https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbRSU9qkdCQ The Vedic system, the caste system, kept the lower classes to their positions without giving them access to studies and other such things and that accounts a widespread poverty in India; that is what Marxist would like you to believe, and that's what has been pushed in the textbooks, like
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC68JY7tPCA Conventional language, if you look at it, its all object specific. What is this in English? Hand… What is this? What is this? That’s all. Someone told us.., taught us.., we learnt it. But you do not have the right to ask why it is called ‘Hand’? Why this is
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Source: @TrueIndology/Twitter https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084081051893346305 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084499845434482688 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084503289113260038 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084505266639552513 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084509163047305216 https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1084510975733178368 Featured Image Credit: http://columbiasurgery.org/news/2015/05/28/history-medicine-ancient-indian-nose-jobs-origins-plastic-surgery
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Source: Subhash Kak/Twitter Those who turn away from India because they think it is about jati and power (sadly this includes many "academic scholars") are deluded. They don't understand either the past or the present. The heart of India is about inner and outer knowledge:https://t.co/IYqds6RvwB — Subhash Kak (@subhashkak1) November 10, 2018 Featured Image Credit: https://medium.com/@subhashkak1/indian-foundations-of-modern-science-72259046700f
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Source: Vajrayudha11/Twitter Great libraries of Ancient India - Proud Leagacy of our ancient past
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obVouUw1KIs While on a visit to London, Dharampal came across extremely significant archival material - a series of surveys commissioned by the British government in the 19th century to assess the level of indigenous education in India. These surveys were conducted meticulously in various parts of India by the British and
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qJ2fOqe1w A large number of Indians seem to have a tendency to conveniently brush the past under the carpet. They don’t see the need to study history. They don’t understand the need to know our past. They talk of concentrating on the present, on what can be done today. They talk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbcKs9dDxB8 Why did the British impose English education on India? There were many reasons, the foremost of which was convenience as it was difficult for them to learn so many Indian languages. It was far simpler to have English-speaking menials to help them govern the millions of unwashed masses. There was, however,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OCO41T_lHM Not many Indians are aware of the tremendous amount of knowledge transfer from India to China in ancient times. Not many know that a large number of Sanskrit manuscripts were carried to China by either Chinese scholars or by Indian scholars hired by Chinese kings. Translating ancient Sanskrit manuscripts into
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHu6EM_fu98 Now, I come to debating, which was an intrinsic part of Indian education. So, you can look I have chosen this picture of Adi Sankara debating with Mandana Misra and look who is the judge it's a lady who is, who was a renowned scholar in her own right –
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_DdHPQqPpY&t=27s I also visited this place and then the only way we get to know what it looked like is when you read the autobiography of Huan-Tsang and I-Tsing, so what Huan-Tsang said is that, it was the most beautiful campus he had ever seen. It had a huge gate all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osdQQhuICKs Here's a map, I have tried to map out the universities in the ancient times until the eleventh or twelfth century and you know it was, there are so many universities you can see that it's completely, it's every part of India is covered so far. The oldest one we
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqeTF_6oyRg Rishi Kanva’s ashrama was not a single ashrama, it was a collection, an assemblage of hermitages of which he was the presiding rishi. So, a student would go to one in ashrama and specialize in one subject underthe Guru, then go to another ashrama, adjoining ashram, and get specialization in another
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vviYeA4fIPM&t=2393s So in the years that I have been living outside India, I get a lot of questions like: how is it that you Indians are motivated to study so hard? What is it that makes you study so hard? And another question I get very often is that why despite
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