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>>Currently, the issue is that the history of India is written from the British POV, which has been tweaked later by Russian and American POVs. From the tooth
by kamaal 9y ago
>>Currently, the issue is that the history of India is written from the British POV, which has been tweaked later by Russian and American POVs.
From the tooth brush in the morning to the mosquito mat in the night. AntiBiotics to Cancer treatments. Electricity to Internal combustion engines. You could even breath and there would be some Western innovation that would be driving it.
They invented it, so we study about them. If we had invented all this we would be studying about our people inventing it.
>>Many basic mathematical concepts like pythagorean theorem
These low hanging fruit science achievements were done by everyone, you could pull a Amazonian tribe randomly and there will be fairly decent algebra going on, because you if you have to live you have to do basic arithmetic and math.
And then of course 0. Guess how people in the past, say 100000 years back, who hunted two deers and eat them, counted the remainder? You got it right. 0 comes to existence that moment you start counting things.
India didn't produce a Euclid, heck it didn't even produce a Pythagoras, Newton or even a Al-Jabr.
Let alone achieving anything, most people here didn't even have the rights to study for thousands of years. We are the only nation on earth, with all these favorable and luxurious weather and agriculture conditions, with a civilization continuity over several millenia which has nothing to show for.
- calvinbhai 9y agoThe current narrative suits your beliefs well, and you have no incentive in questioning it. I believe there's enough to be questioned, and want the govt to fund research that ask these questions, and provide its findings to the public. Neither you, nor I are asking for the govt to change the history blindly. Where we disagree is whether to question the history as we have been taught or not. Looking at your responses, I think we better agree to disagree and keep this comments pyramid of doom short! :)
- talonx 9y ago>> India didn't produce a Euclid, heck it didn't even produce a Pythagoras, Newton or even a Al-Jabr. Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_mathematicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_mathematicians I think what you meant is that Euclid and Pythagoras are more well known.