{"id":34524,"date":"2022-11-25T02:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=34524"},"modified":"2025-04-20T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T09:07:55","slug":"need-to-rewrite-history-to-free-it-from-distortions-says-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/need-to-rewrite-history-to-free-it-from-distortions-says-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to Rewrite History to Free It From Distortions, Says Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About Lachit Barphukan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>News Summary\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why In News:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking during the 400th birth anniversary of\u00a0<strong>Lachit Barphukan<\/strong>, the famed Ahom general and an icon of Assamese nationalism, the Union Home Minister emphasised the importance of rewriting India&#8217;s history to remove distortions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lachit Barphukan:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>About:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Lachit Barphukan (1622 &#8211; 1672) was a commander and Borphukan (one of the 5 patra mantris (councillors) in the Ahom Kingdom), in the\u00a0<strong>Ahom kingdom.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ahom kingdom was a late medieval kingdom in the Brahmaputra Valley in Assam.<\/li>\n<li>It maintained its sovereignty for nearly 600 years having successfully resisted Mughal expansion in Northeast India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>He is well known for his leadership in the\u00a0<strong>1671 Battle of Saraighat<\/strong>, which ended a prolonged attempt by Mughal forces to take over the Ahom kingdom, earning him the title \u2018<strong>Assam\u2019s Shivaji<\/strong>\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Battles of Alaboi and Saraighat:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Background:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 1615 and 1682, the Mughal Empire made a series of attempts,\u00a0<strong>under Jahangir and then Aurangzeb<\/strong>, to annex the Ahom kingdom.<\/li>\n<li>Between 1667 and 1682, the Ahoms under a series of rulers, starting with Chakradhwaj Singha, (reigned 1663-70) launched\u00a0<strong>a counter-offensive to reclaim lost territories.<\/strong>\u00a0This included the battles Lachit is remembered for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>About the battles:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1669,\u00a0<strong>Aurangzeb\u00a0<\/strong>dispatched the\u00a0<strong>Rajput Raja Ram Singh I<\/strong>\u00a0to recapture territories won back by the Ahoms. As a result, the battle of Alaboi was fought in the Alaboi Hills near Dadara in North Guwahati.<\/li>\n<li>Despite relying on guerrilla warfare, Borphukan lost the Battle of Alaboi, in which 10,000 Ahoms lost their lives.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike in Alaboi, where he was forced to fight on land, Lachit in\u00a0<strong>Saraighat\u00a0<\/strong>drew the Mughals into a\u00a0<strong>naval battle<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In 1671, he won a decisive (ended a prolonged attempt by Mughals to take over the kingdom) battle against the mighty Mughal army of Aurangzeb (led by Ram Singh I) with a relatively smaller army, which became known as the\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Battle of Saraighat.&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>News Summary &#8211; Highlights of the event:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The 400th birth anniversary of Lachit Barphukan unveils\u00a0<strong>a new eposide of India\u2019s history<\/strong>\u00a0in which rulers in Assam defeated Muslim invaders in different ages and secured sovereignty of their motherland.<\/li>\n<li>From<strong>\u00a0Maharaja Prithu of Assam who defeated Bakhtiar Khilji\u00a0<\/strong>in 1206 to Lachit Barphukan who defeated Mughals in 1671, the stories of all the valorous heroes of Assam have been unveiled before the students of history to research and explore.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Home Minister, during the period when Lachit Barphukan raised his sword against the Mughals,\u00a0<strong>Chatrapati Shivaji<\/strong>\u00a0in the south of India, Guru Govind Singh in the north, and Veer Durgadas Rathore in Rajasthan waged the same struggle against the same enemy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lachit Barphukan<\/strong>\u00a0had not only protected the North East, but the entire South East Asia.<\/li>\n<li>To honour his contributions, the\u00a0<u>Lachit Barphukan award is still given to the top cadet at the National Defence Academy today<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Home minister said that the government is continuously\u00a0<strong>working towards reviving India\u2019s glorious history by removing distortions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>A nation that takes pride in its magnificent past and draws inspiration from its heroes may build a brighter future for itself and its citizens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lachit Barphukan (1622 &#8211; 1672) was a commander and Borphukan in the Ahom kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}