Guest guest Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 indicjournalists, "N.S. Rajaram" <nsrajaram@v...> wrote: Actually, Tharoor's column doesn't do full justice to ancient Indian achievements and also drags the dates to the colonial- missionary chronology, assigning the Atharvaveda to 1000 BC, and by implication the Rigveda to 1200 BC. he also fails to note the achievements in the Sulbasutras (Vedic mathematics), metallurgy and others. So he essentially is extolling what people like Basham and the secularists following him have been doing-- damning with faint praise. But I don't think Tharoor has an ulterior agenda, only uninformed. NSR --- End forwarded message --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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