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by Francois Gautier (Author)
Driven by Christian belief in a 6000-year-old planet, British scholars, and their Indian hires, post-dated Indian history to fit into erroneous Western conceptions. For their own agendas the manufactures theories such as that of an Aryan Invasion and dismissed vast evidence, such as the existence of the river Sarasvati, as mythical, even though it was mentioned more than fifty times in the Vedas. The colonial gaze also erroneously represented events such as the invasion of India by Alexander the Great in the year 326 BCE and fabricated myths such as the conversion of emperor Ashoka to Buddhism, purportedly due to remorse after the terrible battle of Kalinga, when Ashoka already a Buddhist at the time of the battle. Thus, this book rewrites Indian History based on new evidence including new scientific, linguistic and genetic discoveries. It seeks to dismantle the cliches, to clarify the controversies, and to retrace, as accurately as possible, the most significant periods of Indian history-history much older than previously thought.
Author Biography
François Gautier (born 1950) is a journalist based in India and served as the South Asian correspondent for multiple reputed French-language dailies. A prominent Hindutva activist, he makes allegations of a 'Hindu Holocaust' in medieval times and advocates Indigenous Aryan theories. He is also the founder of a private museum that seeks to portray Indian history in a correct nationalist manner. Gautier has been documented to have propagated fake news on multiple occasions. Gautier became interested in Indology when he began to travel outside Auroville. Sita Ram Goel contacted Gautier after reading some of his articles in a magazine called Blitz and asked for permission to reprint the articles in his book. Gautier instead wrote the book The Wonder That Is India. Later, the website Hinduism Today republished it online. Following this, Gautier wrote several other books. Gautier has worked on a book about the martial art Kalaripayattu of South India with photographer Raghu Rai. In 2010, an anonymously authored novel titled Hindutva, Sex and Adventure was published that featured a foreign radio journalist who came to India and became a Hindutva sympathizer--it was considered to be a satire of BBC reporter Mark Tully. It was speculated that Gautier may have been the author, but he denied the allegation.
