05-08-2006, 02:44 AM
I think one of the big things that will break the barrier is India's economic growth. In order to explain the growth of the high tech industry in India, I have heard loose explanations like India's '5000 year old tradition of mathematics'. Because this type of growth is unlikely to happen in other developing countries, some Western analysts might accept the idea of an advanced ancient Indian education system and technology.
Unfortunately many Indian historians (excepting the Nationalists) don't seem like independent thinkers and will only regurgitate whatever Western historians tell them, so correcting Indian history in the West especially the U.S. is important.
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Yoga has been the most succesful tradition carried into the West, and through Yoga, many westerners have made contact with India and Hinduism. Now, it seems like it is the turn of Ayurveda to become the next big Indian system to flourish in the west. I think we need to promote these more, and naturally the rest will follow.
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Unfortunately many Indian historians (excepting the Nationalists) don't seem like independent thinkers and will only regurgitate whatever Western historians tell them, so correcting Indian history in the West especially the U.S. is important.
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Yoga has been the most succesful tradition carried into the West, and through Yoga, many westerners have made contact with India and Hinduism. Now, it seems like it is the turn of Ayurveda to become the next big Indian system to flourish in the west. I think we need to promote these more, and naturally the rest will follow.
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