Varanasi: While inaugrating a seminar on 'Guptvanshak-Veer: Skandgupta Vikramaditya' at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah urged academics to rewrite history from an Indian point of view.

He said that it was only because of Veer Savarkar that the first war of Independence was not reduced to being called 'a revolt'. "Had it not been for Veer Savarkar, the 1857 'kranti' (revolt) would not have become history and we would have been seeing it from the British point of view," he said.