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For quite some time, all was not quiet in Manipur.

Introduction

The ISRO chairman was following the trend of the times when he asserted that several scientific concepts originated in the Vedas and were later celebrated as discoveries of "Western civilisation". But the notion of “civilisational greatness” is irrational.

The Nehruvian government wanted to teach the countrymen history that would inculcate secular and socially progressive values. In this scenario, the left-liberal group of historians got official patronage. In 1961 the NCERT was established to promote high standard school education. The history text books commissioned by it were to offer secular and rational explanations of the past instead of unnecessary glorification of the bygone age

Antiquarians, politicians, media professionals and even godmen have joined in to present their own version of historical events, especially regarding the golden ancient India and the volatile Muslim rule, to suit their present aspirations. This is possibly an indicator of the post- truth age where a heady mixture of fantasy, entrenched beliefs and convenient portions of historical facts in the mind become more important than the facts themselves. What happened is overshadowed by what we wish to have happened