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bala wrote: ↑23 May 2026 05:22Tragic Story of How India Was Deindustrialized
Between 1813 and 1853, three Acts of Parliament killed three world-leading Indian industries. Bengal cotton, South Indian wootz steel, and Indian Ocean shipbuilding — all demolished within forty years.
A continuation of how India's textile was destroyed by the Britshits.
How 1 Company Destroyed a Market Without a Battle
In 1772, a former East India Company insider named William Bolts published a forensic exposé of how the Company was destroying Bengal's textile economy — not with an army, but with a contract. He was arrested, deported, and erased from history. His book is in the British Library today: shelfmark T.1280. Governor Henry Verelst, who codified it — with Charles Grant, architect of the 1813 tariff, as the thread connecting this to the previous episode. The mechanism Bolts mapped has a modern name: monopsony. It runs underneath gig-economy contracts and platform supply chains today.
This is on Panini Grammar of Sanskrit well known in India. For the computer geeks was known as Backus-Naur form but now everyone acknowledges this as Panini rules of grammar. BTW for Angrez is very hard to formulate a Panini type rule for its grammar, it is that bad and ambiguous as a language!
4,000 Rules: The Sanskrit Grammar Behind Every LLM
Sanskrit grammarian Panini composed the Ashtadhyayi — roughly 4,000 sutras (production rules) that generate every valid word-form in the language from a finite system. The architecture is startling: a metalanguage, silent metadata markers (anubandhas), inherited rule-scope (anuvritti), abstract semantic roles (the karaka system), specificity ordering (vipratisedha), and a phased, two-pass section (the Tripadi). In short — the structure of a modern compiler, twenty-four centuries before programming.
In 1967, computer scientist Peter Zilahy Ingerman proposed renaming Backus-Naur form to "Panini-Backus form" (Communications of the ACM, vol. 10, no. 3). Noam Chomsky has repeatedly credited Panini as a forerunner of generative grammar. So why did 19th-century philologists like William Dwight Whitney (Sanskrit Grammar, 1879) dismiss the system as native "ingenuity" rather than science? This is the story of the world's first formal language — and how its deep structure now underlies compilers, parsers, and modern NLP.
The work of Panini, an ancient grammarian, and his 4,000 production rules, highlighting their significance in the context of language and early programming concepts. We delve into how these rules, written in the Indian subcontinent, relate to modern computer engineering and the theory of computation. It's a fascinating look into language history and its unexpected connection to artificial intelligence.
bala wrote: ↑24 May 2026 21:56
This is on Panini Grammar of Sanskrit well known in India. For the computer geeks was known as Backus-Naur form but now everyone acknowledges this as Panini rules of grammar.
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@bala ji and anyone else interested (Others ignore please)
In the late 1960s, IIRC, there was a proposal to use the name "Panini-Backus-Naur form" to give credit to all the people who contributed in that order. It was a paper published in CACM. But it went nowhere, as usual.
Not just LLMs, all any compiler front-end works off a BNF. So do compiler compilers, AKA table-driven compilers AKA compiler generators.
What do the Indus valley seals say?
Yajna Devam May 24, 2026
Indus seals are similar to seals from other civilizations. They contain names of people and institutions and devotional or religious slogans. The contents are generally hard to distinguish from later seal inscriptions from the historical era.
Everyone has heard about Nalanda University of ancient India. There is the other little known Odantapuri Vihara also in Bihar. There is YT on this place which can be watched here .
Bakhtiyar Khilji a Turkic Muslim invader in the late 1100s destroyed Nalanda and Odantapuri.
Sanātana Dharma & the Problem of Sanskrit Non-Translatables
Infinity Foundation Official March 26, 2026
Smt. Vandana Mishra invites you to Reverse the Gaze on how we define Bhartiya(Indian) heritage. For too long, Western Universalism has attempted to "digest" the concept of Dharma into the narrow English category of "religion." This episode establishes Civilizational Literacy by exploring why Dharma is one of the most vital Sanskrit Non-Translatables.
