I guess it’s somewhat well-known that the historical period smack in the middle of the pioneering Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) i.e. the “First Urbanisation” and the Mahajanapada period, the “Second Urbanisation” is a shadowed region, dubbed the “dark age” by many. The historicity of the Vedic period that claims to have filled in this blank is never fully clear and the Aryan Invasion/Migration that was wrongly hypothesised in colonial India to have wiped out the IVC and replaced it with an “Aryan” society, only makes it worse.
I have been researching wildly since the dawn of May as my friends might have noticed (perhaps to distract myself from actually writing the stuff I want to), and in my...quest, I came across a book recommendation “The Greatest Farce of History” that passionately attempts to straighten out a few things. I gave a quick read and found it immensely compelling and in tune with my own beliefs (which was very gratifying). The author, in his ardent conviction, does repeat the same points quite often, but he gets his words across. It fits so well, it’s kind of frightening, and in light of his book, I read Romila Thapar ma’am’s works and I am now blown off. Basically, we know nothing, and the government’s disposition towards our history (and I am not only speaking of our current govt.) doesn’t help things as well.
Just saying.
