A big underlying assumption coming from Abrahamic-origin thinking is the myth of linear progress. Ancient inventions are scoffed at is because they violate the idea of linear progress.
But is progress really linear? Do new generation always build on the knowledge of old? 1/
If you look at nature, everything is cyclical. Life is cyclical, seasons, growth of plants, water cycle, planetary orbits. There is no linearity. We talk of economic cycles. Is knowledge linear or cyclical. What is its periodicity?
Pyramids were built perhaps 5000 years ago.
Now, whenever the pyramids were built, it is clear that later generations did not know how they were built. The Egyptians of 1000 years ago could not build the pyramids nor did they know how they were built. Scientists still don't know fully.
Hardly want to send any views to the propaganda site Wire, but this article is hilarious in its contortions at Islamic hagiography (is this a full time occupation of “South Asian Studies” now?)
First they argue that Mughal Temple destruction was due to “secular” reasons… 1/
Then @CMarrewa spins away all that to claim how tolerant Mughals were in giving grants to the Nath Yogis.
When it is evident even in her examples that this is not due to any “religious ecumenism” but wanting favors like cures (Mercury concoctions.)
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Naths were powerful, both as ascetics and as a militant force. Mughals were currying favor with them with grants while they destroyed other Hindu temples when they could.
This doesn’t make the Mughals “great”, they were simply trying to ingratiate themselves.
These are largely toxic front organizations with no community support. Attacking “Hindutva” by these toxic front orgs is a fig-leaf for the eradication of Hindus which is part of the agenda of religious and cultural imperialism that the likes of @CMarrewa support.
Read "The Compromised Campus." A lot of the "area studies" departments were setup with State Department assistance as a way to "study" the other for imperial utility.
I already referred you to a book. India had Stridhan, moveable property that was controlled and passed on via women. This was changed in colonial rule as land become tradeable and women disinherited in property.
Dowry was a European custom and distortion introduced to India. But even today people parents will say "hamari ladki hai, jo hamara man karega, vo usko denge." The meaning of "dowry" in India as stridhan. inheritance of a woman, needs to to be restored. It belongs to her.