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> we've lost a chapter in human history as to how Vedic structures were created with such elegance. Just to be clear, this knowledge wasn't lost accidentally.

> we've lost a chapter in human history as to how Vedic structures were created with such elegance. Just to be clear, this knowledge wasn't lost accidentally. It's part of what was contained in the books and manuscripts destroyed intentionally by colonizers.

amriksohata 9y ago
Yes I agree with you, Muslim (Mughal) invaders burnt a lot of scriptures.
- chimeracoder 9y ago
  > Muslim (Mughal) invaders burnt a lot of scriptures. Actually the particular books I'm referring to were burned by the Portuguese, but lots of invaders destroyed Indian books - Portuguese, British, French, Dutch, and yes, Mughal as well.
  - dmix 9y ago
    One interesting historical narrative which helps put this into perspective was how the Spanish conquest of Aztec and Mayan regions resulted in a lot of burning of "heretical" books by the Christians missionaries, "which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree" [1]. But further research showed that most of the books burned were already heavily biased historically by the Aztecs - as the Aztecs had already burnt all of the Mayans books when they conquered them before the Spanish arrived. So it really is a (shameful) repeating pattern of many conquering human civilizations throughout history rather than one of a particular culture which happens to be dominate. This is another piece of history which doesn't fit neatly into the colonizer narrative, which is popular today, from which people try to hold modern cultures responsible for past generational cultural events, somewhat like an 'original sin' which needs to be attuned. One could go further and try to point to religion itself as the main driver - but even then that is merely another abstraction over standard human tribalism. Which is somewhat ironic as the colonizer narrative is typically used today as a tool for pushing other forms of tribalism (political, cultural, etc). [1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Book_burning https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Book_burning
    - amriksohata 9y ago
      I'm sure many colonialists burn books, doesn't distract from the fact we have lost knowledge and replaced with Christian and Islamist propoganda, they couldn't have people thinking we lived for more tHan a few thousand years as it contradicts the Bible and Qur'an!

amriksohata 9y ago

Yes I agree with you, Muslim (Mughal) invaders burnt a lot of scriptures.

chimeracoder 9y ago
> Muslim (Mughal) invaders burnt a lot of scriptures. Actually the particular books I'm referring to were burned by the Portuguese, but lots of invaders destroyed Indian books - Portuguese, British, French, Dutch, and yes, Mughal as well.
- dmix 9y ago
  One interesting historical narrative which helps put this into perspective was how the Spanish conquest of Aztec and Mayan regions resulted in a lot of burning of "heretical" books by the Christians missionaries, "which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree" [1]. But further research showed that most of the books burned were already heavily biased historically by the Aztecs - as the Aztecs had already burnt all of the Mayans books when they conquered them before the Spanish arrived. So it really is a (shameful) repeating pattern of many conquering human civilizations throughout history rather than one of a particular culture which happens to be dominate. This is another piece of history which doesn't fit neatly into the colonizer narrative, which is popular today, from which people try to hold modern cultures responsible for past generational cultural events, somewhat like an 'original sin' which needs to be attuned. One could go further and try to point to religion itself as the main driver - but even then that is merely another abstraction over standard human tribalism. Which is somewhat ironic as the colonizer narrative is typically used today as a tool for pushing other forms of tribalism (political, cultural, etc). [1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Book_burning https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Book_burning
  - amriksohata 9y ago
    I'm sure many colonialists burn books, doesn't distract from the fact we have lost knowledge and replaced with Christian and Islamist propoganda, they couldn't have people thinking we lived for more tHan a few thousand years as it contradicts the Bible and Qur'an!