Laziness? Why India’s Administrative Bureaucracy Is Failing the Decolonization Push
The official NFDC website run directly under the Ministry of the information brodcasting has listed Lord Khandoba of the sacred Jejuri temple as "Mallu Khan".
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For decades, India was told a very specific story about its past: a curated, whitewashed narrative where foreign invaders were glorified as benevolent builders, while the indigenous civilizational heritage was reduced to a footnote. The government has taken steps to course-correct by renaming colonial-era streets, rewriting distorted textbook chapters, and placing native heroes front and center. But here is the hard truth, if you want to decolonize a nation’s history, you have to clean the house first. And for that you need to study your roots first, you should know the history.
A striking example of this battleground recently surfaced on social media when a prominent public researcher highlighted how even foundational government and educational platforms have historically propagated hagiographies of foreign invaders rather than celebrating native civilizational achievements.
A prime case in point is the official website of the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications, where the timeline of "Postal History" begins by highlighting medieval invaders like Alauddin Khilji and the Tughluq dynasty rather than ancient Indian communication networks.
The Indian postal history DID NOT start with Alauddin Khilji, @JM_Scindia
— Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা) (@monidipadey) October 28, 2026
Organized communication and state messenger networks (in short, postal history) in India date back to the Mauryan Empire (around 321–185 BCE).
Kautilya’s Arthashastra gives detailed records from the… pic.twitter.com/QdscA6d0Ly
They compltely ignored our own ancient communication channels, like the messenger networks and pigeon post of the Mauryan Empire, just to glorify Alauddin Khilji and the Tughluqs as some legendary administrative geniuses. It is embarrassing that after years of Congress setting up this whitewashed narrative, our own official portals are still copy-pasting their old, distorted history lessons instead of telling the truth about India's real past.
Under the Congress government, the official strategy was simple: wipe out India's ancient history and give all the credit to foreign invaders. And look at the result even today, an official government website acts like Indian history started only when brutal invaders set foot here. It exposes an embarrassing level of laziness from the BJP government itself. The BJP has been in power for over a decade now, giving endless speeches about "decolonization" and "reclaiming history." Yet, they haven't even bothered to clean up their own official websites.
Allauddin Khilji started postal system in India.
— Gems of Indian Academia (@GemsofAcademia) October 27, 2026
Official history of Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications. pic.twitter.com/GYjms7EG7l
This is not an isolated glitch, but it is part of a recurring, institutionalized pattern. Time and again, official government and educational websites have been caught running unverified, glorified narratives of foreign invaders and colonial rulers, proving that the bureaucratic apparatus often remains disconnected from the broader national push for civilizational decolonization.
The official NFDC website run directly under the Ministry of the information brodcasting has listed Lord Khandoba of the sacred Jejuri temple as "Mallu Khan". At a time when systemic attempts to encroach upon sacred temple lands and dilute indigenous heritage are drawing intense public scrutiny, seeing a taxpayer-funded ministry copy-paste unverified narratives is pure negligence.
When taxpayer-funded government portals continue to validate whitewashed, invader-centric narratives on their own "About Us" pages, it highlights that true historical decolonization cannot merely be a matter of policy speeches; it requires an immediate, root-and-branch audit of public digital archives.
The danger of this administrative laziness grows exponentially in the era of Artificial Intelligence. Modern Large Language Models, search engines, and AI agents rely heavily on official government portals as primary sources of "ground truth." When state-funded websites contain unverified, distorted, or colonial-era narratives, AI systems ingest these pages as factual data and amplify them globally to millions of users every second.
When official state portals act as custodians of revisionist history, it undermines the entire project of national self-reckoning. True decolonization cannot stop at street signs and textbook revisions; it requires a systematic, root-and-branch audit of every digital archive, portal, and public repository funded by the taxpayer. Until the administrative machinery cleans house from within, the old, glorified narratives of invaders will continue to find shelter in the very places meant to serve the nation.