by vee-kay | 2026-02-20 04:03:58+00:00
Counterpoints:
* India is the oldest civilization and the birthplace of science, medicine, advanced mathematics.
* India is the only continent/subcontinent of the world whose ancient civilization could not be fully subsumed or wiped out by the Abrahamic invaders. And the reason is that India was defended by some of the greatest military commanders and kings & queens who ever lived. So they resisted the invaders longer and harder than any other race. Every inch of this ancient sacred land was defended for years or centuries. e.g., e.g., Puru or Porus stopped Alexander the Greek's invasion, and it was an Indian Rishi (sage) who Alexander met in a forest and who inspired him to stop a life of violence. The Ahom empire never allowed the Muslims or Christian invaders to conquer the North East of India. The Mewar Empire (which built incredible fortresses, such as Kumbhalgarh which has world's second longest wall spanning 36kms) and Maratha Empire (who also built great forts, and who rebuilt medieval India's Navy) thwarted the Mughals and the Europeans/British. Maharani Ambaka Chowta defeated the Portuguese army & navy (using guerrilla warfare tactics) and thus ended the Portuguese conquest of India. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose raised an army using German and Japanese help, and it was he who scared the British to finally leave India (but not before Churchill killed millions of natives by artificial famines; Churchill killed more Hindus, than Hitler killed Jews).
* India is the only pre-Bronze-Age era ancient civilization to survive, with its roots almost intact. Hence, the knowledge of simple and advanced mathematics came from India (India gave the world: Mathematical zero, Numerals, Decimal System, Binary system, Algebra, Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry, Value of Pi, Golden Mean, etc.; the oldest recorded sources of Mathematical Zero and Numerals are the Bakhshali Manuscript and inscriptions at Chatur Bhuj temple; Maharshi Baudhayana described the Triangle Theorem many centuries before the Pythagorean School used them (Pythagoras never wrote about any theorems)), the Rigveda is the oldest extant text in the world, Sanskrit & Tamil are the oldest extant languages in the world, Nalanda & Takshashila were oldest universities (until Khilji destroyed them; they had so many thousands of priceless books and manuscripts, that they burnt for months), the Ramayana and Mahabharata are the oldest epics in the world (Ramayana demonstrates world's oldest known encryption (the sacred Gayatri mantra is encoded within the Ramayana), the Vedic texts and Samhitas are the oldest corpus and treatises of science, philosophy and spirituality, the Himalayas are the world's oldest and tallest mountains, the Himalayan rivers are world's biggest rivers (which is why China invaded and captured the Tibetan Plateau), their Alluvial Plains are world's most fertile lands (which is why India became the birthplace of advanced human civilization), the ancient Indian temples (e.g., Brihadiswara temple of Chola Empire at Thanjavur is huge temple) are finest examples of the incredible ancient architecture demonstrating advanced scientific and mathematical knowledge, the amazing Damascus blades made from Indian Wootz steel and the ancient Iron Pillars at Sarnath & Delhi demonstrate advanced metallurgy and metalsmithing, the Sushruta Samhita & Charaka Samhita are oldest medical treatises (Sushruta described complex medical operations including heart surgery, rhinoplasty, etc.; his medical tools design are still in use for modern medicine & surgery), the Arthashastra is world's oldest text on philosophy, warfare and political science, the Ashtadhyayi is world's oldest grammar text (its author Panini also first described the mathematical series that Fibonacci later took credit for, thousands of years later), the Surya Siddhanta is one of the oldest scientific texts (it describes complex concepts and navigational tools, such as latitutes, longitudes, equinoxes, armillary sphere, magnetic compass, sextant, etc.), the Chola Empire of India built the world's first Navy (in , the Indus Valley Civilization (Harappa, Mohenjo Daro) had the world's oldest drainage system (including flushing toilets), the NatyaShashtra is world's oldest text on classical dance, the Yoga is world's oldest active fitness regimen, Ayurveda is world's oldest active formal medical treatment framework & discipline, etc.