Bharatbarsha

By  Pallavi Tyagi  on Dec 10, 2013 Times of India Blunders of Indian Historical Research I recently came across a revolutionary book by P.N Oak titled ‘Some Blunders of Indian Historical Research.’ As the name explains, the book states some startling details about some very famous monuments in India. In this blog, I will only talk about the various explanations this self-acclaimed historian has mentioned about Red fort being a Hindu monument. Read on… About the author Intent on rectifying what he believes to be "biased and distorted versions of India's history produced by the invaders and colonizers", Oak has written several books and articles on Indian history and founded an "Institute for Rewriting Indian History" in 1964. According to Oak, modern secular and Marxist historians have fabricated "idealized versions" of India's past and drained it of its "Vedic context and content". Red Fort as mentioned in...

Bharata (Sanskrit: भरत, Bharata, means "The Cherished"). Bharata[1][2] was a legendary emperor of India, and is referred to in Hindu and Jain theology. He was son of King Dushyanta of Hastinapura and Queen Śakuntalā and thus a descendant of the Lunar Dynasty of the Kshatriya Varna. Bharata had conquered all of Greater India, uniting it into a single political entity which was named after him as "Bhāratavarṣa". According to ancient Indian epic legend of the Mahabharata as well as the numerous puranas and diverse Indian history, Bharat Empire included the whole territory of the Indian subcontinent, including parts of present day Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia,[3] Turkmenistan, North-west Tibet, Nepal and Bangladesh. This represented as the ideal sample of great empires, which was dominated by harmony, wealth and prosperity. There are many references to "Bharata Chakravarti" in the sacred Jain texts. He c...