11-01-2007, 11:50 AM
Raju,
I have not studied the particular subject enough to support with assertion what you said.
however this much is clear. During the medieval India, Indian intellect was busy fighting a war of survival, and at best trying to preserve and pass on some memory of the past knowledge. Mathematics, Medicine, Astronomy, Navigation, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Military - and many humanities like Law, Polity, Diplomacy, Language, Socialogy, Accounting, Public Administration - all these subjects Indians were not able to pursue for growth and natural modernization, because of the prevailing tyranny of various colonializations. So, of these subjects in India, today if you try to trace back - you reach at a plethora of some faint memory and some hints myred in mythology. They are kind of lost to us except for some parts and pieces. It is painful to see the situation. That world is largely lost to us now.
During the same period, Europe (with Germany and Russia in lead) were freeing themselves up of the 'true' Christianism, and parallelly trying to gain more traditional-sourced knowledge, including the spiritual. This happened earlier via reviving some of the traditional 'pagan' knowledge, some via Arabic colonialization and subsequent liberation, and finally via gaining direct access to stealing and smuggling our own knowledge-body with the European colonization and accompanied loot of the entire Asia. With the new knowledge, and dominance of many types, Leuko-Anglo world surpassed the rest by a few centuries.
I have not studied the particular subject enough to support with assertion what you said.
however this much is clear. During the medieval India, Indian intellect was busy fighting a war of survival, and at best trying to preserve and pass on some memory of the past knowledge. Mathematics, Medicine, Astronomy, Navigation, Manufacturing, Metallurgy, Military - and many humanities like Law, Polity, Diplomacy, Language, Socialogy, Accounting, Public Administration - all these subjects Indians were not able to pursue for growth and natural modernization, because of the prevailing tyranny of various colonializations. So, of these subjects in India, today if you try to trace back - you reach at a plethora of some faint memory and some hints myred in mythology. They are kind of lost to us except for some parts and pieces. It is painful to see the situation. That world is largely lost to us now.
During the same period, Europe (with Germany and Russia in lead) were freeing themselves up of the 'true' Christianism, and parallelly trying to gain more traditional-sourced knowledge, including the spiritual. This happened earlier via reviving some of the traditional 'pagan' knowledge, some via Arabic colonialization and subsequent liberation, and finally via gaining direct access to stealing and smuggling our own knowledge-body with the European colonization and accompanied loot of the entire Asia. With the new knowledge, and dominance of many types, Leuko-Anglo world surpassed the rest by a few centuries.