美媒:印度教科書稱1962打贏中國 聖雄甘地沒遇刺
In the version of history found in India’s new textbooks, China lost 1962
and Gandhi wasn’t murdered
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Long before the terms post-truth and alt-facts gained currency in the west,
Indians were getting mass mails and text messages that often mixed myth with
half-truths to glorify their past. It could be something as simple and
patently false as the United Nations declaring India’s national anthem as
the world’s best. Or bizarre achievements of ancient Indians.
“在西方迎來'另類真相'時代前，印度人就已開始收到大量摻雜著虛假的信息，比如'聯
合國宣稱印度國歌是最好的國歌'，或是古印度的離奇成就等，這些內容通過將事實與故
事相混淆，為印度的過往鍍上榮耀的光輝。
Over the past few years, such trickery gained political legitimacy as senior
leaders indulged in it using photoshopped images and administrative claims.
在過去的幾年中，由於印度領導人通過行政手段進行強制要求，關於歷史謊言似乎在政治
上取得了合法性。如今，這一現象正進一步滲入印度學校的教科書中，尤其是在歷史教學
上，公然兜售謊言。
It may be still a trickle, but here is a glimpse of the false history that
millions of Indian school students will be learning now on.
這可能還是一個涓涓細流的，但是這裡可以看到數百萬印度學校學生現在正在學習的虛假
歷史。
The 1962 war 1962年的戰爭
In the second half of 1962, a brief war with China along the Himalayas left
India with a bloody nose. Despite individual acts of valour, India lost 4,000
soldiers. Though the country amply regained its military standing in
subsequent standoffs with China, 1962 left a deep scar on the national psyche
—a scar it has tried to efface ever since.
在1962年的中印邊境戰爭中，印度大敗，潰不成軍，印度失去了4000名士兵。1962年這場
戰役對印度人民的內心也造成了重創。
A section of Indians may have finally found a solution: Just lie.
對此，一部分的印度人似乎找到了絕佳的解決方式：謊言。
A Sanskrit-language textbook meant for Class 8 students in the Indian state
of Madhya Pradesh (MP) now says India won the war. “What famously came to be
known as Sino-India war of 1962 was won by India against China,” The Times
of India newspaper quoted the book, Sukritika, volume-3, on Aug. 10.
據《印度時報》8月10日報導，印度中央邦教委所轄的多所學校的梵文教材中赫然寫道：
“眾所周知的1962年中印戰爭，其結果是印度戰勝中國”。
中央邦由印度總理莫迪所屬的印度人民黨管理。報導稱，該書面向八年級學生，為“
Sukritika”系列教科書中的第三冊，由印度北部城市勒克瑙（Lucknow）的克里特·博卡
山公司出版。
由基於勒克瑙的Kriti Prakashan出版的教科書正在印度政府中等教育中心委員會（CBSE
）附屬的幾所MP學校使用。國家本身由印度總理納倫德拉·莫迪（Bharatiya Janata
Party）負責統治。
Gandhi assassinated? Really? 甘地真的遇刺了嗎？
Reports emerged in May 2016 that the new social science textbook for Class 8
in schools of Rajasthan do not mention the assassination of the father of the
nation
印度拉賈斯坦邦在面向八年級的新編社會科學教科書中，並沒有提到“印度國父”甘地
遇刺的事情。
While the book, published by Rajasthan Rajya Pathyapustak Mandal, did mention
Mahatma Gandhi, along with other top leaders of India’s freedom movement, it
did not refer to his murder by Hindu fanatic Nathuram Godse on Jan. 30, 1948.
1948年1月30日，甘地為印度教狂熱分子納蘇朗·戈茲（Nathuram Godse）所暗殺。而這
本由拉賈斯坦邦教材委員會出版的教科書，卻對此事隻字未提。
Godse was a former member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the BJP’s
ideological fountainhead whose goal of Akhand Bharat (undivided India) is
clearly Hindu-oriented. And this fact has hung uncomfortably over the BJP’s
national image for all these years.
報導稱，戈茲曾是右翼團體“民族衛隊”（Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh）的成員，而
該團體則是印度人民黨的源頭之一，甘地遇刺的事實對人民黨的形象造成了威脅。
This phenomenon of concoction has now begun to affect the credibility of the
country, say critics. As million of children grow up thinking Maharana Pratap
won Haldighati or India won the 1962 war, historical education will take a
blow.
有批評家稱，這一混淆歷史的現象，如今已經開始影響到印度的國家公信力。成千上萬的
兒童都成長在“甘地並非被刺殺”、“印度在1962年戰爭中擊敗了中國”的謊言中，歷史
教育面臨嚴重的危機。