> How come there is no discussion of that at all? Leaving aside the linguistic debate in the comments here, there’s often no fair or truthful or representative

> How come there is no discussion of that at all? Leaving aside the linguistic debate in the comments here, there’s often no fair or truthful or representative discussion of the ancient East’s legacy (or others) for reasons relating to imperialism, colonialism, and supremacist thinking. I don’t mean that in the explicit “we’re taking over your country way” but in the more subtle or implicit ways. Western world views and Eurocentric histories are everywhere, from academia to Wikipedia, and due credit or consideration isn’t given elsewhere. The problem persists even in the very countries we are talking about, like India, since their earlier “original” Hindu culture was changed by invasions (whether from the Islamic Middle East or Christian Europe). My understanding is that when the British finally left India, their academic culture still persisted in the form of Western education that replaced earlier forms of education, textbooks sourced from Western publishers, taxpayer funding into this system, and the adoption of languages like Hindi and English as the official languages (rather than say Sanskrit or Tamil). So to answer your question in the broader sense beyond this article and discussion, there is no discussion of these things in part because of the power of Western spheres and in part because Eastern spheres themselves haven’t retained their own knowledge or promoted themselves adequately either domestically or internationally.