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Jammu & Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha connected Saturday (May 30, 2026) said India’s cognition successful science, medicine, and astronomy predated Persia and Western countries, too underlining the country’s relation successful Persia’s cognition and European enlightenment.
Speaking astatine the 3rd variation of the Kashmir Literature Festival successful Srinagar, Mr. Sinha said, “India has a past of much than 6000 years arsenic the centre of science, math, astronomy, and philosophy. Since the Vedic period, India has been the centre of the world’s economy, education, culture, and philosophy. For centuries, India was the motor of planetary civilisation and culture. It laid the foundations for socio-economic advancement crossed the world.”
Blaming the assemblage mindset for undermining the pre-British and pre-Mughal glory of India, Mr. Sinha said, “Many Western authors claimed that cognition into India flowed from Persia oregon during the Mughal period, which is baseless. The fact remains that Persia came to cognize astir science, math, and astronomy lone successful the 7th Century. It was from India, which had centuries of cognition successful these areas, that cognition flowed into Persia. It’s a documented history.”
Mr. Sinha said India not lone brought the Western satellite retired of the Stone Age but besides played a cardinal relation successful European enlightenment. “Europe’s archetypal Renaissance successful the 12th period drew connected India’s treasury of knowledge, science, culture, and art. Centuries earlier immoderate different countries discovered invention and innovations, India had already established itself arsenic a technological civilization,” said Mr. Sinha.
Referring to the code made by physicist Issac Newton successful the British Parliament, Mr. Sinha said, “When Newton was discussing however to marque the h2o transport possible, India, centuries earlier that, was having a h2o transport up to South Africa. We traded goods successful speech for golden with South Africa. We did not loot golden but earned it done trade. This past got buried during the assemblage period,” said Mr. Sinha.
Need to reconstruct history
Mr. Sinha called for “erasing each hint of the assemblage mindset and ensuring that radical overseas bash not distort our past and contiguous to service their ain narratives”. “It is the work of writers to close specified errors and instrumentality the information to planetary readers. There is an urgent request to reconstruct past and convey its existent signifier to each conception of nine truthful that India’s communicative is decently shaped,” said Mr. Sinha.
He said our ancestors, since the Vedic age, recorded facts and transmitted cognition with large accuracy. “We failed to pass our priceless traditions, culture, knowledge, and sciences and that’s wherefore galore radical assertion that definite things came from different places oregon were introduced by the invaders. These assertions are baseless,” helium said.
The J&K L-G said India’s communicative is not lone of the past but of the present. “Despite centuries of subjugation and plunder, we person risen to go the world’s 4th largest economy, the fastest increasing large system for years, and by 2047 we purpose for a afloat developed nation,” helium added.
The 3rd variation of the Kashmir Literature Festival was besides attended by Ambassador Deepak Vohra (Retd.), Lt. Gen. D.P. Pandey (Retd.), creator Rouble Nagi etc.
