Kolkata: A historical slip-up in the online news magazine India’s new Central India SamaChar about Swami Vivekananda became among those who affected the first war in India about independence in 1857 had raised the brown hackers read well.
“During the Movement of Bhakti, Saints and Mahanants in this country, whether Swami Vivekananda, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (or) Ramana Maharshi, worried about his spiritual awareness.
It functions as a precursor for rebellion in 1857,” said the first edition of India SamaChar in 2022, published on Tuesday.
Vivekananda was born on January 12, 1863, while the first war of independence took place between May 10, 1857, and July 8, 1859.
When PIB tweeted Erratum as part of the celebration of “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”, Kolkata took him to the heart.
On Wednesday, coinciding with the 199-year anniversary of the philosophers, many of which twitched the “lack of history”, while some appeared reading between lines.
PIB Twitter handles since “regret” and “fix” mistakes but far from forgetting in Kolkata.
Historian Rajat Kanta Ray did not rule out politics while playing behind moving.
“The first guideline of this is a simple mistake that is so impossible that one can use the second interpretation.
There are trends in imaginary and abstract history where time is not a factor.
This is done to confuse the readers,” he said.
Ray draws parallel between this historical mistake and “books that mention that the Taj Mahal is a Hindu palace”.
“I found the similarities between this and the mental type that equalized two epos with history.
Because there was no RSS contribution in the freedom movement, all of this could be a tactic to change the narrative and distort their own history according to their own goals.” TMC MP Jawhar Sircar said.
“Someone ratifies them that they have so few learned people and thus the ruling group revealed the level of historical ignorance.”
The article ‘Vivekananda-Inspired 1857’ causes a lot of hackles
