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Even before East India Company, India faced several outsider attacks. From Alexander the Great to various Khan's, then Mughals, then Portuguese etc. Some impor
by i67vw3 3y ago
Even before East India Company, India faced several outsider attacks.
From Alexander the Great to various Khan's, then Mughals, then Portuguese etc.
Some important Indian texts were burned/destoryed in these attacks, For eg., the Nalanda University
Still, a lot of texts remained both in written format and in Oral format.
- fooker 3y ago>Nalanda University. I feel like the role of Nalanda in Indian history has been greatly exaggerated. The education system was very decentralized, and that's really why most things have survived. There is not much evidence of concrete knowledge/resources being lost at Nalanda.
- hackernewds 3y agoNalanda U operated for 600 years from 427 CE (!!!) holding over 9m texts [2] The importance of texts from that generation at that scale cannot be overstated [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220120055253/https://www.patnauniversity.ac.in/e-content/social_sciences/aih/MAAIH53.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20220120055253/https://www.patna... [2] https://www.myindiamyglory.com/2017/09/11/nalanda-9-million-books-burnt/ https://www.myindiamyglory.com/2017/09/11/nalanda-9-million-...
- fooker 3y agoThe 9 million figure is exaggerated by a few order of magnitudes. Also, think about it in this way: if some of the manuscripts there was the only copy available, were those really impactful?