Monday, April 1, 2019

How India lost its Manuscripts



How India has lost its knowledge and wisdom is the million dollar question being asked by number of Indians. The country which was once known as ‘Vishwa Guru’ is now struggling for knowledge and started believing in the British rulers. The country which had a tradition of transferring of knowledge in the form of Shruti and Smritis, documented the same in the form of Manuscripts in Sanskrit, Brahmi, Modi, Gupt, Pali and other scripts. Unfortunately, the country has lost these manuscripts and now these manuscripts can be seen in different libraries in countries like Germany, London, Australia, USA, Austria etc. Dr Sheshashyan Deshmukh, noted indologist of city narrated an interesting story of how British during their colonial rule destroyed the knowledge and taken away the manuscripts. Dr Deshmukh narrated a story of Andrew Dalgleish was a Scottish trader, traveller and government agent (or secret agent for British) during the Great Game. Great Game was a political and diplomatic confrontation that existed for most of 19th century between British and Russian Empires over Afghanistan and neighbouring territories in Central and Southern Asia.


Regards 
Mr. Pralhad Jadhav  
Research Scholar (IGNOU)
Senior Manager @ Knowledge Repository  
Khaitan & Co 
Twitter Handle | @Pralhad161978
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