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Nit: why is it "Hindu-Arabic", or even more egregiously just "Arabic" ? There is negligible innovation on Indian mathematics by the Baghdad school; these people just get cited for mere transmission and translation (no doubt important at the time).

I don't cite by postman for delivering the journal paper, now do I ? Another thing to put into my 'the West hates India and its 'heathens' so deeply that is now considered a blasphemy to question the zeitgeist' bin.

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The past is a different country, and anything that happened before your grandfather was born happened in a different culture altogether. The people who lived in your general geographic area ages ago are not your people, and it's useless to try and set the record straight for them.

This is such an excellent comment that sums up so much of the feelings that come up when I read/see/hear the kind of "nationalism" (for lack of a more accurate word) in the parent post.

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