The Unfounded Hindu Slavery

By Murthy, BS

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Title:	The Unfounded Hindu Slavery
Author:	Murthy, BS
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Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Hinduism, Sociology, Political Sociology, Demography, Social Sciences, Indian studies, South Asian Studies, Political Science, South Asia, History of Slavery, Islamic Studies, British Empire, Ilamic History, Islam, India, Indian Muslims, Indian History, Indian subcontinent, Indology, Christian influence, Indian Nationalism, Hindu Nationalism, Hindutva , World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
Collections:	Authors Community, Hinduism Today
Historic Publication Date:	2022
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Member Page:	BS Murthy
Citation APA MLA Chicago Murthy, B. B. (2022). The Unfounded Hindu Slavery. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
No less than Narendra Modi, India’s erudite prime minister, had attributed the self-disparaging Indian character to its thousand years of slavery, that too on the floor of the Indian parliament. And it’s no wonder that Asaduddin Owaisi, the Islamist revivalist in the Indian remnant, promptly contested the said proposition. Needless to say, while Modi echoed the lament of the Hindu nationalists, albeit in a politically correct vocabulary, Owaisi sees the Muslim invasion of Hindustan through the prism of eight-hundred years of Islamic hukummat over the same. Whatever, a critical examination of India’s Islamic history, even the one dished out by its Muslim overlords, and an objective analysis of its socio-cultural construct therein would belie the supposition that Hindus were forced into slavery in any which way.

Summary
It is high time for the Hindus to strive hard to regain the intellectual vigour of their ancestors though sans their vice of inimical secrecy, and that should enable them to shed the mediocrity of their lazy minds.

Excerpt
Wonder why the thoughtless Hindus should indulge in making such ridiculous claims even as their ancestors had left a host of unimaginable accomplishments, acknowledged by the world at large, for their feel good - the invention of zero, value of pi, and the decimal system in mathematics, and the discovery of ‘precession of the Equinoxes’ in astronomy, just to name a few. It is in this context, this excerpt from the ‘Cheiro’s Book of Numbers’ is noteworthy. The ancient Hindu searchers after Nature’s laws, it must be remembered, were in former years masters of all such studies, but in transmitting their knowledge to their descendants, they so endeavored to hide their secrets from the common people that in most cases the key to the problem became lost, and the truth that had been discovered became buried in the dust of superstition and charlatanism, to be re-formed, let us hope, when some similar cycle of thought in its own appointed time will again claim attention to this side of nature. When examining such questions, we must not forget that it was the Hindus, who discovered what is known as the precession of the Equinoxes, and in their calculations such an occurrence takes place every 25,827 years; our modern science after labours of hundreds of years has simply proved them to be correct. How, or by what means they were able to arrive at such a calculation, has never been discovered - observations lasting over such a period of time are hardly admissible, and calculation without instruments is also scarcely conceivable, and so science has only been able, first to accept their statement, and later to acknowledge its accuracy.”