CHAPTER 5

TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF WOUNDS — TO INDIA’S HISTORY

When I wrote in my 2014 letter that:

“For the last 2000 years, the history of India has been suffering, and for the last 900 years things have been even worse. Foreign invaders, rulers, and governments made the history totally helpless and brought it to a very pathetic condition,”

I was not exaggerating. I was stating a painful truth.

India’s wounds did not begin with the Mughals. They did not begin with the British. They began much earlier — with a slow, deliberate, global turning away from India’s influence, a refusal to acknowledge that this land was once the spiritual, intellectual, scientific, and cultural lighthouse of the ancient world.

Two Thousand Years Ago — India’s Light Reached the World

Around the time when the Roman Empire was at its peak, when Greece shaped Western philosophy, when Egypt built monuments to eternity — India stood at the centre of global thought, trade, and spirituality.

• Indian textiles were the most prized in Rome.
• Indian spices shaped world cuisine and medicine.
• Indian mathematics traveled silently westward.
• Indian philosophy influenced Central Asia, the Middle East, and Asia Minor.
• Buddhism spread across East Asia through monks trained in Nalanda and Takshashila.
• Largest economy with 33% of the world GDP

, India was already a civilizational superpower by 100 BCE -200 CE.

Yet, strangely, this golden age is minimized, often erased — especially in Western scriptures, chronicles, and sacred narratives.

Even the Bible Avoided Acknowledging India’s Influence

The Jewish, Roman, and early Christian worlds were not unaware of India. Trade routes to the Malabar coast were flourishing. Ships carrying pepper, silk, dyes, gold, ivory, medicinal herbs, beads, and cotton moved between Kerala and the Middle East.

But when the Gospel writers and later Church Fathers shaped the worldview of Europe, they intentionally avoided any reference to India’s philosophical depth or spiritual systems.

Why?

Because acknowledging India would mean admitting:

• There existed a civilization far older than Biblical timelines.
• They’re existed spiritual traditions older than Christianity and Judaism.
• They’re existed knowledge systems — yoga, meditation, cosmology, renunciation — that influenced seekers across continents.

•       No prophet founded India’s knowledge. No revelation froze it. It evolved—continuously, freely, and fearlessly.

 This would challenge the exclusive theological authority the Church was constructing.

The Lost Years of Jesus — A Silence Too Loud

It is no coincidence that:

• The Bible skips Jesus’ life between age 13 to 30.
• Tibetan and Ladakhi manuscripts describe an “Issa” who studied in India.
• Ancient records in Kashmir point to his return after the crucifixion.

Yet Christian historians never acknowledged India, despite India being the world’s greatest knowledge hub at that time.

This silence is not ignorance. It is deliberate avoidance.

One Thousand Years Ago (900 Years Back) — The Darkest Phase Began

If the last 2,000 years were marked by avoidance,

the last 900 years were marked by destruction.

The Islamic conquest (approx. 1100 CE onwards)

This era saw:

• Systematic temple destructions,
• Burning of universities,
• Erasure of sacred libraries,
• Rewriting of local histories,
• Forced renaming of cities,
• Conversion by sword or taxation,
• And removal of inscriptions that held genealogies and timelines.

Nalanda burned for months. Takshashila was razed. Mathura’s temples were leveled. Kashi’s shrines were dismantled. Somnath was attacked repeatedly.

With each temple destroyed, a chapter of history turned to ash.

Yet the civilization survived — because India is not built as a kingdom, but as a continuum of thousands of local spiritual centres.

The Last 300 Years — The Colonial Mind-Numbing

If invasions shattered the body of Bharat, colonial rule attempted to break its mind.

The British did what invaders could not:

They rewrote India.

They built a new timeline where:

• India became “young.”
• Vedas were pushed to 1500 BCE.
• Saraswati civilization was denied.
• Aryan Invasion was fabricated.
• Indian science was belittled.
• Sanskrit was sidelined.
• India’s contribution to mathematics & astronomy was attributed to the Arabs or Greeks.
• Colonial law was imposed in place of ancient dharma-based jurisprudence.

They replaced truth with theory, continuity with confusion.

Macaulay openly declared his mission: to create Indians who would think like Europeans, not like heirs of an ancient civilization.

Max Müller quietly worked behind the scenes to place India inside the Biblical timeline.

Cunningham rewrote the history of monuments to suit imperial narratives.

Thus:

• Our temples became “mosques.”
• Our observatories became “towers.”
• Our palaces became “forts.”
• Our gods were called “tribal.”
• Our epics were labelled “myths.”

And our own children were made to feel that their ancestors were primitive.

This was the final blow.

Two Thousand Years of Silence, But Not Death

Despite all this:

• India’s spirituality survived.
• India’s social framework survived.
• India’s sacred geography survived.
• India’s festivals survived.
• India’s oral traditions survived.
• India’s memory survived.

Ram and Krishna still live in millions of homes. Vedas are still chanted. Yoga is still practiced. Temples still stand — even after being rebuilt hundreds of times. Our languages still carry Sanskrit seeds. Our rituals still reflect cosmic science. Our culture still binds the nation.

This is the greatest miracle of India: Even after 2,000 years of wounds, we remain a living civilization.

And that is why, in 2014, when I saw a leader rise with vision, courage, and civilizational clarity, I wrote my letter with urgency.

Because I knew:

It was time to begin healing these 2,000-year-old wounds. It was time to restore pride. It was time to correct history.