Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
by kumarm on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:50AM
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TamilNadu (His native state) had a literal revolt because 80% of high level government positions & political positions were owned by people of one caste even after british administration ended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Brahminism#20th_century
Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
by hackernewds on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:14AM
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Not to mention Ramanujan grew up in a colonial British era, and to attribute his genius and success (instead of the oppression and difficulties) him and his environment struggled with due to British colonialism is utterly rich!
Ramanujan succeeded in spite of it, not because of the favors of the British. Imagine how many Ramanujans were ignored due to 200 years of British colonial rule in India, wherein caste system developed and thrived*
Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
by gen_greyface on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @12:54PM
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The cited book has no information on how the surveys themselves were conducted. The book is an overall romanticization of pre-colonial india, and frequently indulges in nostalgia.
The following books have a good overview of education&caste in india.
A. L. Basham, The Wonder That Was India
Gail Omvedt, Understanding Caste
Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
by cscurmudgeon on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @05:41PM
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Do these books fix the day issue? How do they do it?
Re:Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
by btree_001 on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @11:42PM
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> The cited book has no information on how the surveys themselves were conducted.
These are not surveys. These are actual full data from the erstwhile British Administration’s revenue records with the data collected by each Provincial head and the District administration revenue collectors and officials at that time. The modus operandi of the data collection is also detailed in the book.
Not True.
The book [1] documents evidences from the revenue records of the early British Administration in India on the state of education in the late 1700s through the 1800s up until the early 1900s. These records show that India had a well established grassroots education system at the village level, with access to children from all walks of the society including female students. The subjects taught included - Grammar, Lexicology, Poetry, Drama & Religious History, Rhetoric, Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrology, Logic, Law, Medical texts etc., As per the records and communication from the administrators, almost all villages had access to such schools.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17931651-the-beautiful-t...