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Raghuvendra Tanwar
Chairman, ICHR
'India: The Mother of Democracy'
An Attempt to Fill Historical Narrative Gaps
The book 'India: Mother of Democracy', recently released by the Indian Council
of Historical Research (ICHR), throws light on the democratic ethos of our
civilization. The chairman of ICHR, Raghuvendra Tanwar, shared his thoughts
on this book.
The book, 'India: The Mother Historical Research (ICHR), to
of Democracy', is an attempt tell the world that we are a
to correct historical narrative ten-thousand-year-old unique
deficiencies and fill the gaps civilization. We have many
in the same. The Prime Minister differences but there is an innate
has been saying since long that connection; we are deeply
it is a matter of irony for such connected to our roots.
an ancient country, that the Sri Aurobindo used to say
British completely altered its that from the Himalayas to the
historical narrative in 200 years. seas, we are a civilization. We
This country was cut off from its are indeed a political unit but
roots and a country with a ten- more importantly, we are a
thousand-year-old tradition civilizational nation.
was forgotten. We forgot our As far as democracy is
culture and got disconnected concerned, it is at the core of
from our spirituality. An altered this book. The Prime Minister
face of India was presented has time and again said that
before the world. democracy is in our veins, it is
The book is an endeavour of in our blood. Democracy has
30 authors, who got associated not been imposed on us. Like a
with the Indian Council of tree, democracy in our country
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