Hindutva pseudohistory

Hindutva is a far-right political ideology that seeks to justify Hindu nationalism and the belief in establishing a Hindu hegemony. Hindutva ideologues and figures have engaged in numerous instances of disinformation since the Hindutva movement began.

According to Jaffrelot, the Hindutva ideology has roots in an era where the fiction in ancient Indian mythology and Vedic antiquity was presumed to be valid. This fiction was used to "give sustenance to Hindu ethnic consciousness" Hindutva organisations treat events in Hindu mythology as history. Hindutva organisations have been criticized for their belief in statements or practices that they claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.

According to Anthony Parel, Savarkar and his 1929 work Hindutva, Who is a Hindu? regarded as the fundamental text of Hindutva ideology, presents the "Hindu culture as a self-sufficient culture, not needing any input from other cultures", which is "an unhistorical, narcissistic and false account of India's past". Writing for the New York Times, Thapar states that Modi's government and the BJP have "peddled myths and stereotypes", such as the insistence on "a single uniform culture of the Aryans, ancestral to the Hindu, as having prevailed in the subcontinent, subsuming all others", despite the scholarly evidence for migrations into India, which is "anathema to the Hindutva construction of early history".

An investigative report by Reuters, based on testimonials from scholars, including Mahesh Sharma, the creator of the committee, claimed that Modi government had established a committee of scholars to promote certain narratives, such as linking evidence of Indian history with ancient scriptures, establishing a view that Indian civilization is older than currently believed, proving the existence of the mystical Saraswati river, mapping and excavating sites of battles mentioned in the Mahabharata. Sharma also stated that his ministry had organised workshops and seminars to “to prove the supremacy of our glorious past.”