Source: HPI
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 17, 2009: An HPI reader points out that the Indian school textbooks are most written from a Marxist point of view, with an emphasis on economic strife, disparity between rich and poor and the alleged evils of the capitalist system as major forces in shaping Indian history. One needs to keep in mind this particular historical slant in reading the books.
As an example, he pointed out that in Contemporary World History, Class XII, on page 69 is the statement: “Since the beginning of civilization over 5000 years ago, if we take the world as a whole, the common feature of all ‘civilized’ societies had been social and economic inequalities and exploitation of one class by another. The State, whatever its form, was used to maintain the system of inequality and exploitation. The Russian revolutionaries proclaimed as their objective the ending of the system of inequality and exploitation and creating a society in which no one would live off the labour of another.”