And the Mongols destroyed the Islamic empire. All that's in the past, and it feels good to live in the imagined glory of the past - but what's the excuse today for us indians when our idiot Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims that ancient India had nuclear weapons, aeroplanes and spacecraft and did inter-species head transplant by citing religious mythology as the proof for it? Or when his government wants to promote Astrology as Science today??

Reducing the problems to one person/party is disingenuous. In recent history we have data on all major political parties and their work on improving the scientific ecosystem. The problem is much deeper than one person.

In today's India the problem is only the retrogade and dictatorial mentality of PM Narendra Modi. Umpteen examples exist for it.

Where do you see these claims being made by Modi? Just curious.

Yes exactly, there was just too much social, economic and political volatility that far back to maintain a sustained pace of scientific development. Frankly the pace of advancement was very slow, so more value was placed on understanding and propagating existing knowledge rather than valuing the processes for developing and testing new methods.

It was really the switch over to valuing processes and methods, rather than facts and knowledge, that turbo-charged the rate of development.

Which is a shitty reason to hate Muslims today.

Not saying there is a non-shitty reason to hate any religious group ever.