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Lying spread across Afghanistan & #Pakistan is a region called #Kalash. The part of Kalash inside Pakistan is called Chitral.
This region has been populated from over 5000 years by people whose beliefs & customs are similar to those of the #Veda.
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With Indra as their chief deity, called Indr & with idol, temple & Nature form of worship, these ppl live a Vedic way of life.
They r therefore, commonly dubbed as infidels or Kafirs by the Islamic community & #Kalash has also been derogatorily called Kafirstan, land of infidels.
However the people there, still refer to themselves as #Kalash and in recent times, given the tourism potential in their region, their practices, their art and their affable nature, they and their region have started gaining significance as Kalash.
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The British strategized to write the history of India from a British perspective.
In 1813, James Mill and Charles Grant, wrote the “History of India”, wherein they classified most of the literature of India as Mythologies.

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This history book formed the syllabus for the English administrators who had to graduate through Helebary College, England, before being deputed to India, so that their impressions of India would already be influenced and prejudiced, even before they stepped on Indian soil.
This book also found its way into the educational institutions of India, to complete the other task of disorienting the Indian minds.

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