Re: Pakistan army officers / generals are awesome?
Reduzijuice
Thanks for the very interesting reply.
In India the school history books do not preach hatred (what people do is seperate!).
Being an official 'secular' country, the govenment/schools keep away from religion - no religion is taught, or forced on anyone.
Overtime, the country is becoming more 'open' and the younger generation is less concerned with the biases and discriminations of sects, castes and religion, than the older generations.
The other factor is that mainly the north Indian's are concerned/rivalary/love-hate relation with pakistan. the south Indians have totally different issues and are least interested in Indo Pak issues.
You are right about the Junagarh, Manvadr & Hyderabad issues - very little is written about these issues and are put down as 'police actions' against the errant kings. Kashmir too is a closed chapter according to Indian books - the Raja acceeded to India and thats it. In fact it comes as a surprise to most indian's why is pakistan creating trouble in our Kashmir.
The Indo Chinese war of 1962 - the report on it is still kept under wraps, and that is a weakness of the Indian government. Perhaps to protect Nehru - who was revered in India & who made blunders.
However, since then, the governments are more open.
Regarding the Mogal History: Pakistani's are taught that Muslims ruled over India for hundreds of years. Whereas Indian's are taught in school that the Mogals where our own kings - they happened to be Muslims that's all. Most allowed equal rights to hindus & muslims, even their generals were Hindu. Some were fanatics such as Aurangzheb, who distroyed the unity by forcing religion onto hindus. (Maratha, sikh uprisings etc).
Hope that clears & answers some of your questions. (last and not least, most north indian's such as me have this love-hate relationship with pakistan, we generally get on very well with all Pakistani's when we meet them overseas).