The Discovery of India - C K Raju - #IndicTalks

In this eye opening Talk about impacts of colonialism, celebrated mathematician Dr. C K Raju talks about the myth that ‘Discovery of India’ by Vasco Da Gama. He talks about how we still think from the perspective of the colonizers like the Portuguese and the British when we say that they ‘discovered’ India, like India never existed before their ‘discovery’.

C K Raju comes up to contradict the claim that Da Gama even discovered the route to India too. It is with the help of an Indian navigation, Kanak and his instrument ‘kamal’ or ‘rapalgai’ with which Da Gama ‘discovered’ the route to India. Da Gama did not discover any route to India. The sea route from Africa to India was known to the navigators from both of these places. He then gives examples to illustrate that the sea route to India was known to Alexander’s armies, to the Roman Army and much before that even in the times of the Harappan civilization.

According to a dominant belief in Christianity, the first Christian to see a land becomes its owner. In 1823, this dogma was a part of US law! Hence "Red Indians" had lost their right to land in Americas after being "discovered" by Christians. The dogma of Christianity led Christians to genocide and enslave non-Christians. The Native Americans were exterminated en masse by the Christians. Millions upon millions were killed. Indians in India survived this genocide because India was superior in military skills and Da Gama was not match for Vijaynagar Empire and Mughal Empire.

This is what the Christians meant by ‘discovery’. C K Raju laments that this myth of discovery is still being taught in Indian schools perpetrating the falsehood, falsifying history and most importantly hiding the crimes of Christianity. He also talks about other appropriations of discovery and inventions of other non-Christian civilizations which the European Christians stole.

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