Smt. Vandana highlights the importance of Adhikara (qualification) in understanding these texts and warns against the mistranslation of Sanskrit words into English, where deeper concepts like Karma and Dharma lose their true essence. This session is a call for Civilizational Self-Respect, encouraging viewers to look past Secularism as an Asymmetrical Weapon and embrace the Dharma-based pluralism that has sustained our Sacred Geography for millennia.
Smt. Vandana breaks down the ten essential characteristics of Dharma from the Manusmṛti—including Dhṛti (fortitude), Dama (self-control), and Vidya (knowledge)—as practical tools for Embodied Knowing. Moving beyond Category Imposition, we explore how these principles form a Dharmic Worldview that emphasizes inner discipline over external dogma. Join us as we resist the Decontextualization of our traditions and reclaim the Sacred Continuity of Sanātana Dharma.
RAMAYAN KA SACH - Shocking Proofs Like Never Before | Vedveer Arya
May 28, 2026
What if Ramayana and Mahabharata were not mythology? What if they were history — with dates, evidence and astronomical proof?
In this episode of Supertalks, Raghav sits down with Vedveer Arya — Senior Civil Servant, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, and one of India's most rigorous chronologists with over 15 years of research on ancient Indian history.
What's covered:
Why Ramayana and Mahabharata are not mythology — proven with astronomical and dating evidence The biggest myths of Ramayana and Mahabharata — dismantled with research Why Lord Rama and Mother Sita never had a Swayambar — and what authentic Ramayana says How Rama was exactly 25 years old when he went to Vanvaas Why Sri Lanka was not an island during Ramayana times — and how anyone could walk across How Ram Setu was a land-filled bridge — and how it originally disappeared What Pushpak Viman really was — and what authentic Ramayana says about flight Why Lord Hanuman never flew — and was not Vanar shaped but wore a mask The Ramayana technology that Ved Veer Arya actually recreated in his lab India's ancient wisdom and what it tells us about the most advanced civilisation in history
They Destroyed Every Face On This Ancient Bridge. What Were They Hiding?
PraveenMohan May 31, 2026
Deep in a remote Cambodian village stands Spean Praptos, a thousand-year-old stone bridge guarded by massive 9-headed Nagas. But this is not just an ancient crossing — it may be one of the strangest coded monuments ever built. Humanoid figures emerge from serpent bodies, mysterious Naga eggs seem to hide the Seven Sages, and the sacred numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 appear to form a hidden system carved in stone. Even more disturbing, every important face on the bridge has been deliberately erased, while the bodies remain untouched. Who removed these identities, and why? Why do villagers still light candles and leave offerings here at night? Was Spean Praptos simply a bridge, or was it a secret message from an advanced ancient civilization? Watch carefully, because once this code is revealed, the history we were taught may never look the same again.
Chanakya's Mandala theory that predates modern Game-theory
May 28, 2026
Around 150 CE — and by tradition as early as 300 BCE — a Sanskrit treatise called the Arthashastra laid out a complete system for geopolitical strategy: the rajamandala, or "circle of kings." A would-be conqueror sits at the centre; allies and enemies alternate in rings outward, determined by geography, not personality. Overlay the shadgunya — six measures of foreign policy chosen by relative strength — and you get a decision engine eighteen centuries before von Neumann formalised game theory and three centuries before Machiavelli was even born. Max Weber read it, called it radical Machiavellianism — and the Western canon still filed it under "ancient wisdom." Episode 1 of The Chanakya Algorithm. We use Kangle's critical edition and Olivelle's 2013 Oxford translation, and we confront the contested dating (Trautmann 1971) head-on.
Episode 1 of **The Chanakya Algorithm**, a six-part series decoding the Arthashastra as a stack of working systems: geopolitics, finance, intelligence, economics, management, and the synthesis.
