There is a general rule to be observed while reading Indian history. Do not believe in any date BCE (before common era) and many in the early centuries of CE.

While Indian News channels write the same thing again and again on Kumbh Mela, Americans are pursuing their business Interest in retail trade in India. Where are Indian B-schools? Busy selling MBA seats for hefty profits?
Zee News , India
1. Devotees take holy dip at Maha Kumbh on Maghi Poornima, Monday, February 25, 2013,
2. Rains, spate in Ganga send Kumbh officials into a tizzy, Monday, February 18, 2013,
3. Senior BJP Leader Murli Manohar Joshi seeks CAG inquiry into expenditure during Maha Kumbh, Sunday, February 17, 2013,
4. On a query on Azam Khan, who has recently resigned as the in-charge of Maha Kumbh Mela management owing moral responsibility for the stampede incident at Allahabad railway station, Joshi said that the entire state government is "accountable" for it.
Harvard Business Review – HBR Blog Network – HBR faculty
1. 100 Million People, One Massive Experiment: The Maha Kumbh Mela, by Tarun Khanna, Professor HBS March 1, 2013 = Researching the Maha Kumbh Mela — the religious festival that takes place every 12 years near Allahabad in north India, at which over 100 million Hindus gather — has more than its fair share of challenges. Setting up a live experiment is never easy and always exciting. Our goal: to trace ground-up the emergence of a market, and figure out the structures and mechanisms that will allow it to work more efficiently. Consider the numerous choices that my colleagues, Columbia Business School's Emily Breza and Microsoft Research's Arun Chandrasekhar, and I faced when we decided to study how information about demand and supply circulates, and how prices evolve in the huge market that springs up during the Kumbh Mela. Our focus was on the numerous vendors who move in overnight to cater to the millions of people who attend the Mela by selling food grains, vegetables, fruits, and other provisions.