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We have produced a system of education in India in which students can pass through the primary class to the doctoral studies without ever studying a Hindu scripture. In this way we uproot them from their ancient tradition. This has been done in the name of secularism in order to please all religious groups, especially those who are opposed to Hindus.

Obviously it is a policy of cultivating ignorance of what makes India what it is, and of drying it up at its very roots, a continuation of the British imperial policies. As a result, a system of education was created in which generations of Indians have grown up who are called Hindus, but who do not know why they are called Hindus. They may copy some rituals done by their parents or neighbours. But that is about all. They have the name but not its substance. People who were not Hindus created their history. They destroyed their ways of living, their temples and idols, their ideals and social institutions. This tradition continues even today.

B.M. Sagar was born in 1936 at Amritsar, Punjab, where he spent his childhood. Later he did BA (Honors), MA, and Ph.D in English, and retired in 1996 after working as Professor and Dean of Studies in English, and Director of the Lucknow Campus of the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, now called EFL University, Hyderabad.

Later he did a book on Sheikh Farid, which was published by Guru Nanak Dev University, and a book on Ravi Das, which was published by Panjab University.

We have produced a system of education in India in which students can pass through the primary class to the doctoral studies without ever studying a Hindu scripture. In this way we uproot them from their ancient tradition. This has been done in the name of secularism in order to please all religious groups, especially those who are opposed to Hindus. Obviously it is a policy of cultivating ignorance of what makes India what it is, and of drying it up at its very roots, a continuation of the British imperial policies. As a result, a system of education was created in which generations of Indians have grown up who are called Hindus, but who do not know why they are called Hindus. They may copy some rituals done by their parents or neighbors. But that is about all. They have the name but not its substance. People who were not Hindus created their history. They destroyed their ways of living, their temples and idols, their ideals and social institutions. This tradition continues even today. Many Hindus internalized the abuse inflicted on them by those who conquered their lands, from large areas of which they were wiped out. Many of them seem to dislike themselves and would like to be somebody else. This is considered to be an index of their modernity. They think of India as a name without a meaning. But it need not be so. India is an ancient civilization with a wisdom that can still be useful. There is no need to create a state that is alien and destructive of Hindu society. I decided to learn about that ancient wisdom, and hopefully present a rational and comprehensive understanding of the ancient past.