India’s governing party rewrites the country’s history to justify its Hindu nationalist ideology | Romila Thapar

The election of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, or the B.J.P., in 2014 led to renewed efforts to rewrite Indian history so as to legitimize Hindu nationalist ideology. [ . . . ]
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opinion/india-elections-modi-history.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion