Vedic Mathematicians In Ancient India Part II

In Part I we furnished sufficient quotes to establish the proposition that throughout the ancient as well as the medieval eras Mediterranean, Arab and European savants went to great length to acknowledge the contribution of the Indics in various fields such as number theory, geometry ,astronomy, and medicine. It was only in the colonial era beginning with the discovery of Sir William Jones of the antiquity of Sanskrit, which had far reaching implications on the roots of their own civilization, that racial prejudice towards the Indics took on a dominant role and began to affect the quality as well as the accuracy of the scholarship in Europe.We continue the narrative here.

In Part I we furnished sufficient quotes to establish the proposition that throughout the ancient  as well as the medieval eras Mediterranean, Arab and European savants went to great length  to acknowledge the contribution of the Indics in various fields such as number theory, geometry ,astronomy, and medicine. It was only in the colonial era beginning  with the discovery of Sir  William Jones of the antiquity of Sanskrit, which had far reaching implications on the roots of their own civilization, that racial prejudice towards the Indics took on a dominant role and began to affect the quality as well as the accuracy of  the scholarship in Europe.We continue the narrative here.