"One finds a number of curious stories being peddled to schoolchildren: Aryans sallying out from India to settle Iran, Homer adapting 'The Iliad from the Ramayana, Christ roaming the Himalayas in search of Hindu wisdom. These claims will sound unlikely even to the hardened Indophile, but they are being promoted in government-sponsored textbooks, columns by right-wing journalists, and paintings commissioned to adorn public spaces." Siddhartha Deb weighs in on the rewriting of India.