I think this is more about the India than the West. China, for example, has maintained detailed historical records for centuries. India is unique in its lack of historical sense
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I suspect it is partly rooted in the openness to "cyclical logic" found in Indian Philosophy.
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That’s a BS rationalization. It’s mostly just crappy traditions of preservation coupled with looting of artifacts by various colonizers.
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I don’t think it’s museums, I think it’s interesting historical analysis that’s initially renegade but becomes mainstream (think, eg, starting w/ Gibbon). Which requires a society tolerant of such renegade analysis and willing readers of the analysis...
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In the case of India, for example, it might require tolerance for INTELLIGENT histories arguing how repeated invasions improved India, or that English Colonization was the best thing that could have happened. Possible without death threats? Lots of readers?
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