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That’s an excellent move to help create indigenous technologies. Let best scientists and mathematicians contribute to this effort so that right science may be extracted out of it.
Welcome this. Bharatiya tradition should not be a marginal footnote but the core content of courses.
Also like the emphasis on philosophy of maths (that of science should also be covered) – the underlying philosophy is exactly what makes Bharatiya mathematics and science distinct from the Western.
And this philosophy is inseparable from Dharmic thought. For instance, Bharatiya mathematics accepts empirical proofs, much like Sanatana Dharma is an empirical inquiry framework. Western religions (and Islam, for that matter, hence its affinity with the Western way of doing things despite outward hostility and apparent “clash of civilisations”) emphasise deductive binary logic on abstract propositions, because they can be completely fact-free (angel theorems anyone?). This is mirrored exactly in abstraction-laden formal maths and theory-heavy Western science.
Great initiative. This is a baby step towards something I have been advocating for years.
In my view, though, we still have the foundation wrong.
The way it is worded, it suggests that we are still teaching Western frameworks and paradigms as a default and sprinkling in Bharatiya knowledge as an aside.
Instead, Bharatiya knowledge systems should be what is taught by default, without even naming it separately, with Western ideas sprinkled as a side just to expose students to global ideas.
That’s an excellent move to help create indigenous technologies. Let best scientists and mathematicians contribute to this effort so that right science may be extracted out of it.
Chad UGC
Welcome this. Bharatiya tradition should not be a marginal footnote but the core content of courses.
Also like the emphasis on philosophy of maths (that of science should also be covered) – the underlying philosophy is exactly what makes Bharatiya mathematics and science distinct from the Western.
And this philosophy is inseparable from Dharmic thought. For instance, Bharatiya mathematics accepts empirical proofs, much like Sanatana Dharma is an empirical inquiry framework. Western religions (and Islam, for that matter, hence its affinity with the Western way of doing things despite outward hostility and apparent “clash of civilisations”) emphasise deductive binary logic on abstract propositions, because they can be completely fact-free (angel theorems anyone?). This is mirrored exactly in abstraction-laden formal maths and theory-heavy Western science.
Great initiative. This is a baby step towards something I have been advocating for years.
In my view, though, we still have the foundation wrong.
The way it is worded, it suggests that we are still teaching Western frameworks and paradigms as a default and sprinkling in Bharatiya knowledge as an aside.
Instead, Bharatiya knowledge systems should be what is taught by default, without even naming it separately, with Western ideas sprinkled as a side just to expose students to global ideas.