How Indian Troops Became the Backbone of the British Empire

[Rig Vedic]

Just as long as people remember that the 21st century is not a contemporary period to ancient India.

Logic is timeless. Some of the scientific achievements of that era evoke admiration even by today's standards.

On the other hand, there is plenty of garbage promoted by the colonial / missionary education system that is uncritically swallowed by chaps like Shearer. To make matters worse, it is these colonized and servile minds that produce textbooks even for government education boards.

 

[Bang Galore]

Logic is timeless. Some of the scientific achievements of that era evoke admiration even by today's standards.

Admiration for scientific achievements is fine just as long as people remember that the history of achievements did not end there. Assumptions that there has been no progress in the intervening years are both insulting & silly. Much as the ancients have been romanticised, it is best to remember that they were still primitive in their understanding when compared to what we know now. Not because they were less intelligent but simply because the knowledge accrued over the years & the progress made thereon has added to our knowledge in ways that they could not have imagined. To believe that the ancients were the sole repositories of all knowledge & that they knew everything is to live in an illusory world.