About the Book

For generations, history has been taught not as remembrance—but as reduction.

Stop Teaching Rotten History is a deeply researched, evidence-based exploration of how India’s past was systematically distorted through colonial frameworks and how those distortions continue to shape education, identity, and self-perception even today.

This book does not argue from emotion or blind nationalism. It argues from civilizational continuity, archaeology, ecology, philosophy, oral memory, and lived cultural evidence.

Dinesh Chandra Rawat challenges inherited academic assumptions and asks critical questions that modern education has avoided:

Is history ever neutral?

Why was India’s civilizational timeline artificially shortened?

How did colonial education break cultural memory?

Why was the Sarasvati River erased from maps and labeled a myth?

How did speculative theories become textbook dogma?

Why are indigenous knowledge systems dismissed as belief rather than intelligence?

Rather than presenting history as a list of invasions and rulers, this book restores history as civilizational consciousness—rooted in rivers, rituals, festivals, ecological wisdom, oral precision, and ethical responsibility.

What This Book Explores

• Colonial distortion of Indian history
• Psychological impact of broken civilizational memory
• Timeline compression and the misuse of “prehistory”
• Aryan Invasion Theory and academic inertia
• Sarasvati: memory versus maps
• Knowledge before writing and cities
• Observation before theory
• Evolution, assumption, and meaning
• Nalanda to colonial universities
• Festivals, folk traditions, and women’s voices as history
• Youth as custodians of civilization
• Rewriting history curricula with dignity and balance

Who Should Read This Book

• Students and educators
• Parents concerned about education and identity
• Researchers of Indian civilization
• Policy thinkers and curriculum designers
• Readers seeking clarity beyond colonial narratives

This is not a call to glorify the past.
It is a call to remember it responsibly.

If history is taught truthfully, it does not divide—it heals.
If history is taught with continuity, it empowers the future.