Was P N Oak, a historian or fiction writer?

Subhas Mitra :   20 July 2024

A young reader of my book “India Beyond Narrative” has asked me a question and here is my answer:

Hi Friend,         

             Puzzle about PN Oak.  

You are a Civil Service Aspirant and I am a military veteran. You are learning and I am forgetting.  Yet since you asked my opinion about Purushottam Nagesh Oak, (1917 – 2007) a Lawyer, Journalists, INA solder, diplomate and teacher besides being an academic and self-made historian, I must say what I think about him.

My view is crude and unsophisticated.

• ‘Hindu history’ of India that Nehru ji recorded in Discovery of India is believed to have parity with ‘Hindu history’ revealed by fugitive Islamic preacher Zakhi Naik, a friend and guide of many Congress leaders like Digvijay Singh.
•  I am grateful to Congress for not eliminating PN Oak physically. You know what happened to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and all his surrendered INA soldiers because of whom the British decided to leave India and not because of Gandhi-Nehru (Ref: British PM Attlee).
• All those who have written against PN Oak in the wiki are white men, 2 Muslims and 2 Bengali Hindus ( many of whom think Calcutta Killing, Noakhali, Sandeshkhali, Bedroom tunnel leading to Bangladesh of a smuggler etc. are BJP-RSS propaganda)  and a Tamil Hindu ( where Hinduism is dengue malaria to be destroyed).
• You know one Jewish film personality described “Kashmir Files” as propaganda and another Jewish lady wrote Aurangzeb the greatest Indian ruler  ( perhaps she is not satisfied with Chittor Fort innocent killer Akbar, the great and Ex-Hindu Asoka, the great).  

Under such a state of scholarship around, a person of my stand cannot comment on history challenged by Sri Oak or his attempt to uncover the history written under Abrahamic Theocracy to prove the heavenly books as authority. 

•  Western truth seekers have overcome many theocratic restrictions and Saudi Arabia and Iran (2024) are showing interest in digging out the truth from the myths.
• In my youth, I read about Galileo Galilei (1564 –1642 was killed by the Catholic Church as he was found guilty of heresy due to his promulgating his beliefs/ theories that the sun was the center of the universe and not the earth.
• Now you search for him- he is the “father of science” (who were they who spoke of nine planets NABGRAH long before God sent His son on the earth?)
• Now Wiki writes that he was not killed but died of sickness while on house arrest.
• Shivkar Bapuji Talpade who first flew a flying machine over Chowpatty, Bombay in 1895 is in oblivion because Whiteman did not recognize and credit given to the Wright brothers.    

Politics of History recording:

Politics is not the remedy for all the evils, at the same time scholars, think tanks and truth seekers are not free from politician’s clutch.

In India we see Majhar (Muslims Grave) coming up on fly over, Railway platforms, Hardwar (Hindu Pilgrimage site), at the feet of Sri Krishna’s Rath (Chariots replica) at Kurukshetra, Haryana and these graves are bringing votes to even Hindu politicians.

 How will truth show its face to us?  

Truth is either ashamed of us or afraid of us, I am not sure. 

Today’s news is tomorrow’s history.  Truth or false may vary according to the persons recording the events.

•  West Bengal is about to become the Kashmir of yesteryears but there is no alert yet the GOP Congress got 99 seats from 52 by waving the constitution,  Khata khat ( public duping)  schemes and Manipur.

•  But there might be Indian politicians interested in the “Christian country” the USA wants to make along the Indo-Myanmar- Bangladesh border as claimed by Bangladesh PM.

You are a young boy, you must be knowing that:

• Indian PM did picnic with foreigners’ as in-laws on board National Pride Navy’s lone aircraft carrier when India Armed Forces members are not allowed to marry foreigner while in Uniform.
• A Pakistani Muslim introduced that PM to an Italian restaurant employee in England.
• After their marriage, the British owner of the restaurant landed at Delhi airport without a visa. Airport Security did not allow him but soon a fleet of Ambassador Cars went to the airport and brought the person to the residence of the newlywed couple.
• That PM’s son-in-law Robert Vadra’s name was included in the list of VVIPs whose luggage was not checked in the airport.

During the recently concluded election his son “saved the constitution” and bounced back in the election.  

I wonder if the media, intellectuals, or even the BJP have never raised those issues publicly. From where and how the spirit of genuine history recording will develop?

PN Oak’s works will take some more time to become clear (either true or false).

1. Taj Mahal:  why are the underground gates closed? Why does “Mangal Kalash”  get placed over the top of a grave?  Is that an Arab architect?  

If Indian architects were acceptable to Muslim invaders then why Aurangzeb killed his brother Dara Shikoh?  https://www.facebook.com/groups/INDIANREALHISTORY/posts/3111940535561718/

• The Vatican may not be a Vatika (Ashram) but from where came the Shiv Lingaa during construction work in 1919 and why it is kept in their museum?

• From where did the Lotus and Swastika come to the basement of the Basilica?

• From where did the left to write Indic script come on the Holly Black Stone of Kaba as revealed when it was broken into pieces by Persian rulers as well as peninsular pre-Islamic Arab rulers?

• From where did the “Snake and Trishul” (Trident) reach Greek, Rome, Ukraine and Ireland DRUID people before ‘Cross’ reached there?

I do not have answers to all these questions but if anytime science of historiography finds the answers PN Oak’s will be verified.

I think he has been vilified to safeguard the “Brown Sahib” culture/standard of India.

Authenticity of his books have been challenged in the court but Rahul Sankrityayan (Kedar Pandey; 1893 –1963) became ex-Hindu atheist and wrote Historical fiction where he supported immigration theory (AIT) and Incest (as shown in Old Testament) in ‘Volga to Ganga’ .

He met Abrahamic Theocratic and Leftist expectation thus became a scholar.

This is Hindustan where Hindus are constitutionally deprived of many civil rights and their religion is excluded from education curriculums but with their tax Abrahamic students are availing Theocratic education.

Ye dil mange more PN Oak.