Re-arming the Indian history - an Indian narrative | Anand Narayanan | TEDxFISAT

Why is the Indian History just about a litany of battles that we lost to various invading powers starting from the Turks to the Mughals to various colonial powers. The Indian History which is taught and propagated has ignored many important episodes, events & even centuries of history has been swallowed. Even after 71 years of independence, the dominant history and its narrative structures that we learn in our textbooks in India, have never really been decolonized. Anand Narayanan is a Chartered Accountant by profession and an Indologist by Passion. He is currently working with one of the world's leading Investment Banking organisation, but has been preoccupied for over a decade, studying and researching about the vast History of India. His obsession with the Indian history started at an age of fifteen, when he finished reading Mahabharata for the first time. He still considers it to be the best literary work ever made. Along with many others, he strongly feels that the history that is being taught in India is a western narrative and is also biased, hence he has volunteered to be an advocate for revisiting the History of the Indian subcontinent through an Indian perspective. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx