History, Time & Knowledge in Ancient India

I totally disagree with the fact that there was no history in India. It has been looked at traditionally and been preserved in the old way of books, scripts, scribbles, etc rather than modern scientific research. India forms a part of history just like any other country, just, in its own beautiful way. During the British times, there was a spread of racist comments floating around the country. One of the historians, James Mills, who never visited India and never knew much about its history, blamed the Hindu civilizations for the lack of history. In my opinion, that isn't a strong comment that can possible draw conclusions on Indian History being limited.

I agree that history does seem like a story out of the dreams for India, because they believed strongly in myths, but at the same time, this country made immense progress in subjects like Algebra, Astronomy, Geometry, Philosophy, etc - which, in my opinion, is history in itself! History doesnt have to always relate to kings and queens and who ruled when and what happened, its also about progression, about reality! something which is ancient but almost clear cut.

When Hajime Nakamura makes a comment about history books being all about fantasy, a question arises.. Who wrote the history of India? Why do people conclude that its not true. Agreed, that not everything mentioned in that book is true, but most of it should be - well, I jsut discovered that its MY opinion. So here aswell, opinion and perception comes into play!

What has been missed and what I feel is most important are the masterpieces of artists, the sculptures, the paintings, all that actually speaks the history of India. Its sad but true that, things like these have been neglected and it would be great if our generation brought them into light! Not only historians of today should take this initiative, I feel that we all should play our part in creating an interesting and better history of our country..