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== Background ==

== Background ==

For years, English scientist Isaac Newton and German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz both claimed credit for inventing the mathematical system sometime around the end of the seventeenth century. The true credit lies with the ancient Indian Mathematics systems. '''The "Kerala school,'''" a little-known group of scholars and mathematicians '''in fourteenth century India, i'''dentified the "infinite series" — one of the basic components of calculus— around 1350.  

For years, English scientist Isaac Newton and German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz both claimed credit for inventing the mathematical system sometime around the end of the seventeenth century. The true credit lies with the ancient Indian Mathematics systems. '''The "Kerala school,'''" a little-known group of scholars and mathematicians (notably Madhava & Nilakantha) '''in fourteenth century India, i'''dentified the "infinite series" — one of the basic components of calculus— around 1350.  

The beginnings of modern maths and of all other knowledge systems has been seen as a European achievement. This has been made possible through the brilliant strategy of the East India Company traders who under the guise of 'stydying the ' that Ward Churchill says of <nowiki>''but the knowledge systems of India have been ignored or forgotten," he said. "The brilliance of Newton'</nowiki>s work at the end of the seventeenth century stands undiminished — especially when it came to the algorithms of calculus.

The beginnings of modern maths and of all other knowledge systems has been seen as a European achievement. This has been made possible through the brilliant strategy of the East India Company traders who under the guise of 'studying pagan cultures & civilising the savages', digested and assimilated as their own, the native knowledge systems.

"But other names from the Kerala School, notably Madhava and Nilakantha, should stand shoulder to shoulder with him as they discovered the other great component of calculus — infinite series."

Of course the self-styled Western scholars and their Indian recruits like Joseph (2000) claim that indian systems have been ignored or overlooked & see it as a simple outcome of Christian colonialism and not as a well-organised strategy to not only control global resources but also the knowledge systems. He attributes other factors like "There is also little knowledge of the medieval form of the local language of Kerala, Malayalam, in which some of most seminal texts, such as the Yuktibhasa, from much of the documentation of this remarkable mathematics is written," exposes the perfidy of the Christians who used local Sanskrit scholars to translate our texts to steal our knowledge and 'digest' it to claim as their own.

 

He argues that imperialist attitudes are to blame for suppressing the true story behind the discovery of calculus.

 

"There were many reasons why the contribution of the Kerala school has not been acknowledged," he said. "A prime reason is neglect of scientific ideas emanating from the Non-European world, a legacy of European colonialism and beyond."

 

However, he concedes there are other factors also in play.

 

"There is also little knowledge of the medieval form of the local language of Kerala, Malayalam, in which some of most seminal texts, such as the Yuktibhasa, from much of the documentation of this remarkable mathematics is written," he admits.

== Knowledge and Indian civilization ==

== Knowledge and Indian civilization ==