Desist from changing names of historical places & roads of the English era

Since 1947 the names of places, statues, roads and institutions associated with the English rulers are being changed by names particularly politically controversial ones. Wellington Crescent, Connaught place and many more such old names are now getting “indianized”. Is it chauvinism, patriotism or an effort to forget history in a way that suits the politicians? Were the English more barbaric, oppressive, atrocious, tyrannical and cruel than the fanatic and uncivilized bigots like the Turks, Afghans, Arabs, Moguls and Mongols?

It is shameful that we have roads in Delhi named after religiously intolerant and diabolically Mephistophelian characters like Aurangzeb.

Undoubtedly slavery and thralldom kills a nation’s conscience. But civilizations of the world have unfolded themselves over histories which one cannot afford to wipe out even if repugnant and abhorrent. If the English had not conquered India then the Indians certainly would not have been able to extricate themselves from the medieval slavery. Modern education, legal structures, law-codes, Science & technology and the unification of India from the Helmand to the Cape of Comorin not only politically but also through the networks of Railways and post & telegraphy was not less than a miracle those days. So it is invidiously devious to give the medieval religious obscurantist a priority over the English subjugators who never destroyed any place of worship unlike the Islamic invaders nor did they ever interfere with the religious predilections of the Indian people.

The politicians can obliterate some physical historical vestiges like the Taliban did by destroying the pre-Islamic Bamiyan Buddha but cannot bring back the ancient glory of the country ravaged and damaged by the foreign invaders who by their savagery tried to destroy the primordial Indian culture.

As a nation we failed to defend our culture and civilization against the foreign marauders right since the 7^th century A.D. now we have no right to tamper with the historical facts pertaining to the English era.