There is a mythology that the Western Civilization has created about itself, a product of its specific history.
This mythos traces its story from the Greeks (from where Science, Math, Philosophy, Rhetoric, emanate) to the Romans, to the "Dark Ages" to "Enlightenment."
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This mythos traces its story from the Greeks (from where Science, Math, Philosophy, Rhetoric, emanate) to the Romans, to the "Dark Ages" to "Enlightenment."
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Add to it "feminism", modernism, post-modernism, and such.
In this mythos, the West is the center of the world, of innovation, of progress. Others are at best a supporting role, a side act. Ancient Egypt , a little math from Arabs (who only "preserved" Greek text).
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In this mythos, the West is the center of the world, of innovation, of progress. Others are at best a supporting role, a side act. Ancient Egypt , a little math from Arabs (who only "preserved" Greek text).
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Ancient Egypt, because of how it figures in Judeo-Christianity, Arabs only as they now discover "Orientalism." But Arabs were relegated to "preserving" Greeks and Egyptians.
Never mind that Arabs got a lot of their learning from China and India. And China from India.
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Never mind that Arabs got a lot of their learning from China and India. And China from India.
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This is why even with enormous evidence that the math (and thus science) revolution in Europe was seeded by knowledge from India, this is erased since it goes against the mythos.
An upcoming book from @GarudaPrakashan traces how Hindu math changed the world. Follow that.
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An upcoming book from @GarudaPrakashan traces how Hindu math changed the world. Follow that.
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The "West" is entitled to its mythos, however erroneous. The problem is when 1. It passes of its history, its accounts, as "the history", as some kind of universal knowledge.
2. Worse, when Indians, schooled in that mythos *in India" parrot the Western mythos as universal.
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2. Worse, when Indians, schooled in that mythos *in India" parrot the Western mythos as universal.
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In a balanced world, Indian scholarship and the academy would be a counter to Western hegemony.
Instead, it is a subservient outhouse of the Western academy, parroting its theories, and looking for crumbs of validation from the West.
Subservience is ingrained in education.
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Instead, it is a subservient outhouse of the Western academy, parroting its theories, and looking for crumbs of validation from the West.
Subservience is ingrained in education.
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This subservience is part of the Left and the so-called Right. Yes the indigenous narrative was marginalized even after 1947, but there was no serious institution-building.
To challenge the narrative, a high quality of scholarship is needed, to engage with West's narrative.
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To challenge the narrative, a high quality of scholarship is needed, to engage with West's narrative.
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A significant change in the education system, institution building and promotion of #IndianLanguages for Higher Education is needed.
But why blame one political party in India, when the other does the same or worse when it comes to power?
#Decolonize
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But why blame one political party in India, when the other does the same or worse when it comes to power?
#Decolonize
grpr.in/emm
We are still working on the final name on the book by Dr. Bhaskar Kamble. Please follow his Twitter account @MeruPrastara.
Tentative title: "How Hindu Mathematics changed the World."
Tentative title: "How Hindu Mathematics changed the World."
