05-07-2006, 07:46 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Surya+May 7 2006, 05:45 PM-->QUOTE(Surya @ May 7 2006, 05:45 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->This dearth of objectivity is why ancient Indian history is not treated seriously by academics.
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this "Dearth of objectivity" comes from the fact that we as a people hae little or no sense of history and never felt any need to record our history in a clearcut way (perhaps something to do with the fact that we believe in cyclical time and not linear time). its for this reason that even if we did ion fact have aeroplanes/vimans, they are not recorded explicitly but only find mention in mythology and epic. same with almost everything else, save perhaps ayurveda and yoga. where as the greeks recorded every theorem, every invention and every smart arguement even (by cicero, socrates, plato etc), we more often than not chose to mention underwater cities without recording in the slightest how the hell we developed/manufactured them (assuming we did). even the aryan invasion theory was successfully concocted because we never explicitly mentioned where we came from or where we (or part of our peoples) emigrated or when. had we specified everything objectively and explicitly, the canard of AIT could never have been constructed in the first place.
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this "Dearth of objectivity" comes from the fact that we as a people hae little or no sense of history and never felt any need to record our history in a clearcut way (perhaps something to do with the fact that we believe in cyclical time and not linear time). its for this reason that even if we did ion fact have aeroplanes/vimans, they are not recorded explicitly but only find mention in mythology and epic. same with almost everything else, save perhaps ayurveda and yoga. where as the greeks recorded every theorem, every invention and every smart arguement even (by cicero, socrates, plato etc), we more often than not chose to mention underwater cities without recording in the slightest how the hell we developed/manufactured them (assuming we did). even the aryan invasion theory was successfully concocted because we never explicitly mentioned where we came from or where we (or part of our peoples) emigrated or when. had we specified everything objectively and explicitly, the canard of AIT could never have been constructed in the first place.