A visit to Khajuraho Temple Complex

My recent visit to the Khajuraho temple complex left me completely perplexed. At the first sight itself, it is impossible not to get completely stumped at the architecture of the temple complex and the beauty of the sculptures built on those temples. Temples and the carvings on them are so artistic that each corner of the complex will just leave you awestruck. And these artistic marvels just induce a sense to do something to preserve these divine works. But what bothered me was that face of not even a single sculpture could be found complete. They all, without exception, show clear evidences to have been faced hammer of destruction on their faces. None of the faces carved in the stone has been left with complete features. I have absolutely no doubt therefore, that the left-liberal historians have been working on a mission just to establish an impossible proposition as truth. They have taken up a herculean task to de-demonize the Mughal period cruelties that were carried out in the name of religion. And even if I leave aside the issue of destruction of these artistically precious structures, it is also difficult to imagine the kind of culture that could have accepted such temples in those times.

Our historians have shoved down so much hatred for our past into our mind that they have almost convinced us that we never had a past to be proud of. Just imagine, even the ‘modern’ British who discovered these temples had a horrifying time conjecturing for a possible justification of such sculptures that are openly and artistically carved on the walls of temples. The more I tried to analyze the more I am convinced that we are completely disconnected with the society that prevailed those days. Do we exactly belong to that society? Isn’t there a clear discontinuity in our evolution process? Have the invaders eliminated an entire generation, an entire culture and a developed society. Are we only the ‘left-overs’ whom they did not found worth-eliminating. It is difficult to reject that the invasion eliminated a society that was so open, so peace-loving, so divine and so religious that they failed to devise ways to face the Mughal Rakshasas.

Only a developed society can have flourishing arts and culture. Only a peace loving community that was never prepared for such a catastrophe could be so rich in arts and culture. Imagine the society which had accomplished artists in abandon. I am afraid, the manner in which our history books have presented our past, they leave us with more questions than the answers in the end. And that gives others a scope to provide us another equally (un)convincing theories and conjectures. Genuine and open minded research has not been done in ‘History’ till now. It is high time that our history books are written in a manner so that we can get answers to our genuine queries instead of misusing ‘history’ with a purpose to control our future.