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Amit Shah says decolonising India\u2019s history means presenting it from an Indian perspective<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah<\/a> on Sunday said decolonisation of India’s history and knowledge does not mean erasing the past, but presenting historical truth authentically and from an Indian perspective.Shah made the remarks while inaugurating the ‘Ganesh Gyanarthi’ exhibition at the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. He said India’s knowledge traditions, manuscripts and archives should be preserved and taken to people across the country and the world.\u201cDecolonisation does not mean erasing history. From our perspective, it means presenting historical truth to the world in an authentic manner and from an Indian perspective,\u201d Shah said, as cited by news agency PTI.He said the British had intertwined knowledge and power and argued that the task now was to free knowledge from that framework.\u201cToday, we are moving forward to liberate knowledge from that and towards decolonisation,\u201d Shah said.<\/p>\n

\u2018True knowledge is never held hostage by an ideology\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Shah said knowledge should remain free from ideological constraints and criticised the colonial interpretation of India’s intellectual traditions.\u201cTrue knowledge is never held hostage by an ideology. Knowledge itself is an ideology. If you bind it in any way, you change the very meaning of knowledge. Knowledge should be free and uninhibited, and its declaration should also be free and uninhibited,\u201d he said, according to ANI.\u201cIndia’s knowledge was not being written in India’s voice. India’s knowledge was being written in the language of a colonial perspective,\u201d Shah said.He said the focus should now be on using the wealth and collections preserved at the Asiatic Society for the creation of a \u201cGreat India\u201d.\u201cRather than going into why the Asiatic Society was formed, who formed it, and for what purpose, we should move forward in the direction of how the wealth, knowledge, and collections gathered here can be used in the creation of a Great India (Mahaan Bharat),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shah highlights manuscripts, proposes wider knowledge network<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Shah highlighted the rare manuscripts preserved at the Asiatic Society, including an illustrated copy of the Mahabharata and texts related to Jainism and Buddhism.\u201cA great deal of things are lying here, including an illustrated copy of the Mahabharata. Such texts of Jain Kalpasutra and Buddhism are hardly available anywhere else; such texts are lying here. Much knowledge is present here that should have come out a long time ago,\u201d he said.Shah called on the new committee to expand the institution’s reach by bringing scholars from Maharashtra and across India to study its collections. He also proposed bringing libraries and institutions preserving heritage across the country onto a common platform under the Asiatic Society.He suggested creating a shared pool of knowledge that could be made available to students, researchers and scholars.<\/p>\n

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