https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/01/hidden-story-ancient-india-west-maths-astronomy-historians
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For a millennium and a half, from about 250BC to 1200, India was a confident exporter of its own diverse civilisation, creating around it an empire of ideas that developed into a tangible "Indosphere", where its cultural influence was predominant.
Dalrymple comes real close to realizing the truth and then doesnt proceed further to avoid suffering cancellation
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Indians are pretty bad for wewuzzing tbh "actually we discovered it in India 1500 years ago, no we didn't use it for anything or attempt to understand or develop it further but we should get full credit" either way you still got invaded and taken over by a gang of sunburnt so imagine how much more advanced southerners are than you
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A thousand five hundred years after our fall we still exist. How much longer will the anglos?
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