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Lord Krishna a literature specialist, Manekshaw a sportsman: Gujarat govt website
March 03, 2016

Huffington Post reports: As activists campaign online to #RemoveMughalsFromTextBooks, a movement to rewrite Indian history to exclude the Mughal invaders, a Gujarat government website has described Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, one of India's greatest military leaders, as a sportsman.

A Gorkha soldier, unable to navigate the Parsi tongue twister, had purportedly shortened Manekshaw's name to Sam Bahadur. Sam Bahadur, or Sam the Fearless, was feted for his role in the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war and was the first Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of Field Marshal.

But, the team behind the website is either not aware of all this history or have let a blatant error run on a state government portal accessed by millions.

In a section called the 'Land of the Legends', the state website lists the celebrated people of the land. Except, that they got their history a little messed up.

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