SOURCES & FURTHER READING
• Patrick Olivelle, King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India: Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra (Oxford University Press, 2013) — the modern standard translation
• R.P. Kangle, *The Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra*, 3 vols. (University of Bombay, 1960–65) — the critical edition
• Thomas R. Trautmann, Kauṭilya and the Arthaśāstra: A Statistical Investigation of the Authorship and Evolution of the Text (E.J. Brill, 1971) — the computational authorship study dating the text's layers to ~150 CE
• Max Weber, "Politik als Beruf" / "Politics as a Vocation" (lecture, Munich, 28 January 1919) — the "radical Machiavellianism" quotation
• Henry Kissinger, World Order (2014) — on the Arthashastra in the realist canon
• Roger Boesche, The First Great Political Realist: Kautilya and His Arthashastra (Lexington Books, 2002)
Saptanga (seven limbs of the state) and the rajamandala appear in Book 6; the shadgunya (six measures) in Books 6–7. Dating and single-authorship are contested — see Trautmann (1971) and Olivelle (2013).
The Tragic Story of How Britain Destroyed India's Ancient Universities
Jun 2, 2026
In the 1820s and 1830s, the British surveyed India's education system before they dismantled it. Thomas Munro ordered a survey in Madras Presidency in 1822, carried out by collector A. D. Campbell between 1823 and 1825. A parallel survey ran in the Bombay Presidency in the mid-1820s. And in Bengal and Bihar, a former missionary named William Adam produced three increasingly detailed reports between 1835 and 1838 on the orders of Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.
What they counted did not fit the colonial story. Adam's reports estimated roughly 100,000 functioning village schools across Bengal and Bihar alone, close to a school per village. These were pathshalas, gurukulas, and madrassas: community-funded, decentralised, and embedded in village life. The Madras caste data was even more inconvenient, showing that so-called lower castes and Shudras formed a large share, and in many districts a majority, of students. The men sent to confirm Indian educational poverty accidentally disproved it, in writing.
Then it was buried. Thomas Babington Macaulay's Minute on Education, dated 2 February 1835, declared a single shelf of a European library worth the whole literature of India and Arabia, a judgement he made while admitting he could not read a word of Sanskrit or Arabic. His stated goal was to form a class of interpreters, Indian in blood but English in taste and intellect. Five weeks later, on 7 March 1835, Bentinck signed the English Education Act, redirecting government funding toward English and European instruction. The village schools were not mostly state-funded, so the Minute did not defund them directly. They starved instead. The Permanent Settlement of 1793 and later land-revenue systems hollowed out the local patrons, temple endowments, and gentry who paid the schoolmasters, while every job that mattered now required English. Demand collapsed from below as funding shifted above. Nobody had to order the schools closed. They simply stopped making sense to attend.
The receipts sat in colonial archives for over a century until the Gandhian researcher Dharampal pulled them back out and published The Beautiful Tree in 1983. The title comes from Gandhi's speech at Chatham House in London on 20 October 1931, where he argued that the British had uprooted the beautiful tree of Indian education and left it to perish.
This is the forensic story of how a distributed knowledge network was erased on paper, and why the same fight over who controls access to learning is unfolding again in the age of AI and digital education.
On 19 June 2024, a new campus of Nalanda University was inaugurated in Rajgir, Bihar. The bricks can be rebuilt. The question is whether the idea behind them survives.
SOURCES AND FURTHER READING
Dharampal, The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century (Biblia Impex, 1983; reprinted in Collected Writings, Volume III).
William Adam, Reports on the State of Education in Bengal (1835 and 1838).
A. D. Campbell and Thomas Munro, Survey of Indigenous Education in the Madras Presidency (1822 to 1825).
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education, 2 February 1835.
English Education Act 1835, enacted under Lord William Bentinck, 7 March 1835.
Charles Grant, Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain (1792).
M. K. Gandhi, address at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, 20 October 1931, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi.
On the fall of ancient Nalanda, circa 1193 CE, see standard histories of the Ghurid invasions; the destruction is attributed to forces under Bakhtiyar Khalji, not to British rule.
// the number of lies spread by the Britshits is astounding. They claimed no EDU in INDIA and they gave EDU to India. Next is the hogwash and blatant lie that only Brahmins were educated in Indian schools, it turns out majority were other castes. Castes itself is another invention of the Britshits by segregating jobs performed by people. The lies continue. There are other things like induced famines and killing of droves of people, destroying industry after industry like textiles and steel making. Then there is wanton/willful denigration like Sati, Devadasi and more.
Why Ramayana and Mahabharata are not mythology — proven with astronomical and dating evidence