Arya is no race but the Hindu way of life, and Aryanism i.e. Hinduism i.e. Vedism was the world's primordial culture.

Some Missing Chapters of World History - Preface

P N Oak (1917 - )

P N Oak is a controversial figure, and while The Bhaktivedantas do not subscribe to everything he has written, he has uncovered evidence that merits further investigation and research into the world's original Vedic civilization. This article is an excerpt from the Preface to his book Some Missing chapters of World History, and is first of a series of excerpts to be published weekly.

This book is intended to awaken and arouse the world from its complacent slumber about its history to the realization that there is much to learn and unlearn.

History as it is currently taught, presented and presumed throughout the world, harbours a number of misconceptions, at times so gross as to present an inverted image of past happenings. An instance of this is the current thinking propagated by Western scholars that the Aryans are a race and that the Aryans invaded India and made it their home. Both these are perversions of history. Arya is no race but the Hindu way of life, and Aryanism i.e. Hinduism i.e. Vedism was the world's primordial culture.

Another major fallacy is about a group of Muslims called Sufis who are being industriously misrepresented as very saintly. On a close and dispassionate examination of their lives most of them would be found to have formed the other end of the Islamic pincers which along with the alien Muslim royalty closed in on the native Hindu (Indian) civilization.

A third blunder assiduously propagated is about the fancied greatness of various alien rulers in India like Shershah, Ferozshah and Akbar. The very fact of their being alien in thought and deed is being meticulously suppressed by pointing out that they had settled down in India, without realizing that if a gang of alien dacoits succeeds in planting itself in a village and continues to terrorize the surrounding territory, pillaging homes and raping women, does it qualify for citizenship?

It is also unknown that in the remote forgotten past the Hindus, i.e. the Aryans, had a world empire and that the world then spoke Sanskrit. That is why most people in the world call themselves Aryans and speak Sanskritized languages like Latin and Persian.

To call European languages and others like Persian and Pashtu Indo-Aryan is a terminological monstrosity. Because if, according to blundering Western concepts, Aryans spread all over the world, including India, from outside India, European languages and Persian and Pashtu should have been called Aryan languages and not Indo-Aryan. Since those languages are all of Sanskritic origin, they must be termed not Indo-Aryan but simply as Indian or Aryan or Sanskritic. All those three terms mean the same thing.

From this it is obvious that the illogicality of basic concepts manifests itself at every step to all minds capable of thinking clearly and systematically.

Another serious flaw in present historical concepts is about the origin of mediaeval historic buildings. All historic tombs, mosques, forts, towns, towers, bridges, canals, mansions and roads are of pre-Muslim Hindu origin, and yet each one of them has been merrily ascribed to this or that alien sultan. This has contaminated even the field of architecture by brainwashing architectural students into believing Hindu architecture as Saracenic. Like the term Indo-Aryan, the term Indo-Saracenic too is illogical. There too the suffix "Saracenic" must be dropped, and historic buildlings must be recognized as purely Indian, i.e. Hindu. The misconception about the Muslim origin of those buildings arises from Muslim occupation of Hindu temples and mansions and continued misuse as tombs and mosques. This has been fully proved in such renowned books as The Taj Mahal is a Temple Palace, Fatehpur Sikri is a Hindu City, Agra Red Fort is a Hindu Building and Delhi's Red Fort is Hindu Lalkot. In the present volume we have a chapter showing how the invader Tamerlain records that the so-called Jama Masjid of Old Delhi was a Hindu temple before Islamic capture and occupation.

All such serious blunders have got embedded in history because of many causes. One such cause is natural oblivion. With the flow of illimitable time, remote history tends to be progressively forgotten as every individual in a succeeding generation tends to be ignorant of even the name of his great grandfather. Another reason why history becomes faulty is alien domination as in India, which had been subjected to Anglo-Islamic rule for nearly a millenium. Alien rulers deliberately destroy and distort a subject people's history. How and why is explained on one of the chapters of the present book. A third reason is that a subject people progressively impoverished and driven out of their homes find it physically impossible and psychologically futile to maintain any record of the property they believe irretrievably lost. A fourth reason causing distortion or demolition of history is destructive invasions like the wide sweep with torch and sword of the barbaric Arabs, and wars like those of the Crusades. All such have tended to obliterate traces of the ancient world Vedic empire and the role of Sanskrit as a world language.

All these have tended to infect Indian and world histories with many myths eating into the vitals of historical truth, and making history branch wide off the truth at a tangent.

First published in 1973 under P N Oak's pen name Professor Amarnath, this excerpt is taken from the 2003 edition, ISBN 81-88388-27-0, published by Hindi Sahitya Sadan, New Delhi.

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About the author: –

P N Oak (born at 9:54am on March 2, 1917 in Indore), having made some far-reaching discoveries in history, is the founder president of the Institute for Rewriting World History. His latest finding is that in pre-Christian times Vedic culture and Sanskrit language held full sway throughout the world.

P N Oak was born in a Maharashtrian Brahmin family in which his father talked to him only in Sanskrit, mother only in English, relations in Marathi and town-folk in Hindi. That gave him fluency in these four languages from childhood.

After obtaining his B.A. degree from Agra University and completing M.A., LL.B courses of the Bombay University, Oak worked for a year as tutor in English at the Fergusson College, Pune, and later having joined the army was posted to Singapore at the age of 24.

There, after the British surrender, Oak was one of the organizers of the Indian National Army, a director and commentator at the Free India Radio, Saigon, and later a co-worker of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

After the end of World War II, Oak hitch-hiked from Singapore to Calcutta across the border jungles of several countries.

From 1947 to 1974 his profession has been mainly journalism, having worked on the editorial staffs of the Hindustan Times and the Statesman, as a class 1 officer in Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, and as editor in the American Embassy's information service, all in New Delhi.

Around 1959, Oak developed a curious new insight into history, which led him to some stunning discoveries as a result of his absorbing hobby of visiting historic sites. He then founded (June 14, 1964) the Institute for Rewriting Indian History and wrote several books.

Oak's historical acumen led him to discover further that even world history has gone wrong. His discoveries have therefore outgrown the name and scope of the Institute for Rewriting Indian History. Having discovered that from time immemorial up to the Mahabharat War Vedic culture and Sanskrit pervaded the whole world, Oak is keen to find a world Vedic Heritage University to educate the world in the primordial Vedic unity of all humanity. To that end he invites correspondence from all those willing to help.