Amit Shah says decolonising knowledge is not about erasing history

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said decolonisation of India's history and knowledge does not mean erasing the past, but presenting historical truth authentically and from an Indian perspective.Shah made the remarks while inaugurating the 'Ganesh Gyanarthi' exhibition at the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. He said India's knowledge traditions, manuscripts and archives should be preserved and taken to people across the country and the world.“Decolonisation does not mean erasing history. From our perspective, it means presenting historical truth to the world in an authentic manner and from an Indian perspective,” Shah said, as cited by news agency PTI.He said the British had intertwined knowledge and power and argued that the task now was to free knowledge from that framework.“Today, we are moving forward to liberate knowledge from that and towards decolonisation,” Shah said.‘True knowledge is never held hostage by an ideology’Shah said knowledge should remain free from…