https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_textbook_controversy_over_Hindu_history
Americans also do the same (though in this case to placate certain ethnic groups). I once saw a prep book for an official California teaching credential that claimed, among many other things, that black Africans discovered the Americas before Columbus. Most of the left-wing intersectionalist rubbish being peddled in the US is similar, and also officially backed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-bias_curriculum
Everything you mentioned about India could easily be applied to any other country, regardless of how well-documented their historical record may be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_mysticism
In fact, at least one political leader of a Muslim state has made public remarks very akin to Modi's: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30067490
I would be surprised if you were unaware of President Erdogan's remarks, given your attention to Islamic issues. BTW, early medieval Europeans were more messed up than their contemporaries in India - even if the Indians didn't sufficiently record their history, Xuanzang recorded his own experiences in India - and at the time Western Europeans wrote down as much of their history as the Indians did or less.
My primary beef (pun intended) with Hindu nationalist pseudohistory is that, since they have the ear of the United States (where thanks to the 1960s hippie era Hinduism can do no wrong), they have much more influence and can do more damage (particularly in turning the US public even more against China) than the extremists of some insignificant country like Liechtenstein or Lesotho (neither of which Americans have ever heard of).