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The lack of recorded history is more about the west-central African, Caribean and American colonies. India has a decent historic record surviving today and it

• jan_Inkepa 6y ago
  Not an answer to your question, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2017.1294256?scroll=top&needAccess=true#_i4 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2017.1... doesn’t speak about India (which I fully accept might be a counter-example), but you can add Sri Lanka/Malaysia/Malta to the list of places with untrustworthy records, and it casts suspicion on others. (the article also makes clear at least sometimes it was done with the consent of the new regime).
  • seemslegit 6y ago
    This talks about the records of colonial regimes which I'm sure were subject to as much redaction and suppression as possible, but I was talking about the historical records of the colonized cultures pre-colonization - do we know about any systematic attempts to destroy those ? Things like having ancient Egyptian and Babylonian relics taken to Britain and Germany don't really qualify either here because even though they were used to glorify the colonizing empires they were extensively studied and preserved.
    • jan_Inkepa 6y ago
      Ah ok, gotcha. Yeah I misunderstood. Re: records of pre-colonial civilisations, I don’t know much about this area.