The Crash of a Civilization by Kanchan Banerjee critically views how the profound and long-term influence of foreign ideologies and forces such as Christian, Islamic, and later colonists, western, and Marxists have impacted India, her society, and people.
Banerjee gives a great insight into the crash of one of the world’s oldest civilizations and brings the historical view that explains both why the Indic civilization has been denigrated and why it is rising again today at the forefront of a new global spiritual civilization with a cosmic vision.
The subject of this book is how foreign ideologies and forces Christian, Islamic, and later colonists, western and Marxists; profound and long-term influence have impacted India, her society, and people. The Current condition of each citizen, the society, and the nation are the result of a deeply complex history. But what we know from history books, especially academic textbooks, are constructs based on the narratives of political powers, colonists, and outdated socioeconomic analysts. The time has come to know and understand our true history from fresh and updated perspectives.
With a computer science background, Kanchan Banerjee makes this remarkable and significant contribution, attempting to depict the current era with unique and lively storytelling using carefully studied evidence, logical deduction, and analysis. He has given detailed and comprehensive descriptions and assessments from pre-Islamic Arabia’s history, foreign attacks and invasions of the Huns, the Turks to the Islamic rule and occupation in Delhi, and the British colonial and imperial atrocities.
How did the crash and fall of a great ancient civilization happen? How has it wounded the body and soul of a nation to break into several pieces? And what is the way to change the direction to the path of recovery and revival? This book is an effort to find the answers to these questions from our true history. If we know our past, we can change our future as well.
The Crash of a Civilization has received tremendous early praise from Padma Bhushan Prof Ved P Nanda, Prof. Saradindu Mukherji, and Central Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar.
“The book is special, and an important contribution as Kanchan Banerjee brings a fresh and lively perspective to this era. He related the comprehensive and detailed story, going back to pre-islamic Arabia’s history of attacks from huns and numerous other invasions, and the Islamic rule, followed by the British Occupation, up-to present day in India. He paints a realistic picture of plunders massacres, and the destructions of temples educational institutions, and industries. Banerjee’s focus however, is not on history per so, but the impact of the major actors and events that shaped this history, as he concludes that the Islamic rule, colonial subjugations, missionaries, misguided zeal, and Marxist, slant on India’s past accomplishments, have sought to destroy the Indian civilization,’’ says Padma Bhushan Prof. Ved P. Nanda, Professor at the Sturm College of Law and former Vice Provost of the University of Denver, Colorado.
