| | | | liberty to reinvestigate the events and must |
| Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate. | | | | give proper place to all events in history |
| | | | books. The present record is not correct and |
| Time has come when the people of India must | | | | had been disturbed by those who wanted to |
| call historians to come forward and re-write | | | | give more shine to their own names and to |
| our history and they should be asked to give | | | | their own contributions. They knew that had |
| more time to investigation on the history of | | | | subhash Chandra come back in time, he would |
| Indian freedom movement. It is on record | | | | have been our first Prime Minister. We all |
| that many people had been killed by he | | | | know that people Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and |
| imperialists through guns, thousands were | | | | Sukhdev could not get proper entry in history |
| sent to kalepaani, many were sentenced to | | | | books in 1947-48. They could get the status |
| death, many were given life imprisonment, | | | | of martyrs after two decades. If we trace |
| many were cane-charged and many were given | | | | the history of these martyrs, we shall find |
| torture by he police. It is on record that | | | | so many other wrong entries in books of |
| many groups took up arms and stood face to | | | | history and there are chances that some of |
| face with the imperialists and many formed | | | | the wrong entries may have to be removed from |
| army units outside India and started their | | | | our books of history. |
| journey towards Delhi. When we read the | | | | |
| present entries in history books of India all | | | | Even in text books there are so many wrong |
| these entries are missing and some people | | | | entries and our student public is given wrong |
| sitting at Delhi started entering their own | | | | information about history of India. All the |
| names and it seems they had been engaging | | | | people who had been ruling India at all the |
| historians for this work and they could get | | | | times had been giving shape to events as per |
| suitable entries in their life time and if we | | | | their own desire and this continued even |
| have a look on important places, important | | | | after independence and our historians had to |
| books and other records, the people who were | | | | ignore all the events leading to freedom and |
| controlling and taking over from the | | | | hey too ignore to locate names of all those |
| imperialists could get their own places and | | | | who had been fighting in war of independence |
| all other entries had been ignored only | | | | and had been placing their lives at the altar |
| because they were trying to establish that | | | | of freedom movement. |
| this independence had been got by them and | | | | |
| that too through peaceful means. The people | | | | Therefore, through this small article, we |
| of India and even the historians remained | | | | invite attention of all the famous historians |
| silent and they were allowed to have their | | | | to come forward and give us correct |
| own entries and places. | | | | information about the freedom movement in |
| | | | India and they should also locate, identify |
| We shall have to re-write our history because | | | | and recognize the real freedom fighters and |
| the present set of books is not giving the | | | | give them proper place in history and if some |
| true records. It is an accepted fact that | | | | people could get wrong entries and if some |
| even in partition of 1947 about 8.00.000 | | | | people could gather wrong information and |
| people had been killed and about 11,00,00,000 | | | | added that information with their name, those |
| people had been forced to migrate to unknown | | | | entries should be written off from books of |
| places. It is an accepted fact that | | | | history. It may also be found out whether |
| thousands of parents lost their sons and | | | | the freedom movement in India was peaceful |
| daughters, thousands of women had turned | | | | one or it was a great struggle in which |
| widow, thousands of the children had been | | | | thousands sacrificed their lives and then we |
| reduced to orphanage and many women had to | | | | could get freedom. When they say that it was |
| face rape and assault. All these events had | | | | a peaceful struggle and we got freedom |
| been ignored and could not get proper entries | | | | peacefully, hearts of those who suffered |
| in history books and the people who did not | | | | during the freedom struggle and especially in |
| allow these entries in history books are | | | | partition of 1947starts bleeding and they |
| identified people, but since the people are | | | | feel pain. |