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Democracy in India, a gift and a warning
1 year, 4 months ago

Democracy in India, a gift and a warning

The Hindu  

In the 76th year of our Independence, the Prime Minister’s statement welcoming G-20 delegates to “the mother of democracy” is plastered on billboards across the nation’s capital. It is true that a sort of democracy prevailed in ancient Indian villages: Kautilya’s Arthashastra gives a comprehensive account of the system of village administration prevailing in antiquity, and evidence of the village …

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Writing has advanced through history despite ancient anxiety around the new technology
1 year, 9 months ago

Writing has advanced through history despite ancient anxiety around the new technology

ABC  

Firsts can be murky. "Writing could've been invented many times in many different places," says Louise Pryke, an ancient history specialist at the University of Sydney. "That's where we start seeing the cuneiform script, which is the oldest known form of writing," Dr Pryke says. "The early development of writing is thought to be powered by economic developments, like people …

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Signed, sealed, undeciphered: Check out these scripts we still can’t read
2 years, 3 months ago

Signed, sealed, undeciphered: Check out these scripts we still can’t read

Hindustan Times  

Scholars call it the world’s most mysterious book. Scholars call it Linear A because, unlike cuneiform, this script called for a stylus to cut lines into a tablet. Rohonc Codex Signed, sealed, undeciphered: Check out these scripts we still can’t read If it is a hoax, it’s a very old one. We’ll know more when the researchers publish detailed translations …

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First Draft | Indian history is badly distorted: Here’s how it can be rewritten
2 years, 5 months ago

First Draft | Indian history is badly distorted: Here’s how it can be rewritten

Firstpost  

Since Independence it has become almost a religious dogma of Indian and Western historians to rewrite history and to project ancient Indian/Hindu civilisation as a remarkably and uniquely inhuman civilisation, whose only characteristic was an iniquitous caste system Is Indian history being “rewritten” at the moment? But after 1947 it became almost a religious dogma of Indian and Western historians, …

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