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Kartik,
India historically was an advanced nation which produced luminary mathematicians, astronomers, metallurgists, philosophers, medicine man, scientists, political commentators, music theoreticians, architects, builders, authors, dramatists, poets etc.
This learning took place in our universities and at the courts of various Hindu kings throughout India.
With the advent of islam all this learning stopped and India's contribution to the fields mentioned above and other fields literally faded away because we went from a largely peaceful society having plenty, to a society which had to defend itself for its survival and its way of life which includes the religion.
So from early 13th century to pretty much the time of independence we lost our place in the world to other countries in terms of intellectual output. Not only quantitative losses (i.e the ones that are easily visible like lack of mathematical advancement after 13 th century) but India lost qualitatively too.
A large part of our population got infected with "slave mentality" which is quite evident even today in India. People do not have the guts to speak there mind, are basically "yes men" no matter in what field they are in. This was a bigger loss.
What does it mean to be modern? A modern society/country is one in which the society is largely well taken care of by an economy which percolates down to masses so that they have a good living standard, education, earning power, spending power and the ability to have fun.
When did India become modern? The process of modernism started only after 1947, i.e after independence. We are not truly modern yet but we are getting there.
-Digvijay
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Kartik,
India historically was an advanced nation which produced luminary mathematicians, astronomers, metallurgists, philosophers, medicine man, scientists, political commentators, music theoreticians, architects, builders, authors, dramatists, poets etc.
This learning took place in our universities and at the courts of various Hindu kings throughout India.
With the advent of islam all this learning stopped and India's contribution to the fields mentioned above and other fields literally faded away because we went from a largely peaceful society having plenty, to a society which had to defend itself for its survival and its way of life which includes the religion.
So from early 13th century to pretty much the time of independence we lost our place in the world to other countries in terms of intellectual output. Not only quantitative losses (i.e the ones that are easily visible like lack of mathematical advancement after 13 th century) but India lost qualitatively too.
A large part of our population got infected with "slave mentality" which is quite evident even today in India. People do not have the guts to speak there mind, are basically "yes men" no matter in what field they are in. This was a bigger loss.
What does it mean to be modern? A modern society/country is one in which the society is largely well taken care of by an economy which percolates down to masses so that they have a good living standard, education, earning power, spending power and the ability to have fun.
When did India become modern? The process of modernism started only after 1947, i.e after independence. We are not truly modern yet but we are getting there.
-Digvijay