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The Hindutva brigade may have a different problem with the assertion of distinguished historian Irfan Habib via the very readable and plausible Keay. Isami says a "woman’s place is at the spinning wheel" — the charkha. He infers that since the technique of spinning fabric on a charkha was known in Persia centuries before, it was brought to India by the Muslims. Palm leaves  Cloth  Parchment  Or did they have paper which they brought from China  The Hindutva historians should stop wasting their time fiddling with textbooks and claiming that Hindus invented flying saucers and discovered nuclear fission.Razia’s contemporaries and rivals in her court were resentful of the fact that she had seized the throne. Not exclusively.So also, incidentally, was the paper and the technique of making it, on which Isami wrote his chronicle. Logical thought and scientific discovery and theory can make progress and any denial of these is just foolishness and superstition. It was a standing joke which stimulated audiences to laugh with the Indians. Keay repeats an observation first made by Irfan Habib who quotes Isami, the 14th century historian, writing about the reign of Razia Sultan. Governance and taxation would be expedited, and literature, scholarship and the graphic arts revolutionised by the availability of a uniform writing material which could be readily filed and bound. More than kurtas and kebabs. He omitted any mention of spinning wheels and paper. They point to the murder of distinguished historians and the climate of intolerance that sections of the Indian government have encouraged. India must have had ways of spinning cotton before the 14th century, but if Keay is right then the introduction of paper was surely the most important gift of the Muslim conquest and settlement. Naipaul’s views on the Muslim destruction of the Vijayanagar kingdom, asserted that the Muslim contribution to Indian life and culture included kurtas and kebabs. The more extreme among them will no doubt turn up with some evidence that the spinning wheel was invented in, say, 2.000 BC in a settlement by the Ganges. A comedy programme called Goodness Gracious Me on British TV, some years ago, had an Indian character in it who would, in every sketch and circumstance in which he appeared, assert that Indians invented any and every thing. But the revision has to be based on evidence. They can’t have it both ways.President Pranab Mukherjee and the Congress Party, manifestly dedicated to the defence of secularism, are OEM Shallow Spool Lure Reel manufacturers not, I am sure, going to remove the charkha from the Congress flag or the Ashok chakra from the national one. Its adoption as a symbol was more probably as an icon of the cottage-industrial, ascetic economy and civilisation that he hoped India would become. Such a "discovery" would deprive the supposed Hindutva brigade of the chance to say that the Congress Party has a Muslim import or invention on its flag.Charkha, paper and chakra      Opinion, Columnists      Charkha, paper and chakra  “The lie of the landWas that it was flatHorizons are circularAnd that’s that!”From The Charms of Chubby Chikna by Bachchoo.