A.L. Basham in his famous 'Wonder That Was India' says - "It is perhaps unjust to maintain that India had no sense of history whatever, but what interest she had in her own past was generally concentrated on the fabulous kings of a legendary golden age, rather than the great empires which had risen and fallen in historical times." This is in the context of lack of proper resources to study our history (both Ancient & in the Medeival).
Now come to present - Even after 60 years Indian government being coy in de-classifying important classified documents, Indian army rewriting the history of Kargil war and the missing records of 1971 Indo-Pak war which were possibly burnt. So it seems that this is one more in the list of things that we may call 'our culture' or the way we do things here. Our leaders always want to be in good books and want to have an 'eternal halo' around them. So thanks to lack of history, we commit the same mistakes again and again and re-learn the same lessons. That's why possibly our old Kings never learned the lessons of 'unity', always fought each other and lost to foreign invasions.
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