Modi government's hush-hush efforts to rewrite India's history
March 07, 2018  10:30
During the first week of January last year, a group of scholars gathered in a white bungalow on a leafy boulevard in central New Delhi. The focus of their discussion: how to rewrite the history of the nation.

The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had quietly appointed the committee of scholars about six months earlier. Details of its existence are reported here for the first time.

Minutes of the meeting, reviewed by Reuters, and interviews with committee members set out its aims: to use evidence such as archaeological finds and DNA to prove that todays Hindus are directly descended from the lands first inhabitants many thousands of years ago, and make the case that ancient Hindu scriptures are fact not myth.

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